What am I working on?

[Jim78418]

The description for project 3903 has been updated. Thank you, I appreciate it.

Finally, I should mention that in science, it's generally very bad form to publicize what one is doing until it's gone through peer review, and it's bad for the project for us to publicize too broadly what we're doing before it gets through peer review. We understand we need to balance that donors need to know what's going on, but sometimes people err on the side of waiting for peer review to give more info. Hopefully we can balance that better in the future.
VijayPande

I can't imagine the 2 sentences in the project 3903 description could, in any way, be used by anyone to compromise a study, pre-announce a result, influence peer review either positively or negatively or be considered bad form. You folks at the Leland Stanford Jr. Farm must be living in a very different world than I have ever seen in my 30+ years at IBM.

The thought "where the rubber meets the sky," comes to mind. Maybe you shouldn't be so sensitive and defensive to a little critizism and take the comments for what they say without reading things that aren't said into them.... I just wanted to know what I was working on.

[Mobius0412]

There is no conspiracy.

That's exactly what you'd say if there WAS a conspiracy.

Dan

LMAO

[VijayPande]

Jim,

It's hard to tell what people want from their posts here. Some people want more than just the 2 line you're mentioning. please keep in mind we're not just answering you, but many other people in this thread simultaneously. My comments were not to yours, but to give some background to Paula's response. The main point is that there's a reason why we only give a few lines usually. (clearly a 2 liner won't divulge much, but some people want more).

BTW, we work closely with some people at IBM Almaden and I do see some similarities there -- for example, their managers would not necessarily want them to have a public web page talking about the proprietary projects they are undergoing and even a 2-liner description might take some time to get cleared.

Anyway, as I mentioned, I'm sorry the summary info wasn't there and I'm pushing the group to get better about this. I agree wholeheartedly that a 2-liner is very important. Thank you for reminding us about this and for your contributions to FAH.