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You know by now that the daily work of a PI is extremely busy, full of stressful situations and the nature of doing science is such that failure is the rule, not the exception. In this chapter, you can find the answers of PIs to questions about experiments not working out as planned, their attitude towards published, but irreproducible results, as well as how PIs handle stressful situations, and how they recover from all of this so that they can do it all over…
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Schmidt, B.Z. (2021). Dealing with Failure and Stress in Academic Research. In: Career Advice for Young Scientists in Biomedical Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85571-0_6
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