{"id":2458,"date":"2009-07-27T17:50:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T00:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/07\/27\/the-project-for-non-academic-science\/"},"modified":"2009-07-27T17:50:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T00:50:27","slug":"the-project-for-non-academic-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/27\/the-project-for-non-academic-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The Project for Non-Academic Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not all scientists work at universities.  (Maybe not even most?  I honestly don&#8217;t know the breakdown.)  But people who do work at colleges and universities sometimes talk as if that&#8217;s all there is, or that becoming a professor is the only logical goal for those pursuing a scientific degree &#8212; not necessarily from snootiness or elitism, but just because that&#8217;s what they know.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s great that <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/jobs\/pnas\/\">Chad Orzel has done a series of short interviews with scientists outside academia<\/a>, and is gradually blogging the results.  It&#8217;s a nice little bit of informal sociology of the field, and a useful resource for anyone who might be contemplating such a career path themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Chad, as you probably know, has also <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\">written a book that will be coming out later this year<\/a>.  And he&#8217;s supposed to be doing scientific research, and keeps up an active blog!  How is that possible?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all scientists work at universities. (Maybe not even most? I honestly don&#8217;t know the breakdown.) But people who do work at colleges and universities sometimes talk as if that&#8217;s all there is, or that becoming a professor is the only logical goal for those pursuing a scientific degree &#8212; not necessarily from snootiness or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-science-and-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}