Why is it so difficult to collaborate? I miss the academia days, when you or your boss met someone, a chat can quickly lead to something. And we liked challenge during collaboration. Easy study/experiment feels like cheating.

Constant changing in leadership can cause the organization missing a cohesive principle of work.

A Molecular Biologist’s Advice For Life. Having just turned 50, I’ve been reflecting on my first half-century… my passion for science as a lens for looking at the world has been a thread that has run throughout. Here are 12 pieces of advice for college & early career STEM

I wrote 5 mini proposals, now I can't sleep.

Come on Nature! You can't give out easy pass to publication.

I feel I read a Nature paper that shouldn't be published on Nature.

Now I'm a bit worried should ADC be made so stable? Let's wait and see.

"fixing broken communication is part of our job" someone told me

I asked my PD advisor to help connect with a few PIs that we want to meet. Within half hour, he forwarded all the responses to me. This means he emailed these PIs. All of them replied. Then he forwarded to me. All within 30min. Yes, I do miss working in this pace.

Since the starting of my job, there have been several occasions I thought I might have signed up for too many things. But everytime, I was able to accomplish all, without the need to work crazy hours. This makes me more confident.

When I was checking at a hotel in Tokyo, there was this American guy, arrogantly asking receptionist for sushi restaurant recommendation. He went "is this the name of the restaurant? Can I also get Thai food here? How about steak?"

I visited Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu this time in China. I will definitely come back to Guangzhou and Chengdu. Beijing is for business only lol.

Scrolled back to see my old tweets a few years ago. I was working a lot of hours, I was cynical, I was curious, I was judgemental, and I was always heading towards something and looking forward to the next venture. Let 2025 brings back the younger personality!

I started to run more MD simulation this year, although via packaged software. It's a good start to achieve my goal.

Science and technology is making the world flat

Since I started doing more data analysis, I'm pretty sure if we don't keep learning, we will lose our jobs in a few years. The scientific breakthrough can be led by a few very intelligent groups. The rest can be handled by robotics and genAI.

Again, today's conversation proves to me that it's so difficult to collaborate within big corporation.

The Westerns just can't comprehend the idea of saving then enjoy.