Labrats #BlowTheirOwnGlass

[MarkBruns]

Science, by nature, has always been collaborative, perhaps even more so in the past, before specialization drove cultural strata/unionization/politicization ... Science might have more fun before it was formalized ... the scientist could be the a fieldworker, specimen sherpa, lab tech, glass blower and analyst and illustrator

Independent scientists can still choose to take more of an old-school Indiana Jones or Nikola Tesla approach AND COLLABORATE with others as commitzens in open source LabOps and MLOps development communities.

Open science is much more aggressively collaborative ... collaboration and networking are necessary to escape the confines of ivory towers and credentialled professional conferences funded by the Big Pharma and the large organizations that fund conclusion-for-research in academia.

Open science is about pushing past / through / beyond traditional boundaries and maybe do things in months or years, that would take decades to add funding/staff/admin ... don't worry, the tight partnership between Big Science, Big Government, Big Pharma and Big Business is not going to stop taxing taxpayer to finance the concentration of wealth in fewer hands.

So it comes down to whether you can cut the mustard in open source? Are you ready to build your own lab ... and collaborate with others? Can you "blow your glass" or do the modern-day equivalent of that in AI/ML along with building your own lab equipment?