• Question: what is challenging about your job?

    Asked by Melon_Ellie to Anna, Hayley, Iain, Rebecca on 23 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by 524yttc47.
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      Rebecca Jones answered on 23 Jun 2015:

      When the experiments go wrong or don’t show you what you think you should be seeing. I’ve been doing some work with mice and seeing if they’ll avoid the smell of an parasite-infected insect and after hours of watching videos and analysing it it showed nothing! 🙁

    • Photo: Iain Bethune

      Iain Bethune answered on 24 Jun 2015:

      Well writing complex scientific computer codes – and getting them right is certainly challenging, but that’s what I’m good at. Probably the most challenging thing I do is when I go out to meet scientists who are experts in their own fields, but I’m not! Then there is a huge learning curve for me to understand what the problems are that they are setting out to try and solve, and then to understand how Supercomputers can be used to help them.

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