Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

"Yang Rui not only teaches classes at Tsinghua University, he also has a temporary office. The conditions of the temporary office are pretty good." Dean Liu recalled his office and said: "It's a bit smaller than mine, but it's warmer and the space is also good. It's not too small. There is a big window and a small flower bed in front of the door."

Dean Liu gestured in Professor Cai’s office, saying, “Yang Rui set up a desk, a chair, a bookshelf, and a camp bed. There is still a lot of space in the middle of the room, oh, there is a stove in the middle. There are a few chairs around. He also roasts beef on the stove, saying that open-fired barbecue is more delicious. The seasonings are all live and put in small bottles..."

Under Dean Liu’s vivid description, Professor Cai instantly formed a picture of Yang Rui’s temporary office in his mind: a small office, but a comfortable office...an office where you can barbecue.

"Where is the ion channel laboratory? The conditions in the ion channel laboratory are not bad, right? Isn't Yang Rui working in it?"

"I think maybe Tsinghua's temporary office is quieter. It seems to be suitable for writing."

Professor Cai originally wanted to say that the ion channel laboratory is also very quiet, but thinking about the expansion to the scale of nearly 30 people, he can't say that. The same is the laboratory director. Professor Cai knows what the experimental groups are like when they are busy. If the boss is in the laboratory, people will keep asking how to do it.

This is how the work of the laboratory is. It requires the participation of the boss in every detail. In many cases, Professor Cai has to personally operate the microscope or pick up the pipette.

It’s not impossible to be a hand-off shopkeeper, but the progress of the laboratory is often far behind. If the deputy in the laboratory has the ability to compete with other laboratories alone, or reach the level of the laboratory director, most of them will have to go out independently. . In the laboratory, the life goal of the largest number of scientific research dogs and head dogs is not to contribute to the laboratory. Their goal of working hard in the laboratory is to find ways to learn more knowledge and methods, so that one day Have its own laboratory. Therefore, when the director of the laboratory appears in the laboratory, the scientific researchers will let out the questions that have accumulated for many days.

At this time, the job of the laboratory director is to answer all kinds of questions, just like a salary to scientific research Wang. The person in charge of the laboratory who has not been in the laboratory for a long time is like a contractor who has been underpaid for a long time. Not only is he unpopular, but he also has moral concerns.

Of course, appearing frequently in the laboratory does not mean staying in the laboratory forever. Professor Cai has his own office outside the laboratory, and he will come here when he has to do administrative work.

"Let's also find an office for Yang Rui? Are there any rooms in the building?" Professor Cai asked.

"How could it be possible?" Dean Liu shook his head and said, "Now the offices can't be lined up anymore. Besides, it's a bit of a bad name. Tsinghua gave them temporary offices. For temporary use, no one can say anything. Besides, Yang Rui does not have a laboratory in Tsinghua University. We have already allocated a laboratory, and if we allocate an office, it is definitely not appropriate."

"This is trouble."

"Yeah... If other teachers come to me for the office, I will definitely try to overcome it, but Yang Rui did not ask the office to drink Ma Kunlun." Dean Liu's expression was very helpless. It has always been the most troublesome thing to give people. .

Professor Cai pondered for a moment, and instead of continuing the topic, he asked: "How is Yang Rui's writing? How many chapters has he written?"

"A dozen chapters, because it's in English, I didn't read the manuscript carefully. You know, I read English articles very slowly and tiredly..." Academician Liu said with a smile.

Professor Cai's eyes narrowed: "The "Genomics" you saw is in English?"

"Correct."

"Genomics is the content of his class... he wrote this book based on his own lesson plans. When he is in class, he must use Chinese."

"Of course, of course it is in Chinese." Dean Liu replied.

"So, he wrote a lesson plan in Chinese and compiled an English one?" Professor Cai's logic is very clear.

Dean Liu also noticed the problem, and he hesitated and said: "It's probably like this... I saw the English version on his desk and didn't think much about it. I also asked our Peking University publishing house to help him publish the handouts, and then Yang Rui I said that I have contacted the publishing house and want to wait for their news first.” Dean Liu paused, and then said: “I contacted a friend of Tsinghua University, and Yang Rui did not publish in Tsinghua University.”

"Of course he will not publish in Tsinghua University. He wants to publish abroad." As a senior scholar, Professor Cai understands Yang Rui's ideas well.

The world mainstream academic circles do not care about monographs published in third world countries.

Just like a monograph published in Arabic by a famous Egyptian scholar, unless it is an ethnological work, there will be no Cambridge or Stanford professors to read it. There is no condition to read it, and it will naturally be wiped out by everyone.

Therefore, in this world where English occupies the mainstream of the world, papers must be published in English journals, and monographs must also be published in English in English-speaking countries in order to receive possible widespread attention. The same principle applies to German before World War II and Latin in Darwin's time.

In the work of synthetic bovine insulin that China did in the 1960s, the papers were all published in Chinese and one in English, published in Chinese in the Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and published in English in the only western science journal in China. "" ("Chinese Science") on.

Only two countries in the world published a large number of papers in their native languages ​​after World War II-the Soviet Union and Japan. Needless to say, when the Soviet Union was a pole in the world, after the Soviet Union was over, the Russian periodicals would be regarded as over. Japan is an alternative model. In the era of rapid development in Japan, in the era when the Japanese can say no, the level of Japanese papers is also very high, so that some English-speaking scholars have to find areas where the Japanese have the upper hand. People translate Japanese papers.

It sounds cool, but it’s true. However, reality does not succumb to the spirit. Sometimes people think that reality has succumbed, but soon, reality will bounce back like a bamboo that never bends. , Hit your face hard.

Entering the 21st century, the Japanese academic community, which cannot keep up with the times, has declined more than the economy. Although there are still many Japanese who publish papers in Japanese and are called patriotic by the Chinese, in the era of austerity in all fields in Japan, the influence of Japanese journals has become weaker and weaker. Japanese scholars in the new era have already started to play a Japanese and an English activity, and they are proud of English.

Facts have proved that unless China dominates in all fields, just like the United States in its heyday and an empire in its heyday, the reality is that English is still the lingua franca of the earth. Writing essays and monographs in Chinese is like writing Tang poems in Turkmen. Don't try to get He Zhizhang's praise.

However, the difference between writing a book in English and writing a essay in English is the huge [Holy Biography] Asura.

English essays are all formatted. Many Chinese scholars are not proficient in English and can still write qualified English essays, especially old-school scholars in the 1980s. Many people's spoken language is not even enough for chatting, but you let them write essays and attributives However, the predicate clauses are very proficient, and the standard language comes casually.

After all, the requirement of the paper is to make things clear. Except for the perverted requirements of the two journals "Science" and "Nature", all other papers are flat and straightforward.

The requirement of writing a book is much more difficult than writing an essay for "Nature" and "Science". The changes between the lines are not necessarily met by students in ordinary English-speaking countries.

Dean Liu stunned and said, "Is it okay to publish in a foreign country?"

"Yang Rui is a celebrity abroad. The National Television Network in the United States has reported on him just like our news network." Professor Cai sighed and said: "He has also done research on ion channels. With this kind of popularity and foundation, he has no obstacles to publishing works abroad, and publishers might help him polish."

Dean Liu did not think of this, and not only said again: "Do you think the content is sufficient for publication?"

"It's not that difficult to publish a book abroad. Foreigners rarely have ISBNs." Professor Cai smiled and said: "However, whether it can be sold or not is another matter."

"You need a school to buy it." Dean Liu came to understand and said: "That said, it's still quite risky."

Professor Cai nodded. The way foreign universities buy textbooks is similar to but different from domestic ones. Basically, each school decides which textbook to use. If it is a school run by professors, naturally each professor decides which textbook to buy. Some professors will use their own textbooks, but not every professor There are books in all fields. Therefore, most of the time, the famous works of famous professors are the highlight of university textbooks.

In some not very broad fields ~www.NovelMTL.com~ and even some textbooks of some professors, it will have a monopoly effect.

However, as a relatively niche reading material, even if it becomes a textbook, the sales of academic monographs will not be too large. 600 or 1,200 are considered best-sellers. If they are not textbooks, their annual sales are often 100 Below, because the price of books is very expensive, and most people in the great American Republic do not like to read books, let alone read academic monographs.

Buying less means making less money, and making less means publishing is worthless.

Dean Liu wanted to understand the relationship, and couldn't help but worry: "Why does Yang Rui always choose such a difficult option?"

"He's still young, young people are always confident." Professor Cai can understand. If he has the conditions, he also wants to publish a journal abroad.

"This, can we help?"

"It's okay to contact one or two people, but we can't decide." Professor Cai is a member of the Academy of Sciences. Yes, but a Chinese academician can only affect one-third of China's land, and so are the so-called fourth-tier scholars.

As he talked, Professor Cai became irritated and said, "I just have time tomorrow. I will go and read the book written by Yang Rui."

"He will be in Tsinghua tomorrow."

"We ate at noon tomorrow, and we rode over to watch. I took a two-hour break and waited until three o'clock in the afternoon to go to the laboratory." Professor Cai made a decision and wrote this on the calendar in front of the desk. project.

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