Neil Saunders

Enabling! I'm so done with doing research right now. Too slow, too frustrating. It's fun now that I'm writing up my thesis, but every chapter was two years of work and I was unhappy and stressed and suppressed 99% of my time at the bench. - Eva

doing research. But mother Nature said "NOOOOO!!!!, the bench is not a safe place for Science when you're using your pipetman" :-) - Pierre

enabling. I like the variety of challenges that brings as opposed to the microfocus of research - Daniel Swan via twhirl

Doing it, definitely. I've been a patch clamper a long time now, but I still get a thrill when I see currents up on the screen. There's nothing like it. - NatBlair

I loved doing research myself, but as a career, definitely the latter. - Deepak

Enabling: adding value to anything which helps the scientific method. Always different, emerging and interesting. - Matt Wood

Enabling it. I have the same feeling as Eva and Matt. - Paulo Nuin

both, but like to walk on the computational side - Attila Csordas

occasional bench research + running lab as a PI + teaching students - 2/3 of the current hellish grant burden = perfect - Maureen

enabling. greater variety, plus I still get to do all the original thinking I want to. Also I was a danger with P32. - Simon Cockell

I love doing research, but I hate writing it up. I enjoy writing well-crafted Ruby code to answer scientific questions, but I'm utterly useless at communicating the results. - Michael Barton

Haven't had much experience enabling yet, but I have the feeling I'd enjoy enabling research more consistently than doing research. But doing research does give a thrill if it goes well and you can keep the interest alive. - Shirley Wu

I do lots of "research" -- on the internets... - Eric Jain

Enabling & Connecting Minds. In doing my focus seems to move towards empirical work, statistics, anything in highly complex macro-systems. Ah, science in industry is cool. - dekay

It used to be research but then it got to a point where there were no tools available that could meet my needs, so now it has turned to enabling and trying to develop those tools. - Paul Bacchus

maybe I'm on the enabling side? Well fact is I've developed my share of computational methodologies and software so far, and it was fun!, but when it comes to thinking about the biological theories/hypotheses/paper writing from the data the software spit out, I kind of hate it. So I guess I'm no into "doing research", but more for hacking the heck out of it... - Ntino

I just don't know. I'm having a really hard time with that exact question right now. I'm nearing my use-by date as a postdoc and not sure I really want to try to scramble up the faculty food chain. - Bill Hooker

I'd say 60:40 - Ricardo Vidal

@Bill - hard time with that exact question is precisely my feeling and reason for the post. - Neil Saunders

the answer is "translate the the clinic!!!!!" not from bench to the bench - Alexey

30:70 for me, if it still matters :-) But I think I do more like 90:10. - Heather

Doing it is occasionally interesting, in between long periods of tedious repetition and data collection, which is, I guess, how I apportion my split. - Mr. Gunn