Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

"Yang Rui not only teaches at Tsinghua University, he also has a temporary office, and the conditions of the temporary office are very good." Dean Liu recalled his office, and said: "It's a little smaller than my office, but it's warm and the space is good. It’s not too small, with a big window and a small flower bed in front of the door.”

Dean Liu gestured in Professor Cai's office, and said, "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, and he also roasted beef with a stove, saying that grilled meat in an open oven is more delicious, and the seasonings are all alive, packed in small bottles..."

Under Dean Liu's vivid description, Professor Cai immediately formed the image of Yang Rui's temporary office in his mind: it's not a big office, but a comfortable office...an office where you can barbecue.

"What about the ion channel laboratory? The condition of the ion channel laboratory is not bad, isn't Yang Rui working there?"

"I think maybe Tsinghua's temporary office is quieter. It seems that it is quite suitable for writing."

Professor Cai originally wanted to say that the ion channel laboratory is also very quiet, but now that the scale has expanded to nearly 30 people, it is difficult for him to say so. Also the director of the laboratory, Professor Cai knows what it's like when several experimental groups are busy. If the boss is in the laboratory, people will keep asking what to do.

The work in the laboratory is like this. Every detail needs the participation of the boss. Many times, Professor Cai has to operate the microscope or pick up the pipette himself.

It is not impossible to be a hands-off shopkeeper, but the progress of the laboratory is often far behind. If the deputy in the laboratory is capable of competing with other laboratories, or reaches the level of the laboratory director, most of him will go out independently . In the laboratory, the life goal of the largest number of scientific research dogs and leading dogs is not to add bricks and tiles to the laboratory. Their goal of working hard in the laboratory is to try their best to learn more knowledge and methods, so that one day Have your own laboratory. Therefore, when the director of the laboratory appears in the laboratory, the scientists will release the questions accumulated for many days.

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

Of course, being in the lab often doesn't mean staying in the lab forever. Professor Cai has his own office outside the laboratory, and he will come here when he has to do administrative work.

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

"How could there be?" Dean Liu shook his head and said, "The current office can't be filled, and besides, it's a bit unfair. Tsinghua University gave it a temporary office, and it's hard for anyone to say anything. Besides, Yang Rui doesn't have a laboratory in Tsinghua University, we have already assigned a laboratory, and it would definitely not be appropriate to assign an office."

"It's a problem."

"That's right... If other teachers come to me to ask for an office, I will definitely try to overcome it, but Yang Rui didn't ask the office to drink horse Kunlun." Dean Liu's expression is very helpless, giving things to people is always the most troublesome .

Professor Cai pondered for a moment, did not continue this topic, and instead asked: "How is Yang Rui's writing, how many chapters has he written?"

"A dozen chapters or so, because it's in English,

I didn't read the manuscript carefully, you know, I read English articles very slowly and tired..." Academician Liu said with a smile.

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

"right."

"Genomics is the content of his class... He wrote this book based on his own teaching plan. When he was in class, he must have used Chinese."

"Of course, of course it's Chinese." Dean Liu replied.

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

Dean Liu also noticed the problem, and said hesitantly: "Probably so... I saw the English version on his desk, and didn't think much about it at the time. I also asked our Peking University publishing house to help him publish the lecture notes. Then, Yang Rui He said that he has already contacted the publishing house and wants to wait for their news first." Dean Liu paused for a moment, and then said: "I contacted my friends in Tsinghua University, and Yang Rui did not publish in Tsinghua University."

"Of course he won't publish in Tsinghua, he wants to publish abroad." As a senior scholar, Professor Cai can understand Yang Rui's thoughts very well.

The monographs published in the third world countries, the world's mainstream academic circles don't care at all.

Just like a monograph published in Arabic by a famous Egyptian scholar, unless it is a work of ethnology, no professor from Cambridge or Stanford will read it, and there is no condition to read it, so it will naturally disappear from everyone.

Therefore, in this world where English is 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 holds true for German before World War II, and for Latin in Darwin's time.

In the work of artificially synthesizing bovine insulin in China in the 1960s, the papers were published in one Chinese and one English paper. The Chinese paper was published in the Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and the English paper was published in the only Western-language scientific journal in China. "" ("Chinese Science").

Only two countries in the world published a large number of papers in their own languages ​​after World War II - the Soviet Union and Japan. It goes without saying that the Soviet Union was at the top of the world. After the Soviet Union was over, Russian periodicals were also over. Japan is an alternative example. In the era of rapid development in Japan, in the era when the Japanese could say no, the level of papers in Japan was also very high, so that scholars from some English-speaking countries had to find People translate Japanese papers.

It sounds cool, but reality will not yield to the spirit. Sometimes, people think that reality has surrendered, but soon, reality will bounce back quickly like a bamboo that never bends. , hit you hard in the face.

Entering the 21st century, the Japanese academia cannot keep up with the times, and the decline is worse than the economy. Although there are still many Japanese who publish papers in Japanese and are called patriotic by the Chinese, the influence of Japanese journals has become weaker and weaker in the era of Japan's tightening of all fields. Japanese scholars in the new era have already started to play one article in Japanese and one in English, and they are proud of English.

Facts have proved that unless China dominates the entire field, just like the United States in its heyday, and the empire on which the sun never sets in its heyday, the reality is that English will still be the lingua franca of the earth. Writing papers and monographs in Chinese is like writing Tang poems in Turkmen. Do not expect to be appreciated by He Zhizhang.

However, the difference between writing a book in English and writing a treatise in English is a huge [sacred] asura.

English papers have a format. Many Chinese scholars are not proficient in English, but they can still write qualified English papers, especially the old-school scholars in the 1980s. Many people’s spoken English is not even good enough for chatting, but you let them write papers, attributive The clauses and predicate clauses are used very skillfully, and the standard language comes casually.

After all, the requirement for a paper is to clarify things. Except for two journals, "Science" and "Nature", which require a little writing, other papers can be described in a straightforward manner.

The requirements for writing a book are much more difficult than writing papers for "Nature" and "Science". Even students from ordinary English-speaking countries may not be able to satisfy the changes between the lines.

Dean Liu said blankly: "Is it okay to publish abroad?"

"Yang Rui is a celebrity abroad. The National Television Network in the United States, just like our news network, has reported him." Professor Cai breathed a sigh of relief and said, "He also made research on ion channels. , With such popularity and foundation, there is no obstacle for him to publish his works abroad, and the publishers may help him polish them."

Dean Liu didn't think of this, not only said: "Do you think the content is enough to publish?"

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

"The school has to buy it." Dean Liu understood, and said, "That said, it's quite risky."

Professor Cai nodded. The way foreign universities purchase textbooks is similar to but different from domestic ones. Basically, each school decides which textbooks to use. If it is a school run by professors, it is natural for each professor to decide which textbooks to buy. Some professors will use their own textbooks, but not every professor is in every There are works in every field, so most of the time, those famous works of famous professors are the highlight of university textbooks.

In some not very broad fields, even some textbooks of some professors will have a monopoly effect.

However, as a relatively niche reading material, even if it becomes a textbook, the sales volume of academic monographs will not be too large. 600 or 1,200 books can be called a bestseller. If it does not become a textbook, its annual sales volume is often 100. Next, because books are expensive, and most people in the great American Republic do not like to read books, let alone academic monographs.

Buying less means making less money, and earning less means publishing 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 is still young. Young people are always confident." Professor Cai understands quite well. If he has the conditions, he also wants to publish a journal abroad.

"Here, can we help?"

"It's okay to contact one or two people, but we can't decide." It's true that Professor Cai is a member of the Academy of Sciences, but Chinese academicians can only affect one-third of an acre of land in China, and the so-called fourth-level scholars are the same.

As he spoke, Professor Cai became itchy and said, "I happen to have time tomorrow, so I'll go and read the book written by Yang Rui."

"He will be in Tsinghua University tomorrow."

"We'll have lunch at noon tomorrow, and we'll ride over to see it. I'll spare two hours and go to the lab after three o'clock in the afternoon." Professor Cai made a decision, and wrote this on the calendar in front of his desk. project.

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