someone who got into this to be a biologist is going to see administering a database or whatever as a chore that gets in the way of their real work, and they're not going to do a fraction as well as a professional
What about techies doing pro-bono work. I interviewed with a group associated with the human genome thing, and one of the biologists was bragging about using a stack -- as if that was some sort of hyper-uber-esoteric data structure.
Do you remember that recent scandal at the CRU, when people wanted to verify their dubious findings and they'd "lost" the data? Now maybe they did delete it to cover up falsifying their conclusions, I don't know. Or maybe they just didn't have a clue about IT and no-one was paying attention to the backups.
What about techies doing pro-bono work. I interviewed with a group associated with the human genome thing, and one of the biologists was bragging about using a stack -- as if that was some sort of hyper-uber-esoteric data structure.