Yeah, its the case for the Biology field I'm in..
I've already published 2 papers 1st, then only write thesis (Plagiarising from own papers XD)

Err... what do you mean "traditional" bro?
Traditional as in need to submit thesis?

UM actually allows students to omit the submission of thesis if they publish 3 ISI (Q1/Q2) articles iinm. I've achieved that requirement, but since my scholarship will give extra incentives for writing thesis, why not write?

True that, and the standard can only become higher and higher

Unfortunately no, I'm doing phD in Biotechnology
Published 4 ISI (3Q1, 1Q2) within 2 years, hope I can get 2-3 more before I leave

Yeah, under BrightSpark How you know? You also from UM?
More like I'm lucky to publish 4 in 2 years

I see, grats grats!! Graduating this Oct I guess?
Science, depends on the field... Bio and medicine pretty competitive... Engineering should be easier

The Brightspark requirements have been altered for quite a few times and I'm not really sure with the latest requirements already, but the criteria they've set during my time is 3 ISI (Q1/Q2) papers during the 1st 3 years, and 7 more in the within one year after graduating

Agreed, Other people's work always seemed to be more valuable to me
The Bio-related work we do here in Malaysia are not as high tech

Hey man, good to see you again
Well, I've always fancied those who get the chance to learn and try out Next Generation Sequencing, whereas we are still stuck with the "conventional" methods T_T And of course all those biomedical and applied sciences which are often deemed more "valuable" research than what phylogeneticists are doing
I only know how to use the program haha, I have no idea how the underlying statistics for Bayesian Inference works XD
And I've also no idea how to use R too... I only know how to do some very simple statistics on R. The rest is just to complicated.. I prefer programs with a more user-friendly interface

Yeap, phylogenetics, DNA barcoding and a little bit of tissue culture
R is hard to use yo because of its command-style input system. Though many of the experts claim that it does offer much, much more flexibility once you get the hang of it (which I never did)

Ahh, you mean command batches? haha
Pretty handy stuffs~
But I'm using other bioinfo programs that are more user-friendly than R at the emoment la haha

Wah, good to know that there are also people doing phylogenetics here.
My research is more on lab work and phylogenetic inference. No programming and stuffs haha, don't know anything about those