I can't agree more with that. I get sometimes frustrated when I see people moving their projects in one direction because of the result they've done once in triplicates. Sure it does take time to repeat the same experiment several times and you can feel like time would be better spent trying to answer the next question but reproducibility is key in science.

That's weird, one of these graphs really looks like what my stress level would be like!!! The post doc is definitely more pressure, especially nowadays when postdocs get longer and longer and it's harder and harder to publish. As you get older there's definitely more pressure to find a real job. During graduate school, even when it doesn't work great, you kind of feel like you have time to get data and good papers. During your postdoc, that's it, those publications better start piling up or you'll never be able to find anything good after that. Science is so competitive... too competive.

I write almost everything in my notebook but with time, it becomes quite challenging to go back to an old experiment when you don't remember when you've done it. I'm starting notebook number 6... To read my own handwriting is also a challenge in itself and I unfortunately don't think anybody but me would be able to find any semi-useful information