If you’re upset or disappointed that someone stopped doing basic research, get mad at your elected officials the NIH, and the other people running the “research enterprise”, not the poor woman who making ~35k/year while living in San Francisco and working 50+ hours a week.

I love doing research but I can easily imagine scenarios where the low salary, long hours, and abysmal job security would make it infeasible for me to continue. Ironically, fixing these problems would probably improve the overall quality of research too....