Scientific MLM system (copyright GS)

Being on maternity leave your situation is fragile (you depend evenmore on your boss and colleagues unless you want to quit science completely). At the same time you have more time to analyze your situation and that of your boss or your group. We've seen several groups, but their basic structure and functioning is similar, only their size varies, or they may be grouped to be more effective (then several pyramids join each other to produce a Nobel prize for the people sitting on the top). Discussing such questions, the first reader of the blog suggested me to draw this cartoon... (Thanks a lot for it!)