A plant science academic who can't be bothered to back up their work...
If that was the intellectual calibre of the person, I wonder how truly worthwhile the lost work was.
If that was the intellectual calibre of the person, I wonder how truly worthwhile the lost work was.
While it absolutely makes sense to keep your important data backed up, I know people who were great academics in their field and yet managed to delete all their PhD work (before services like Dropbox and OneDrive became common).