Goldy Honorer-Descartes

Goldy Honorer-Descartes, born Shradha Mukherjee. Goldy Honorer-Descartes pen name/nickname/preferred name in honour of my intellectual father Rene Descartes. The French 'Honorer Descartes', translates to 'Honouring Descartes'.

"Dubito Ergo Cogito; Cogito Ergo Sum" (Latin)
"I doubt therefore I think; I think therefore I am" (English)
-quote by René Descartes.
ref: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pdc6n

About me

What are my accomplishments? (proven merit) My education includes graduate level degrees in chemistry, biochemistry and computation (health informatics). My research publications as first and/or corresponding author (2013-present) are in domains of neuroscience, neurological diseases, cancers, stem cells, neurotoxicity and heavy metal toxicity. These publications utilised techniques of molecular biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, genomic/omics, statistics, machine learning, AI, natural language processing and network analysis. I have published papers (2013-present) in and reviewed papers (2020-present) for, @Nature https://www.nature.com/siteindex, @FrontiersIn https://www.frontiersin.org/journals and @ElsevierConnect https://www.elsevier.com/products/journals (Cell Press) tier 1 highly cited high impact family of journals in addition to others.

What are my soft skills? (skills that have helped me achieve my proven merit) To put it simply, my soft skills are rooted in my passion for knowledge work. 'Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere' quote from Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My research experience has potentiated my ability to plan, problem-solve and perform intricate scientific experiments to unravel novel discoveries. My experience in scientific communication through presentations and publications, has honed my ability to convey complex ideas and technical information in a concise and accessible manner. Taken together, I am confident my proven merit and work ethics, make me an ideal candidate to contribute to your organization's success and create tangible value.

What is my profession? (who am I professionally?) At the microscopic level, 'I am an atom in the universe and an universe of atoms' to quote from Richard Feynman's poem. At the macroscopic level, I am a knowledge worker, that is a scientist and educator. The fair (giving credit where its due, not engage in plagiarism) and FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) science I practice, can be described by the line "whose armour is his honest thought, and simple truth his utmost skill" from poem 'The Character of a Happy Life' by Sir Henry Wotton. Its another way of saying, that in Science data driven truths have to be stated honestly, and cannot be diluted for sake of consensus, empathy or humility, science is not a majority vote. Sherlock Holmes sums this up nicely, in The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter by Arthur Conan Doyle "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers."

What is my foundational work ethic? (FAIR basis of knowledge work) In the field of science, being FAIR and conducting fair/honest research is a crucial practical skill for any scientist to possess. I learned about this concept from my guru Captain Cook (one of three mentors, along with Rene Descartes and Friedrich Schiller), who emphasized the importance of revealing truths even if that meant going against pre-existing unproven dogma and majority opinion, as evidenced by Captain Cook's world map which even his rivals of the time the Dutch and French appreciated and used fairly after Royal National Geographic published it. This scientific process, was established by my other guru, Rene Descartes, during a time when speculation and subjectivity were becoming science. To combat this, Rene developed a logic and reason-based method for obtaining objective truths, as outlined in his work "Discourse on the Method" (French title: Discours de la méthode). It is important to recognize the importance of FAIR research practices because science uses pre-existing science, so if fake science is incorporated into knowledge space then research built on it will also be faulty. In summary, ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.’--quote John Keats. ref: FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) | Nature Journal https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618 ref: FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) Framework | EMBL-EBI https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/perspectives/fairification-framework-making-your-data-findable-accessible-interoperable-and-reusable

What is my philosophy? (who am I personally?) What location do I want consistent with my philosophy? I am a minimalist, that is my philosophy is 'simple living high thinking' as described in poem 'The Character of a Happy Life' by Sir Henry Wotton and famous quote by Lao Tzu 'who knows that enough is enough, will always have enough'. For me enough is using my proven merit to get to my preferred location, do my preferred knowledge work, live in a place with law and order i.e. security and lead a preferred lifestyle that is in harmony with nature and have a legal option if need be for preferred death (assisted suicide, assisted dying). Given the interdisciplinary nature of my education and research, I am best fit for work in sustainable innovation and environmental science (climate, flora and fauna). This is also consistent with my goal of living a life in harmony with nature, first inspired by my guru Friedrich Schiller's 'On The Aesthetic Education Of Man' (German title: 'Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen') (one of my 3 gurus, the other two being Rene Descartes and Captain Cook). Rene Descartes, who curiously also looks like my father, is not just one of my 3 gurus but also my intellectual father because he laid out the foundations of logic and reason, in science and philosophy, which makes him the most significant solo contributor in history of knowledge work, and his most famous saying is also my core moto of life and work, 'Dubito Ergo Cogito; Cogito Ergo Sum' (Latin) 'I doubt therefore I think; I think therefore I am' (English) -- quote by René Descartes.

What position, work authorization (location) and salary do I want? (job, consultancy, onsite, remote, temporary, full-time)

  • For work, I am eager to pursue either Traditional Work and Stationary Work or working as Digital Nomad and Working Traveler. I am unemployed and seeking consultancy or regular employment, either onsite or remote. I am interested in and a good fit for biology, chemistry and computational research or in other words research spanning multiple scientific disciplines. I am eager to pursue either conventional scientific research or AI/computation driven scientific research, scientific writing assignments or teaching assignments for sustainable innovation in environmental science. Basically I want to be a environmental scientist, which requires interdisciplinary approach to science so can be simply called being a scientist -- this term scientists encompass knowledge workers who engage in hardwork both brainwork and legwork in pursuit of discovery and sustainable solutions.
  • For payment, I only request financial coverage for food (to cover self-cooked food cost, not for restaurant food coverage) and lodging (to covert rent of apartment or cover rent of camper vans and designated camping site rent). My preferred currency is GBP as a small token of thanks to their mercy that made my life and work possible. The British hold a special place for me as indeed as we say in UK and as I believe to be true for me to the letter, "I have the honor [King Queen of UK and Commonwealth, Prince and Princess of Wales, currently serving UK Royals, real UK people (not the UK haters) and UK at large] to be your most humble and most obedient servant", basically I intent to serve in my own little way through knowledge work in a sustainable manner that is while also achieving financial independence through knowledge work i.e. I am not completely altruistic which is not sustainable.
  • For authorization, I need visa only. By getting work authorization (visa in merit category) and work, I can achieve dignity of work and achieve financial independence. I can move between countries (legally with visa to) UK, EU, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, US, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan that more or less meet all my above preferred conditions, rather philosophy, are also my preferred locations. Importantly, these countries are not at war with the great nations (UK, US, Germany and France) responsible for all my knowledge and proven merit, though there is healthy competition between them -- US and UK are responsible for my basic and higher education,respectively, while US, UK, Germany and France are responsible for my publications. Ergo, my preferred location does not include Russia and its allies. In summary, my preferred locations are UK, EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, US, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan in the Anglosphere-Eurosphere-Sinosphere.
    • I am especially keen to learn and work in France because I regard myself as intellectual daughter of Rene Descartes and as my knowledge work and its publication heavily relies on France such as my AI work described below.

    What else am I doing other than job hunting to get a job by virtue of my proven merit? I host my signature knowledge work, http://fairwissenschaft.eu website hosted on OVH (France/EU). I also have a paper in HAL, which demonstrates use of AI in classifying disease samples using biomarkers https://hal.science/hal-04084188v1 posted on HAL (France/EU). Presently, I am working on a project on how to use Mistral AI (France/EU) from huggingface.co (France/EU open source) and improving response by adding context from Qwant (France/EU) search engine results, encyclopedia (Wikipedia open source), scientific publications (Euro PMC) and/or comparing with other model outputs -- Aya (Canada), EuroLLM (EU), Chat-GPT (US) LLMs -- for research and learning.
    The website http://www.fairwissenschaft.eu is based on a book I am working on ‘Artificial Intelligence and Statistics In Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Eco-Health For The Curious And Ambitious’ -- its just to kill time, I do not have any book deal yet but I welcome one. Its a '10K to 1K Pay It Forward' type Knowledge Work i.e. its an educational resource that makes what would take one 10K hours to learn, accessible to them in 1K hours; and its a means for me to pay forward the knowledge (scientific and philosophy) I gained and continue to gain from the western civilization -- western civilization was/is instrumental in nurturing Christianity, which was/is integral to its culture, and thus I intend to convert to Christianity in the west -- Germany's Martin Luther's Protestant version because it has more logical appeal though I also respect the Catholic version of Christianity and appreciate its contributions. I use an interdisciplinary big-picture approach, because true knowledge is not compartmentalized but knowledge domains cross-talk with each other and together reveal the truth, his approach is nicely explained by the blind men and elephant buddhism story. Additionally, because I love English, I am also learning English's mother language German and father language French, latter being also the mother tongue of my intellectual father Rene Descartes, and then give language tests to showcase my language proficiency. Time permitting, I will also learn other Germanic languages such as Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and other Latin-based/Romantic languages such as Spanish and Italian.
    ref: The Protestant Reformation that began with Martin Luther in 1517 played a key role in the development of the North American colonies and the eventual United States | National Geographic https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/protestant-reformation/ ref: The elephant and the blind men powerful buddha wisdom story | The Power Of Stories https://youtu.be/OTUTqERXlws

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