“No Podemos Perder La Carrera”: How the Multiple Temporalities of Science Affect Scientific Knowledge Production in Mexico

ABSTRACT Well‐funded laboratories in the United States frequently employ international researchers, including Mexican postdocs and independent researchers. When biomedical researchers from Mexico work in these laboratories in the United States, they often experience a strikingly different speed of laboratory science that produces constructions of time that can influence scientific knowledge production and practices. Such experiences and constructions of time can produce a false binary between science produced in the United States and science produced in Mexico. This can affect the way Mexican biomedical researchers envision scientific research, the kinds of research questions they ask, the networks they create, and how research trends eventually take shape in Mexico.