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The lifetime word limit should not apply to papers publishing negative results. You may all congratulate me (financially) for solving the replication crisis.
This is a terrible idea. Here is a better idea: - Change tenure criteria to something closer to “number of students * average quality of dissertation” - Expect fewer (0-2) but higher-quality publications from grad students applying for tenure track positions.
I think it might be equally, if not, more important to graduate only a suitable number of students/postdocs so that the majority of those that want academic positions will find those openings available. I'm not sure how to balance these issues.
Maybe add a “% that get a job” factor.
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I think it might be equally, if not, more important to graduate only a suitable number of students/postdocs so that the majority of those that want academic positions will find those openings available. I'm not sure how to balance these issues.
Fair point. This is a real issue in most non-engineering fields. Maybe add a “% that get a job” factor.
Restrict researchers to communicate using only the word "novel".
I left my views here:
It's amazing how much hand wringing is done about the symptoms of problems in academia (especially life sciences) without anyone actually addressing the root causes. The reason all of these problems exist is because the space is over populated, ruthlessly competitive, and under funded. It's really that simple. Create many more professorship positions for post docs, raise the NIH, NSF, and DOD research budgets to wher…
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"I firmly believe that this problem cannot be solved by more government money. If federal support for basic research were to be doubled (as many are calling for), the result would merely be to tack on a few more years of exponential expansion before we'd find ourselves in exactly the same situation again." David Goodstein, "The Big Crunch" http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html
I had not read this before and that's a valid point, thanks for sharing. I think I would say two things to this. First, theoretically we could attack the problem from both sides. We could constrain supply in the way that med school prevents an oversupply of physicians while also increasing the total amount of resources available to those practicing science. More practically, I tend to believe that basic and translati…
It's amazing how much hand wringing is done about the symptoms of problems in academia (especially life sciences) without anyone actually addressing the root causes. The reason all of these problems exist is because the space is over populated, ruthlessly competitive, and under funded. It's really that simple. Create many more professorship positions for post docs, raise the NIH, NSF, and DOD research budgets to wher…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I firmly believe that this problem cannot be solved by more government money. If federal support for basic research were to be doubled (as many are calling for), the result would merely be to tack on a few more years of exponential expansion before we'd find ourselves in exactly the same situation again." David Goodstein, "The Big Crunch" http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html
I had not read this before and that's a valid point, thanks for sharing. I think I would say two things to this. First, theoretically we could attack the problem from both sides. We could constrain supply in the way that med school prevents an oversupply of physicians while also increasing the total amount of resources available to those practicing science. More practically, I tend to believe that basic and translati…