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I am not arguing against the facts expressed in the piece. This is not an area in which I have any expertise. However, I am a bit uncomfortable with the pithy language used. It's possible (likely, even), that the fired editors deserve the pithiness, but it's still a bit weird to read that kind of prose, in a scientific context.
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This website is slightly to the right of reddit these days; what exactly would expressing a negative opinion about a conservative blogger do to their main account? My suspicion was some affiliation with a current or future implicated individual.
It's been some time since I spent any time on Reddit but last I recall, slightly to the right of Reddit would imply pretty left still Has Reddit changed that much?
Is it just me or this makes me feel less guilty for using libgen all these years
Is it just me or this makes me feel less guilty for using libgen all these years
Information for non-commercial purposes should be free for general social enrichment. Information for commercial purposes should have some path towards monetization but the one we've got right now is clearly a terrible fit. For the future, though, usually if you just email one of the paper author's with even a hint of interest you'll get the full paper and often a neat discussion about how your specific interest rela…
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Maybe I'm just naive or dense, but I'm not seeing language I'd be concerned about in the article? Help me get calibrated, is there something in particular that bothers you? or just a general vibe?
> Despite working at a terrible school Literally zero need for that; none. And it's that kind of language that calls into question the authors motives. I went from "Excellent reporting here" to "This guy is emotional and not a reliable source of information" in 6 words.
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I'm torn about your comment. On the one hand, the context is interesting. On the other hand, it's almost unrelated to the substance of this post of his. I suppose there's a general anti-mainstream-science bias propagating through national-conservative/far-right/alt-right circles, specifically about how the world of academia functions. However, the facts of this post about how a corner of academia functions ought to s…
Oh yeah, it's a fine post! Interesting read. But I don't think it's that silly to say that success for a person who espouses these views is success for the views themselves, and that a tone-shift might arise if gradually, more and more posts about inoffensive topics written by "Mr. Don't Worry About It ;)" make their way onto the front page.
Sayre's Law: Academic Politics Are So Vicious Because the Stakes Are So Small Maybe universities, tenure committees, and funding sources should stop measuring academics by vanity metrics such as H-Index and publication counts. And don't get me started on the tendency toward "minimum publishable units." That said, abusing power as an editor deserves a special place in hell...
Corporate KPI-chasing culture ruins everything. “Publish or perish” has hit such an extreme level. I imagine most academics would gladly not participate in this game if their entire livelihood didn’t depend on it
The only advantage the current system has is that it is stupendously simple, so at least it is hard to manipulate.
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You can assume good faith initially without having to tolerate a bad actor who invalidates that assumption. It seems like your company leadership missed that part of the lesson.
I would argue that there's an incentive to "miss" that part of the lesson.
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Corporate KPI-chasing culture ruins everything. “Publish or perish” has hit such an extreme level. I imagine most academics would gladly not participate in this game if their entire livelihood didn’t depend on it
I think an awful lot of people would rather receive their livelihood without being subject to measurement.
A fun and interesting article! I must however, take the time to be the ever-sensitive snowflake and highlight a troubling trend in this person's other posts. He seems to have some anti-trans leanings[1], refusing to gender people correctly and all that (and certainly not pushing back against comments which declare "M to Fs are psychotic bullies who would kill all of us to maintain their sacred illusion". Not to imply…