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Armauk
Jun 23, 2021



My first thought, but AJ's blog was likely so small, the crawler didn't bother to capture it.

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Armauk
Jun 23, 2021


chaosbreather posted:

academia is giga turbo hosed. you need to publish or get fired and you need grants or you get fired. you have to spend 80% of your time chasing grants which means you have nothing to write about unless you use your grants to hire an RA to do your academic studies for you. they are trying to get your job unless your job is terrible and they are the ones doing your job. you have to pay journals to publish in in them, not the other way around. you have to pay to present your work at conferences, not the other way around. to win a grant you need to demonstrate to the board that you don't need the money because if you're dependent on getting the grant that means the project is too risky. to get published you need to demonstrate that your work is not too different to anyone else and not too useful for too many different folks, it has to be the very next tiny step forward, and it has to be a positive result, no-one is interested in publishing negative results. if you were to cynically design a system to utterly paralyse the most dedicated, passionate and learned thinkers on any subject, i don't think you could do a much better job.

I've never understood people's desire to work in academia when there are this many hoops to jump through. Is a tenured position *that* good?

Armauk fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Sep 5, 2022

Armauk
Jun 23, 2021


Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

maybe esr really is as talented a roleplayer as he insists and he’s just been rp-ing as an insufferable racist computer chud this whole time

but, hey, he acquired the coveted three-letter nick.

Armauk
Jun 23, 2021


echinopsis posted:

sounds a lot like grope imo

keep calm and grope on

Armauk
Jun 23, 2021


Wild EEPROM posted:

casey neistat

still vlogging

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