The replication crisis and the credibility revolution response will, at minimum, make for a classic of long-form science writing, like The Soul of a New Machine or The Annals of the Former World. But I’d like to see the movie too!https://twitter.com/The_Lagrangian/status/1128476386631483393 …
Physics is subject to the problems I mentioned of hoop-jumping, group-think, and bureaucratic cargo-culting. Here’s a friend of mine who is an astrophysicist working on galactic magnetohydrodynamics:https://twitter.com/joogipupu/status/1128459891360710656 …
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Another astrophysicist friend of mine,
@drossbucket, with a PhD on gravitational waves from neutron stars, chose to become a web developer and do physics on the side, because she thought she’d get more time for physics as a web dev than as a physicist:https://drossbucket.wordpress.com/about/ -
Brilliant guy who dropped out of a math PhD program because it seemed to have lost touch with reality:https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1128407894603354112 …
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To comment. I find astrophysics to not be the worst offender. Likely because it is a small field. However, publication pressure is huge and unreasonable. Especially when you are young and most creative, there is only short term funding available. A problem in all sciences.
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To justify your existence, you have to publish, because in the end the faceless system of assessment committees and others instances of quantified metrics, they only care about what they can count. I am still having my standards, but I would like to have more time to think.
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