This seems to be happening to lots of academics. Weird time not to be verifying them. No category for “academic”.https://twitter.com/DiseaseEcology/status/1402768648578625536 …
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the issue Zeynep is addressing, as I read it, is not about the ontology of what verification "is", which obviously is muddled and bizarre. It's about *how it is interpreted* in certain subcultures, where it is treated as a career-relevant status marker, whether it should be or no
Of course you don't understand the logic of verification; on the face of it we can see that there is none. But status markers often exist without reference to logic; once they are accepted within a group, they exert causal gravity regardless of their validity
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