Azhir Mahmood  🚀 🤖 🧬 🧠 🪐

see here: https://twitter.com/LaurenHallion/status/1331599581923119104?s=20 …

So you think the science system is like a travel plan and not like addiction? :)

lol, no. but for an established PI with job security and name recognition, where they publish is in their control: nature vs PLOS vs Aperture, not an involuntary choice! (let's not pretend they publish in nature bcoz they care about trainee's success etc)

Not sure I agree that addictions are "involuntary", nor that professional decisions are "completely under our control". All decisions are by definition voluntary, but influenced by emotional and cognitive factors. There are strong motivations for e.g., publishing behaviour.

Perhaps @LaurenHallion can comment on how involuntary addictive behaviours are..

Thank you for joining the thread Lauren. I haven't been subject to either kind of trouble in my life so I'm not able to compare them in any useful sense, but I agree that we need to be careful about drawing equivalences in these areas.