it's time to reverse the incentives for academic and scientific publication. if you're going to make a claim that we should spend some of our precious attention budget on something you have to say, you'd better be damn fucking sure it's worth it
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i want to see the world where academics ranked rewarded by number of citations/number of papers published that seems like an awesome incentive structure
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academics knifing each other in back halls of conferences over failures to stuff in a citation that could have been stuffed in would be rad as hell, true
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I mean the simple answer is to not let anyone do press releases about papers.
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it's important to preserve the attention budgets of people who are actually trying to do science and so might like to be able to read journals, too
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many early career scientists/academics (below 40ish) aren't upper middle class by any stretch - those in an acute stage of publish or perish. Unless they are independently wealthy, they must "perform" upper middle class as is required by academia.
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although in some way "a massive dole for unemployable neurotics" (often from upper middle class backgrounds) is somehow... appropriate
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