Wonder at what point interesting people leave academia for good. There's a tipping point somewhere, past which they take their toys + go.https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/839234209218719744 …
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Academic social sciences are totally compromised--cf. psych replication crisis, madness of anthropology...
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Huge bleeding chunks of bio/geo/chem/engineering/physics have to namecheck Climate Change to get funded
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You want to study blue corn snails you have to apply for "Effects of Climate Change on blue corn snails"
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TBH modern academia seems exquisitely tuned to keep people from doing real science.
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Researchers have to spend a plurality of their time on busywork unrelated to research aptitude.
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Same in microeconomics tbh. For many subfields all the best data are at Amazon + similar, best researchers too.
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and especially for superstars, pay is well into 7 figures
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