And the PI is very smart and capable. But: the incentive structure is such that somehow I'm churning out huge tables no one will *ever* read
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This isn't an isolated problem. I'm also remembering my undergraduate work in a neuroscience lab studying auditory learning in songbirds.
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The PI there was *incredible* but she spent most of her time writing bullshit grants justifying her work w/ handwaving about songbird . . .
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. . . learning as a good model for humans. [narrator] analogues of zebra finch auditory learning structures are not present in human brains
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Last I heard she quit and became the Chief Science Officer of a startup somewhere. This seems like a vastly better use of her talents tbqh.
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Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, there's lately a lot of (justified, imo) criticism of humanities and their ideology-driven hollowing
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To say nothing of replication crises in the social sciences, to varying degrees. But even the natural sciences, even in application-heavy...
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fields, seem like they're unwell. My gut sense is the cause of this seems to have something to do with organizational theory and incentives
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. . . but of course I would say that as a microeconomist. Anyway, this is heartbreaking to me. My life has orbited around campus since
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my faculty brat childhood, and I've been able to learn from some of the most talented and kind people in the world in labs and classrooms.
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And something about universities results in these people pouring their creative energy into bullshit filler papers. What a waste. /thread
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