michael_nielsen

Heh. I simply quit my tenured job to work on open science; it was much easier than convincing my institution to support that work. "Enormous institutional reforms" may be an understatement.

Afraid so. I fear the university system is past saving and new institutional models are needed. Fortunately some are springing up!

This kind of thing bugs the hell out of me, to put it mildly: https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1103503007126179840 …. Even if you have a vastly better model, not clear it'll matter.

(Oops, TBC, by "bugs the hell out of me" I certainly don't mean the thing you sent Cameron! Belatedly realize that is unclear )

The question "How strong is your growth (and death) model for better (or worse) institutions seems like a fundamental institutional question, to me." The academic model is terrible, and there is absolutely _zero_ chance it will be changed internally, IMO (sorry, Cameron).

Why can't two grad students with a good idea start a University in their garage? Or a grant agency? If their idea is genuinely better than existing models, they should grow to replace Harvard (or the NIH) in 10 years. But there is no growth model like this.