Based on some recent experiences, a short blogpost on senior power in academia and why so many professors seem to misunderstand why I (and perhaps others like me) use social media http://neurochambers.blogspot.com/2018/11/invisible-police-in-senior-academia.html …
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To put it another more general way they may be reluctant for reasons outside being worried about you reacting yourself. They might not say anything and it might have nothing to do with what they think of you personally, but of the nature of the medium, if that makes sense.
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Totally makes sense. I’ll reply more later about this (kids in bath right now) but I think this is an important point
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So to follow up...yes I agree that's a plausible explanation for silence on twitter. What's interesting is the asymmetries I find in the private & in-person comms: almost entirely +ve from ECRs & roughly 50:50 from senior academics. But this could just be power dynamics again.
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It's very diff to know, which is one reason I find the personal criticisms - when they come - so helpful. I feel that the more senior you get in academia (& perhaps in life in general), the harder it is to obtain an accurate sense of how your motivations are perceived by others.
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I feel like it might be different for different people though too. But roughly, yes, as one moves upwards one has fewer peers (given some meaning of the word — it's a pyramid after all) and thus less chance at feedback.
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I suppose w twitter there is at least the possibility of feedback from anon accounts. I remember last year some extremely valuable (albeit quite angry) feedback re RRs that led us to make a major policy change. I learned later it was an ECR & I owed them. It's an valuable voice.
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Oh, cool. You remember how to find them? Interesting to me to see the exchange.
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Gosh it would be hard to dig it out on twitter now as I can't think of a hook to search for (or the person's handle), but it began in the comments section of my blog from the (I think same) anonymous commenter. I believe this is the first mention here: http://neurochambers.blogspot.com/2016/08/registered-reports-for-qualitative.html?showComment=1485702046475#c6679323600952644178 …
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