Income-share education models already exist and offer a competitive alternative to the teaching function of universities and get out of the unsustainable student debt balloon. R&D can be unbundled too.
-
-
I seem to have accidentally joined a mini-wave of commentary on indie research. Here is
@nayafia describing her experience, a kind of edge case between the sort of indie research I’m talking about and existing institutional margins.https://nadiaeghbal.com/phdShow this thread -
And here’s a piece by James Gallagher https://twitter.com/jamesg_oca/status/1196080062447149056 …
This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
Here’s John Carmack’s announcement which is what got me tweeting. Not sure what gotbthe others thinking about this right now. https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2547632585471243&id=100006735798590 …
Show this thread -
Aside: a few seem to be reading this thread as a proposal for a disruptive attack on the university research system rather than speculations for a parallel system for a potential indie research world. But yes, it could potentially lead to competition, which would be a good thing.
Show this thread -
It’s a ritual in the university world to whine about how research funding is under threat. But from the outside, people would correctly conclude that the system has near-monopolistic access to a vast public funding budget. And my proposal doesn’t even envision touching that.
Show this thread -
If the university research world is concerned about competition from a parallel independent research world catalyzed by private funding and alternate norms, one that currently has vanishingly tiny funding (mostly self-funding) compared to their world, you have to wonder: why?
Show this thread -
I wonder what would happen if I invited people to send me 1-page proposals in a pro-forma for indie mini-CAREER grants and just threw up a page linking to all of them, then promoting that page. I bet I could match at least a few proposals to private funding sources
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
