Nice #list of things you *can* do in #academia https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2021..
It's unclear whether there is fundamentally a way out of this #reproducibility and #reproduction #crisis that #academia has: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-0..
I really suspect that so many #highgrades in the #uk #schools is not a good thing and only serves to #devalue them: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-58086.. This will have massive and #fareaching #effects across #academia - how is a #college for example supposed to figure out who to accept? The #government will have a lot to answer for in the coming years.
It's almost annoying that it took #trans #lobbyists / #activists to make name changes easier in the world of #academia https://blog.arxiv.org/2021/07/28/scient.. #women for example were not able to continue the old #tradition of adopting the #surname of their make partner after #marriage - or risk losing credit for their #published works. I think this is one of the few good changes pushed for by #lgbt groups
This is #brutal - but #self #criticism is exactly needed in #academia https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-0.. One comment in particular is particularly awful: "I'm in the middle of a PhD. It's kind of sad to say this but if I rediscover my inner final-year undergrad I'm pretty sure I'd have trouble graduating": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=278.. Ouch. I wonder whether my work so far lives up to the expectations I have of others. Worth reflection.