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Ok but finding teams like this in the real world is not simple. Half the roles billed this way are cynically lying. The other half think that because they’re st
by closeparen 6y ago
Ok but finding teams like this in the real world is not simple. Half the roles billed this way are cynically lying. The other half think that because they’re struggling to stay afloat, they must be swimming in the ocean, but they’re actually in backyard kiddie pools and just not very sophisticated.
Maybe I am overly optimistic about academia, but my understanding is that your advisor, funding agencies, journals, etc. know the layout of the field and make sure that what you’re doing is both interesting and novel - even to a fault.
- pathseeker 6y ago>Maybe I am overly optimistic about academia, but my understanding is that your advisor, funding agencies, journals, etc. know the layout of the field and make sure that what you’re doing is both interesting and novel - even to a fault. "interesting and novel" in academia currently translates to "incremental improvements on the status quo". The article directly talks about an example of not being able to do anything too novel because there was no journal to review it.