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> Without me, the University of Córdoba will drop 300 places in the Shanghai ranking. They have shot themselves in the foot While that was the issue that the u
by catchnear4321 4y ago
> Without me, the University of Córdoba will drop 300 places in the Shanghai ranking. They have shot themselves in the foot
While that was the issue that the university took with him, the extra logos on his lab coat, why does the university care about him? Why is he valuable?
Numbers. He boosts numbers with bullshit. Numbers that are misinterpreted to indicate value.
And he’s gotten good at bullshit. He’s even incorporated ChatGPT into his workflow.
So good at it that entities paid him to try and sneak some extra logos on his lab coat. He’s smart. He likely found ways to never accept money and yet fully utilize it for his benefit.
This all matters.
The system is fractally broken.
- pvaldes 4y agoAn equivalent would be to claim that you work for Apple when you have a full time contract with Microsoft. On the other hand this game has been played before. Everybody knows in Spanish speaking science that just adding one researcher from the Anglosphere with a nice English name to the list of authors is a seal of approval for many journals, and will open a lot of doors even if the researcher just agreed to sign on the paper.