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If you're a professor or a lecturer, you don't have time to make YouTube videos that are any good. You're too busy writing grant applications, serving on univer
by nequo 3y ago
If you're a professor or a lecturer, you don't have time to make YouTube videos that are any good. You're too busy writing grant applications, serving on university committees, refereeing papers for free that the publishers are making a 35-percent profit margin on once they are published, advising students, writing letters of recommendation, teaching, grading (especially if your teaching load is on the high end at a university where you don't get teaching assistants easily), and if you manage, then also getting research done.
- lupire 3y agoThat's not true at all. Many, many professors have time to write books, launch startups, and yes, run YouTube channels. And the topic here is Hossenfelder, whose videos are almost entirely just standing and talking at the camera. These aren't Veritasium level production and frequency.
- nequo 3y agoAdmittedly, there are exceptions, but the general picture is you're overworked, underpaid, and barely hanging on until (and if!) you get tenure. Even after tenure, you need to work hard to be promoted to full professor. In many disciplines, books are part of your research output. In others, it's something that you usually do once you are tenured and want to show broader impact for your promotion to full or when you are already promoted to full. Out of curiosity, who are professors on YouTube that you have come across?
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