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Whatever the high ideals of academia and science, I've heard far too many stories of academics & scientists behaving in a broad variety of bigoted, narrow-minde
by bell-cot 1y ago
Whatever the high ideals of academia and science, I've heard far too many stories of academics & scientists behaving in a broad variety of bigoted, narrow-minded, and self-serving ways.
I'll blame human nature. If you lock up little groups in the grueling, narrow, resource-poor environments of academia & research, then they'll react like humans - trying to protect themselves and their little tribes by excluding "outsiders".
- rob_c 1y agoThen to be blunt, be the change you hope to see in the world. I work with a few people who do cross disciplinary work (mostly to educate and collaborate with colleagues who are behind in other fields) but this sounds like more of a US phenomena because I'm Europe there's plenty of ways of having such work accounted for, assessed and promoted. I'm far more worried about the reproducibility crises in a certain hard science than I think I'll ever be about failing to get a promotion on time for taking on a different project.