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It’s basically impossible to make a career as a scientist these days without constantly promoting yourself and your work unfortunately. It’s very tiring and mak
by coeneedell 1y ago
It’s basically impossible to make a career as a scientist these days without constantly promoting yourself and your work unfortunately. It’s very tiring and makes it difficult to focus on science. This is one of the reasons I changed careers.
- Jgrubb 1y agoI feel the same way about software, what career did you switch to?
- sejje 1y agoThat's bad, too, but true in many professions I think. But I think what the GP means is let's do science, let's not do hot-political-topics-as-science.
- tapoxi 1y agoUnfortunately science is unavoidably a political hot topic. Climate change denialism is the norm in the United States, we've somehow decided Tylenol causes autism in the past week, etc.
- kortilla 1y agoIf you think either of those represent any meaningful portion of science you need to re-evaluate your understanding of science because it’s based on a layman’s perspective. If you’re not actually involved in science you only see the scientists making news, which disproportionately selects for politically intersecting areas of research. When I was working at a major US research university in the early 2000s, it was a big deal if the scientific publications got any mainstream press at all. Countless papers push the boundaries of science in major journals and conferences every year and you never hear about them because they have no political implications and usually no immediate practical applications.
- shakow 1y ago> but true in many professions I think. That's true, but the other professions don't tend to be associated with (or clearly vindicate) the “above-the-crowd/holier-than-thou” attitude – and I say that as an ex-scientist, for the same reason (among others) as the poster above.