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by bbgm 17y ago
It just might
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These are related to sessions at Science Online London held over the last few days. Of course as Cameron notes, there are still significant challenges
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- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoThe problem isn't really the technology - the problem is the egos and the assignment of credit. It has been said that it's remarkable what can be accomplished if you don't care who gets the credit, but getting the credit is critical to the continuing employment of academics. Solve that with technology and you've got a winner.
- bbgm 17y agoDon't disagree on that point at all. I don't think the credit system is going away. Academics need some incentives to do what they do. If not money, it has to be credit, or some other system. It's frustrating, and one reason I went straight to industry as well.
- jacquesm 17y ago> - the problem is the egos and the assignment of credit. Yep. I'm not in academia, my prior education level precludes me but I dated a lady who was and over the years I have come to simply loathe the infighting and politics that academia has become mired in. I really wonder how many good or maybe even great scientists leave academia because they're sick and tired of the whole spiel to find a job in some company somewhere.