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by Fomite 1y ago
Frontiers is really interesting to me, because some colleagues in other fields view their "version" of Frontiers In $Field as a meh journal of last resort, and I view Frontiers in Public Health as actively malign.
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by Fomite 1y ago
That you think this is true betrays a complete lack of understanding about what a modern academic job requires.
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by Fomite 1y ago
There's definitely a few of those.
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by Fomite 1y ago
I have a "We need X to explore domain Y" grant, and it's lovely. It's also pretty rare, but at the moment, most of my funding is from those types of mechanisms. That is, admittedly, somewhat unusual. I will say that &quo
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by Fomite 1y ago
I mean, there are definitely people who coast, because there are people everywhere who coast. But the vast majority of tenured professors I know don't do so, for one of the following reasons: - I can't get fired, but I also don&#x
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by Fomite 1y ago
The idea that universities have not been under continuous budget cuts is one out of step with my experience.
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by Fomite 1y ago
There are countries where academic jobs have very firm "Publish X papers for promotion" thresholds, but where the venue for the paper doesn't really matter. This is one of the major markets for paper mills.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Every scientist I've talked to about my pie-in-the-sky funding mechanism - getting past a "top 50%" triage and then a lottery has met said idea with "Yeah, that would probably work. better." I'd also suggest th
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by Fomite 1y ago
I have been thinking through all of these comments that it's somewhat rich that a very SV heavy site is so critical of smart, driven people not applying themselves to important problems.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Everyone wants reproduction, nobody wants to fund reproduction studies.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Compared to my colleagues who went into industry, I wouldn't describe academic jobs as "cushy".
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by Fomite 1y ago
"about to" it is . In a recent conversation with the editor-in-chief of a journal I am on the editorial board of, a substantial bulk of the submissions we get are LLM written papers that essentially randomly look for associations
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by Fomite 1y ago
Most universities do not have "hedge fund" class endowments. It should also be noted that there are reasons tuition is the way it is. State allocations for higher ed were slashed in 2008, and didn't really get put back even w
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by Fomite 1y ago
Two notes: - Not all labs run this way. Mine doesn't. - Very few successful grants, in my experience, are "Give money and we'll find X". Rather, they tend to be "We're reasonably sure X is over here for $reason
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by Fomite 1y ago
My workload has only steadily increased once I got tenure. The nature of the work changed, but the "Kick back, relax and enjoy your zero effort forever job" is a fantasy of people who don't actually know what they're tal
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by Fomite 1y ago
Professors don't get the summer off. If you have a heavy teaching load, summers are your one window to get research work done. If you don't, like me, the difference between the summer and the rest of the year is its easier to find
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by Fomite 1y ago
But can it harvest blackberries cheaper than humans?
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by Fomite 1y ago
We actually have terms for this. "Efficacy" is how well something works under ideal conditions. "Effectiveness" is how well something works in the real world. So yes - "This is more effective because adherence is ea
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by Fomite 1y ago
98% correct spreadsheets are going to get so many papers retracted.
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by Fomite 1y ago
We really don't have a great pipeline for publicly funded developments going all the way to the treatment stage.
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by Fomite 1y ago
It's also just hard . Biology is hard. Being a startup in a heavily regulated field, rather than the "What if $Industry but with no regulations?" of the Uber/AirBnB model, and where iteration doesn't necessarily sh
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by Fomite 1y ago
Oswald Mosley
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by Fomite 1y ago
Writing a blog post about how to completely remove the soul from posting on blogs is certainty a thing.
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by Fomite 1y ago
https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/vaccine-policy-acip-memb... Essentially, an anticipatory filling of a committee that had a lot of unfilled spots in hoping of stopping something like what's just happe
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by Fomite 1y ago
And when it's off in its prediction, without an explanation of how, you have no chance to revise your prediction, it's just all the way back to square one.
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by Fomite 1y ago
This. Many of the predictions we're talking about are potentially years in the making, involve expensive data collection to validate, suffer from a lot of stochastic noise, etc.
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by Fomite 1y ago
This is largely my feeling as well.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Wanted to be able to upload a mesh (or more precisely, wanted to upload an STL) that had internal space (a building with just the walls) and have it be filled so it's a solid object. That makes it easier to resize for printing, as you&
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by Fomite 1y ago
I was briefly excited, because "Can you take this file and make it solid" is a use-case I have for turning wargaming terrain meant to be at one scale to be more generally scalable. Sadly, this appears to be a no go.
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by Fomite 1y ago
Staff Scientists don't help with teaching, essentially by definition, unless we dilute teaching to the very broad level of "helping students with things". They are certainly helpful for research, and in my experience only som

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