Harvard Professors Leaving for Private Sector Research | Harvard Magazine
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Harvard Professors Leaving for Private Sector Research | Harvard Magazine
academia has a lot of problems and it could work much better. However, these problems are not as catastrophic as an outside perspective would suggest. My (contrarian, I guess) intuition is that scientific progress in biology is not slowing down. Specific parts of academia that seem to be problematic: rigid, punishing for deviation, career... See more
Alexey Guzey • How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation - Alexey Guzey
Will the exclusivity of academia lead to its downfall in many cases I’ve seen pride themselves on rejecting multiple many people to conserve the larger amount of funding they get for a better scientist, but even though they all research isn’t carried out, I believe all ideas still have the chance to be heard and just doing your things for curiosity
... See moreSeemay Chou, biologist and co-founder of the Astera Institute, writes: “In all my discussions with scientists across every sector, exactly zero think the journal system works well. ... Scientists should probably be putting out shorter narratives, datasets, code, and models at a faster rate, with more visibility into their thinking, mistakes, and... See more
Jason Crawford • The Progress Agenda
Funding is an especially acute pain point for scientists, who spend up to half their time writing grant proposals. Success in getting funding is heavily tied to metrics such as the h-index, which quantifies the impact of a scientist’s published work. The resulting pressure to “publish or perish” incentivizes the pursuit of novel research over work... See more