this is so good, I may just literally print it out and pin it to the wall https://t.co/rZpQjNBzDc
this is so good, I may just literally print it out and pin it to the wall https://t.co/rZpQjNBzDc
"Do you often come across people for whom, all their lives, a "subject" remains a "subject," divided by watertight bulkheads from all other "subjects," so that they experience very great difficulty in making an immediate mental connection between [any two subjects]" https://t.co/c30fhhKC8Y
IT TAKES INTELLECTUALS TO COME UP WITH SOME OF THE DUMBEST IDEAS
Professor @GadSaad :
"The academic who literally lives in the Ivory Tower is fully detached from the auto corrective mechanism of reality.
In other disciplines, like the humanities and some of the... See more
Mario Nawfalx.comContemporary academia engages, more or less permanently, in self-critique on any and every front it can imagine. In a tech-centered world, language matters, voice and style matter, the study of eloquence matters, history matters, ethical systems matter. But the situation requires humanists to explain why they matter, not constantly undermine their... See more
Stephen Marche • The Undergraduate Essay Is About to Die
Several structural features make the system hard to reform:
- Illusion of truth and finality: Publication is treated as a stamp of approval. Mistakes are rarely corrected. Retractions are stigmatized.
- Artificial scarcity: Journals want to be first to publish, fueling secrecy and fear of being “scooped.” Also, author credit is distributed through
Seemay Chou • Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough
As an academic I burned out early in my career on grant-hunting bc I always come up with an idea (e.g. "elephant-riding tribes of Burma") before seeing what the grant orgs want to fund, and then I can't forcefit my idea to match what they want, which--esp from '16 onwards--is something serving a very explicit and narrow ideological project.... See more
Jacob Shellx.com