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why quantity can so often overtake quality
For years now, doctors, scientists, and academics have been decrying the idea of applying metrics to virtually anything and everything, pumping out a steady stream of articles, posts, and even books...
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watching the end of an eccentric’s journal
You know, it’s a shame that the Journal of Cosmology is going out of business, even though it’s going out of business in style, with a press release portraying itself as a victim of a conspiracy by...
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how academia unplugs from the outside world
Over at Cosmic Variance, there’s a recent post by Sean Carroll about getting tenure at a research university and if it’s really accurate in its description of what it takes to become a tenured...
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academics double down on their defense
One would think that following more than a year of very public debate about college education, student loans, and how an entire generation is being left behind in social and economic terms despite...
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how to dodge responsibility, comp sci edition
Allow me to return for just a moment to the exciting world of computer science academia and CMU’s decision to teach only functional programming languages, offering only one optional course in the...
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