Hey Twitter! Recently, some people have been comparing the job of academics to professional sports. So we wrote a post about it! We especially focused on what effects we think that it has when we hold on to this analogy. Spoiler: no good. 🦹♂️
https://t.co/aThimZkHeE
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Long time no read! 📔
We wrote a new post about our academic insecurities. Read about what the devil on our shoulder thinks we're doing wrong in our PhDs. ���
https://t.co/itjmvwzbZ7
Written by @SchwarzbachNina, illustrated by @KiltzLisa, reviewed by @StadelMarie ❣️
Last year we wrote a post about this issue and hoped that things would improve after a constructive discussion with the program management @rug_gmw . Sad to hear that's not the case...
Our post: https://t.co/VpoH49oliB
So happy to finally share this conversation with @ColmOfuarthain and @DoldererSelena personal #growth and #highereducation. So many beautiful insights on finding a path through your studies and after. Share this with your students (freshly arrived or not)
https://t.co/CCbjm28Q0O
“If you talk to people and you ask very direct questions, people are often more [critical about their own work]. It’s the end product that needs to be shiny” @bringmann_laura
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New interview with some critical researchers! In the conversation with @bringmann_laura and @EronenIlkka, many interesting topics came up. Read it here: https://t.co/OqKmoBDCN7
Find some interesting quotes in the threat 🕵️
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“When people write in a very difficult way, it looks nice, but the more complex it gets, the less likely that it is well conceptualized” @bringmann_laura
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For the last years, scholarship students experience multiple disadvantages compared to regular PhD candidates while doing similar work. This petition calls for the immediate termination of the scholarship experiment: https://t.co/mTKzHsNZI2
Thank you🦸♀️
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Excellent short blog post explaining why thinking of science as a competitive sport is terrible https://t.co/U6t1ENgAQj by @SchwarzbachNina & @StadelMarie
Un blog post fantastíco que explica porque pensar de ciencia como un deporte competitivo es terrible
We should listen more to ECRs! In this nice blogpost (https://t.co/nk7d160VTS), @SchwarzbachNina and @StadelMarie (both very ECR), write about risks of comparing science to professional sport, and about how focussing on competition ignores the inevitable role of (bad) luck.
Hey Twitter! Recently, some people have been comparing the job of academics to professional sports. So we wrote a post about it! We especially focused on what effects we think that it has when we hold on to this analogy. Spoiler: no good. 🦹♂️
https://t.co/aThimZkHeE
Fascinating interview with Marcel Levi. No doubt he's extremely gifted and accomplished, but I find it quite worrying that the new head of the Dutch Research Council @NWONieuws seems oblivious to important system dynamics like the Matthew effect and survivorship bias. 1/