Academia already did what you’re proposing.
Universities are now run like businesses with professional administrators, branding strategies, risk management, consultants, and KPI dashboards. The result hasn’t been better research or teaching. It’s been the transformation of universities into brand-management and lifestyle companies, where prestige, expansion, and revenue extraction matter more than scholarship or education.
Research and teaching don’t reliably maximize short-term financial returns, so they get crowded out. What grows instead is administration because once an administrative class is established, its primary function becomes self-preservation and expansion, not mission fulfillment.
This is exactly what happens when a nonprofit adopts corporate logic without corporate accountability. You don’t get efficiency. You get mission drift and an institution optimized to look successful rather than to be successful.
Very happy to have this one published in @Nature today!! 🤩🤩 Can we dig deeper into the intricate and ancient evolutionary history of the flaviviridae by comparing not only genetic sequence but also protein structure? answer is yes!!
https://t.co/sWoZT4euEd
My colleagues and I have just posted a
"Note about availability of #H5N1 2.3.4.4b consensus sequences from cattle and other species" @virological_org.
Consensus genomes and metadata.
https://t.co/ggfgW4FPYa
Our new study on main SARS-CoV-2 variants having spread in New York City (late 2020 - early 2022) has been published in @PLOSPathogens: https://t.co/fZZSjlzNTI (1/5)
We need an intervention. We need to end our addiction to moonshot pandemic preparedness and refocus on incremental, mundane, progressive public health wins 21/
The road to pandemic preparedness must go through development & capacity building & technical solutions for routine services. Investing in surveillance, response, community engagement, root cause analyses will ensure the capacity and flexibility to respond to a novel threat 11/