Dr. Angela Collier plays the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and talks at length about what went wrong with string theory, and how that affected science communication.
Dr. Angela Collier plays the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and talks at length about what went wrong with string theory, and how that affected science communication.
Very true, unfortunately. Even if you don’t need to market your work to the public, you do need to market it to journals and funding agencies (as well as to institutions, if you’re planning to change jobs).
“Publish or perish” and all of the shit that surrounds it – including this need to make all research seem like the most important research that’s ever been done – is one of the main reasons that I don’t plan to stay in academia after I finish my PhD. (The other is that the pay sucks.)