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Behind the prestige are broke, burned-out PhDs working way too much and wondering if they are the problem.
They are not.
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They are not.
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Ich bin Anna - Part I
✒️Editor's Note: Today's guest post was written by Catharina Sänger. With a curious mind and a passport full of lab stamps, Catharina has explored science across the globe. She studied Biochemistry in...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Behind the prestige are broke, burned-out PhDs working way too much and wondering if they are the problem.
They are not.
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They are not.
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One decision that splits your life into the version of you that stays in science, and the one who writes herself out of it.
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Sliding labs
“With the rising competition for funding, securing a grant has become less about advancing science and more about staying in science.”
↪ Mentioned recently in a Nature News article.
As you may know...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
One decision that splits your life into the version of you that stays in science, and the one who writes herself out of it.
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The most unexpected discoveries emerge when different disciplines interact.
It’s time to create systems that reward it.
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It’s time to create systems that reward it.
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We Never Cross The Buildings: Why is it so hard to start a collaboration in academia?
✒️Editor's Note: Today's guest post was written by Altynai Mambetova.
Altynai holds a Master's degree in Data Science from the University of Manchester. Her background spans data journalism to data ar...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The most unexpected discoveries emerge when different disciplines interact.
It’s time to create systems that reward it.
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It’s time to create systems that reward it.
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We inherited a system rigged against us.
But we learned to run it anyway.
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But we learned to run it anyway.
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Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - or Being a Woman in Science
Disclaimer
I will speak from my own experience and from what I know the most — the case of being a (European) cisgender woman in academia. I don’t claim to represent or fully understand the struggles...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
We inherited a system rigged against us.
But we learned to run it anyway.
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But we learned to run it anyway.
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Open science won’t survive if it treats community like a nice-to-have.
You can’t retrofit culture into systems built without it.
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You can’t retrofit culture into systems built without it.
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The loss of community in open science: a sign of a failing movement?
Open Science (OS) is a movement that aims to bring about a change to the academic publishing system. Yet, despite being around for over 30 years, it has had relatively limited success. Traditional pub...
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October 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Open science won’t survive if it treats community like a nice-to-have.
You can’t retrofit culture into systems built without it.
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You can’t retrofit culture into systems built without it.
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A lab isn’t a family, and it isn’t a kingdom.
Good mentorship dissolves the need to belong to either.
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Good mentorship dissolves the need to belong to either.
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Welcome to the family, call me Professor
When I first started my PhD in France, I couldn’t help but address my PI with the formal “you” in french (“vous”), instead of the informal “you” (“tu”). She was very quick to tell me to use the inform...
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October 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
A lab isn’t a family, and it isn’t a kingdom.
Good mentorship dissolves the need to belong to either.
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Good mentorship dissolves the need to belong to either.
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On paper, it’s a four-year PhD program.
But when peer review eats up half of it, is the timeline still fair?
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But when peer review eats up half of it, is the timeline still fair?
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Accepted: Today | Received: Do You Really Want to Know?
We’ve all peeked at that “Received, Revised, Accepted” section of a paper and instantly regretted it. Those dates often read less like a timeline and more like an archaeological record. And that, kids...
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September 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
On paper, it’s a four-year PhD program.
But when peer review eats up half of it, is the timeline still fair?
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But when peer review eats up half of it, is the timeline still fair?
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Another “breakthrough” that changes it all… until the next one.
Every time we oversell science, we teach people not to trust it.
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Every time we oversell science, we teach people not to trust it.
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We finally found a radical and straightforward solution to revolutionize academic publishing!
… gotcha!
You clicked because the title sounded extraordinary, revolutionary, amazing — didn’t it?
And for a while, I found myself reacting the same way you just did. Then, spending a good hour read...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Another “breakthrough” that changes it all… until the next one.
Every time we oversell science, we teach people not to trust it.
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Every time we oversell science, we teach people not to trust it.
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There’s a part of science that doesn’t make it into the manuscript.
That’s the part that makes it worth doing.
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That’s the part that makes it worth doing.
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The split-screen mind of the researcher
“So, what experiment should we do next?” asks the student.
And two different tabs open up side to side in your mind.
Tab 1: Taking a stroll in your field
In this tab, there are no real rules. Yo...
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September 16, 2025 at 8:05 AM
There’s a part of science that doesn’t make it into the manuscript.
That’s the part that makes it worth doing.
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That’s the part that makes it worth doing.
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Publishing is the currency of academia.
Isn't it surprising that its exchange rate bankrupts the very people creating its value?
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Isn't it surprising that its exchange rate bankrupts the very people creating its value?
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The costs of publishing: financial, career and personal
The current system of recognition in academia is built on a single pillar; publishing. Career advancement is dependent on how much and where you publish. Assessment of “quality” is based on extremely ...
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September 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Publishing is the currency of academia.
Isn't it surprising that its exchange rate bankrupts the very people creating its value?
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Isn't it surprising that its exchange rate bankrupts the very people creating its value?
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The English was flawless, the author was fake, and the data made no sense.
Welcome to the age of artificial "scientific" fluency.
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Welcome to the age of artificial "scientific" fluency.
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ChatGPT et al.
The rise of Large Language Models in academic writing.
Postdoctoral researcher Dr Verena Haage was reviewing a manuscript for a reputable neuroscience journal when she began to notice unusual incon...
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September 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The English was flawless, the author was fake, and the data made no sense.
Welcome to the age of artificial "scientific" fluency.
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Welcome to the age of artificial "scientific" fluency.
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“Are you winning?” is the wrong question.
If human knowledge is cumulative, then collaboration isn’t optional.
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If human knowledge is cumulative, then collaboration isn’t optional.
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Are you winning?
By the end of my PhD, I was somewhat disillusioned by the way scientific research worked and decided to pick a field that could open up a (small) door to industry, if I ever decided to take that route...
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August 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
“Are you winning?” is the wrong question.
If human knowledge is cumulative, then collaboration isn’t optional.
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If human knowledge is cumulative, then collaboration isn’t optional.
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If a cat can fake citations and win at the h-index "game", why do we let these metrics decide our futures?
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Purr-fect Citations: How a Cat Became the World’s Most Cited Academic
Meet Larry, the Scientific Cat
Larry — a fluffy, slightly overweight cat — has achieved what many postdocs or even professors only dream of: becoming the most cited “author” in his field. Obviously, ...
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August 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
If a cat can fake citations and win at the h-index "game", why do we let these metrics decide our futures?
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You do the work. Then you prove you're still worth doing the work, again and again.
Welcome to academia. Please fund your own salary.
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Welcome to academia. Please fund your own salary.
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Stranger than Fiction
If doing your job requires constant applications to keep doing it, is that really a “job”?
Why do we need to keep “auditioning” for work we’re already performing?
Let’s first agree that there isn’t...
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July 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
You do the work. Then you prove you're still worth doing the work, again and again.
Welcome to academia. Please fund your own salary.
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Welcome to academia. Please fund your own salary.
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You troubleshoot, mentor, bake cakes, shoulder burnouts and fix printers; yet your CV only says ‘postdoc.’ Did you really sign up for this?
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Beyond Useful: When Being the Swiss Knife Backfires
We all know this person. Or we are this person. You troubleshoot broken connections in the lab, fix the department printer, teach undergrads how to use the Nanodrop and pH-meter, and share all your be...
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July 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
You troubleshoot, mentor, bake cakes, shoulder burnouts and fix printers; yet your CV only says ‘postdoc.’ Did you really sign up for this?
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Some treat every paper like their spotlight, forgetting the team writes the story. Others guide students to lead the next paper.
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Every rockstar scientist has an origin story
Six years ago, during a science communication session at a conference, we were given the task to explain “why we do what we do” to people unfamiliar with our research. While having this chat with a fe...
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July 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Some treat every paper like their spotlight, forgetting the team writes the story. Others guide students to lead the next paper.
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Peer review is imposed, stretched to its limits, and buckling under pressure.
But its best days may still lie ahead.
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But its best days may still lie ahead.
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A potted history of peer review - Part 2
So far we have dived into the historical origins of the peer review concept and the earliest attempts at an external referee system used by the Royal Society. Even in this early exploration, we have e...
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July 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Peer review is imposed, stretched to its limits, and buckling under pressure.
But its best days may still lie ahead.
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But its best days may still lie ahead.
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Peer review began with open councils, not secret letters.
And today it stands at a crossroads between transparency and tradition.
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And today it stands at a crossroads between transparency and tradition.
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A potted history of peer review - Part 1
Peer review is a staple of science, a seemingly inescapable barrier that every researcher must cross in order to share their work with the world. The internet is awash with complaints about Reviewer #...
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July 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Peer review began with open councils, not secret letters.
And today it stands at a crossroads between transparency and tradition.
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And today it stands at a crossroads between transparency and tradition.
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Curiosity got you here, but strategy will keep you here.
Graduate from being a student.
It’s time to be a researcher.
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Graduate from being a student.
It’s time to be a researcher.
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Spoiler: there is no end to this
Being a researcher implies a long stretch of studies at the university to specialize in a certain field. To me personally, it felt like I just kept studying and studying, year after year, and… here I ...
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June 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Curiosity got you here, but strategy will keep you here.
Graduate from being a student.
It’s time to be a researcher.
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Graduate from being a student.
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FAIR data is powerful.
It’s about respect; for future discoveries, for other researchers, and for the science that comes next.
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It’s about respect; for future discoveries, for other researchers, and for the science that comes next.
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FAIR and Square? The Challenges of Ethical Omics Data Sharing
Before starting - what is Omics Data?
Omics data represent massive volumes of information on genomes, epigenomes, transcriptomes — you name it. They’ve become a favorite among researchers, reviewers,...
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June 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
FAIR data is powerful.
It’s about respect; for future discoveries, for other researchers, and for the science that comes next.
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It’s about respect; for future discoveries, for other researchers, and for the science that comes next.
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In research, publishing isn’t the point.
And discovery doesn’t need a twist ending.
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And discovery doesn’t need a twist ending.
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Symptomatic treatment of a broken system
The “publish or perish” culture pushes researchers to publish papers (regardless of the state of their research) for career survival. Academic jobs are tied to people’s publication records; and althou...
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June 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
In research, publishing isn’t the point.
And discovery doesn’t need a twist ending.
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And discovery doesn’t need a twist ending.
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In academia, we sometimes trade permanence for possibility.
And each time, impostor syndrome tags along, telling us the same story.
It used to sound convincing. Not anymore.
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And each time, impostor syndrome tags along, telling us the same story.
It used to sound convincing. Not anymore.
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Academic nomadism and impostor syndrome
Two years ago at a conference, I was talking to a professor whom I deeply respect, telling him that I honestly do not know where my home is. I left the country I grew up in when I was 18, spent 11 yea...
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June 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
In academia, we sometimes trade permanence for possibility.
And each time, impostor syndrome tags along, telling us the same story.
It used to sound convincing. Not anymore.
Read the post by @lealoburoglu.bsky.social
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And each time, impostor syndrome tags along, telling us the same story.
It used to sound convincing. Not anymore.
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Authorship isn’t a gift, it’s earned.
It’s a record of truth.
Don’t wait for a mistake to learn the rules.
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It’s a record of truth.
Don’t wait for a mistake to learn the rules.
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The Ghost / Ghosted Authorship Dilemma
For my very first blog post on this platform, I got inspired by the name of the blog support system itself—Ghost. It made me reflect on a phenomenon that many early-career researchers quietly experien...
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May 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Authorship isn’t a gift, it’s earned.
It’s a record of truth.
Don’t wait for a mistake to learn the rules.
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It’s a record of truth.
Don’t wait for a mistake to learn the rules.
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Reposted by the modern peer
Peer review helps ensure high quality in research studies.
Government officials without ad-hoc expertise should NOT be deciding what is worthy of studying or how it should be researched.
The EO is nothing but the desire to control the scientific narrative. We cannot accept that.
Government officials without ad-hoc expertise should NOT be deciding what is worthy of studying or how it should be researched.
The EO is nothing but the desire to control the scientific narrative. We cannot accept that.
🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!
Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...
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May 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Peer review helps ensure high quality in research studies.
Government officials without ad-hoc expertise should NOT be deciding what is worthy of studying or how it should be researched.
The EO is nothing but the desire to control the scientific narrative. We cannot accept that.
Government officials without ad-hoc expertise should NOT be deciding what is worthy of studying or how it should be researched.
The EO is nothing but the desire to control the scientific narrative. We cannot accept that.
Reposted by the modern peer
"Impact factor."
It decides who gets grants, who gets tenure, who gets to stay.
But we are not the sum of skewed metrics.
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It decides who gets grants, who gets tenure, who gets to stay.
But we are not the sum of skewed metrics.
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Law & disorder in academic publishing
Impact factor. The power of this term is unparalleled in academia. The word “impact” by itself is already so profoundly heavy.
And second in line to it, would be tenure. I put it in second place, bec...
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April 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"Impact factor."
It decides who gets grants, who gets tenure, who gets to stay.
But we are not the sum of skewed metrics.
Read the new post by @lealoburoglu.bsky.social, and subscribe if you like what you read.
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It decides who gets grants, who gets tenure, who gets to stay.
But we are not the sum of skewed metrics.
Read the new post by @lealoburoglu.bsky.social, and subscribe if you like what you read.
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪