Sound advice, but perhaps our objective should be to eliminate the dreaded word completely and replace it with new scientific terminology. In this respect, I disagreed with my co-authors of "Rethinking Innateness" - as noted in the Preface.

And a very helpful and informative commentary on the paper by @tuckerdrob.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I was one of those academics who benefited from an H1B visa, and I like to think the US benefited from this also. I can't imagine many US universities can afford to cough up 100k extra for recruitment, so sad to see this....

Finally got around to this interesting exchange. Much to like! However, in my view neonate cortex is building a foundation model while sub-cortical sensorimotor routes support newborn behaviours and, importantly, bias the inputs to the foundation model (e.g. orienting toward faces).

DNA is often called a “blueprint for life”. In common parlance a blueprint refers to (e.g.) an architect plan, technical drawing or engineering design. DNA does indeed contain information to guide construction, in this case of a living organism. But beyond that, similarities rapidly break down. 2/n

Congratulations Karla! Great to see how much your research has grown from those PhD days...😀

But what is the solution? We certainly don't want to increase further the admin load on academics. A proportion of this is driven by new government and funder requirements. Some also responds to perceived threat of legal action. And some is self-generated as you say.

I agree with sentiments of the editorial, but also agree that there are some amazing and very hard working people in these roles. The question is what is driving this ever increasing administrative loads and how to curtail it.