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Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs by 1996 on Monday July 23, 2018 @01:15PM (#17594149)
Most of academia is toxic. Those who don't see that haven't spent enough time in it.

I believe things can't go well in general in any area where money comes from organized begging ("proposals", "apply for funding"), driven by reputation ("publications", "impact factor") and where the bad eggs can't even be fired ("tenure")

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Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs by neuromantik8086 on Monday July 23, 2018 @01:22PM (#17594196)
> driver by reputation ("publications", "impact factor") and where the bad eggs can't even be fired ("tenure")

From personal experience, I've always felt as though the existence of "rock star" academics always gave academia a Hollywood-like feel in terms of systemic abuse and candidly bizarre and maladaptive behaviors on the part of researchers.

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Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs by 1996 on Monday July 23, 2018 @04:45PM (#17595817)
At least Hollywood has tabloids to keep things reasonable!
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Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs by neuromantik8086 on Monday July 23, 2018 @10:45PM (#17597734)
Academia does have Retraction Watch [0]. Unfortunately/fortunately, it operates outside the system.

[0] https://retractionwatch.com/

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Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs by Kalium on Monday July 23, 2018 @01:59PM (#17594476)
My experience is that some people in academia really have minimal idea of what the world outside it is like. They literally can't imagine anything different and certainly haven't experienced it.
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Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs by GW150914 on Monday July 23, 2018 @01:39PM (#17594338)
Most of academia is toxic. Those who don't see that haven't spent enough time in it.

Or they’ve spent way too much time in. It’s like people who spend a couple of decades in a prison, they’re fully institutionalized and feel they can’t cope with the real world.

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Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs by eli_gottlieb on Monday July 23, 2018 @03:59PM (#17595473)
>I believe things can't go well in general in any area where money comes from organized begging ("proposals", "apply for funding"), driven by reputation ("publications", "impact factor") and where the bad eggs can't even be fired ("tenure")

So you're never, ever gonna work with venture capitalists?

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Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs by 1996 on Monday July 23, 2018 @04:44PM (#17595808)
Being in crypto, fortunately I won't have to.

One of the few benefits of ICO: you can now raise money without having to bother with VCs. That's a nice evolution.

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