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Re:MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has... by skosuri on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:59PM (#23581179)
He’s a hack. Most people in quantitative genetics think he’s a hack. He’s still a fully tenured professor making a lot of money & free to choose his research agenda. It’s just that he shouldn’t be head of research and really amazing faculty have left at least in part because of him.
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Re:MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has... by bJGVygG7MQVF8c on Saturday June 20, 2020 @02:59PM (#23585982)
> He's a hack

In the same sense of "hack" used in "Hacker News", sure, perhaps.

A pattern that's repeated itself multiple times in the history of science is mathematicians and theoretical physicists showing up in other fields and making groundbreaking discoveries that end up re-orienting the field.

It's not at all surprising that incumbents would object to the competition, fault the 'interlopers' for not working within accepted paradigms, or just not have the background to fully understand their projects in the first place.

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Re:MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has... by blisterpeanuts on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:14PM (#23581257)
Are you a grad student at MSU?
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Re:MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has... by skosuri on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:18PM (#23581283)
No. I’m faculty though and some of my best friends and colleagues are or were faculty there. I also research quantitative genetics. Been hearing the back story for years; many fear him and he threatened retaliation against some of my friends who were junior faculty.
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Re:MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has... by amznthrowaway5 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @12:16AM (#23581603)
> many fear him and he threatened retaliation against some of my friends who were junior faculty

Do you have real examples? These types of accusations are meaningless without real data. If they are real, I'd like to know the actual threats.

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Re:MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has... by ylem on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:23PM (#23581311)
Sorry to hear that. How much power did he actually have to damage someone's research career?
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