Re:Many researchers were not compliant with their published ...
by UncleMeat on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @10:23AM
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I've heard one even worse.
I know people who were told by their PI to tell other researchers at conferences that they were working on the stuff that they already tried that didn't work. This would encourage competing labs to try out these techniques and waste their time.
Being scooped is a huge blow to a career, for faculty but more intensely for graduate students. With arXiv, you can be scooped at literally any moment rather than just on the known conference schedule. Being scooped was personally traumatic for me and I still have nightmares about the experience.
This leads to a massively toxic ecosystem of over-competition where individual labs win at the detriment of scientific progress.
I know people who were told by their PI to tell other researchers at conferences that they were working on the stuff that they already tried that didn't work. This would encourage competing labs to try out these techniques and waste their time.
Being scooped is a huge blow to a career, for faculty but more intensely for graduate students. With arXiv, you can be scooped at literally any moment rather than just on the known conference schedule. Being scooped was personally traumatic for me and I still have nightmares about the experience.
This leads to a massively toxic ecosystem of over-competition where individual labs win at the detriment of scientific progress.