As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for change in academia

Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by feet on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @09:31AM (#31752606)

I think this is a short sighted perspective. Basic research is important and has farther reaching impacts than a CRUD web app. Just because you don't see immediate impact doesn't mean it isn't there

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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by arethuza on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @11:52AM (#31754860)

I'm not saying that people shouldn't do basic research, far from it, more that I learned that given the way basic research actually works then I had relatively little interest in actually doing it myself.

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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by randomsearch on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @12:05PM (#31755094)

This is definitely false in many cases.

Source: I’ve worked on both.

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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by coldpie on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @10:09AM (#31753141)

Sure, I'm glad people do that work. But it's not for me.

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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by criddell on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @11:44AM (#31754750)

> Basic research is important and has farther reaching impacts than a CRUD web app.

Those aren't the only two options and even they were, it isn't always true.

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