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This is a beautiful piece of Science! And please ignore those fighting about the title edits..

I am a professor and have seen both extremes. I am worrying about how to keep high scholarly standards all the time --- also on teaching, and especially when supervising theses.

Never heard of this system. Please can you post a link/source?

Wow are you advocating to hire people for teaching and for evaluating separately? Sounds both interesting and a cultural war ground.

The simply is like the husband that "simply" does not know how to clean the kitchen. Those professors never attended a pedagogy course.

I see two extremes: one represented by this professor who IMHO cares too little about students --- still he deserves to keep his job. The other extreme is more dangerous and is about University professors actively accepting and facilitating immature behaviour by students. Where could a sweet spot be drawn along this gradient?

Code that writes code that writes code... my limited experience combining AWK and GAMS gave me impressively powerful feelings about my limited code. This surely belongs to the next level, I'll go for more!

The idea of net positive is flawed, as multiple local net positives from different disruptions (other than cables) might lead to deterioration of global quality thresholds for sensitive issues, e.g. chains of wetlands required for migratory birds. These global connections are most often unwisely accounted.

This is just need of balance and moderation.

I only have concerns about the coastal connection point being in an environmentally sensitive area, e.g. a wetland.

An exemplary attention-disruptor.

Man this "4D chess" expression is really something to describe Musk's strategies.

This was the most abundant (to my perception, as I have no numbers) about climate-related work.

"I do think we need a mechanism to ensure that reviews are good and high quality. Especially the reject ones." This is a very important point, IMHO more for proposals than for articles. The latter deserving less time because time is at a premium, although I am aware that this is a most painful truth!

I am also not an expert on the topic, but citing a MDPI paper to argue against a Nobel prize seems also unconvincing.

To be honest I'm working 10 years in a university and I still don't understand how Academies work.

Not even Nature dares launching a journal about economics.

"Science being Science will sort itself out most likely" defies logic of current events.

Not even a mentally sick person would get into science for a green card. I see prejudices behind your opinion.

We all get papers rejected. Nobel prizes get also papers rejected. And rejection is one of the very few tools we have to stop the crap from flowing in. This is not to say that all rejected papers are crap. Sorry to hear about your bad time with rejections, this is a universal thing.

"Have never met a group of people less interested in the truth, or a system that goes to such extreme effort to actively inhibit discovery, than what I experienced in academia." Totally true!

Science was already a badly governed and "corrupted" arena. This just adds more trash to disentangle/deal with.

Yes yes, we know the problem.

There is always an existential risk at hand.

Random walks.

And with vulnerable plans, like the Netherlands and the envisioned sea walls!

That is the clear and smart way of phrasing it, I did not have enough clarity to make the point, thanks!

Your statement leaves little doubt to my unsettling question, thanks for the clarity!

Are you underestimating the choices of his mother and her capacity for creating an unprecedented intellectual atmosphere?

Indeed. I saw they were available in a few countries only.