Academic politics is something else.
I thought for awhile those guys got lucky and skip office politics.
Then I realize that PhD level IQs + pressure to get into the fancy journals means that the politics is 古典小說 tier.
I thought for awhile those guys got lucky and skip office politics.
Then I realize that PhD level IQs + pressure to get into the fancy journals means that the politics is 古典小說 tier.
There is a famous formulation of this known as Sayre's law[1], which is often stated via the quote "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake. That is why academic politics are so bitter," which wikipedia attributes to Charles Philip Issawi.
They're about court life and conflict, so of course they're full of court politics and intrigue
I just don't know what "古典小說 tier" means since I don't remembered they're known for "high-intelligent politics".
The Big 4 novels contain a lot of public servants.
It does, but the politics and favoritism is happening within a heavily selected group of very, very competent people. Plenty of people get snubbed for petty reasons, but they get snubbed in favor of others who are also doing Nobel-worthy work.
Eg since only 3 people can win a prize, you can have cases like Francois Englert and Peter Higgs winning the prize for the Higgs Boson despite 4 other scientists having published papers on the same thing around the same time, and the scientists at the LHC who actually confirmed its existence.
Similarly, a work can have won a prize, but if one of the authors passes away before the nomination is made, that person misses out on the title.