"If anything isn't lined up perfectly, you're more likely to have a hellish experience"... imagine you start working in a group led by someone with preferences for hiring like-minded people or other biases... in 10 years of career I have seen biases involving religion, family, region...
This is a very balanced opinion. I will add a more radical tone: if you pursue your true intellectual dreams in academia you will surely find all kinds of obstacles and probably fail.
Overall, I see a conversion towards mcdonalds-style university management happening world-wide. More or less what you explain, also based mostly on PR.
Interesting point, but running towards the precipice might be just one of the solutions. To me, also an academic and considering to leave after an h index of 14 obtained in just a decade, the problem is the noise that all those shitty papers generate. Perhaps we should use AI to classify them ad noise vs valuable contribution?
Been there, read carefully the entire paper --- couple of minor editorial mistakes and a doubt i express nelow, only. Nice study.
Fascinating to think what could have happened in Africa at the beginning of the Holocene: wildfire ravaging NW Africa and the West Africant Monsoon retreating to the South?
Try putting some iogurt after soap for 2 minutes just before the final cleansing in the shower. You might, like me, start thinking beyond the second brain idea. It is all connected.
It is very brief and sharp, perhaps pro-active on creating an environment where bullshit does not happen, so perhaps optimistically, it does not need to be reported.