Are weird nerds being driven out of #academia by hedge fund opportunities and failed corporatists? Only a third of top-10 science-fair winners go into academia now (02003–02014) instead of two thirds in 01990–02002. #autism
on 02024-07-28#video on why #Hossenfelder left #academia when covid came, explaining how the money flow works, and how most academic #research is bullshit
on 02024-06-04on #class in #USA #sociology and #academia: what it’s like to be from a lower-class white family and be an academic anyway
on 02016-08-08life in contingent #academia with adjunct positions, etc.
on 02016-08-01explains how the Stanford #Encyclopedia of #Philosophy is funded and edited: several dozen already-well-known “subject editors” choose topics and invite writers, which is basically the standard encyclopedia model. Authors and subject editors work for free, Stanford pays its four FTEs, and they’ve gotten the rest paid for by grants (US$2M over 15 years) and by “one-time contributions” from academic libraries, which goes into an SEP endowment, which is now US$3M (US$2M from contributors, the rest from Stanford); this is backed by a money-back guarantee if the SEP shuts down. 10% of the budget comes from a “friends of the SEP” program which gives you PDFs for a few bucks a year. #open-access #academia
on 02015-11-16How Matt Might got tenure. #academia
on 02015-08-19“If the reader is to grasp what the writer means, the writer must understand what the reader needs” #education #science #academia
on 02015-08-05#censorship in #academia? Professor complains about getting threats for teaching Philip Roth
on 02015-08-05