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  • Sergio@slrpnk.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyzIs there a way out?
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    4 days ago

    Yeah I’m not buying it.

    • in academia, there are a lot more mid- and low-tier academics (like me!) than there are high-tier academics, and there are plenty of lower-tier venues and lower-tier institutes. In these tiers, you’re not expected to publish at the highest levels.
    • in higher-tier academia, once you get tenure (to be precise: once you submit your tenure package) the urgent need for high-impact journal cites is greatly reduced. you write books or something I dunno.
    • industry scientists have far fewer publishing requirements. or they write articles for trade mags. One place I interviewed was actively hostile to publishing.
    • government-lab scientists, I dunno, I think they write technical articles that they give their sponsors?

    The dynamic that u/mIRNAexpert describes does exist, but it’s not the whole problem. And like any scientist will tell ya, figuring out the problem is half way to figuring out the solution.















  • Ẅ̷̥́ė̴͖͉ ̸̣̫́h̵̫̊͋å̶͚v̸̡̰͗ē̴̦̘ ̸̩̒͝s̸̫̒̎u̸̖̔c̸̲͎̈͗h̴̹̙̏ ̴̢̗̏͂s̵͔̾i̷̳̘͑ĝ̷̪h̸̟͆ẗ̸̨̝́s̷̡̜̈́͛ ̷͈̽t̸̹͈̀o̶̺̍͝ ̶̣͔̋ŝ̵̢̝h̸̻̥̽̂o̷̤͚̓̐w̴͎͍̌ ̴̢̝̓y̵̡̼̕o̷̫̜̔̽u̵̡͋͐

    ooh I like how you did that. What’s that called again?


  • I think III would be better titled “Post-Hoc Hypothesizing,” i.e. where you create (or change) your experiment’s hypothesis after the experiment - clearly that is wrong. “Post-hoc storytelling” sounds like what you do in the “implications” or “next steps” part of a paper. Also, exploratory studies have different standards, right? (I’ve never done an exploratory study.)

    In the graphic, I thought “Non-Publication” and “Partial Publication” referred to experiments, i.e. where you run 4 experiments and only report on the last one, which “worked” – clearly that is wrong. However they are talking about data, which is a bit trickier. In some cases you can’t just upload all your data onto github; it may take a while because some sponsor or corporate office needs to review it before it can be released. A researcher may refuse to release their data until they finish writing a set of papers based on it. There may also be distribution limitations, or licensing requirements related to the data. I’m not trying to defend withholding data, just that these are the problems that need to be addressed.

    Finally, to extend the metaphor, the “publish or perish” mentality is this image’s Satan.