articles tagged: academic


# tech   

how to dodge responsibility, comp sci edition

Computer scientist Nick Barnes shows us pretty much everything wrong with colleges' attitudes towards their students and curricula by example...
how to dodge responsibility, comp sci edition

# education   

academics double down on their defense

Colleges are being confronted about the mixed outcomes of their graduates and they're not taking the feedback seriously.
academics double down on their defense

# education   

how academia unplugs from the outside world

The ivory tower phenomenon is real, and it's brutal on scientists and their research.
how academia unplugs from the outside world

# science   

watching the end of an eccentric’s journal

The Journal of Cosmology is closing its doors. Bloggers relying on clicks from picking apart deeply flawed studies are devastated.
watching the end of an eccentric’s journal

# science   

why quantity can so often overtake quality

Administrators are drowning in papers and statistics, but they're still incentivizing scientists to keep producing a tsunami of marginally useful papers.
why quantity can so often overtake quality