Should you be working 100 hours a week? Mary Beard’s recent admission that she is a ‘mug’ who works 100 hours a week caused a Twitter storm. But how hard is it reasonable for academics to work? Who should decide? And should the mugs be obliged to keep quiet? Seven...
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Research publications: does piling them high sell them short? All modern academics know that it’s publish or perish, but is regular publication a gateway or a barrier to groundbreaking scholarship? Simon Baker assesses the data on the relationship between research...
Productividad e improductividad de la academia: Reflexiones de un Nobel
Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to 'keep churning out papers' Decca Aitkenhead, The Guardian, Friday 6 December 2013 17.37 GMT...
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Peter Frankopan: ‘Soy historiador, no un profeta’
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The ChatGPT revolution of academic research has begun Jack Grove, March 16, 2023 The AI chatbot may soon kill the...
Alex Usher sobre Estado innovador, Mazucatto y otros: 4 piezas
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