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   Hugo (hugo@assemblag.es)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 23:06:52 JST Hugo

   fabricated cell lines.

   https://www.science.org/content/article/hundreds-cancer-papers-mention-cell-lines-don-t-seem-exist

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     Sean Bala (seanbala@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 23:06:48 JST Sean Bala

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     @hugo I always go back to the idea that in the UK under the Coalition government of the early 2010s, they said that faculty had to publish a certain number of article to keep their jobs. So what people started doing was dismembering book projects and submitting the chapters as articles. I don't know I always found it somewhat ridiculous.

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     Hugo (hugo@assemblag.es)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 23:06:50 JST Hugo

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     maybe the peer review system as it exists could actually be redeemed, if the raging torrent of articles slowed to a trickle because peer-reviewed publication wasn't a matter of life or death for everyone anymore.

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     Hugo (hugo@assemblag.es)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 23:06:51 JST Hugo

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     wonder sometimes what science would look like if we just... dropped peer-reviewed publications as a metric of achievement. came up with better ways of evaluating merit, more humane ways for choosing who to hire or how to award grants.

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     Sean Bala (seanbala@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 23:45:28 JST Sean Bala

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     @hugo Yeah. I work a public higher ed institution so I know all to well.

     Politics and higher ed is a joke. I feel like in the UK you have a bunch of Oxbridge graduates talking about how terrible elite higher education is.

     In the US, you have many members of Congress with Ivy League degrees decrying their former schools as full of out-of-touch elites.

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     Hugo (hugo@assemblag.es)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 23:45:30 JST Hugo

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     yeah, the UK is particularly abysmal on this. a sort of neoliberal laboratory for dehumanizing academics.