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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/ttpphd/statuses/112004031394370828">T. T. Perry (ttpphd@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 00:13:35 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ttpphd" title="ttpphd@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/39221-48-20240823200903.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="T. T. Perry" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">T. T. Perry</a></section><article><p>The Tragedy Of Academia: Very Smart People Forced To Do Stupid Things</p><p>Anton Pirogov writes in his blog about being a non-academic seeing harsh truths about academia from the inside.</p><p><a href="https://pirogov.de/blog/tragedy-academia/#software-development-in-adverse-conditions" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://pirogov.de/blog/tragedy-academia/#software-development-in-adverse-conditions</a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicChatter" rel="tag">#AcademicChatter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GrantWriting" rel="tag">#GrantWriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhDLife" rel="tag">#PhDLife</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2767684#notice-5486730">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-02-28T00:13:35+09:00" title="Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 00:13:35 JST">about 9 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ttpphd/112004031394370828" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ttpphd/112004031394370828">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2311756">So this is the cheap trick often used to ensure that almost every project in academia ends up being a success (at least on paper): You first shoot the arrow, and then you say that whatever you hit was the target all along. It really does work roughly like in that old joke. Your funding proposal basically just needs to say: “We are going to shoot an arrow into a well-chosen direction” and your final report will say that “after a lot of deliberation we settled on a promising direction, identified a suitable target and successfully hit it with our arrow, proving the efficacy of our arrow-shooting device”. Piece of cake.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/004/020/796/055/577/original/9ddfb9bad675726e.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/004/020/796/055/577/original/9ddfb9bad675726e.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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T. T. Perry (ttpphd@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 00:13:35 JST T. T. Perry
The Tragedy Of Academia: Very Smart People Forced To Do Stupid Things
Anton Pirogov writes in his blog about being a non-academic seeing harsh truths about academia from the inside.
https://pirogov.de/blog/tragedy-academia/#software-development-in-adverse-conditions
#Science #AcademicChatter #GrantWriting #PhDLife
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1. So this is the cheap trick often used to ensure that almost every project in academia ends up being a success (at least on paper): You first shoot the arrow, and then you say that whatever you hit was the target all along. It really does work roughly like in that old joke. Your funding proposal basically just needs to say: “We are going to shoot an arrow into a well-chosen direction” and your final report will say that “after a lot of deliberation we settled on a promising direction, identified a suitable target and successfully hit it with our arrow, proving the efficacy of our arrow-shooting device”. Piece of cake.
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