Harsh! But fair. This leaves little room for noodling around, trying something different, going on a hunch, exploring a counterfactual "what if?", questioning an assumption behind the Big Theory. It's like working in an Amazon fulfillment center but with longer bathroom breaks.
This salami-slicing, guaranteed results by the deadline version of science also suits funders, because it keeps the box-tickers and bean-counters off their backs, and is a perfect fit to modern academia where research projects are designed around what a post grad can be sure to get done before their grant runs out.
Peter Apps:
Harsh! But fair. This leaves little room for noodling around, trying something different, going on a hunch, exploring a counterfactual "what if?", questioning an assumption behind the Big Theory. It's like working in an Amazon fulfillment center but with longer bathroom breaks.
This salami-slicing, guaranteed results by the deadline version of science also suits funders, because it keeps the box-tickers and bean-counters off their backs, and is a perfect fit to modern academia where research projects are designed around what a post grad can be sure to get done before their grant runs out.