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Sean Carroll
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Nature @nature article on flourishing in academia after being denied tenure. Most people understandably don't want to talk about this, so I get a lot of quotes in there.
nature.com/articles/d4158…
My best quote was that the people at Chicago who denied me tenure (without any prior warning) "just weren't that smart." But they didn't include that one in the article. Perhaps for the best.
Being denied tenure is a life-twisting thing, and there's no one best strategy for dealing with it. It's okay to recommit to your academic goals, or to try something completely different. Take the opportunity to have your mid-life crisis a little bit early.
Should have mentioned the article is by Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.
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A new study in @nature shows that small scientific teams are more likely to be truly disruptive than large collaborations. It's great work, but has engendered a "shift funding to smaller science" narrative that I think is a bit off the mark.
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For one thing, I would bet that papers with fewer authors are also more likely to be ignored and get zero citations than those from big collaborations. There's just more variance in the world of papers with one or two authors.
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A good overview of the status of inflationary cosmology in the wake of the @Planck satellite observations, by Chowdhury, Martin, Ringeval, and Vennin. I do have one nontrivial objection... 1/n
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