The academic job market is a train wreck and the conditions are bad still I have a pet peeve with academics:
You put out a thought here and the first thing you get is "yeah X, Y and Z wrote about that in $paywalledPublication/paper in a journal that 5 people on this planet read".
Sure, your comment is correct and offering people pointers at who works on similar issues or has good ideas about something is cool.
But with academics it sometimes feels like an expression of privilege. My problem is: I am not paid to read books or papers. I couldn't read even the core stuff in the topics I work on in my free time.
And not all pointers feel that way, some really just try to help, but some really feel like "only people with a PhD should do theoretical stuff, we are the magic high priests of truth".
/petPeeve
/petPeeve
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