Literally the entire purpose of book prizes is to market books to larger audiences
Dr. Alexis Turner
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Taking the scenic route through life. Formerly: PhD in the history of science @Harvard. Currently: Foraging in the woods, tarot, & other historical shenanigans
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I'd still rather have Freud than, say, Manfred Sakel.
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I can't subskeet this appalling paper I've stumbled across as I do background reading on various research groups I'm considering applying to for postdocs, because job market and reasons etc etc. But. Wow. Just. Wow.
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Kate. They had TWO whole women in that movie.
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Just utterly unsustainable.
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The privatization of publishing has also inverted revenue streams so institutions pay more to publish and access publications than in the past. The corporatization of the structure funnels money OUT of universities while relying on grants and international students (donors) to bring it in
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This. The funding model can’t support the bureaucratically heavy and faculty thin institutional structure that corporate governance has been building out for the last several decades. It makes for brittle institutions that lack a secure foundation.
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Or ya know. You can just replace your butter with Olestra, since we’ve already been down this stupid fucking path before
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I swear to christ I hope this new lab grown butter gives consumers the Olestra effect
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My body also can’t process the natural occurrence of nitrogen bubbling into my bloodstream when I rapidly ascend out of a pressurized environment nor does it enjoy processing excessive fatty acid chains of oil pressed from ricin seeds, but sure, reactively respond to one fallacy with another I guess