Academia - Topics

Academic citations: why they matter and how to get them right Open access vs paywalled research papers: who gets to know? The leaky pipeline from PhD to tenured professor Citing your sources in a video essay actually matters Preprints made science faster and made it easier to spread results nobody has checked Paper mills and citation cartels: fraud as an organized academic industry Peer review: who reviews the reviewers Retraction Watch files more pulled papers than most people would guess Open access won the argument and lost the business model — so who pays for diamond OA now? Podcasts and YouTube now move knowledge to the public faster than journals ever did — with far less review A press release travels much further than the paper it misrepresents Economic journals take two years to reject a paper Referee reports are the unpaid labor that holds the discipline together Annual association meetings are a hiring fair with a conference attached Publish or perish — does the incentive system produce worse science Why grant reports never say a discovery was serendipitous Why so few women reach full professor in psychology departments Where economists actually work: central banks and consultancies outnumber academia What the AEA job market does to a PhD's research agenda Heterodox departments and the hiring networks that keep them marginal Why central bank economists and academic economists talk past each other Why citation tracking misses scholarship published in languages other than English Why interdisciplinary hiring panels default to the home discipline What actually separates film criticism from academic film studies? Do male scientists get more invited talks and keynote slots? Predatory open access journals and how smart researchers keep falling for them Chasing prestige postdocs vs having a life: the gamble of the academic track How many PhDs ever land the professor job they trained a decade for Why do academics write so badly — and is it really on purpose Why do some scholars call patriarchy too blunt a concept? What do men's studies scholars criticize about masculism? Reviewing a grant for the panel that also funds your own department