Once a PI has over 100 publications the royalty checks from the academic publishers can almost fund the entire research group
YouTubers: We don’t understand the joke
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@pauldauenhauer Can I please steal this and put it on LinkedIn? It will confuse soooo many people! 😀 (Will give original attribution of course!)
@pauldauenhauer Wait, royalty checks from academic publishers are a thing?
Nothing stops academics from making YouTube videos. It is your system that makes your incentives. I have no sympathy for people who publish in closed venues available only to the "research" community. The academic publishing world is vile and academics do little or nothing about it.
@pauldauenhauer Between that income stream and all of the patent residuals, no more grant writing.
@pauldauenhauer Check out @ResearchHub and @ResearchHubF trying to fix this exact thing!
@pauldauenhauer @drng A bunch of folks raise a compelling case about how things might be done better. I’d gently note I used to get paid shedloads to say stuff.