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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Because academic institutions only award promotions to people who publish in certain journals. Disseminating knowledge is not the goal, because administrators/accrediting bodies are unable/unwilling to assess the value of intellectual contributions. They outsource this to journals which are expected to ensure that research is "legitimate". I'd argue that they are very ineffective at this, but it still gives decision-makers an easy heuristic to use when they wanna see "number go up".