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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Sabine Hossenfelder has a video on this problem.

My dream died, and now I'm here. Why academia sucks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I was thinking of this video as soon as I saw the post. She's really an interesting person.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think this is a very interesting take, but I am curious about how the career in youtube is better than the academia as she describes it.

Obviously, the discrimination against female and writing without proper acknowledgement is absolutely unacceptable, but I have never heard about anything like this in my field.

However, I feel like youtube is likely a more competitive landscape than grant writing. I think it is very likely the administrative overhead for youtuber is more than 15%, and youtuber needs to get the interest of people completely ignorant of the subject, not just experts, plus battling the unpredictbility of youtube algorithm.

Of course, I am not trying to downplay the problem she mentioned, but I am just wondering how youtube is a better alternative career, considering her goal to do "serious and innovative science".