500 sats \ 6 replies \ @SimpleStacker 28 Oct \ on: [Daily puzzle] Simple algebra problem. science
So the answers are
Phew, this took me a while. There goes my workday >:(
when my colleagues ask me why i'm not publishing more, I'll have to tell them some physicist from South Korea has been sending me math puzzles....
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When my colleagues ask me why I'm not publishing more, I'll have to tell them I must keep competing minion researchers in check by keeping them busy with math puzzles. If no one publishes, we all win. No? :)
EDIT: as I wrote this, my phone buzzed to tell me I got paid a paper bonus by the university. They haven't noticed anything yet~~
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Congrats! My Econ prof friend in Korea told me about publication bonuses. Wish we had those at my institution
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They're nice for sure. But incentivises quantity over quality sometimes. Also profs arguing over who can be corresponding author just because of that.
Some unis also are getting absurd with the amounts. Heard of over 200k dollars for a paper in Nature or Science. More the case in China though, i think.
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Genius strategy
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