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|content=BTW @dabacon, any fear of writing such a blog post is meant to be covered by your academic freedom. Your fear, is exactly my point.
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QED.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/5995823733
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=For @dabacon: "NSF/NAS study ways of glutting markets to depress wages for universities and other employers ignoring the scientific impact."
|timestamp=2:20 AM · Nov 24, 2009
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|timestamp=2:26 AM · Nov 24, 2009
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|content=By far the biggest threats to innovation, discovery and scientific revolution come from our dominant science organizations.
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|content="scarce talent *lured* into the PhD-level NS&E career paths will not be available for other uses." -Internal NSF labor study [Emphasis mine]
|timestamp=3:29 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|content="This pessimistic scenario of rising PhD scarcities and *rapidly rising salaries*.."-NSF study fearing high scientist wages. [Emphasis mine]
|timestamp=3:36 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|timestamp=3:37 AM · Nov 25, 2009
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|content=I should say that Gauge theoretic economics is also all about [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]], quashed as it was by the rennegade [[Boskin Commission]] idiocy.
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|content=New Topic: "What's your vision of true [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]]?" [Asks @Philip_Girvan.]
|timestamp=8:04 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=An old joke about the diference between the Soviet and US constitutions. Both give freedom to dissent. The US gives freedom the day after.
|timestamp=8:10 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=[[Academic Freedom|Academic freedom]] is about making secure heroes out of Margot O'toole, Doug Prasher & Nassim Taleb instead of pushing them to the periphery.
|timestamp=8:17 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=[[Academic Freedom|Academic freedom]] is freedom to invite a senior colleague to self-copulate for inserting himself before your name on YOUR paper..and survive.
|timestamp=8:22 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=[[Academic Freedom|Academic freedom]] comes from the academic *obligation* to schedule lectures if you have even the possibility of strong disruptive results.
|timestamp=8:24 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=[[Academic Freedom|Academic freedom]] entails a right for a non-expert theorist of high ability to cross boundaries and live on merit without seeking permission.
|timestamp=8:27 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=[[Academic Freedom|Academic freedom]] is the insulation from threat or want to continue in good standing for *any* and *all* contributions & reasoned dissent.
|timestamp=8:31 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6838941131
|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=What few people admit is that opposing  "[[String Theory]]", "[[Great Moderation|The Great Moderation]]", "[[Labor Shortages|Scientist Shortages]]" etc...leads to excommunication.
|timestamp=8:37 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=This was best put by @BretWeinstein: "Selection is to be feared only when just individuals are prevented from returning costs."
|timestamp=8:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=So @ahaspel asks what institutional reforms are needed (which was where I was headed when a birthday party occured in physical reality).
|timestamp=10:55 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=First of all, I am focused primarily on science. If universities can't provide [[Academic Freedom|Academic freedom]], science needs to move homes.
|timestamp=11:42 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=Next: Basic research in science is a public good (inexhaustible and inexcludible). Therefore we need higher levels of public funding.
|timestamp=11:43 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=To maintain [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]] we need to move resources from what is falsely called 'scientific training' to the compensation of researchers.
|timestamp=11:48 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=To get strong individuals, our target for researchers should be something like MA by 21-22 PhD by 25-26, permanent job by 26-28 (approx.).
|timestamp=11:57 PM · Dec 19, 2009
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|content=Graduate training is actually much shorter than assumed. Typically one is a graduate 'student' in year 1,2 of a PhD and working thereafter.
|timestamp=12:04 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=Raising PhDs should be Eusocial. Giving students to PI's in a 1 on 1 relationship is like parking choir boys with priests. Better in theory.
|timestamp=12:06 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=We must also fund entirely different sorts of people. Without Huxleys, Grossmans, & Hardys you don't get Darwins, Einsteins, & Ramanujans.
|timestamp=12:14 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=A central point: scientists are supposed to be K-selected but universities are hell bent for leather to r-select PhDs.
 
Yet that's insane.
|timestamp=1:40 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=Research & Teaching in Universities are as perfectly linked as Skiing & Shooting in the Biathalon: tenuously for all but Professors / Finns.
|timestamp=1:53 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=Last point for now:
Freedom for academics is precisely freedom from academics. A real marketplace of ideas beats the pants off peer review.
|timestamp=1:59 AM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=Something occurs to me. If you've never had reason to test your own [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]], you may have absolutely no idea what animated me.
|timestamp=1:55 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=On May 23, 2003 an extraordinary talk at NAS called “Exactly Backwards: Scientific Manpower Theory” was given.There is no record of this.
|timestamp=2:29 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=The talk was so extraordinary that it was repeated again at NAS 11 days later on June 3, 2003. Again there is no meaningful record of this.
|timestamp=2:33 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=The talk presented evidence to the National Academy of Sciences that NAS & '''@NSF''' partnered to manipulate markets over scientist salaries.
|timestamp=2:38 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=Now ask yourself why would '''@NSF''' be trying to weaken American scientists? Why would NAS help? How would NSF dependent scientists self-defend?
|timestamp=8:11 PM · Dec 20, 2009
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|content=Gauge theoretic economics interest has come recently from @mathpunk @dabacon @diffeomacx @riemanmzeta @tylercowen @ahaspel etc... Loving it.
|timestamp=3:02 AM · Dec 21, 2009
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|timestamp=3:11 AM · Dec 21, 2009
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|content=An excellent test of our President is whether the Obama era '''@NSF''' can undo catastrophic damage to US scientists begun by the Reagan era '''NSF'''.
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|content=An email from Twitter overnight said: "'''National Science Fdn (@NSF)''' is now following your tweets on Twitter." Yet, now '''@NSF''' is gone. But why?
|timestamp=12:26 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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|content=As we can obviously see each other '''@NSF''', I propose public dialogue on whether NSF should be strengthening scientists (ergo raising wages).
|timestamp=1:13 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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|content=If you would like to see a dialogue with '''@NSF''' on [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]], compensation, shortage canards, etc... retweet and star.
|timestamp=1:15 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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|timestamp=1:20 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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|content=I tweet as an Individual scientist. There are no work (Gov't/Corp) entanglements in this stream for '''@NSF''' to worry about.
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|content='''@NSF''''s human operator clarifies '''@NSF''''s follow/unfollow:
RT @pffli    @EricRWeinstein Because human operators make mistakes.
|timestamp=3:20 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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|content=But '''@NSF''' / @pffli, why not engage with reasoned critique? You have a fine economist on staff named M. Boylan. Ask about: http://bit.ly/NSFSG
|timestamp=3:24 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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|content=Of course following me isn't a mistake at all @pffli. You paid for my education to do research. My research is at NBER http://bit.ly/NSFSG
|timestamp=3:28 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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|content=In order for us to help keep '''@NSF''' funded, healthy, & attractive, we need you to engage. And, of course, we've followed each other for years.
|timestamp=3:33 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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|content=Thanks @pffli/Paul. You shouldn't have trouble getting '''@NSF''' clearance to follow me. Ask around '''@NSF'''/NAS/Harvard/NBER/ASCB. I'll check out.
|timestamp=7:14 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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|timestamp=7:20 PM · Dec 22, 2009
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