Getting close to the end of the academic year. Organizing notes from past admin meetings. I bump into a note with two reading recommendations mentioned during the meeting–no doubt the best admin meeting in the whole season.
Carl Rhodes and Martina K Linnenluecke, The Junkification of Research.
Seva Gunitsky, The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us:
Whatever we call it, what does its emergence mean for academia? I suspect the value of original or elegant theory will become more important. Good quant work is becoming cheap and plentiful; good theory remains hard. Perhaps ethnographic work will become more valuable, and original data collection that AI still cannot do.