Grumpy IO psychologist with an interest in research methods, meta-science and personality. Views are my own and not those of my employer.
Begrawe my hart op Klein Tambotieboom en strooi my as oor die Bosveld horison
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What. A. Fucking. Asshole.
The algorithm is a little too predictable - engage with someone who is recovering from surgery and suddenly your feed is 50% surgery recovery posts from random strangers.
Campbell, 1988, explaining why he disliked working in Chicago and almost considered leaving academia (which would have been a huge loss) due to the highly competitive environment and the idea you should write only brilliant papers.
Web of Science makes it easy to calculate self-citation rates and the difference across researchers is nuts. I know of one person for whom self-citations are >20% of their total citations. For comparison, I'm at around 1%.
There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.
