Mathematics has 'fully morphed into biology': big-money projects and authorship fights
lpachter · x · 2026-09-09
Biologist Lior Pachter quips that mathematics has fully morphed into biology: multi-million-dollar projects, papers and massive supplements nobody reads, pretty-art marketing, vicious authorship fights, and claims of "curing cancer."
The jab mocks a large collaborative math project, reflecting how big-science funding, promotion, and credit culture are spreading into mathematics.
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