Academia's credit wars: 'arXiv is Instagram for people with letters after their name'
eigenhector · x · 2026-09-10
A thread of flashbacks about working with academics — credit-seeking, pettiness, status maxxing — draws agreement. The reply: even pre-AI this side of research was disliked, with no good fix, because 'the currency of academics is recognition; arXiv is Instagram for people with letters after their name.'
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