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"We're all worried," as what it means to do research (in my field, Theoretical CS) seems to be shifting, and shifting fast. What to do? Senior researchers must lead by example, knowing that not everything will pan out. What I'm suggesting below may not work everywhere, but here's my own advice: 1/

🧵To juniors: - Move away from LPUs, at all costs. (Nobody likes to think of their own paper as LPU: what I mean here is "a paper just good enough to be published in a fairly good conf even a year ago") These publications are most likely going to die, or not being valued any more, as flood-prone 2/

What does LPU stand for here? 'Lowest publishable unit' or something like that? In physics I heard of this referred to as a 'publon'; one quanta of publishable material.