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beb.ninja
@beb.ninja

I love the idea of introducing more speedrunning lingo into academia. We now have the hiring meta. I’m waiting for the keyboard cam streams of my favorite researchers.

Larry Hunter
@proflhunter.bsky.social

We do this at the University of Chicago, with 5 scholarly works instead of 3. The focus is on the *quality of the scholarship*, NOT anything about its quantity (e.g., citations counts or grant dollars). Makes PTC meetings surprisingly fun and interesting: we discuss our colleagues' best work.

Alexander Kasprzyk
@amkasprzyk.bsky.social

Hiring and promotion panels asking for your 3-5 best papers has been standard in the UK for a while now. We also hold the national Research Evaluation Framework (REF) every 7-ish years where (roughly speaking) every academic submits their best 3-4 papers from those years and funding is awarded…

Alexander Kasprzyk
@amkasprzyk.bsky.social

…to each department based on panel assessment of the quality of the submissions. Interestingly this was introduced by the famous number theorist, Swinnerton-Dyer. It’s not perfect, obviously, and it’s going to smash hard against AI when it’s next held in 2029, but it’s not bad. And because…