I continue to think academics should on the whole be weirdos off doing their own weird thing, or people who occasionally say "That's obviously crap" in public and go back to doing their own weird thing. The idea of “impact” is mostly poisonous.
@kjhealy And they should be left alone to do their own thing. But, that really only happens if they're allowed to do slow research and slow projects. The true impact of most of our work only reveals itself years later.
@prachisrivas You're right. You get bonus points for making our work (its influence "only reveals itself years later") sound like a veiled threat. This is how I'll think of my scholarship from now on. @kjhealy@academicchatter
@brian_gettler@prachisrivas@kjhealy@academicchatter Ha. I have a habit of working on visitors' books. That veiled threat is very real. I have receipts in people's own handwriting that I can pull out decades and decades after their death