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18+ manisha , to academicchatter
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adding this collection on the future of research assessment to my weekend reading list

The rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we interrogate “excellence” as a concept and find that it has no intrinsic meaning in academia. Rather it functions as a linguistic interchange mechanism. To investigate whether this linguistic function is useful we examine how the rhetoric of excellence combines with narratives of scarcity and competition to show that the hyper-competition that arises from the performance of “excellence” is completely at odds with the qualities of good research. We trace the roots of issues in reproducibility, fraud, and homophily to this rhetoric. But we also show that this rhetoric is an internal, and not primarily an external, imposition. We conclude by proposing an alternative rhetoric based on soundness and capacity-building. In the final analysis, it turns out that that “excellence” is not excellent. Used in its current unqualified form it is a pernicious and dangerous rhetoric that undermines the very foundations of good research and scholarship.

from “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence - published as part of a collection on the future of research assessment.

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18+ odr_k4tana ,
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@manisha @academicchatter excellence is a word born from academic elitism. I despise academic language for the most part because it's an elitist dog whistle, and "excellence" - much like "esteem" or "utilize" or "realm" - is part of that hyperbole vocabulary serving no other purpose than signifying class membership.

CCochard , to academicchatter
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Apprently, academics have now started to behave like big corporations and still people's work/intelectual property.

(I personally know one of the author if you want to reach, I can vouch for them.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-023-01772-1.epdf?sharing_token=DdXkflBo0ArtHn_MuCiWL9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0M-mixhecL7TPIOlUExWln0cWcCa9wByDubgdQx2ejY6WszrZl4RprUeZTRYMUYSR2vj1L1aaTkAztIj3BFJVccRdB3qhMJqFZ9IrK8ty_11ZaiGG0Sy30MDXejVKuptRA%3D

odr_k4tana ,
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@CCochard @academicchatter private universities in the Anglosphere literally are mega corporations. Trinity College (Cambridge, UK) owns the O2 arena in London. Harvard has billions in yearly revenue, besides being registered as an LLC (iirc).

odr_k4tana ,
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@IanSudbery @CCochard @academicchatter lmao.

odr_k4tana ,
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@IanSudbery @CCochard @academicchatter I think the term "holding" is more appropriate. Charity sounds like something that doesn't require their members to pay thousands of pounds a year for education.

odr_k4tana ,
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@palaeo_lou @IanSudbery @CCochard @academicchatter same with Cambridge. Almost the entire town (including buildings, land) is owned by uni. And it's not just that. Colleges own land all across England. Apparently you can walk from Cambridge to London on Trinity College land alone.

tschfflr , to linguistics
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Question about in work: Where does one put the author in citations, in which THE WORK is included in the sentence, as in (a) vs (b) below?

(a) "... which you can find in Chomsky (1981)"
(b) "... which you can find in (Chomsky, 1981)"

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odr_k4tana ,
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@tschfflr @linguistics citations shouldn't be placeholders for names or studies, but mere references. Therefore it's a), sentence b) is missing an object. An alternative to b would be "Fact (c.f. Chomsky, 1981)".

thriveth , to academicchatter
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I have a tenure joke, but you wouldn't get it.

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odr_k4tana ,
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@thriveth @academicchatter too early man (always)

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