THE VIDEO SHELF · problems in academia
My dream died, and now I'm here
Sabine Hossenfelder explains why she left academia, criticizing its incentives, funding and career structure. She gives a personal account of the social problems in science.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN users cite it in threads about academia, grant incentives, fraud and women-only programs, often as an eye-opening personal take.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Sabine Hossenfelder
- Topic
- problems in academia
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 10
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I love Sabine Hossenfelder's personal take on the social problems in science ( [VIDEO] ), which reminded me a lot of my own experience in academic science. She also has some critiques of particle physics that I find compelling - but outside my knowledge domain …
biomcgary on Hacker News · 2024-06
In The growing pains of scienceOn a tangent, this video[0] from Sabine Hossenfelder about academics in general is eye opening. In comments, veritasium[1] agrees: >After finishing my PhD I went to a university-led session on ‘What Comes Next.’ What I heard sounded a lot like “now, you beg for money.” …
wg0 on Hacker News · 2024-09
In Fraud, so much fraud
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