Academic Hiring Is Broken. It's Time for a Lottery.
Only a radical change will break our academic monoculture.
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Only a radical change will break our academic monoculture.
Young, top-notch scientists have a shot at recognition from the National Science Foundation. Each year the NSF names an early-career scientist to its Alan T.
In the late 1800s, a collection of sociologists and philosophers started to try and make sense of the steady yet chaotic progress of scientific discovery, which physicist Freeman Dyson has referred to as “a succession of illogical jumps, improbable coincidences, jokes of nature.”
NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.
New study pushes back on decades of studies suggesting that scientific productivity peaks early and declines thereafter.