Timeline for answer to Pre-tenure strategies to spend less time on bureaucracy, and more on research by nsinghphd
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| Apr 24, 2019 at 17:48 | comment | added | Anyon | @Industrademic That reminds of me this Feynman story. | |
| Apr 20, 2019 at 8:18 | comment | added | Industrademic | I think the sheer volume and uselessness is what surprises me. For example, I give talk. A company that funds my lab offers to pay for travel. I say 'likely sure', then bat an email to my contracting folks asking how to do that. Seventeen emails later the lawyers are involved, and the sponsor sends me a kind, backchannel email suggesting it's just too much trouble. I agree and pay my own way. Another ten or so emails debate what to do about the aborted process. Conflict of interest is invoked by some unkind individual, and they would like to have a statement of work. And so on... | |
| Apr 19, 2019 at 5:15 | history | answered | nsinghphd | CC BY-SA 4.0 |