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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Isn't it great when the social institutions regulating people who want to do science promote people with the skills of salesmen over people with the skills for doing science.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately, it's for the best. If you're serious about research you have to present yourself. Especially if you're the first person to discover it, you're the most - possibly only - qualified person to talk about that thing.

Part of scientific communication is giving elevator talks. You have to be able to argue for funding.

Not to mention, if you never develop those skills, you're just opening yourself up to getting a worse financial incentive for the same amount of work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's politics, not sales, even highly productive sales people struggle with the politics of moving up. I could sell hot sauce in hell, but getting my bro dawg boss to like me enough to promote me into his weird club of bro dawgs and not use me as a scape goat for his own mismanagement and incompetence is not a cross over skill from getting someone to spend $15.99 on a neck pillow with the cost of $0.17.