The academic advice with which I do agree is, never put any time or energy and especially not intellectual effort into program development. One of ours has been cancelled after piteous cries from the selfsame university that we help them save it. Every minute spent helping would have been better spent on research.
I was always taught, and agreed, that one is not only working for one’s school, but also working for one’s field and for the profession. I have also been ridiculed a fair amount for saying this, but I am saying it again because it is true.
I have been told you cannot control the publication market, but I repeat that you can. You can keep on writing and sending, and it does work.
I have been told you should be able to control your colleagues, your university and your legislature, and I have always laughed at that and been criticized for laughing at it. I am laughing at it now.
The party line is: never do anything that does not directly advance your own research. This part of the party line is true.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 