Review your fair share
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For academic careers it is essential to publish your work in reputable peer-reviewed journals. Publish or perish – the pressure to publish – leads to an increased level of research output (about 2 million articles a year), but it is less clear whether it has increased the quality of knowledge production at the same rate. […]
Dynastic privilege as a coupled infrastructure system
When we think of infrastructure, we see the ‘hardware’ readily. Bridges, roads, power lines, airports, buildings and parking lots. The ‘wetware’ is also easy to see – watersheds, animals, oceans, and plants. The ‘software’ is much more difficult to see. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates purportedly once argued about what was more important: software or […]
Elite running as a coupled infrastructure system
August 7, 2021, Jacob Ingebrigtsen became the 1500 meter Olympic champion in 2021 at 20 years of age in a new Olympic record. This is a remarkable achievement for the young Norwegian, but not a surprise for those who followed his development, documented in Team Ingebrigtsen. The Ingebrigtsen family created a coupled infrastructure system that […]