Haha, remember the job I interviewed for in Norway two months ago? They went against the evaluation committee's recommendation and hired their local buddy with a middling CV who already had a part-time teaching gig there.

Scandy academic hiring practices are mostly local friendship corruption. In Sweden 60-70% of everyone with the professor title is still at the department where they received their PhD. A large majority.

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Klart best kvalifisert, ifølgje fagekspertane. Vraka til fordel for intern kandidat

Han var nummer ein til stillinga som førsteamanuensis i arkeologi ved Universitetet i Bergen. Heilt til instituttleiaren leverte innstillinga.

^{Njord V. Svendsen (Khrono.no)}

International academic publishers (like Elsevier) earn big money while limiting the access to research results. This piece is a good summary of that problem.

No country can afford to abandon this system alone, but we should all be working to dismantle it.

#academia
#publishing
#journals

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