Reading about ARIA's Innovator Circles: https://aria.org.uk/innovator-circles
Conflicted because the idea of small group creativity/change is so precisely what I find fascinating and enjoyable and intellectually productive. And every other word in ARIA's description makes me want to puke. Silicon Valley speak is drowning out the idea, which is a pretty reasonable one, that a bit of open funding (and a flag of credibility to wave at evaluators) comes in handy to help groups get together.
Also, why describe an "experiment"? It's not, is it? After all, there's no counterfactual... And they're trying to recruit scientists who one might expect to care about such a definition. So why? Why not just say it's a good old-fashioned "pilot"?
Also, this is really a sticking plaster on a broken leg in terms of barriers to bringing together small groups of similar interests. I am thinking academic competition, elitism, and accessibility to those outside the "discipline", let alone the academy.
Reading about ARIA's Innovator Circles: https://aria.org.uk/innovator-circles
Conflicted because the idea of small group creativity/change is so precisely what I find fascinating and enjoyable and intellectually productive. And every other word in ARIA's description makes me want to puke. Silicon Valley speak is drowning out the idea, which is a pretty reasonable one, that a bit of open funding (and a flag of credibility to wave at evaluators) comes in handy to help groups get together.
Also, why describe an "experiment"? It's not, is it? After all, there's no counterfactual... And they're trying to recruit scientists who one might expect to care about such a definition. So why? Why not just say it's a good old-fashioned "pilot"?
Also, this is really a sticking plaster on a broken leg in terms of barriers to bringing together small groups of similar interests. I am thinking academic competition, elitism, and accessibility to those outside the "discipline", let alone the academy.