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Podcast: Everything Hertz
Episode: 111: The cumulative advantage of academic capital (with Chris Jackson)
Pub date: 2020-07-06

We chat with Chris Jackson (Imperial College, London) about the “Matthew Effect” in academia, how we can improve work/balance, and whether we should stop citing shitty people.

Here’s more stuff we cover:

• Chris climbed the world’s most dangerous volcano for a BBC show
• Chris’ email signature
• Having a code of conduct for your lab
• Work/life balance in academia
• Are things worse in academia compared to other desk jobs?
• How Chris co-founded “EarthArxiv”, a preprint server for the earth sciences
• The point/counterpoint article format (here is an example)
• Open science in the geosciences
• Requesting data from authors
• Follow Chris on Twitter
• Issues with bibliometrics
• Should we stop citing shitty people?
• The long wait to get your work expenses reiumbursed

Other links

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• James on [twitter]((https://twitter.com/jamesheathers)
• Everything Hertz on twitter
• Everything Hertz on [Facebook](www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/)

Music credits: [Lee Rosevere](freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/)

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