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@futurebird

@cshlan @PizzaDemon

i basically just wrote a book about this.

Apparently not having a claimed Google Scholar page is the kiss of death for academic careers these days. So today I logged into an email address using Gsuite I haven't touched in 8+ years so I could "claim" my Google Scholar page.

I didn't realize the enormity of this erasure until recently (because of course I don't use Google Scholar, at all, for anything) but several moments in the past few months have made it blindly apparent that not using a Google product is compromising my career.

So I downloaded a clean alternative browser, figured out how to log into this ancient address (thanks to my brother, the webmaster), 'claimed" the page and GTFO'd.

I deeply resent that a corporate infrastructure that is hastening the doom of our humanity and leaving our democracy in tatters is now the relied upon crutch in my knowledge community. And you should too.

However, I hope this small moment of personal sacrifice of my ethics and values will not go unnoticed by my peers, who have apparently not noticed my scholarship over the past decade when I did not have such a page.

I encourage us all to do better. In the meanwhile, I at least tried to make it interesting: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=PVWEijYAAAAJ