Edward Grefenstette countered that balancing dual roles is skill-dependent.
if you can’t fully commit to 1 job, you won’t do 2 jobs very well. this is a pattern with academics who keep one foot in industry and the other in academia. the safety net of academia is too comfortable and the money in industry too good to let go of either. a net loss for both
Users dismissed the claim that academics splitting time between academia and industry harm both as a skill issue, citing examples of colleagues balancing roles successfully at places like Meta and Oxford.
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@docmilanfar Skill issue. Plenty of people balance it well.
if you can’t fully commit to 1 job, you won’t do 2 jobs very well. this is a pattern with academics who keep one foot in industry and the other in academia. the safety net of academia is too comfortable and the money in industry too good to let go of either. a net loss for both
@egrefen I won’t dignify this with a response.
@docmilanfar How then did you make it work? How can early career researchers go about it the right way, especially if their goal is to be a bridge between the two sides?
@docmilanfar 😉
@docmilanfar I mean I can give examples. Take, for instance, my good friend @j_foerst. 50% Meta, 50% Oxford. Has crushed it at Meta despite the place being a hot mess. Built a world class lab at Oxford, which grew into @bold_lab_ai.