Major new study investigates Britain’s Bronze Age collapse

[Imperial Dave]

I am abashed.....

[DBS]

I am abashed.....

Unless you are head of Cardiff University's PR department, why?

[Imperial Dave]

I am abashed.....

Unless you are head of Cardiff University's PR department, why?

self flagellation is a key skill of mine 

[DougM]

I think it will be a Cardiff Uni PR person who sat down with the academic, asked him about it, then went away and wrote it up.

[DBS]

I think it will be a Cardiff Uni PR person who sat down with the academic, asked him about it, then went away and wrote it up.

Undoubtedly, but if something is going out based on your professional advice, you should always demand sign off.  More so if it mentions your name. I have to rewrite garbled write-ups quite frequently 

[DougM]

I think it will be a Cardiff Uni PR person who sat down with the academic, asked him about it, then went away and wrote it up.

Undoubtedly, but if something is going out based on your professional advice, you should always demand sign off.  More so if it mentions your name. I have to rewrite garbled write-ups quite frequently 

Some HEI will laugh in your face if you try to insist on review/editorial control of press releases mentioning your work.

[DBS]

Thank god I never pursued a career in academia then 

[Imperial Dave]

Thank god I never pursued a career in academia then 

me either 

[DougM]

Thank god I never pursued a career in academia then 

me either 

Most of my friends on Oz were journalists, politicians, senior public servants and academics. I know which was the most cutthroat.

[Jim Webster]

Thank god I never pursued a career in academia then 

me either 

Most of my friends on Oz were journalists, politicians, senior public servants and academics. I know which was the most cutthroat.

Sayre's law?

"In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." By way of corollary, it adds: "That is why academic politics are so bitter."