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Physics needs research software engineers

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-025-00852-2
3•bookofjoe•7h ago

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sinenomine•7h ago
Will they be cited tho…
PaulHoule•7h ago
The toxic culture can't absorb them. PhDs are massively overproduced and jobs are so much more precious than people to do those jobs that it breaks... everything. [1]

I remember a physics prof who bitched me out for structuring UI code for teaching apps with OO-oriented ideas, seems that I was the stupid one because I knew something other than FORTRAN. To be fair though, I wrote a lot of Java that looked like FORTRAN then because that prof and other profs did teach me ideas about how to get your code to run fast like "don't just use doubles because you can", "allocate a big array up front and don't allocate any more", etc.

At the very least I'd imagine grad students are using git over there in 2025.

[1] If it wasn't so bad you might get a little "meritocracy" but when jobs are that precious nepotism eats them all up. Not like there is any way you can tell "merit" in hep-th when we'll probably have to wait another 75 years to get a conclusive result on proton decay, observe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphaleron (prediction of the standard model just like the Higgs), get an almost precise determination of the neutrino mass (we know the exponent, KATRIN probably puts on the first digit) and maybe have a direct observation of the darkon.

Maybe someday people will quit getting excited about a complicated experiment being a few std dev off from a complicated perturbation theory calculation because... those perturbation theories don't really converge the way you wish they did never mind that if you add up thousands and thousands of Feynman diagrams you'll drop one on the floor.

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