[leereeves]

> all the work is done by the grad students and assistant profs - and the professor's name gets added to the list of authors as a sign of respect (in the best case) or because they were told to do that (in the worst one). This is an extremely common practice.

Just recently, Yann LeCun bragged on Twitter about publishing over 80 papers in two years.

I wondered who he thought he was impressing. Anyone who knows anything about science knows that at least the majority of those weren't his own work.

(No disrespect intended; YLC has done important work. But that tweet was not his best idea.)

[almostgotcaught]

Do you know what he does all day at FB? Posts links to arxiv on workplace (which is the internal/business variant of FB). Like I'm saying you can see everything he does and he had exactly zero diffs while I was there.

[renonce]

I mean I respect him for his contributions but what about being more specific with the contributions, like “I brought the idea” or “I supervised the research” or even “I managed the lab and arranged for the equipments with which my students conducted research”, any would be perfectly valid contributions to science. But it seems like the academic norm is just to boast “I was an author of these shiny new papers” and the details of how are obscured away almost intentionally.

[belter]

That is a paper every 9 days...