Academia in the throes of faceless bureaucracy
Pansieri J., Menassa D., Figiel S., Pisa M., Lockhart A., Ricigliano VAG., Seferoglu M., Borrelli S., Pimentel V., Alpin N., Szejko N., Samadzadeh S., Boldrini V., Zarco L., Correa-Díaz EP., Dos Santos Silva J., Gomez Figueroa E., Contentti EC., Koc ER., Dalla Costa G., Casallas-Vanegas A., Bakirtzis C., Gluscevic S., Carvajal R., Tunç A., Haider L.
Pansieri et al. argue that bureaucracy is suffocating research, as an ever increasing administrative burden consumes researchers’ time and diverts focus from discovery to compliance. They highlight ways in which red tape delays progress, wastes funding, and drives researchers out of academia, and call for systemic change.