Yet another reason I am not an academic
So a lot of pixels are being spilled on datasets and credit for datasets. Nothing wrong with that. It is all to the good.
What makes me boggle rather is the pervasive idea that putting together a dataset is “not science.” Science is what comes afterwards and gets written up in a paper.
I’m just bewildered by that, honestly. If it usefully advances knowledge, who the hell cares whether it’s a dataset or a paper?
Academics do, apparently. Guess that’s another reason I keep refusing to be one.