Comment by hbarka
11 hours ago
> Initially, they didn’t have much luck. No other researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University, where Prof. Aono worked, would be taking over his record-keeping, Hiroko Nishino, a university spokeswoman, wrote in an email.
I’m surprised that there was lackluster response. For this kind of honor, you would think that there would be a flood of responses. I am attributing it to bad marketing.
Part of me also thinks: yes, but is there any money/compensation attached to this? Honor, sadly, doesn't pay for grad students or soft money researchers.
> Honor, sadly, doesn't pay for grad students
Are you kidding? Grad students are well known to receive trivial monetary pay. Most of their pay is in honor.
They still need to eat, and that trivial monetary pay component must come from somewhere . . .
Not really, there is a promise of a better career in the future.
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Not usually how things work in Japanese culture
I'd like you to elaborate more on your answer
Are people not paid?
It could also be that doing the work isn't held in as high esteem as you think.