Timeline for How to establish collaborations with academics who you do not know where you contribute to their research projects?
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| Aug 11, 2015 at 1:18 | comment | added | Paul Julian | @paulgarrett - I agree. Thanks for the advice. | |
| Aug 11, 2015 at 1:15 | comment | added | paul garrett | @PaulJulian, ... sigh. Well, yes, indeed. But, anyway, to reiterate, I do think that a decisive version of "trust-ability" is most easily established in person, looking people in the eye, etc., if only because of the human animal condition... So it's hard, long-distance. Not impossible, as I could testify, but very difficult without much prior established reputation and such. The animalistic thing is not entirely unreasonable, after all. I'd say, "go visit people", be patient, ... | |
| Aug 11, 2015 at 1:04 | comment | added | Paul Julian | @paulgarrett - While I am no young buck...I too think people these days have a flimsy notion of trust and reliability. Hence why I have very few people to ask and have to turn to these community based Q and A boards. | |
| Aug 11, 2015 at 0:59 | comment | added | paul garrett | And, yes, to be clear: "trust". In the end, also noticing (hey!) by accident a long human tradition of tribal and other bases for relationships... "trust", often based on "obligation" (not the worst reason to trust), is the final and decisive thing, I do think. Based on observation, I think "young" people have a flimsy notion of "trust", which would not suffice for me... but/and I am commensurately widely disappointed in the apparent failure of "trust-worthiness" ... mileage varies, and all that. | |
| Aug 11, 2015 at 0:55 | comment | added | paul garrett | @MadJack, well, maybe, yes, it'd be easier for a person I didn't know to establish a "trustworthy" connection if I could look them in the eye over coffee... but that's not strictly necessary. The "problem" is perhaps that of sufficiently establishing one's "persona" ... on the internet?... or somehow in broader circles, so that people can gauge one's reliability, seriousness, and so on. The traditional ways of doing this are well known... and we don't seem to have transparent new-precedents. Very-well-established people can trust each other in a way, that they have reputations to lose... | |
| Aug 11, 2015 at 0:24 | comment | added | Mad Jack | +1 Interesting answer. Would your analysis be different if the "cold-caller" were on the faculty at the same university, but in a different department, i.e., does working at the same place make the outcome more preferable for the one doing the initiating? | |
| Aug 11, 2015 at 0:12 | history | answered | paul garrett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |