Another doctoral student recently came with a weird question: their supervisor told them that "examiners would be reassured" by seeing many ...

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Another doctoral student recently came with a weird question: their supervisor told them that "examiners would be reassured" by seeing many connections on LinkedIn.
I have many ethical issues with the framing and with LinkedIn itself (despite having an account there), but I'd love to know from experienced scholars (maybe examiners themselves): how and why would examiners be concerned with my LinkedIn account?

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I can imagine they see this as a measure of visibility / connectedness

I agree it is a concerning take. I have not heard of it (yet)

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@tristynalxander I don’t know whether your engagement w/ LinkedIn is the reason of struggling to get a job in a moment when job cuts are on the rise thanks to companies like Microsoft - who owns LinkedIn - pushing for chatbots to replace humans.
In the case of the original post, I don’t think examiners of a PhD should be concerned by any student’s online presence

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@tristynalxander yes, it says that this was something raised by a doctoral student

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Some day I wish the twitter clone users would stop making these posts to Lemmy communities…

But I know you fuckers won’t, because you have to spam hashtages on everything, and the software you’re using make that these posts.

https://lemmy.world/post/48707627?scrollToComments=true

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