Academia is broken, but DeSci is no silver bullet either. Special thanks to Tarun Chitra(Gauntlet), Nate Hindman(Bio), and Benji Leibowitz(Molecule) for feedback and review I recently earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and published four first-author papers during my studies. Among these were publications in some of the highest-ranking academic journals, including Nature's sister journals and the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). Although my academic experience has bee...