THERE is a reinvigorated effort to entice Filipino scholars from abroad to come home and rejoin the ranks of Filipino scientists to help in nation-building. It is most likely that many of them will be offered posts in universities and other higher education institutions (HEIs), where they are also expected to teach. And it is there that they join those who remained or those like me who returned after our graduate studies abroad as we endure being turned into resources who will be weighed not according to our actual impacts on society, but on how many papers we present in high-impact conferences and publish in high-impact journals.