this is actually interesting what if eventually people learn that grad school is a fucking awful deal with no job prospects then they stop going then schools get even more fucked without a supply of TAs and postdocs willing to work for peanuts hmmmmmmmmmm
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I think schools could contract PhD & postdoc populations by 25% without major deleterious effects. Lecturers are about as cheap for teaching help, salaried technicians for research only about 30% pricier.
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very, very few techs are capable of doing PhD level research tho tbf prob >25% of PhD students are also not capable of doing PhD level research, so...
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Replying to @halvorz @AutoVonBismarck
what fraction of PhD graduates in your field make it to tenure
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wait what the fuck I was a first author on a paper in a bio subdiscipline's flagship journal when I was 20 what is wrong with other biology students
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I'm a goddamn publushed epidemiologist! This is not a hard field!!!!
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Replying to @eigenrobot @AutoVonBismarck
tbf youre smarter than like 95% of biology phds also was it actually a good paper
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wait a minute i can find out for myself
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