L: Average professor right after getting tenure R: Average professor five years after getting tenure.pic.twitter.com/kNbdjtDyoZ
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Maybe something to do w all the relationships built getting tenure? Tenure makes it so you can take research risk. But you might lose those professional friendships you built ovet 6 yrs of pre tenure? Just brainstorming here
Correct. Funding is tightly coupled to those “friends”. Lose those friends by nonconforming, and you lose funding. For tenured academics, funding is their sole identity.
That's a good pt. I hadn't thought about funding. I was thinking "people want to be liked & want to get invited to dinner parties, etc." If people make friends at work, they don't want to upset those friends by doing controversial research (this is all a theory & I might be wrong
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