"Fewer U.S. scientists are pursuing postdoc positions, new data show" 📉
"The trend underscores concerns that the academic community is facing a postdoc shortage and that early-career scientists are increasingly favoring higher paid positions outside academia."
“It’s not a situation that’s good for the country.”
It is good to laugh.
Germany higher education is financed by taxes; everybody understands taxation sources are private industry. Noone in the world believes the nonsense that USA is best; the country is a hypocrite. How many native Americans or descendants of enslaved Africans derived any benefit from the rose-tinted "MAGA" days of Reagan (another discredited president)?
Universities need a non commercial revenue stream, so do academics. Admins need to be made employees of academics&students.
A call from the privileged, for the poor to pay more taxes in the hope that "all will benefit" (apparently "trickle down <strike>economics</strike> dismall science). The privileged also need slave labour to expedite menial tasks, so that "high order thought" may occur will minimal disturbance.
Universities need a non commercial revenue stream, so do academics. Admins need to be made employees of academics&students.
A call from the privileged, for the poor to pay more taxes in the hope that "all will benefit" (apparently "trickle down <strike>economics</strike> dismall science). The privileged also need slave labour to expedite menial tasks, so that "high order thought" may occur will minimal disturbance.
@erinnacland@academicchatter@klangin Hurray, my timing seems about right to go private with my consulting business, offering academic services on my terms (not the crappy terms of short-term post-doc contract).
Interestingly, in the US PD salaries have risen faster than inflation and kept pace with average salary since I was a postdoc there (NIH starting salary is $58k today, or 12% more than national median. In 2011 it was $38.5k, $46k in todays dollars, or 13% more than national median).
This is not true of the UK, where postdoc salaries are now £37k, but would be £45k if they had kept pace with inflation or median salary.
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