The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks more women than men

Re:The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks mor... by 6stringmerc on Monday August 31, 2015 @10:32AM (#10146956)

Well you can call bullshit but I have the math and you can't argue with it. The Post Doc was 1 year away from being promoted to Instructor, which meant they were at the upper bound of the Post Doc salary. Also, if the Post Doc was promoted to Instructor, they would become Faculty and would be unable to be shit-canned during a Reduction In Force (RIF) scenario. The Chair made all of this clear. So, if you're going to call me a liar, you can go pound sand because that's not how I roll.

Thanks to a little tool I found here on Hacker News, I was able to look up the number of H1-B Visa applications for this Top 60 Research University, and in one year alone, they applied for 70+ Post Doc H1-B Visas. Obviously they know how to pull it off.

Besides, everybody in science knows that students / Post Docs are expected to be like slave labor, and as many have pointed out, the conditions of the H1-B are extremely beneficial to the employer in the context of pressure to perform and retention. Skepticism is fine, but it's not bullshit. Your rebuttal is ineffectual and belongs in the circular file.

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Re:The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks mor... by shas3 on Monday August 31, 2015 @11:53AM (#10147376)

I am not accusing you of lying. These are hardly facts to lie about and involve a lot of supposition. For instance, the chair may have made an offhand remark, but the faculty (especially if tenured) may or may not be beholden to the chair. No promotion anywhere is obligatory, so the postdoc could have been denied Instructorship for a hundred other reasons, etc. etc. Further if the postdoc was denied instructorship and another H1B was hired in their place, then it is just tantamount to eliminating the instructor position. It goes on and on.

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Re:The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks mor... by hiou on Monday August 31, 2015 @02:23PM (#10148240)

For context, I'm assuming this is said tool

http://visadoor.com/h1bvisa-database

For example Cornell appears to be quite familiar with the process

http://visadoor.com/companies/cornell-university

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Re:The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks mor... by dominotw on Monday August 31, 2015 @10:50AM (#10147039)

>but I have the math and you can't argue with it.

Where is "the math"?

You just reiterated your previous post with more vitriol.

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Re:The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks mor... by Retra on Monday August 31, 2015 @11:31AM (#10147248)

Debating the validity someone's anecdote (when it is only incidentally relevant anyway) is not something to get hung up on.

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