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Re:What principal investigators taught me about my failure t... by azhenley on Saturday February 16, 2019 @12:10AM (#19177189)
1 skilled research staff will out produce even 5 early PhD students, no doubt.

But I would be inclined to hire the students. There are more funding opportunities for them (NSF prioritizes students and departments fund TAs) and I’m expected to graduate students. In my field (CS), research staff and postdocs disappear too quickly anyway.

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Re:What principal investigators taught me about my failure t... by Fomite on Saturday February 16, 2019 @01:05AM (#19177334)
That's another aspect I didn't touch on, especially for the NSF - they're not terribly interested in funding staff scientists.
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