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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by MontyCarloHall on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @09:33AM (#31752626)
>even to get a liberal arts school job requires you to do a postdoc first

That’s a great point that I neglected to consider. Regardless, the overall point still holds—the production rate of postdocs is much greater than the replacement rate of professors (at all institutions).

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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by the_only_law on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @11:24AM (#31754372)
The research fields that seem require people to do many years of postdoc education also seem to be among the worst paying in industry.
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