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Re:"I couldn't move for a postdoc. Fellowship reviewers pena... by sib on Friday November 03, 2023 @11:21PM (#38137854)
>> 7.4% of professors have a Ph.D. from the same university that they are teaching at. MIT in particular has a high rate of self-hires, with 36% of their professors having MIT Ph.D.s themselves.

When you believe you're the best, you are probably going to be biased to hiring internally...

It's more likely that $RANDOM_UNIVERSITY wants to hire from MIT than the other way around.

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Re:"I couldn't move for a postdoc. Fellowship reviewers pena... by karmakurtisaani on Saturday November 04, 2023 @04:36AM (#38139159)
Can confirm this. Attended the University of Northern Bumfuck, did not get hired by MIT.
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