Caught this in Rogers Park!

Just got back from a visit underground at SURF, where we also heard a little about SABRE. Reminds me of this t-shirt:

Right there with ya Tao 😭
Though as Patrick put it, correlation != causation here, so the numbers shouldn't really change what we do or make us pessimistic - I think we keep writing good papers, talk to people, and apply anyways!

Absolutely, this is a mix of lots of career stages though I was more interested in cut-offs than the high h-index tail. And I think there is a bit of conditional probability here; I might feel less inclined to even apply if I have a low h-index / first postdoc

A similar effect shows up in citation counts > 500. I've heard that committes don't necessarily impose hard cut-offs, but numbers obviously help to make your case. Perhaps the more optimistic thing I can draw from all this is that you don't need to hit these numbers to get shortlisted.

Less so is the bias for high paper counts, although no offers were made to candidates with N(papers) < 17

Thanks for saying this part out loud, it's nice to know these practices are appreciated by others!