So we can’t use synonyms now? ☹️

My guess is that this is similar to other professions. A combination of uncertainty and competition at the junior level and accumulation and concentration of success at the senior level.

And maybe, but some of the best paying universities are in areas where COL might have grown faster, hard to say

The numbers come from here:

2024-2025 oira.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

2021:2022 oira.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

One thing to notice is that inequality at the full professor rank (gini = 0.136) is higher than at the AP rank (gini = 0.102)

And they are all right

The third one will tell you to publish anything you can

Martin & Lembo 2020

And publicly implying that someone’s work might be wrong is automatically understood as a personal attack

Nothing wrong with using the seed that yields the best crop

The reference to Gattaca 🔥

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...

I bet there is three of us at least haha

Value capturing implies that they would

True, maybe academics adopt metrics as part of their values. But is anyone so brainwashed to care about impact factor even if it was a private measure with no effects on your career? I'd hope not many