Oh it’s terrible. Institutions and research programs are severely defunded. Students all use AI and there are no strong guard rails. Degrees don’t get jobs anyway so few care. Only last year many universities were armed military at student protestors. Barely any tenure-track jobs this year. Bleak.

Also I was at the Doha airport recently and walked into their Hermes store out of curiosity. My first time at one. There was an SA. I asked him so many questions he was happily willing to answer. Lowkey wanted to pitch an IRB right there. Apparently airport SAs don’t have access to quota bags. 👀

💯!! I mentioned this exact sentiment to Gemma after our interview. It would be such a cool study… for someone else to do while I manage my other never-ending list of research projects completely unrelated to elite commodity fetishism. 🤣

Thanks so much! I am definitely available for online interviews! Would love to connect!