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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 11 hours ago

Unis are businesses these days. My last prof took on a postdoc who secured her own independent funding, but needed his name on the application for formality reasons. He took her funding, badmouthed her to the entire uni, and cast her out of the lab. Vampire tactics seem to be pretty common now in this economy.

The nepotism within Unis are also shockingly bad. The child of a professor is practically guaranteed a tenureship track in academia, as the professor's can stack bad candidates vying for the same position when the application comes. Anyone from outside their circle needs to either swear fealty to some professor or fight tooth and nail.

There's a recent blog post about this from a German researcher that resonated with me on this. I hope your wife's doing okay.

I've also just lost a good revenue stream and am wondering how I'm gonna cope, but I'm sure I will one way or another.