And to make it worse. All casual staff seem to be women/minorities. Not the place for making sure everyone are represented.

“Modern women faculty members are as likely to be rebuffed by their female deans and professors as by men in those positions. Instead of helping a younger newcomer, women in senior roles might be inclined to let a newcomer flounder alone, as they had to do.”

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I completely agree. I’m just not convinced that publishing data is the best way to show this.

Yes, and I think this is maybe the best measure of the problematic part of loosing people from academic science. A drop soon after PhD is to be expected in fields with other career paths available.

The real issue (in my opinion) are the people who are being kept in academic science for too long with a prospect of maybe one day getting a permanent position. Or senior academics being burned out and leaving. Both are real issues, but not easy to separate in the dataset.

True, and there are sometimes issues with idea-sharing between academia and industry/govenment. But my point is rather that even if a geoscientist fx leaves academic science it is not a tragedy if leaving for industry/goverment/teaching etc. It is to be expected that many choose these routes.

I think it‘s a two-edged sword. It’s beneficial to increase one’s skills and network, but “easier” and possibly faster to become highly productive to not spend to much time branching out.

Some examples of what I’ve been up to this summer. With “team Palaeogene” #SWAPlab#C2C team sampling for organic carbon in the tidal delta of Adventfjorden, Svalbard.

Just out of curiosity, how many of you continued with the same tool/topic after your PhD? (Not just in the same field/sub-discipline) #AcadmicSky