No, no, this is not a lemon! Just a citrus fruit with homonymously colored rind
No, no, this is not a lemon! Just a citrus fruit with homonymously colored rind
So we canβt use synonyms now? βΉοΈ
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)
The average salary of faculty by rank at R1 universities.
Cool video, too bad no sociologist made it into the final cut π youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA?...
And they are all right
The third one will tell you to publish anything you can
Finally out from @acastroaraujo.bsky.social and @nicolasrestrepo.bsky.social
I wrote another thing, this time about hiring networks in sociology pablobellodelpon.github.io/blog/2025soc...
Another micro finding from my dive into the field of Philosophy: 20% of Princetonβs faculty are academic inbreds, way ahead of the rest
Philosophers will either have the most extravagant webpage imaginable or no information about them on the internet whatsoever
Martin & Lembo 2020
I wrote this thing about algorithms in rock climbing
pablobellodelpon.github.io/blog/2025qua...
And publicly implying that someoneβs 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 π₯
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
Transformative experience. I wanted to screen embryos using polygenic scores but now:
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
Great paper by C. Thi Nguyen, but I'd say it overestimates how much we know about people's motivations for action in the presence of scores and rankings.
www.jesp.org/index.php/je...
My emotions
My meditation app
lol
Another interesting fact is that Granovetter saw a connection with hydrogen bonds, but did not put it in the paper because he thought he would seem "megalomaniacal". Such a good call.
garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1986...