@AstroThayne see also https://t.co/JJ8lFYWFVI
@jameskjx @TaliaRinger This isn't a value judgement (as implied by "should") but such patterns are pretty common. See https://t.co/h1KHVLXMSK and follow on work by @aaronclauset. As a simple matter of arithmetic most phds won't get jobs at places as presti
RT @SConocimientos: Lectura necesaria para los que se están estudiando postgrados Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring ne…
RT @eslehmberg: This paper has been making the rounds lately , so I finally sat down to read it and holy hell, it's wild to see what is bas…
RT @eslehmberg: This paper has been making the rounds lately , so I finally sat down to read it and holy hell, it's wild to see what is bas…
RT @eslehmberg: This paper has been making the rounds lately , so I finally sat down to read it and holy hell, it's wild to see what is bas…
RT @eslehmberg: This paper has been making the rounds lately , so I finally sat down to read it and holy hell, it's wild to see what is bas…
RT @eslehmberg: This paper has been making the rounds lately , so I finally sat down to read it and holy hell, it's wild to see what is bas…
This paper has been making the rounds lately , so I finally sat down to read it and holy hell, it's wild to see what is basically an academic class system quantified. https://t.co/0HeI3JwrO9
@jjminich Is there reliable data on the size of faculty at these institution? I could see comparing the K99 numbers to an arbitrary metric like total funding dollars or USNews rankings. Something similar to this by @aaronclauset https://t.co/Yzdq3tMU5S may
MIT, スタンフォード, UCバークレイ, カーネギーメロンの4つの大学は極めて密接に繋がっているようにみえる. Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks https://t.co/EW7Jq7MtHF
Alright. Here we go. "How many meritorious research careers are derailed by the faculty job market’s preference for prestigious doctorates?" I think institutional prestige alone should not be the only criterion for academic hiring. https://t.co/DXW3Wzl
"The magnitude of these differences makes a pure meritocracy seem implausible, suggesting the influence of nonmeritocratic factors like social status." https://t.co/Iwf0md7VX0
RT @aaronclauset: @Chem_Diva @alliecmorgan @samfway @laberge_nick @arbesman @DanLarremore Here's a Twitter thread we wrote about our work o…
@txtsambathidup @aaronclauset can clarify, but I am pretty sure it is speaking to Washington in the Pacific North West. the full paper for this figure is here : https://t.co/hgYD2Jzney
Thanks to your brilliant & thoughtful work, Aaron, my Twitter is exploding! 😅@aaronclauset
@saumyasankaran In the paper 'quote-tweeted' right below mine: also here, here, & here: https://t.co/anANraGG1t https://t.co/0evCvEKeOn Primary contact: @aaronclauset https://t.co/9znMZCyI2h
RT @aaronclauset: @Chem_Diva @alliecmorgan @samfway @laberge_nick @arbesman @DanLarremore Here's a Twitter thread we wrote about our work o…
RT @aaronclauset: @Chem_Diva @alliecmorgan @samfway @laberge_nick @arbesman @DanLarremore Here's a Twitter thread we wrote about our work o…
RT @aaronclauset: @Chem_Diva @alliecmorgan @samfway @laberge_nick @arbesman @DanLarremore Here's a Twitter thread we wrote about our work o…
Frameworks from "QuantCrit," Critical Race Theory, and this paper on inequities in hiring were part of the formative thinking https://t.co/ptAXlWAS9Y
RT @NicoleBarbaro: “faculty production (number of faculty placed) is highly skewed, with only 25% of institutions producing 71 to 86% of al…
RT @NicoleBarbaro: “faculty production (number of faculty placed) is highly skewed, with only 25% of institutions producing 71 to 86% of al…
This is the reality 👇🏼
@pl_pierce @TaliaRinger In the article, prestige of department is computed by looking at whose graduates get hired by what departments (eg UW places their PhDs at lots of top places but not quite as many as MIT). It's from this paper https://t.co/h1KHVLGbu
@paulg @Sergei_Imaging @stevenstrogatz @nytopinion The best ranking already exists: Faculty hiring markets. Who hires graduates from who? Most natural implicit ranking scheme. https://t.co/20PiqYX86f https://t.co/4DkaPPy6IA
Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks https://t.co/JvbanEKLq1
We used the hiring network data: PhD program --> hiring department. Similar to methods used by @aaronclauset et al in several cool papers: (1) https://t.co/f9IT346h2K (2) https://t.co/mQ2j1uKBTh (3) https://t.co/PVsIk3WCNC 10/30
RT @RMantri: Curiously, this is similar to how the art market works. https://t.co/e0EU1qzj9d https://t.co/eF5o8SEia0 “A handful of US an…
RT @RMantri: Curiously, this is similar to how the art market works. https://t.co/e0EU1qzj9d https://t.co/eF5o8SEia0 “A handful of US an…
RT @RMantri: Curiously, this is similar to how the art market works. https://t.co/e0EU1qzj9d https://t.co/eF5o8SEia0 “A handful of US an…
RT @RMantri: Curiously, this is similar to how the art market works. https://t.co/e0EU1qzj9d https://t.co/eF5o8SEia0 “A handful of US an…
Curiously, this is similar to how the art market works. https://t.co/e0EU1qzj9d https://t.co/eF5o8SEia0 “A handful of US and European museums and galleries have an outsize impact on which contemporary artists achieve lasting, prestigious careers and whi
RT @robkhenderson: 25% of universities produce about 80% of all tenure-track faculty. Of the top 20 universities, the first 10 produce 1.6-…
RT @robkhenderson: 25% of universities produce about 80% of all tenure-track faculty. Of the top 20 universities, the first 10 produce 1.6-…
RT @robkhenderson: 25% of universities produce about 80% of all tenure-track faculty. Of the top 20 universities, the first 10 produce 1.6-…
Auto-catalyzing group wank.
RT @robkhenderson: 25% of universities produce about 80% of all tenure-track faculty. Of the top 20 universities, the first 10 produce 1.6-…
RT @robkhenderson: 25% of universities produce about 80% of all tenure-track faculty. Of the top 20 universities, the first 10 produce 1.6-…
Mimetics make power laws
RT @robkhenderson: 25% of universities produce about 80% of all tenure-track faculty. Of the top 20 universities, the first 10 produce 1.6-…
RT @robkhenderson: 25% of universities produce about 80% of all tenure-track faculty. Of the top 20 universities, the first 10 produce 1.6-…
25% of universities produce about 80% of all tenure-track faculty. Of the top 20 universities, the first 10 produce 1.6-3.0X more faculty than the second 10 "Across disciplines, prestige hierarchies make the most accurate predictions of faculty placement"
@benmschmidt @hneutr @_szhang @aaronclauset I know it's not really the point (nor that of the similar method in [1]), but given that many PhDs would be content with any R1 TT job (+elite PUIs for some fields), maybe the more useful metric is the share of g
RT @lesley_elis: @NinaStrohminger This is a follow up to the original study (https://t.co/utiD8pbqBL) from 2015. That data has more nuanced…
Systematic Inequality and Hierarchy in Faculty Hiring Networks "Across disciplines, we find that faculty hiring follows a common and steeply hierarchical structure that reflects profound social inequality." https://t.co/qgL9glr4ha
@nalanpog And it's unlikely there will be anything published yet with data up to 2021. This is orthogonally related to your question re: faculty employment; I may find a couple of others: https://t.co/KJLXyagH2b
@NinaStrohminger This is a follow up to the original study (https://t.co/utiD8pbqBL) from 2015. That data has more nuanced stories to tell when disaggregated by gender, region, and institution.
RT @earth2christine: @guateologist @hneutr @_szhang @aaronclauset @DanLarremore 😂 This figure is indeed awesome, but to clarify, it's from…
@guateologist @hneutr @_szhang @aaronclauset @DanLarremore 😂 This figure is indeed awesome, but to clarify, it's from one of the co-authors' 2015 paper, "Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks." https://t.co/FFG8H3h4Ec It's a clas
@dajiangliu81 In faculty hiring (at least in CS) this has led to an incestuous cartel that vastly overvalues "prestige" in the selection of faculty candidates (https://t.co/5lJzR0xL5V). 4/
RT @alliecmorgan: @JeffHavig @aaronclauset @laberge_nick @DanLarremore I think you are gonna love this paper by some of my coauthors on PhD…
@sheydaipek Ben şunu hatırlıyorum, seninle mi konuşmuştuk acaba zamanında? https://t.co/aETzBz7Q2Z
Faculty slot that PhD grads from business schools get is typically at an institution an avg of 25-30 positions lower in prestige (e.g., from Harvard to UT Austin) ht @abidlabs https://t.co/kwYOb1ZYSh https://t.co/pmBK71kTJU
6. What is something I believed before that I had to unlearn to get here today? "Academia is a meritocracy." It's not true. You literally have almost zero chance to succeed if you are not part of the elite clique. https://t.co/P8f1CW3v3u
RT @SScottGraham_: The luck vs. merit debate sure is doing a great job of distracting from the power of privilege and networks. I guess it'…
RT @SScottGraham_: The luck vs. merit debate sure is doing a great job of distracting from the power of privilege and networks. I guess it'…
RT @SScottGraham_: The luck vs. merit debate sure is doing a great job of distracting from the power of privilege and networks. I guess it'…
RT @SScottGraham_: The luck vs. merit debate sure is doing a great job of distracting from the power of privilege and networks. I guess it'…
RT @SScottGraham_: The luck vs. merit debate sure is doing a great job of distracting from the power of privilege and networks. I guess it'…
RT @SScottGraham_: The luck vs. merit debate sure is doing a great job of distracting from the power of privilege and networks. I guess it'…
RT @SScottGraham_: The luck vs. merit debate sure is doing a great job of distracting from the power of privilege and networks. I guess it'…
RT @SScottGraham_: The luck vs. merit debate sure is doing a great job of distracting from the power of privilege and networks. I guess it'…
RT @SScottGraham_: The luck vs. merit debate sure is doing a great job of distracting from the power of privilege and networks. I guess it'…
The luck vs. merit debate sure is doing a great job of distracting from the power of privilege and networks. I guess it's time for the semi-annual reminder: https://t.co/E05HnshX86 https://t.co/gnXdrqY2kZ
@tera_levin I wish it were about luck: https://t.co/HRacdB3oGO
“faculty production (number of faculty placed) is highly skewed, with only 25% of institutions producing 71 to 86% of all tenure-track faculty” https://t.co/F8Kt7mBIiH 🔓
RT @aaronclauset: @davidlazer @thosjleeper @maya_sen @arthur_spirling @cwellmon @alliecmorgan @samfway @DanLarremore Of course, doctoral pr…
@CompArchSA @ksmckinley My suggestion would be reading these two articles. First, understanding that eliteness has way more impact on your career than your gender. https://t.co/2yLbnzktHW
@KeepItRheol I’m worried about how many people like that are on hiring committees when I apply for jobs. It’s the reason for this crap: https://t.co/lXwKb2jUjG
@Econ_4_Everyone @weai_org That just means that the students follow the literature on success in science. https://t.co/UMpFaphnck , https://t.co/3T4S3Oc4Jy , https://t.co/5YysTlfiLe The fact that they are aware of systemic biases, and their professors are
@Econ_4_Everyone @weai_org if econ is anything like CS (where top 1/4 of schools place 80+% TT), this is something to be addressed when hiring Faculty and nothing much to do with graduate student mentality. source: https://t.co/EDfDjMWSYm
Mentor: @DanLarremore from CU Boulder. Inequality, prestige, and socioeconomic factors in scientific careers. Read his sobering "Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks" https://t.co/JpJrYDnuDp
RT @drstarbird: @GarciaLabMS Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks https://t.co/3Mk5Tahf6a
@GarciaLabMS Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks https://t.co/3Mk5Tahf6a
@MannaLiberato Not if the plan is to stay in academia... https://t.co/kNbr0fxv6H
RT @dbphys: @RenaudJolivet @vectorgen Obviously, said institution is not Stanford or whatever other top 30 school... In that case, if you'r…
@RenaudJolivet @vectorgen Obviously, said institution is not Stanford or whatever other top 30 school... In that case, if you're not coming from like 10 specific schools, your chances are almost zero independent of field as has been shown by @aaronclauset
@alon_levy Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, CMU hire from each other much more than other excellent CS departments. I concede I was over confident I’d know if France was anomalously productive anywhere but Math. https://t.co/Y3htqjbDub https://t.co/2v7tgXYsOt
@CT_Bergstrom Appreciate that @aaronclauset's home page has a link to the not-just-abstract paper on academic hierarchy. https://t.co/wcWgTYCKPI
RT @Prof_WCByrd: Reminds me @aaronclauset & colleagues’ ‘Systemic inequality & hierarchy in faculty hiring’, among several other related ar…
Reminds me @aaronclauset & colleagues’ ‘Systemic inequality & hierarchy in faculty hiring’, among several other related articles. https://t.co/CdlYu9mPNX
Academics as a group are super posh and privileged, but they get also super defensive about being posh and privileged. Look at them scrambling around in the comments asking for a reference. Here you go: https://t.co/1anwo1lBKM; https://t.co/SCMNMFnFWX
RT @Kiernan_Mathews: Reminder that "faculty in the US very, very rarely end up as professors at institutions that are more prestigious than…
RT @Kiernan_Mathews: Reminder that "faculty in the US very, very rarely end up as professors at institutions that are more prestigious than…
RT @Kiernan_Mathews: Reminder that "faculty in the US very, very rarely end up as professors at institutions that are more prestigious than…
Reminder that "faculty in the US very, very rarely end up as professors at institutions that are more prestigious than where they got their PhD" -- only 9-14%, according to one large study. Presentation by Abby Stewart: https://t.co/YThi74rJH6 Citation: ht
@dustobscured @malmolina_14 This isn't for astronomy, but I think this points out that only a small number of institutions are producing faculty in some important fields. https://t.co/lTlNiSEW6e
@matecosi2 @ugemitch @sdmorresi @guido__ce Probablemente lo leíste en este estudio ejemplar. Ahora, ten en cuenta que los Ivies + public flagships (Berkeley, Wisconsin, UCLA, etc) también producen *muchos* más doctorados que las otras unis. https://t.co/l
RT @ProfTSearles: This is also in your magazine https://t.co/IpMEPf6aJk
RT @ProfTSearles: This is also in your magazine https://t.co/IpMEPf6aJk
RT @mccormick_ted: Irony is being called classist for bringing this up https://t.co/euo8rZu0G6
RT @mccormick_ted: Irony is being called classist for bringing this up https://t.co/euo8rZu0G6
RT @mccormick_ted: Irony is being called classist for bringing this up https://t.co/euo8rZu0G6
RT @mccormick_ted: Irony is being called classist for bringing this up https://t.co/euo8rZu0G6