academia
6 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 5 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 13, 2017 by Elizabeth Iorns · across every show →
Everything said about academia, oldest first
Sep 13, 2017 negative
Iorns: Postdocs face a severe shortage of academic faculty jobs
“And there's this pretty well-known phenomenon called the postdocalypse that Ethan Pilstein came up with, which is this concept that there's so many postdocs now and no jobs for them. So there's just nowhere for them to go in terms of staying as An assistant pr…”
Sep 13, 2017 negative
Iorns: Early-career academia carries huge risk due to lack of job certainty
“There's a huge degree of risk of staying in academia when you're at that stage in your career because there's no job certainty. So you're definitely like, what's going to be my next job? I don't know, I could be a postdoc forever.”
Sep 13, 2017 positive
Iorns: All marketed drugs require commercial industry to reach patients
“Because the reality is, you know, all innovations that come to market are through industry. So, you know, you don't see drugs on the market that came from academia. They were all, many of them discovered in the earliest phases, the basic research was done in a…”
Oct 3, 2018 negative
Iorns: Universities own research results, making academic spinouts challenging
“Because actually when you work in academia, the results you generate don't belong to you, so I think that's kind of a common misperception that, you know, universities actually own your work, so it's often a challenge to spin those results out of the universit…”
Jan 31, 2025 negative
McGrew: Academia's obsession with individual credit inhibits collaboration
“I think academia is good for this very narrow thing of, you know, small groups, you know, trying out crazy ideas, but academia has a lot of incentives that prevent people from collaborating. And in particular in academia, there's this obsession with credit.”