Scholars Call for Fewer but Better-Paid Postdoc Positions

Stanford professor Anshul Kundaje called postdoc salaries "a complete joke," urging academia to hire fewer postdocs and pay them more, a view echoed by scholars arguing that scarce faculty positions justify fewer but more competitive, higher-paid doctoral roles.

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