Big tech is poaching professors, training postdocs, and launching humanities journals
begusgasper · x · 2026-07-29
Big tech is now competing for talent in increasingly broad ways: according to the post, companies are poaching top professors, educating postdocs, and even founding humanities journals.
The point is less about a single move than the broader signal: large technology firms are extending their influence from hiring into academia’s talent pipeline and even scholarly infrastructure.
The author frames this as a challenge for universities, which may need to rethink how they retain people and preserve independent thinking.
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