Big tech is poaching professors and even launching humanities journals
begusgasper · x · 2026-07-29
Big tech keeps poaching top professors and postdocs, and even founding humanities journals, prompting the poster to argue that academia should do more real thinking instead of copying industry moves.
The reply frames the issue as a wider industry-and-academia dynamic: the “bastion of thinking” is losing talent to tech, while tech companies are increasingly shaping adjacent intellectual institutions.
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