Stanford professor slams postdoc pay as 'a joke,' urges fewer hires at higher salaries
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-11-09
Stanford professor Anshul Kundaje argues postdoc salaries are indefensibly low: scarce funding explains but doesn't justify them. He proposes hiring fewer postdocs at higher salaries, raising pay with grad-school seniority (later years produce real research contributions), and warns academia will lose talent if it fails to adapt to a market where students and postdocs have far more options than a decade ago.
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