Tenured professor's call to pay PhD students less sparks academic backlash
clarejtbirch · x · 2026-11-09
Researcher @snackowska mocks a tenured professor's claim that PhD students should be paid less: "sure is one way to announce to the world you would make a terrible advisor" — a viral critique of academia's persistent low-pay culture for doctoral researchers.
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