It makes me sad that the academy has been so hostile, racist and sexist to these people, because we need them. It’s good to see that they’re flourishing though, and a reminder that careers can take many directions.
“The job isn’t what it was,” says Kelsky. She says the story used to be, “I can’t get an academic job, so I have to leave academia.” Now, academics — including established ones walking away from tenure — think, “I have a job and have to leave because I can’t stand it.”
The elephant in the room is that universities will be under increasing over the next fifty years and many, if not most, will fold. I worry about the human toll this will have.
How five researchers fared after their ‘great resignation’ from academia - Nature
