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Dmitry Grozoubinski
@explaintrade.com

1/ Here's how it works (for others, Oz knows). A story breaks and every news show needs guests to talk about it. A desperately overworked producer frantically searches Twitter/BlueSky and starts DMing people who seem like they have credentials. The producer likely knows nothing about the topic.

Oz Katerji@ozkaterji.bsky.social

There is no accountability in ThinkTankLand or in TenuredProfesorsville. You can just walk into broomstick after broomstick for two decades and still pull in a 6 figure salary and a primetime apperance on a major tv news channel with a three letter acronym. Nothing matters.

Omar Khan
@omaromalleykhan.bsky.social

I am surprised to learn there are so many 6 figure salaries amg academics and think tanks. Or, that is not my experience anyway My mobile phone was on GB News database despite leaving the job they thought I had a few years before the channel was even established (I requested it to be removed)

Dmitry Grozoubinski
@explaintrade.com

I think he should have clarified he meant outside of the UK, where I understand top professors are paid mostly in firm pats on the back.

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Omar Khan
@omaromalleykhan.bsky.social

Full professors can be on 6 figures but roles that might attract that in the US or elsewhere fall some distance shy, eg www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQW790/a...

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