Are PhD students being exploited for cheap labour?

Professors are accepting far more PhD students than academic jobs available, but typically only train them for the academic job market.

This extreme competition is damaging science: "too many people clamouring for too little money and too few desirable positions—creates its own problems, most notably research misconduct and lower-quality, less innovative research." - @bcmFietser

@academicchatter #science #OpenScience #researchintegrity

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