Tbh I see that sort of academia as tantamount to abuse or exploitation. A close friend was a nueroscientist. I got to watch her PI push her into 70 hour weeks

Tbh I see that sort of academia as tantamount to abuse or exploitation. A close friend was a nueroscientist. I got to watch her PI push her into 70 hour weeks and then guilt trip her for not doing more. I watched her PI extend her PhD for a year so she could contribute more to other projects, and then I watched them selectively drop data (and IMO make up results) so that they could publish on schedule. Some parts of academia are so ludicrously bureaucratic that folks literally focus on box ticking for years at a time. That’s bound to happen because beaurocracy forces a path of least resistance that is essentially box ticking.