More focused on Arts than a lot of the discussion below, which is more STEMmy (not surprising given this is HN), but there’s a good acoup.blog post discussing t

More focused on Arts than a lot of the discussion below, which is more STEMmy (not surprising given this is HN), but there’s a good acoup.blog post discussing the PhD process: https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/collections-so-you-want-to-go-to-grad-school-in-the-academic-humanities/ https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/collections-so-you-want-to-go-... Bret’s posts are on HN often enough I think his input is valuable. Particularly relevant to the discussion on hiring chances: “But what the data shows here is that outside of the top 10-or-so programs in a field, the chances of being hired are effectively nil.”