> universities are reluctant to hire their own PhDs because they'd rather have the cross-pollination of ideas Maybe in her case, but that’s just not true. The

> universities are reluctant to hire their own PhDs because they'd rather have the cross-pollination of ideas Maybe in her case, but that’s just not true. The whole point of the Internet was to exchange scientific ideas, and that has actually come true - all academics I know share data/ideas online in real-time. Universities are just too cheap to hire as many PhDs as they generate.