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Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to federal funding cuts
(www.independent.co.uk)
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No, right article. Grants, tuition, etc., all of it is used as justification for those inflated salaries.
Do people actually think that inflated salaries have absolutely nothing to do with the overall funding going through the University, including those grants?
They usually don't know about institutional indirect costs and how they often run around 50% of the research funding in the US.
For those not in the know, that's an extra 50% that you need to add to the funds you apply for that will just go to the college to use for whatever they want. Research groups often don't see any of this invested back into their facilities and grad students often need to apply for their own external funding to make a high enough wage just to scrape by.