Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks (advances.sciencemag.org)

Nice to see more work shedding light on this though I think it is completely obvious to anyone in academia. It’s impossible not to notice that all the new assistant professors seem to come from very similar places though I would say that this is typically better in engineering. Chemistry and physics on the other hand...

Also this is not a substantive poiny but the word “novel” is way overused in papers.