https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines in other places recently too, e.g. with personal attacks and using HN for ideological battle. We end up having to ban accounts that do that. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review the rules and use HN as intended, we'd appreciate it.

> Academia is a shocking hive of nepotism and corruption wherever you are.

Also isn't something discussed by Dr Natalie Gosnell who has her Dr. and a position. Her complaint (in the article you linked) is that " astrophysics .. is paralyzed by “systemic racism and white supremacy” ".

There's no obvious mention of nepo babies in that link that you selected.

My own preference is for astro tangential projects such as

https://www.sarao.ac.za/media-releases/2022-africa-data-scie...

which are off shoots from the larger SKA project initiated here back in the 1980s.