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What’s amazing to me is that US institutes are responding to these cries for help.

PhD stipends at Harvard are increasing from 35k to 50k minimums. I have heard postdoc programs at Harvard now give 80k.

It is almost a double from just the pre covid years.

Places like UK, on the other hand, has not changed at all, and is rapidly becoming the worst place to do a PhD in the western world.

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My UKRI stipend is less than national minimum wage. And is also without any employer benefits. I'm lucky to have a spouse that supports me through it.

Many in the department are now struggling to attract new PhD researchers within the UK or Europe. And funding rules are restrictive to any interest from further afield.

Just as a comparison. An assistant professor in UK makes about the same as a Harvard PhD student (50k).

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