I worry that these data will be used to support dangerous stereotypes about faculty in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. Basically, it might seem like faculty in those fields are slacking off after tenure, but there's a much more straightforward explanation. 1/🧵
Publication rates before and after tenure: clear decline post-tenure in non-lab-based fields and sustained in lab-based fields. Super interesting. arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10575