<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samth" class="u-url mention">@<span>samth</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@wilbowma" class="u-url mention">@<span>wilbowma</span></a></span> Maybe 'evil' is too strong, but yeah lol, I do think that caring too much about the 'prestige' of your department is pretty dumb. I also don't see how this could be a controversial point.</p><p>And I can tell you from experience that an environment where people are focused on the prestige of their department to the detriment of .... doing the business of scholarship is not a good thing.</p>
