Jeroen van Baar and Lieke de Boer discuss why they have decided to leave academia, and what steps they took to come to that decision. Reporting separately from their respective lockdown locations across Europe (well, Berlin and Amsterdam), during their last days as (almost) “pure” academics, they muse about the different possible reasons for leaving, as well as staying for as long as they did.
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