Thorwald Stein
@thmstein.bsky.social
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I study (physical) clouds and thunderstorms for a living. 🇳🇱🏳️🌈🌦️ 👨🏻🏫 University of Reading 🏡 Poole, Dorset, UK These words are my own (and sometimes not) and do not represent my employer or hometown.
![Excerpt from an article in the Financial Times about PhD graduates leaving academia. The excerpt reads: “All the [PhD holders] that don’t become academics are the exhaust gases of the university. They get blown out and go and do something else,” says Ewan Kirk, founder of investment management firm Cantab Capital Partners. He has donated millions to the University of Cambridge and hired 40 PhDs from virology to string theory. “They are the innovators, the entrepreneurs and the powerhouses of all modern industries.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ofwqp6hjheynrrfo2iz4trad/bafkreidgluq4zbqmvhpsf7ryjcsujipgp2jczr2rvraxtlvpefo2tdq7ga)
