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Pat Casey
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University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
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Consultant Sarah Blackford entertainingly maps research careers onto professional football (see Nature 655, 809–810; 2026). She notes the irony that promotion in both fields demands a “new set of skills”: managing people, money and expectations. Yet the analogy should embarrass academia.
Nature 656, 266 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-02427-2
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