The desires to pursue personal goals, escape university pressures or get off the grant-writing treadmill convince some US professors to leave the security of a tenured post.
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Powell, K. Academia: Off the tenured track. Nature 491, 627–629 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7425-627a
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