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Science and Technology links (May 2nd 2020)

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  1. Marshall Ward says:

    This obviously does not apply to Oxford professors, but in the US it is illegal to discriminate against anyone over 40 based on age.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_Discrimination_in_Employment_Act_of_1967

    It includes protection from forced retirement, although there are limits around this sort of thing.

    Most of the retired academics I have known saw retirement as a responsible act, in order to provide opportunities for newer researchers, even if they felt they could have carried on themselves.