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Not a day goes by when someone doesn’t tweet about an academic promotion they’ve just received. I’m happy for y’all – but there's also been good discussion of late about #careerism too, and at times it all feels like a big - trivial - game. A brief thread about academic ranks:/1 
Since Universities arose from monasteries (image is the monastic-looking Merton Mob Quad @UniofOxford) the leadership structure was originally simple and reflected monastic life: a Master corresponding to the abbot, perhaps another leader akin to a prior, and then the scholars./2
The current complexities took centuries to evolve, and ranks and titles - which overlap, but should not be conflated - really proliferated with the transition to the modern University in the late 19th/early 20th century. The modern university starts to feel like the Nobility!/3
