hep-rumor-milllisted

# HEP Rumor Mill Skill Conversational interface over the `prm` CLI. It pulls the HEP-theory postdoc rumor mill (a public Google Sheet) for a year, resolves each offer-holder's InspireHEP profile, and analyzes their publication records so the user can study the job market and benchmark their own profile. Two first-class uses: - **Institute intelligence**: for an institution, what do the people it gave offers to look like (citations, papers, venues, subfield mix, PhD-age, named fellowships)? - **Self benchmarking**: place the user's own InspireHEP profile on the accepted cohort and surface gaps, overall and per target institute. Data is layered across three public, no-auth sources, keyed off the InspireHEP author id that the rumor sheet links for each person: - **InspireHEP**: primary record (HEP papers, journals, citations, PhD year, advisors, ORCID). - **OpenAlex**: cross-disciplinary augmentation for **everyone** with an ORCID, so ML / stats / CS venues (ICML, NeurIPS, journals) that InspireHEP misses are caught. - **ORCID public API**: the author's own self-claimed work list, used to rescue people whose OpenAlex-by-ORCID cluster is contaminated by author-conflation (see below). Author-curated, so no conflation; citations are backfilled per DOI via OpenAlex. - **Semantic Scholar**: name-based fallback (and h-index cross-check) when a person has no ORCID. ## Read this before reporting: the data is self-reported and incomplete The rumor mill is filled in by vo