Sorrows & prayers for the faculty pushed out of FL & other red states….crossed fingers & prayers for my grad students, who I’ve advised to sweep onto the job openings like opportunistic carrion scavengers.
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Assiduously taking notes as I watch holiday movies with the family. Even these relaxing and fun times can form the basis of a research paper or academic blog post. #Productive #FamilyTime
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Happy Holidays, Anonymized Author. Maybe next year you’ll submit a manuscript worthy of publication.
Love, Reviewer 2.
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This review, while some may dub it harsh and cruelly scathing, will help this scientist either grow and evolve as a researcher, or weed out someone who cannot handle the rigor of scientific constructive criticism.
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As a reviewer, the best gift I can give this holiday season is my candid and unvarnished feedback 🎁📝
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Back in the day, you could get a tenure track position at an R1 university with only 1-2 good publications.
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Because we did not reach our publication goals, there will not be an end-of-term pizza party for the lab this semester.
Only productive grad students get pizza parties.
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Filed a motion in Faculty Senate today to start paying the adjuncts in kibble. Purina only, they don’t deserve Blue Buffalo.
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Really excited to see the music grad students play at the faculty holiday party tonight! No pay, just valuable practical experience & service for their CV 🥰
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Lmao good luck
#Postdoc, please also stay to make sure they don’t mess anything up. You should be here writing anyway.
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#FirstYear #GradStudent, I’m going to need you to go in during #WinterBreak to maintain the animal subjects. I’d do it, but I’ll be visiting family.
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Pack it up, folks: the flirting scam bots are reaching out on academia dot edu now
I advocate for my grad students to mask up so they protect themselves against illness & do not stop “maintaining productivity.”
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But yes, please mask up.
Impossible. I have so many important and interesting things to say.
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Jfc, had to get a grad student to scrub the floor before I could leave for the dept meeting.
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Walked into my office this morning and someone had painted a Supernatural demon trap on the floor under my rug???
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Yes this is correct for uni. K-12 also gets the option to have salary over school year or calendar year around. @natgeowong.bsky.social you are also correct in that postdocs are underpaid for their labor (imho).
…how long did it go on for before they realized there was an issue with that?
I cannot imagine anything more tedious than cell counting but I am open to suggestions.
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A graduate student dared to disagree with me in a group meeting earlier today. Ofc I was magnanimously polite during the meeting, but you can bet your sweet bippy I later kicked them straight back to cell counting with the undergrads.
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Yay! Although I will say, the pickle jars had a certain aesthetic that just can’t be replaced.
Tripped an #adjunct on my way into the lab. LMAO
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Today, a #GradStudent broke down crying in my office. My empathy skills left me a long time ago so I just stared at them until they got the hell out.
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My #postdoc was complaining about being overworked & not getting enough sleep, so I generously bought them a dog bed to place under their cubicle desk. I don’t know why they are so upset, it’s MEMORY FOAM
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