Flor Yannelli *typo queen* 👽🌱When people ask historically marginalized people why they don't just say something. Just assuming that there are already structures put in place to avoid #discrimination, #racism and other ways of violence.. here is the answer: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00473-8
SeabirdSentinelAccording to #9News (WA) broadcast tonight: the problem with #university culture is “too much partying and fun”. Are you for real?! THIS is what makes universities such an incredibly unsafe place: #ToxicAcademia #bullying #MentalHealthCrisis #burnout #underpayment #CasualEmployment #racism #sexism 😳🤦♀️😩👎🤷♀️
“…we find that, as they currently are, #universities actually act as barriers to the kinds of systemic transformations needed to secure a safe and secure future for all. This should be viewed as a dereliction of that duty - to students, staff and wider society…chasing infinite growth on a finite planet is an #ecocidal pursuit. Without challenging it, universities are facilitative and complicit” #ToxicAcademia #LeavingAcademia https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsus.2023.1166642/full
Agents of (un)sustainability: democratising universities for the planetary crisis
As producers and gatekeepers of knowledge, and as providers of education and training, our universities play a key role in the reproduction of unsustainability. This article finds that they are, as currently organised, therefore complicit in frustrating and delaying action to address the planetary crisis. However, as highly resourced and influential institutions, they have an inherently transformative potential, should their resources and activities be redirected towards progressive social and ecological ends, which challenge rather than support the unsustainable status quo. This means that, as workers within these institutions, academics and researchers are faced with a choice: to be agents of this reproduction or to be advocates and activists for change. We argue for the latter. In doing so, we seek to build on the analysis and demands of emergent movements such as Fossil Free Research, Faculty for a Future and Scientist Rebellion in making the case for universities to show leadership on listening to the very science they produce on the planetary emergency, and act accordingly. Employing a green political economy critical analysis, the article suggests that, if they are to contribute to societal transformation, universities themselves must undergo transformations that explicitly and systematically reorient academic practices around social and ecological protection and priorities. Building on these findings, it lays out a series of normative and practical arguments for a ...
TanyaAneichykThis clip shows perfectly how #genderdiscrimination works. Nobel laureate says he "feels discriminated as male scientist", but when a young brave female scientist takes microphone to respond to that comment, the moderator tries to shut her down. Dude, she is not the one who started this!
This lady is my hero!
#toxicacademia #genderbias
New paper out about #StudentEvaluations and the law:
- Most #universities operate outside the law in how they use evaluations.
- If you've been denied promotion/employment because of your evaluations, you potentially have a legal case
#bias #discrimination #ToxicAcademia #LeavingAcademia #promotion #bullying #Australia
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02602938.2023.2225806
- Most #universities operate outside the law in how they use evaluations.
- If you've been denied promotion/employment because of your evaluations, you potentially have a legal case
#bias #discrimination #ToxicAcademia #LeavingAcademia #promotion #bullying #Australia
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02602938.2023.2225806
Disillusioned scientistPhD and postdoc applicants should be provided a list of former group members to contact for a reference for their potential new PI.
I have always loved science and research. Having completed a PhD, a couple of postdocs, and trying to cut my teeth as an EC researcher, I can finally say I am done.
I am here to share my observations as a scientist where skills, talent, intelligence, perseverance, integrity, and personal sacrifice doesn't matter.
#introduction
#research #phd #posdoc #science #stem #adacemia #toxicacademia
Hannah"If you continue to insist on working hours, I will stop mentoring you, stop giving you projects, stop supporting your science, pull your current projects from you. You may still get a phd but I am not optimistic."
"You are a bad phd student if you don't continuously measure something in the lab."
"I made your predecessor cry but then she finally pulled herself together so that was a good thing to do."