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This is really upsetting as a portrait of what's wrong with academia

• mistrial9 3y ago
  more so that an underpaid, advanced researcher is more susceptible to manipulation
• samspenc 3y ago
  I'm not sure, this article actually does a good job of presenting both sides of the story, a couple of excerpts: > she saw that cells two colleagues had worked on for weeks had degraded and were no longer viable and discarded them without asking for permission, startling her colleagues. “This is trash,” Karikó told them. > while chatting with colleagues at a department Christmas party, a professor mentioned that Karikó was working for him on a project. “You think I’m working for you?” Karikó asked him, livid, according to someone who witnessed the episode. “I’m here to advance science, I’m never, ever, working for you.”
  • hodgesrm 3y ago
    She would not be the first academic to be a bit prickly.
• musicale 3y ago
  There are certainly other situations where fantastic researchers were mistreated by their institutions until the breakthroughs become too significant, famous, and/or lucrative to ignore.