in the Andes falling into low spots in silver and mercury mines (full of CO2, because no air circulation, and CO2 is dense) and everyone standing at the side watching them suffocate. And this was the initial approach to killing Jews et al in Poland, but the executioners . . .
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And people go and train in laboratories, and learn a set of techniques that are often specific to a particular subfield. So, then maybe you get a tenure track job, you're working 100 hours/week, and if you don't get funding you're out of work and unemployable.
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Incentives for honesty about the potential for the practical applications of your work are . . . well, not substantial. :/
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It's really, really bad. My folks were fairly successful professors and it pretty much ruined their lives. This is a pretty weird piece (as you might expect from an engineering academic speaking on a social issue) but it hits the heart of it https://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science …
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This thread was a depressing read but I'm glad you shared it.
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Feel free to link it if you like, I don't mind people seeing it. It's awful, you know, sort of like Omelas but the suffering doesn't actually net you anything? I dunno. I'm drunk.
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I used to never question research methods in animal biology until I read the methods section of a paper involving microdialysis probes in mice brains. The sections were brutal. This thread has given me much to think about.
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