And no, nobody ‘owes’ you a PhD if you haven’t done the work. But I doubt it’s white women or POC who are walking around feeling ‘entitled’ to a PhD just bc a PI hired them. Graduate school is a /job/-does it matter who pays us, if we do the work?
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This thread rubs me the wrong way bc it implies we should be grateful to people who are essentially exploiting us for labor under the guise of ‘training’. Grad students could be making more as literally anything. One of my friends makes almost as much as me as a lunch monitor
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Are grad students supposed to have sympathy for faculty bc you have to pay us sometimes when your machinations to get us external funding fall through? cmon
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also, lets not be coy here: who can actually hold who accountable with the most ease? Is it the grad students in an academic system that is largely non-unionized; or is it faculty, some with tenure, some who even hold the purse strings on our lives and theses?
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truly wild to here calls for two way accountability in response to grad students overwhelmingly asking for PIs to be more accountable in how we are trained. Your current power in academia depends on the status quo. Of course you don’t like our disruption.
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I'm angry at this thread especially because of who wrote it. She should know better than this.
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Are you sure about that tho? I wasn’t surprised at their sudden turn towards the status quo
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I'm naive and also haven't been paying close attention. I'm really angry. Almost made me late on my first day to new job. Yes, I got a job in industry right after PhD! Imagine!
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sorry I’m a unidimensional faculty totally unable to envision life outside the academy so I am literally unable to even blink outside the ivory tower
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Ugh... But yeah...
Anyway... Have a lovely first day, Marina. 
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