I genuinely wish I/we knew how to inspire young people to want to do science from non-academic families — and my parents aren't scientists.https://twitter.com/Stefan_Nito/status/981818910294073346 …
That's really sad. Also sad are the more general stats which show academia is made up by a lot of people from academic families.
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I'm sure that's far more common and it's rather unfortunate. Obviously there's probably a huge gap there in terms of opportunity and encouragement. I just hate how much competitiveness and antisocial behavior is still encouraged in science and how much that pushes all sorts out.
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It's true.
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