Back in March 2020, I reverted to wild-type. I've spent about a decade or so @Yale trying to be an academic, doing my best to jump through the hoops lined up for each new acolyte to leap through to prove something, though no one knows what the something is. 1/
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Back in March 2020, I went home, to those I love and trust, my comrades in the AIDS and access to medicines movement. If we were going to get through this, it was this crew who would do the saving. 2/
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I felt like I would be shutting the door on some opportunities by returning to my activist roots, but what power and beauty flourishes there among those fighting for their lives, the lives of those they love, those they don't even know, continents away. 3/
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The goal was coming to
@yale to push the quest for knowledge and the quest for justice onto the same path, to leverage research to make good in the world. I am convinced over a year later that this is the quest that matters in academia. 4/3 replies 14 retweets 204 likesShow this thread -
So when they tell you you shouldn't be focusing on this and that, shift your gaze to something that your tenure committee can handle, weigh on a scale that they understand, remember what you're here to do. Not to please, but to heal and help. end/
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And to all those concerned: I am good. Just got promoted to Assoc. Professor, have a MacArthur, a major NIH grant and a great team. Just was saying out loud what many of feel about these places, what they value, what they honor, what they don't.
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Congratulations! What a lovely story, wild-type Gregg.
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