HealthyScienceLife

Creating a community where we can do science while taking care of our mental health.
In name of all researchers, scientists, undergraduate and graduate students

[Academic Chatter™ @AcademicChatter]

They aren't quitting science, they're quitting academia.

[HealthyScienceLife @HealthyScience1]

@ThePhDPlace An "acceptable output" (i.e incredible) is finishing your PhD. The papers will come with it.

[HealthyScienceLife @HealthyScience1]

And then academia wonders why people are leaving and not looking back...

[HealthyScienceLife @HealthyScience1]

Academia will replace you in an instant, your family and friends will never replace you. Remember this when you decide to skip a birthday for an experiment.

[HealthyScienceLife @HealthyScience1]

"I can't have lunch because of the experiments". When did we become robots? How is it possible that academia owns us to the point of prioritizing the experiments over our own health? #toxicacademia #academia #science

[Stefano Zucca @StefanoZucca5]

When 50% #PhDstudents suffers of mental distress, ~40% of academics leaving coz of poor #WorkLifeBalance and 50% struggling due to #job insecurity...

...you can't just say people are not motivated anymore.

There is a clear problem in #academia.

@PhDVoice @PostdocVoice

[HealthyScienceLife @HealthyScience1]

I really don't understand this society... A society where anything that doesn't look like you, does not deserve to be represented.
Please share, and always fight for diverse games where everyone is represented.
I stand by all the #gamedevelopers that make these games possible!

[Abubakar Salim @Abzybabzy]

A needed message.

[Kaidi Wu, Ph.D. @kaidi_wu]

Academics don't leave academic research.

They leave the academic system: politics, schmoozing, appeasing people in power, abuse, harassment, credit stealing, big egos, university bureaucracy, Reviewer 2

@academic_exit @ProfessorIsIn

[HealthyScienceLife @HealthyScience1]

@bluejay19xx The Humans- Matt Haig

[Megan Mitchem @megan_mitchem]

Growing up poor or working-class, makes people more creative and industrious. When you can’t afford to buy expensive things you create new things to solve problems. We need those unique perspectives and to pave a way for those individuals to be debt-free and successful here.

[Academic Chatter™ @AcademicChatter]

Pay PhD students a living wage.

[Academic Chatter™ @AcademicChatter]

Controversial opinion: research is not a calling, it's a job.

[HealthyScienceLife @HealthyScience1]

Quisiera estar ahí para compartir la marcha con todes hoy.
Soy científica gracias a la universidad pública, gracias @unq_oficial.

La educación es un derecho, un derecho PÚBLICO. Sin educación no hay nada.

#23auniversidadpublica
https://t.co/N1HRM8LPPZ

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

Credit: @judyhoracek

[HealthyScienceLife @HealthyScience1]

@academic_exit I left academia in Dec 2022 and it was the best decision ever!

[HealthyScienceLife @HealthyScience1]

How many women out there always had normal blood tests but knew something was wrong? Is this #pcos ?
Please tell me I'm not the only one who is gaining weight in a calorie deficit all my life, for every doctor to tell me that everything is normal. #WomensHealthMatters #helpless

[Academic Exit @academic_exit]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're in academia, there's a decent chance you're in a toxic workplace. There is far too much tolerance for shady behavior within academia.

Commenters, back me up here: raise your hand if you've witnessed toxicity in academia.

[HealthyScienceLife @HealthyScience1]

@ZJAyres I agree with this! Unfortunately, most of the time, we don't have the power to decide. I remember going for the first time to LA, and I didn't even get the chance to visit any of it, because we arrived and left the day the conference started and ended 😓