PostdocDrama

The shitty side of academia that is no secret to the scientists.

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Ok, boomer...

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Conferencmiscuous: a scientist who never misses a conference, regardless of the subject matter and geography.

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Hypothesis: higly cited scientists are more likely to whine about the airlines while traveling to conferences.

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Reply to all, or it didn’t happen.

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I see every email from the chair of our department as a “reply to all” opportunity.

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It’s that time of the year... we can all skip morning experiments (and maybe afternoon too) and gossip about Nobel prize.

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Think of your abstract as your tinder profile pic. Impress, but leave some to the imagination.

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Siri! What’s my PI’s mood today?

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Academia's biggest lie is "that's a good question". Nobody ever meant it.

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A -80 freezer colder than your ex’s heart.

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Looks like someone is making Canada great again https://t.co/oWiiQnAqad

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

Our new retention policy involves building a wall so students can't escape until they graduate.

[PostdocDrama @PostdocDrama]

Wish the government shutdown could affect our lab too. So jealous of NIH postdocs right now.

[PostdocDrama @PostdocDrama]

You cite you, I cite me.

[Nicolas Robine @notSoJunkDNA]

I don’t really care about “computational biologist” vs “bioinformatician”, call us whatever you want.

Just avoid "bioinformaticist"

[PostdocDrama @PostdocDrama]

A survey of NIH eCommon grant submission system shows 63% of passwords have the word “hope” in them. The rest have either “for-sure” or “this-time-or-f**k-it* in them.

[PostdocDrama @PostdocDrama]

Am I the only one who vortexes water before adding it ti the reaction?

[Uncle Roy @Old_Orleans]

This professor graded tests next to me the whole flight. If there’s a Taiwan Jones at Howard, boy you failed the fuck out ya midterm 😩

[PostdocDrama @PostdocDrama]

@RallidaeRule @Lilisandre @mbeisen All (undergrads to profs), please make fun of this postdoc. I'm waiting for my grant score and I need to improve my tolerance

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

a student in front of me in line at cafe just ordered an espresso with soy milk - we are clearly failing as a university