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[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@engineering_joy …. is really mentoring their students or doing the work of a PI (their students and Postdocs do it for them). If they are hired as a professor, that is evidence enough they are a professor, if they also have student/postdoc employees, they can be called a faculty boss.

[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@engineering_joy One of the issues in society today is inappropriate use of words (like earn/make). An example is “PI”. The only accurate term for a professor is professor of faculty boss. “Mentor” or “PI” requires a bit of investigation or additional information to know if that person…

[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@engineering_joy @lclkrist One of the only solutions that will save academia is to limit lab sizes. Federal funding should not be available to university labs over a certain size.

[Joy A. Franco, PhD @engineering_joy]

Postdocs do a lot of invisible labor in academia. The majority of which is helping PhD students. Many of us are happy to do it, but when students fail to acknowledge that help, especially in front of the PI, it kinda kills the vibe.

Give people credit for their work.

[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@engineering_joy The PI is the one who comes up with the ideas, manages the project and does the work. Fuck titles, what grant agencies need to know is that Postdocs and many grad students are the real PIs. Fuck titles.

[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@engineering_joy The situation is much worse. There is tons of corruption, nepotism, IP theft, employee/student abuse etc. In academia.

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[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@TheStrugglingS4 Can I talk to you about an interview topic for your podcast? (May or may not be related to the content on this account).

[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@ItaiYanai Just the right amount of time for the do’er / innovator to complete the work but not long enough to reap the reward - just the right amount of time for the do’er or go broke and have to move on while some faculty boss or university/corporation to scoop up the reward. #ByDesign

[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@jdpereira Careers in science are an epic rus, vow of poverty for all but a connected few who land cushy faculty jobs. Academia is replete with corruption & nepotism. Huge percentage of faculty get job from spousal connections. Universities have departments & funds that ENCOURAGE nepotism.

[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@blayjorge Look at faculty dishonesty, that is a WAY bigger problem.

[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@DavidBahry @ItaiYanai Better: prioritize yourself over your faculty boss. They are NOT motivated by your best interests.

[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@naresh_sunkara @ItaiYanai Thats a rash from living in a shitty low budget apartment. Lol

[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@Srishti_SMishra @ItaiYanai Yes! Opportunities have nothing to do with what you know or your talent or experience (or work ethic, productivity etc.) but everything to do with WHO you know. A faculty boss in Ivy League or big well funded lab will get you a faculty job (or nepotism / spousal hires).

[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@ItaiYanai And understand that it is a vow of poverty. Also, your faculty boss or other faculty do NOT have your best interests in mind.

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[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@Canderson0402 @MSMauro_ @gaattagca @PostdocVoice Its also a lot like Starbellied sneeeches bullshit. Lol

[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@Canderson0402 @MSMauro_ @gaattagca @PostdocVoice Thats more marginalization of the competition (faulty fear their students get careers and compete with them in their fields for grants etc.). Who the hell needs “training” after a decade or more in school (to the extent grad school is training/mentored which is a stretch)

[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@Canderson0402 @MSMauro_ @gaattagca @PostdocVoice The rightwing capitalist philosophy which prevails in the US prefers all resources be inherited.

[National Postdoc U @PostdocUnion]

@Canderson0402 @MSMauro_ @gaattagca @PostdocVoice Actually 20+ years ago it changed to “you are not entitled to a job even if you are willing to work”. NOW it’s “no matter what you do achieve, no matter your wit, will or work, you are entitled to nothing. We have confused acquisition and earn, and money and value are opposites