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I'm just going to say this (again) for everyone in reaserch so everyone who's quietly ashamed about this would know: It's fine if you don't program.

#AcademicChatter

And look at that! In today's #NobelPrizeForMen , stunningly, surpisingly, and to my astonishment: two more men were granted nobel prizes!

Tally 2026: 0 non-men, 6 men

How is this still the status quo in 2026?

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2026/summary/

#Nobel #NobelPrize #Nobel2026 #WomenInScience #AcademicChatter #ScienceMastodon

STEM PhDs written by AI. Why? Because they can. Because they cant be bothered. Because it destroys the knowledge base and any respect people still have for 'experts'. Because thats the whole point isnt it?

#academia #academicchatter #AI #GenAI #phd

https://www.chronicle.com/article/would-you-hire-a-ph-d-who-wrote-their-dissertation-with-ai OR https://archive.ph/iSFpG for unpaywalled version

"Think about your career before you keep talking," the university said. We put it on a petition.

Sign to call for #DoubleBlindTitleIX
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Sign the Petition

Re last boost: This is a question I asked myself all the time in grad school - will the University be taking care of me, will they be supporting me when my health gets worse due to their decisions, when I require more expensive care, equipment & mobility aids due to their decisions, when I die early due to their decisions?

No. They won't.

That can help stiffen your spine when you're afraid to stand up to university administrators, faculty, staff, and peers who are pressuring you to surrender your rights to them. It applies to masking, but it applies to other things as well. Protect your health because the university sure won't.

#UCAccessNow #Ableism #AcademicChatter

Praise to the predecessors, competitors and non-celebrated co-authors!

"... first rhodopsin in a procaryote (Oesterhelt & Stoeckenius, 1971)"
"... bacteriorhodopsin (BR) which started in the mid-1970s (Bamberg, 1977; Herrmann & Rayfield, 1976)"
"Ernst Bamberg and Georg Nagel decided to study BR in the membrane of an animal cell, the oocyte of Xenopus laevis "
Citations from: Hegemann&Nagel (2013) doi:10.1002/emmm.201202387

#nobelLaureate #NobelPrizeInMedicine2026 #academicChatter #science

Shockingly, today in #NobelPrizeForMen , another man was awarded a Nobel prize! Well color me surprised! Granted, I am just going by first names and appearance here.

Tally 2026: 0 non-men, 4 men.

But what will the rest of the week bring?'???

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2026/halzen/facts/

#nobel #WomenInScience #NobelPrize #AcademicChatter #ScienceMastodon

I'm writing a paper and it seems like I'm not even going to hit the page limit?

One of my mentors insisted that, if you have a truly good idea, it should not take more than three pages to convince a reader of its merits.

I guess part of why I'm not hitting the page limit, is that I have 2 more pages than I am used to, so I guess I can't take this as a sign that my ideas are getting better.

Yet... This is an interesting first and makes me feel like I'm not doing enough?

#AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #ProfessorLife

It might be me losing patience, but I do feel that in the last few years, in addition to just having an ongoing reviewer shortage, those who agree to do reviews are becoming more pedantic, nitpicking, assholish, and mean.
They are probably also losing patience.

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Colleges burying #SA is what I call #StudentTrafficking. Here's why.👇🏻

#Cornell #Cornell7 #IAmJaneDoe #PhDSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

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Cardiology was always a dead-end street for me, so I turned to engineering 🤖 #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter #tbp
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-an-eminent-roboticist-now-%f0%9f%a4%96/

Ah, the Nobel Prize for Men week is off to a rousing start I see! I've done running tallies in past years, so what do we think, will this year be any better? The start says "nah". 3/3 men.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2026/summary/

#Nobel #WomenInScience #NobelPrize #NobelPrizeForMen #MenYetAgain #academicchatter #ScienceMastodon

#LabRat: the student doing the majority of the labor in a research setting with minimal credit, protection, or recourse. A colloquial term reclaimed to name the exploitation it describes.

🪜🎓📜🍎♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem