#gradstudents — Public Fediverse posts

Physicists just invented a math proof so complex, it doubles as a new form of #torture for grad students 🤯🔢. Meanwhile, Quanta Magazine's editors are busy patting themselves on the back for making math sound like the latest Netflix #thriller 🎬📚.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212/ #mathproof #gradstudents #QuantaMagazine #HackerNews #ngated

Treating workers fairly mat slow down the science. That's a good thing.

"As student and postdoc unions proliferate, academia is scrambling to adapt
“I think the size of the average lab will have to decrease,” one administrator says"

https://www.science.org/content/article/student-and-postdoc-unions-proliferate-academia-scrambling-adapt

#fairpay #gradstudents #postdocs #slowscience

#Harvard Tells #GradStudents to Get #FoodStamps to Supplement The Unlivable #Wages It Pays Them while sitting on an #endowment of $50 billion
The university is hosting an event encouraging #graduatestudents to apply for federal #food assistance
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kwaa/harvard-tells-grad-students-to-get-food-stamps-to-supplement-the-unlivable-wages-it-pays-them #PhdLife #PhDChat #PhD

If anyone’s wondering what’s going on at Syracuse University 🍊 re: graduate student union organizing:

https://dailyorange.com/2023/01/graduate-union-hosts-teach-in-lays-out-organizing-process/

#syracuse #union #gradstudents #laborunions #su #syracuseuniversity #dailyorange