#academia problems

[philosopherking1887]

I just chugged a kind of embarrassing amount of wine out of the bottle because it was left over after a reception and would have gone to waste otherwise. (I rescued as much as I could by pouring the extra into another open bottle and sticking the cork back in it to take home, but I couldn't fit all of it in the one bottle...)

[amarisllis]

forgot to post this here but hello i wrote some very silly ratiorine

Dr. Veritas Ratio vs Academia [LINK]

Honkai Star Rail | ratiorine | rated G, 1k words

established relationship, crack treated seriously, fluff and humor, domestic fluff, even dr ratio is not safe from academia

Veritas grumbles, leaning his head back until it knocks into the wall with a low thunk. “These idiots wouldn’t know good research if it landed on their heads.” It’s so contrary to what Aventurine expects that he can’t help but chuckle, the laugh bursting out of him before he can stop it. But Veritas’ glare intensifies, and he sobers immediately once he sees that he is—apparently—serious. “I’m… sorry?” He tries for reassuring, but he might only half make it because Veritas only groans. ---- or: even Dr. Veritas Ratio is not immune to the dreaded Reviewer 2

[kuiperoid]

Less than twelve hours after The Kavernacle made is video addressing the fact that ContraPoints, PhilosophyTube, and Hbomberguy didn't adequately address Gaza (if you didn't watch it), ContraPoints did make a response on Reddit, probably not exclusively due to Kav's video, though that may have been the catalyst. Kav had a response to that, as well as some of the criticisms of the video in general and how he had addressed the other two (who I don't follow as closely, so I didn't have as strong opinions).

As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm not on Twitter, so I didn't see the tweets ContraPoints had made on the subject. I do follow her on Instagram and Bluesky and noticed that she was rather quiet on the topic. Early after October 7th, I remember wondering if she didn't talk about the subject was because she didn't want to get accused of antisemitism again like she did after the lizard joke, which was pretty much confirmed to me when she referenced that in an apologetic way in her conspiracy theories video and also made her solitary video reference to Gaza in the middle of a discussion of antisemitism. Seeing her response now really emphasizes not only that point, that she very scared of being called an antisemite again after an incredibly bad faith accusation that hardly anyone even remembered to begin with, but another criticism I had of her even when I was at the peak of being a fan of hers: she approaches everything from this way too hypothetical, academic way - ironic, given the first video of hers I ever watched was that one about how grad school is a mistake and she mentioned that very thing in her experiences in a philosophy PhD program - that doesn't know how to actually approach reality sometimes. Also a bit ironic, the first time I remember thinking that was after her Jordan Peterson video, given she referenced it in the Reddit response, because she was only addressing him and his arguments face on rather than the issue with the cult of personality around him at the time overall, but that was less of a serious issue than this obviously. She may not be a grad student any more, but even after being a broke, grad school dropout, she still suffers from this issue that I, as a current grad student (albeit not a philosophy one, where I hear this issue is even worse and certainly observed it among my philosophy major classmates as an undergrad), see way too often among our ranks (something I'm guilty of myself): some people's inability to escape the idea of everything as an academic mind experiment. Brainrot: grad school edition -_-

Mind you, Kav himself literally has a Masters degree, so I think he is a good example of someone who escaped grad school brain. I'd say it's because he was a Global Studies person instead of a Philosophy person, but I've seen this sort of thing even in my own program, which is shall we say closer to Global Studies than Philosophy.

[bunny-ology]

Grad school is making me feel very alienated, and not for whatever usual reasons…

Legit, the courses aren’t even that hard, so I hve time to do other things that I want to.

But I’m in a hybrid setting where some of us are in person, and some of us are online. I’m online.

Us students who are online are treated very differently. We’re not allowed to have our cameras on, we’re not allowed to turn on our mic unless it’s something important, the professor keeps the camera off so we’re not able to see her or the other students, we’ve complained about not being able to hear some of the students in class but they won’t do anything about it, everything we say is refuted but the in person students are always right (even when they say the same things we do). Even though in person students sometimes go online when they can’t make it in, they weren’t included in an email about “proper zoom etiquette”. When we couldn’t hear the sound to a documentary that one professor wanted the class to watch together, she literally said “oh well” before a student in class got up to fix it. She was literally going to make us watch the video with no sound. The in person students all get to go on trips together to different museums in order to see behind the scenes, paid for by the program. You know how it feels when you’re talking about something important to you and someone just says “okay” and goes to talk to someone else, or just ignores you? This is legitimately happening every day to us in class, and it’s infuriating.

It’s not like I’m online because I want to be. I’m online because I’m disabled and can’t live by myself in a state that’s 12 hours away from anyone who knows me. Hell, I can barely live alone 30 minutes away from someone who knows me. This is just another example of how I get treated less than just because I’m not able bodied. As an academic, who wants to continue being an academic, academia is so ableist and gatekeepy and bullshit.

[demotedketer]

Is it a part of regular academia that colleagues will try to drag you into stuff?

A colleague: "Ah yes because you did some minimal data collection two years ago your name should be on this report you haven't worked on at all that's been developing for 2 years without you and because having multiple authors' names makes sure I don't have to fund it myself. Also please lie and put in work hours now even though this was two years ago, thanks"

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My dude, it's not good scientific practice

[drlinguo]

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[aletheiv]

I am a villain, trickster and a princess to salvage. All in one

[rainbowrider1290]

Y'ALL

There's a website that translates complicated science it's called https://www.tldrpapers.com and to all my people who feel like getting through an abstract is a marathon, this hELPS.

science abstracts for second graders. written by AI.