@johncarlosbaez Ah, the socio-political BS of academics....

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Ah, the socio-political BS of academics. I'm very glad she's healthy, financially stable, and now recognized. The rest of them deserve all the scorn we can heap.

Like 2 Oct 2023 at 21:48 | Wall-to-wall | Open on toot.cat

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John Carlos Baez

@CptSuperlative - I don't know who you mean by "the rest of them". I'm an academic too! I also don't know what you mean by "socio-political BS". She was, apparently, demoted for not making fast enough progress on her research. But the whole idea of being "demoted" to adjunct status is bizarre; it would be against the rules at many universities.

2 Oct 2023 at 22:43 | Open on mathstodon.xyz

Captain Superfluous

@johncarlosbaez

By "the rest of them" I mean UPenn and people in her dep and school that demoted her to adjunct.

By the "socio-political BS" I mean the status games that are often played in academia.

I'm not disparaging all of academia or all academics. I was one for quite awhile. Or universities in general.

But, from my point of view, there was far too much stratification of academics. There was always a ton of status quo thinking, and reputation management.

Which isn't that different from other parts of human life. Just with that particular aroma of academic life.

@johncarlosbaez

By "the rest of them" I mean UPenn and people in her dep and school that demoted her to adjunct.

By the "socio-political BS" I mean the status games that are often played in academia.

I'm not disparaging all of academia or all academics. I was one for quite awhile. Or universities in general.

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2 Oct 2023 at 23:25 | Open on toot.cat

John Carlos Baez

@CptSuperlative - okay. I think we agree. I loved teaching, but when I started getting pressured to do administrative work I was quite happy to retire early and focus on research. Luckily I was paid enough and saved enough to be able to afford this!

3 Oct 2023 at 7:34 | Open on mathstodon.xyz

Captain Superfluous

@johncarlosbaez

The teaching part was great for me as well. All the other bits, not so much.

3 Oct 2023 at 14:32 | Open on toot.cat