Re:The human cost of the pressures of postdoctoral research
by hprotagonist on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:14PM
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Sayre's Law: "academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small."
Re:The human cost of the pressures of postdoctoral research
by blablabla123 on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:05PM
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In business, no matter how ruthless or cold the people are, you can complain or even yell at the people - been there. I guess this is not an option in academics. Fwiw my mother died during my thesis. I didn't get a 6 week extension period - my professor said that's probably not gonna work.
Re:The human cost of the pressures of postdoctoral research
by leemailll on Monday August 14, 2017 @12:30PM
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It isn't in academia one usually has a year to land another job after been told fired?
Re:The human cost of the pressures of postdoctoral research
by arethuza on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:02PM
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Never heard of that one in the UK - even heard of people who weren't even told they were fired, they just didn't get paid and were expected to take the hint.
Imagine my horror one month when the university I worked for "forgot" to pay me one month - due to an administrative error apparently....
Re:The human cost of the pressures of postdoctoral research
by chriskanan on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:02PM
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This is true if you are in a tenure track job, and denied tenure.
That's not true for postdocs, in general. If the sponsor pulled funding from the project that funded my postdoc, it would be challenging to keep him.
"Certainly people, say in businness [sic], behave more brutally than in academia."
I don't know what businesses and academics the editor knows, but my observations across business and academics have repeatedly been than professors behave far more brutally than businesspeople do.