#academia is reaping the fucking whirlwind and i’m going to sit on my porch and watch.

[jynersq]

really pisses me the fuck OFF when STEM faculty turn up their noses at industry and act like they’re somehow practicing a purer and more altruistic form of science because they’re not in it for the money. no, it’s not just a job for these holy professors like it is for those 9-5 industry shmucks — for academics, science is a passion, it’s a calling, and if you’re not working far more hours than what you’re paid for (aka, grad students working 50+ hours a week despite only being paid for a 50% appointment) well, you just don’t care enough. you just don’t have enough passion. how sad.

meanwhile the entire academic research system only functions because of underpaid and often completely unpaid graduate student and postdoc labor!!!!! and to say this is not a defense of industry: corporations have their big fucking evil problems. but academia is not less exploitative and not better and i want people to stop fucking acting like it is. or that it’s good to participate in your own exploitation!