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the-everqueen · 8 months

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was talking to the other postdoc (same fellowship, different field) and it's wild how outright rude our host departments have been. with the exception of one or two people, we've had multiple microaggressions and dismissal of our research (while both depts are literally searching for someone to fill a position that would theoretically encompass what we do). again, i get we're temporary, and there's no obligation to really connect with us, but. i've gone to other dept lectures out of curiosity/overlapping research interest and the faculty have been SO nice, made a point of remembering my name if they saw me again, asked about my research, etc.

#welcome to academia #like it's bare minimum type shit i expect #mostly bc i do it when i'm at conferences #the degree of outright exclusion is not entirely unexpected but it IS deranged #(both of us are also in...fields that i would say encourage these pockets of conservatism)#(so both our host depts are largely [if not entirely] white dudes)#i hope their job searches fail. if they're this bad to some light-skinned poc postdocs #they're gonna make some ntt bipoc faculty's life hell

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