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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

The low prospects of jobs for undergrad who don't have enough experience for grad schools also turns people completely away from being a scientists to, unless you have research published or significant experience in lab work prior to graduating you won't get far, it's also harder to get into them health, like

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good for us. Very very good for us.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (8 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Barely anyone is actually a researcher at an university. Science is a pyramid scheme in a sense and everyone cut away to form the top is someone selling their soul to the industry as an engineer. Hence actual numbers are small in every field of research.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Left for Taiwan in the first Trump presidency. Haven't been back since.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Take me with you, I'm neither an average fighter nor a brilliant scientist, but you can't live a trans-sister to die in this wasteland of burgers and guns!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

We deserve this.

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