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   jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 09:26:07 JST jonny (good kind)

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   • Will Tuladhar-Douglas

   @yetiinabox
   Fucking lmao YES no SHIT fighting for survivable wages commensurate with the amount of labor done means less research per dollar. Thats not just a bad argument, it isnt an argument at all. That there are people who believe we should try and squeeze as much labor out of people for as little pay as possible is exactly why we need Unions.

   Also, If this person thinks in terms of a quantifiable "amount of research" someone produces, I can guarantee their research is rote salami sliced boring bullshit.

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 09:26:07 JST jonny (good kind)

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     • Will Tuladhar-Douglas

     @yetiinabox
     I am Begging Faculty to Organize Their Own Unions to address their own working conditions that include immense precarity, bloated admin that scrapes off excessive overhead, etc. Rather than trying to push the impacts of their own failure to organize down onto their grad students who are almost always paid poverty wages.

     Faculty dont fight on the wrong side of the class war challenge 2023

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     Will Tuladhar-Douglas (yetiinabox@todon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 09:26:09 JST Will Tuladhar-Douglas

     Unsurprisingly, _Science_ published an attack on academic unions. It portrays successful struggles to improve pay and conditions for PhD and postdocs as anti-individualist (!) and an attack on innocent research group leaders.

     https://www.science.org/content/article/student-and-postdoc-unions-proliferate-academia-scrambling-adapt

     Among other gems:

     'Individual faculty members, who support grad student researchers and postdocs out of their own grants, are having to take a careful look at their budgets as well. “Every lab is in many ways its own little microbusiness,” says Lisa García Bedolla, vice provost for graduate studies and dean of the graduate division at UC Berkeley. '

     and

     '“less research is going to be produced per dollar of [grant] money,” Nestler says. "This is the way the … research enterprise will have to change.”'