/lit/ - Literature

>>20366677
>>20366678
I was 1 and a half years into a genetics PhD at a 'prestigious' British university.
The hard sciences are the same. Academia is a joke.
My supervisor was a le epic girl boss woman who only cared about publishing papers, whether they were good or not, it didn't matter. She just wanted to get the numbers up because as she always used to say "they are your currency!".
When I brought up the replication crisis and how we should make the effort to write good papers rather than churning out shit she responded with "That's just how things are."

Your fellows are literally pic related. They are are obsessed with twitter. Several times a month I would be chastised for not having any social media - "anon you NEED to be on twitter for le science!!".

Science is fucking dead. Christ knows how bad the arts are these days.

I quit last year and now work remotely as a data scientist. Fuck academia, that was such a waste of time I'll never get back.