Intellectual Freedom

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• CallMeAl@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That was my father.

  At 80 he went to teaching only one class so he could keep his office and spend the rest of his time doing what he wanted.

  At 90 he finally retired. He wrote dozens or articles and finally left us in Jan this year at 92. The last day he was alive, he dictated a book review to me he had promised to a journal. His final wish, that I type it up and send it in for him and let them know he would not be able to take on any more book reviews.

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  • NakedNateRollerSkate@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m sorry for your loss.

    On a different note, your username is fantastic and I’m sad I didn’t think of it first.

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    • CallMeAl@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thank you for the kind words

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  • definitemaybe@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I hope this doesn’t come off as callous:

    What an epic mic drop of your father’s. That’s like something out of a novel/film.

    He sounds like a super hoopy frood. Sorry for your loss.

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    • CallMeAl@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thank you.

      He was one of the most disciplined people I’ve ever known. He rarely complained about anything. He spent every minute he could doing what he loved, researching and publishing. He wrote several books include an award winner. He won a Lifetime Achievement award from a prestigious body in his field at 84. He just kept going. At 86 he had nearly lost his eyesight but a doctor was able to restore partial vision, enough for him to continue his work and I never saw him happier. He did what he loved until his last waking moments. Then he closed his eyes and went to sleep, I imagine finally able to relax, all his commitments settled. I hope I get to go out the same way.

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• Sergio@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  TwoAstronauts.jpg “Wait, it’s all Grant Committees?” “Always has been”

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• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  precisely why I left with my Master’s.

  Zero freedom to pursue the truth, infinite demands to support other people’s ideological agendas.

  I didn’t get it that bad personally, but I watched a few friends have dissertations derailed by some random commitee member’s bullshit.

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• rf_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I think it’s grant committees dictating the research agenda all the way down. They’re after all the ones with the money.

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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Odd, I know a fair few PhD students and post docs and they all researched what they wanted to research. They either didn’t have a professor or they found one who offered the right subject.

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  • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You can’t do a PhD without an advisor. It is possible that the advisor doesn’t care, and signs off on everything their students write, but an advisor has to exist, at least on paper.

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• HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Interesting to point that the woman never made it to the tenure position…

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  • leagman1@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    She also skipped grad school and grad student by that logic.

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    • ech@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And she also never died!

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Women earn the majority of college degrees at all levels and in all majors.

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    • IndolentRoshi@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Is that a local or worldwide statistic? I would be surprised to learn this was true in the United States, much less globally. Got a link?

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    • ManOMorphos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’ve never heard or seen any colleges’ Computer Science/IT departments that have more women than men. Just my personal experience in the US, maybe it’s different in other countries.

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  • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    its actually the same person in all the stages

    they are a genderfluid shapeshifter

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  • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Alas, I realize my comment was misunderstood… I was merely pointing the choice of the cartoonist

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    • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The most interesting thing to me is that everyone took it as

      she couldn’t do it because she’s a stupid woman

      Probably

      As opposed to

      she couldn’t do it because y’know, patriarchy and all’at.

      Because you can get much angrier at one of those, is my guess, and people love to be angry.

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• DougPiranha42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t have a tenure committee and nobody cares what I research as long as I publish and get grants. Ymmv.

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  • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    also, the comic skips postdoc, which is probably the most care free career stage

    As someone taking a course by a postdoc, yes. Half the lectures so far where cancelled because he prefers research and conferences over the university mandated minimal amount of teaching.

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