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The "Etchevers Lab" now MoPED (Mechanisms of Paracrine & Endocrine Disorders) in Marseille 🇫🇷 on #development & cell #signaling in mouse & human #embryology or #tumors with #genetics #imaging #explants #stemCells #organoids #RareDisease & #singleCell #transcriptomics for principles of #differentiation over #time.

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She/her/hers but also answers to "Kevin" "Freddy" "ZHeather" & "Ezer"

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14 min video

Maybe mainstream economists’ ideas of how to run everything is BAD. Is science served by universities converted into paper generating factories based on graduate slave labor?

And they think 4c warming is inconsequential to humanity.

Maybe it’s time to unshittify economics.

https://youtu.be/LKiBlGDfRU8

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @academicchatter @academicsunite @pluralistic I knew Sabine from a mid-naughts science blogging era in our lives on the same platform. We are of similar ages & astonishingly similar experiences. I'm glad she posted this reality & I confirm it in my own life except I did stay academia-adjacent with a tenured research position & now group leader. It's not better for all of having "succeeded". Her testimony is accurate as is the rest of what she conveys. Thanks for linking!

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @academicchatter @academicsunite
"Publish or perish" was from a time where brilliant people could reasonably expect to attain tenure and respect from their peers. The currencies were respect & reputation and losers were relegated to anonymity. It was Robertson Davies/David Lodge, cruel pettiness. Now adjuncts live in their cars, grants = running small businesses with the mob taking their cut & putting the squeeze in ever more arbitrary ways. Also read https://voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/its-not-your-fault-that-academic-life-is-getting-harder-by-glen-ohara/

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @academicchatter @academicsunite @pluralistic will have a look, thanks.

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @academicchatter @academicsunite Absolutely the same process as with Boeing. And I confirm, same at stake in hospitals and health care setting overall. Even here in relatively social service-oriented France, these dynamics are underway and there is massive brain drain from public to private & from private to equity ownership. Labor laws slowing but not staunching the hemorrhage. Soon there will only be admins left to set broken arms in the ER.

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @academicchatter @academicsunite bread & circuses here too, yes

18+ manisha , to academicchatter
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adding this collection on the future of research assessment to my weekend reading list

The rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we interrogate “excellence” as a concept and find that it has no intrinsic meaning in academia. Rather it functions as a linguistic interchange mechanism. To investigate whether this linguistic function is useful we examine how the rhetoric of excellence combines with narratives of scarcity and competition to show that the hyper-competition that arises from the performance of “excellence” is completely at odds with the qualities of good research. We trace the roots of issues in reproducibility, fraud, and homophily to this rhetoric. But we also show that this rhetoric is an internal, and not primarily an external, imposition. We conclude by proposing an alternative rhetoric based on soundness and capacity-building. In the final analysis, it turns out that that “excellence” is not excellent. Used in its current unqualified form it is a pernicious and dangerous rhetoric that undermines the very foundations of good research and scholarship.

from “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence - published as part of a collection on the future of research assessment.

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18+ Etche_homo ,
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@manisha @academicchatter It has justly been lampooned as a word empty of sense except in a bureaucratic one for many years in France, as only politicians use it in reference to research assessment. Including the small-time politicians in our ranks.

Uair , to actuallyautistic
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Anyone have movie or teevee recommendations?

To give you an idea of me, here's some of my current faves:

Hardcore Henry
Nobody
Zombieland: Double Tap
Chappie
Tenet
Go (1999)
Homegrown (1999)
Omniscent (netflix)
American Vandal (netflix)
Chernobyl (HBO)
Exterminate all the Brutes (HBO)

Basically, anything with brains+ humor + violence.

Thx!

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@Uair @AtheismActually @actuallyautistic Not new, but Better Call Saul may suit.

DocCarms , (edited ) to bookstodon
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There was a poll that stated—Rowling’s opening line in the HP series is one of best in the world. Someone posted about how there are a bunch of other opening statements that are better.

Here’s one of my personal favorites, from Gabriel Garcia Marquez (in English):
“It is inevitable — the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”

What are some of your favorite opening lines in literature? 😊
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@DocCarms @bookstodon "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way– in short, the period was so far like the present period..."

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