AD and Ecolog:
". . . genuine intellectual inquiry is always subversive. It challenges
cultural and political assumptions. It critiques structures. It is
relentlessly self-critical. It explodes the self-indulgent myths and
stereotypes we use to elevate ourselves and ignore our complicity in acts of
violence and oppression. And it makes the powerful, as well as their liberal
apologists, deeply uncomfortable." --Chris Hedges on Chomsky IN "The World
As It Is."
WT
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From: "Aaron T. Dossey" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] minor comment but
Actually I strongly reject that assumption. In fact, I found my
experiences in academia (for myself and my fellow
students/postdocs/postechs/postemps) quite DE-motivating, and often by
design. By design I mean, faculty tend not to want their students and
posdocs truly developing their own careers in academic research because
that represents competition.
Most faculty I have been familiar with seek to "capitalize on" graduate
students - receive cheap labor, research ideas, intellectual property and
relief from as many of their own job responsibilities as possible via
students and postdocs.
That's been my experience.
For language, here are some terms I would reject for student/postdoc job
ads: opportunity, mentor/mentorship/mentoring, independent (independence
only happens when work is going on, but not when the reward comes in, in
my experience)... and also listing postdoc positions in the same
category/ad sections as faculty on institutional job boards, academic
society job listings, etc. is also misleading, as is conveniently leaving
out the term "postdoc" from job titles (some government agencies,
institutions, etc. do this).
That is my part of view on semantics in this realm.
On 8/26/2012 4:36 PM, Pedro Barbosa wrote:
I think I've now seen about the 50th message in which the 'sender'
is "seeking motivated graduate student(s)"
Can we simply assume that most academics seek motivated graduate
student(s). I don't think I've ever met a colleague that was interested
in recruiting an unmotivated student. Minor point but can we just let the
obvious, be obvious, but unstated.
Pedro Barbosa
Department of Entomology
Plant Sciences Building
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland, 20742
(301) 405-3946
Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable (Finley Peter Dunne)
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity
(Dorothy Parker, attributed)
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Aaron T. Dossey, Ph.D.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Founder/Owner: All Things Bugs
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