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@JaminSpeer I agree it takes intentional changes After two years as a PhD student, a very famous researcher® came to my dept to give a lecture to grad students She gave a general impression of fishing for new ideas, and we were all reluctant to speak about our research to herPermalink
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@JaminSpeer Some professors also attended the lectures We told them about our doubts One of them decided to speak to her. At some point she referenced a paper he clearly didn’t know about, but he responded as if he had read it. Some of us were baffled but that. But…
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@JaminSpeer Once the lecture ended, that professor told us basically "I didn’t know this paper, but when you speak with someone with such a long resume, you have to pretend you know stuff" 😑Permalink
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@JaminSpeer It was *not* an inspirational moment, it was also really bad because it told us, PhD students at a second tier grad school, that our value as researchers will never increase regardless of what we do or publish And what about being natural for once?Permalink
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@JaminSpeer Not knowing a paper, even more on a field you’re *not* working on, is OK We only have 24h days, all of usPermalink
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@JaminSpeer I have been raised in a family where we were told that status doesn’t matter. People do, regardless of their race, age, social class and whatnot. This experience reignited those lessons really fast, and since then I took great care to absolutely avoid reading resumes…Permalink
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