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Life Science PhD Aventures
Personal blog · lifesciencephdadventures.wordpress.comsciencecareer
Life Science PhD Aventures is a personal blog at lifesciencephdadventures.wordpress.com about science and career. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on academic life, including tenure advice and a darkly humorous 'demotivational letter' about grad-student and junior-professor pressure. Comments cite it as support rather than praising it directly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Experiences of a newly minted PhD
What Hacker News says?
> "*Still, a sad comment on what academia has become." You are incorrectly treating academia as some kind of monolithic hivemind. As I understand it, there's two broad categories of postsecondary institutions: research and teaching. (See, for example, the discussion here: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49911/how-to-de... ) The prestigious universities are research institutions and all incentives are al…
Comment linking /2013/01/04/a-demotivational-letter/
on “HOWTO: Get tenure (2015)”Submitted Less guns = more violence: Harvard Study as a story · 44 points
HN discussionIt's not just the pay; the pressure as a graduate student and not-yet-tenured professor is immense. The darkly humorous "A (de)motivational letter", purportedly by one "Prof. Hardass Slavedriver", sums it up: https://lifesciencephdadventures.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/a-...
Comment linking /2013/01/04/a-demotivational-letter/
on “Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (2007)”Submitted Climate Change and Scientific Integrity as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted A failure of authorship and peer review as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elon Musk on innovating as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The problem with armchair science as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Academic data fabrication - Update as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Antarctica Palmer research station - CLOSED as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rising seas .. due to fish farms? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GM rice out-competes wild rice without Roundup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alzheimer disease new early diagnostic as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GMO Golden Rice field trial razed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Malaria vaccine - successful 100% protection as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scientists with social conscience as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A (de)motivational letter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Climate research and public trust: HT Hacker News as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The economics of graduate studies as a story · 1 points
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