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[–] 33 points 11 months ago (3 children)

There's a overworked scientist at the bottom somewhere

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago

    Nah, lead scientist spent like 5 hours total helping the grad student on the paper's research. They probably spent more time getting the funding to begin with.

    I love papers like this tho, one was my first citation, no-one else wanted to present it.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Twice I got my face plastered on the flyers of a conference because none of the other speakers looked Mexican enough. I still don't know if I should have been offended.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Stuff like this is pretty context dependent, and vibes based. Did it feel like this happened because people recognised that you belonged to a marginalised group, and were earnestly making an attempt to subvert systemic oppression you may face as a researcher by raising you up? Or did it feel like you were being instrumentalised, boiled down to a 2D representation of who you are in order to further the aims of that conference and/or research group?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Can confirm. My first poster was still the majority my analysis (and pre-existing data from the lab), but to get it accepted we needed the internal knowledge of how a proposal gets written and for that a graduate was needed.

    Funny enough I got into grad school before I even presented the poster, so I was able to just do the rest of the work once I had a little bit of know how, plus a tiny stipend from my new dept!

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