A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
It doesn’t matter the industry you’re in the Schmooze class will be there to make sure you have to bow to them.
It’s always hilarious how excited project managers are about sending their socially awkward developers to conferences like Pokémon off to battle
Sorry, unless you start your own sovereign country, you have to participate in society. Not everyone likes promoting themselves, disagreeing diplomatically, etc. Still, we play the game, even though I wish we didn't all have to...
Read some Foucault for an explanation, that's just being human. You don't stop being human just because you follow scientific ideals. All human endeavors will follow human dynamics.
That just what being a member of society is, lots of overhead.
Autistic people often face these challenges even outside of science.
Yeah, while I can relate to her plight, its pretty much the same situation when you do research in the industry and you want to get ahead in your career. Some things are different, but politics are still politics.