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Tired Ass Profs

@tired-profs.bsky.social

A collective of ~40 disgruntled assistant and newly associate professors in a trench coat. Fed up with bullshit and willing to say what everyone is thinking.

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Tired Ass Profs @tired-profs.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

it's really hard to 'focus on the science' when all i want to do is scream

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Gloria Miele, PhD @gloriamiele.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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a young boy is laughing with his mouth open in a striped shirt .

ALT: a young boy is laughing with his mouth open in a striped shirt .

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Tired Ass Profs @tired-profs.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This didn’t age well. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” (Desmund Tutu)

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Tired Ass Profs @tired-profs.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

One important thing indirect costs pay for is biosafety compliance and regulation. You know, the thing that stops lab leaks.

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Tired Ass Profs @tired-profs.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

How we imagine institutional leadership after they respond to the hellscape that is biomedical research with "Pauses like this are a routine part of the transition of administrations"

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Tired Ass Profs @tired-profs.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Evergiven boat stuck in the Suez canal labelled "NIH and NSF program meetings and funding evaporating" and a tiny construction digger labelled "University wellness seminar"

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Jade Rose @bluefolf.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Rachel N. Arey @rnareylab.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I had to talk to two of my trainees about opportunities we were applying for whose websites (and likely existence) simply disappeared suddenly. Pretty sure this was not covered in workshops on types of difficult conversations you might have with your lab members.

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Tired Ass Profs @tired-profs.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

When is the professional development seminar for “How to help trainees deal with evaporating fellowships and funding opportunities”?

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Tired Ass Profs @tired-profs.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Oh great… the same new PIs who were hit by a global pandemic just as they started are now trying to renew their grants and get tenure when the funding agencies are actively being destroyed. But sure.... that COVID tenure clock extension reeaaallly made a difference....

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