So I thought Friday night is a good time to tell everyone that Ive made my peace with academia.
After 2 + 6 + 7 years in academic neuroscience - Ive finally 'leaked' out of the pipeline. My story is not very different from all the women who have left and are leaving.
After 2 + 6 + 7 years in academic neuroscience - Ive finally 'leaked' out of the pipeline. My story is not very different from all the women who have left and are leaving.
Along with making it that much more difficult for so many women scientists, the pandemic has thrown light on an aging, crumbling and an especially unequal system that has been unfair to a lot of its minorities.
Despite this, it was inordinately difficult for me to pull the plug and start looking for other opportunities - sunken cost fallacy, fear of a 'real job', apprehension that I was too old or my skills too niche to solve real world problems.
And yet I did it - with the hope that I can vicariously live through so many women scientist friends who are still forging ahead bravely in academia. I did it with the confidence that I can still make a difference in science, scicomm and EDI with @IndSciComm and @biaswatchindia
Here are some links and threads from the recent past that touch upon so many topics that Ive discussed with friends and mentors. They say a lot of things with much more clarity than I can aspire to.
insidehighered.com/news/2012/02/1…
insidehighered.com/news/2012/02/1…
This one hit so close I winced as I read the tweet -
https://twitter.com/FromPhDtoLife/status/1397566004331433986
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