There will be students for whom something always comes up. Their research will get disrupted due to constant family and/or personal crises.
If you are a PI and you get exasperated with your student when chronic disruptions happens, you don't truly value diversity and inclusion.
If you are a PI and you get exasperated with your student when chronic disruptions happens, you don't truly value diversity and inclusion.
The very same life backgrounds and experiences that are involved in diversifying the academy and widening the pipeline are the same backgrounds heavily associated w/ chronic disruptions. To not be accommodating to those needs is anti-inclusion, anti-diversity, and anti-belonging.
And in most cases, the science can wait. People can actually afford to give a student an extra week, month, semester, and/or year to focus on balancing the extra burdens their identities places upon them. Folks don't even need to help. Just acknowledge/accept these burdens exist.
To see students worry about their PI mocking them, abandoning them, and/or scorning them in the time of need because these students "always have an issue" is infuriating. Disappointing and infuriating.
End rant.
End rant.
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