I’m almost the same story. Now I have great pay, fully remote, and a position where I’m respected, without competing egos, and folks want what I have to offer.

Kinda a tangent, but my department was always having guest speakers come from “alternative careers” but none were better paying or higher status than a professorship. Usually park rangers or low paying consulting things. Maybe I just had bad luck, but it really pushed the narrative that there were no opportunities out there. I’d love to give that talk to a department of PhD students, to give them my perspective if what’s important from the outside looking in.

Frogs like it warm, chitrid doesn’t.

I bet you navy exercises had something to do with it.

In the US, most professors are part time adjunct and get no health benefits. Probably make 30-50k.

Tenured faculty at major universities make 70-90k.

Considering these jobs requires at least 9 years of uni (in the US), the lifetime income of professors is still very low.

RE TAs: I US stem fields TAs work 20h and make 15-30k. That usually includes free tuition, but not in all states (e.g. in Texas, you sometimes pay tuition out of your TA pay, which is crazy)

Where do you live? I don’t believe you.

“tax cheats who bribe us!” FTFY

College professors. Most are part time adjunct, most make garbage pay, work their asses off, while university executives make bank.

Maybe look up “compatibilism”. It’s a philosophy proposing that both exist.

True

To correct someone from saying “so” too much:

“Sew buttons on ice cream”

“Hey” too much:

“Hay is for horses”

“Well” too much:

“Well, well, well - that’s three holes in the ground”

Micromanage much?!?!

It’s an online survey of cat owners, seems funded by that company that sells air fresheners for cats.

They found no connection to scratching and their product, but did find that cats in houses with kids scratch more.

So sell your kids and enjoy that scratch-free sofa.

What’s your solution?

Then my point still stands?

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, researchers used a large, binational cohort (total n = 4,731,778) to investigate the short- and long-term associations between SARS-CoV-2 infections and subsequent adverse neuropsychiatric outcomes. They used exposure-driven propensity score matching to compare their samples’ outcomes against the general population and individuals with a non-SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infection.

Study findings revealed that COVID-19 survivors were at significantly heightened risk of developing cognitive deficits, insomnia, encephalitis, and at least four other neuropsychiatric sequelae. Specific conditions included Guillain-Barré syndrome (aHR, 4.63), cognitive deficit (aHR, 2.67), insomnia (aHR, 2.40), anxiety disorder (aHR, 2.23), encephalitis (aHR, 2.15), ischaemic stroke (aHR, 2.00), mood disorder (aHR, 1.93), and nerve/nerve root/plexus disorder (aHR, 1.47). Encouragingly, vaccination was observed to attenuate the neuropsychiatric effects of the infection

Probabilities and basic stats. People do not think in “what are the chances” but in black and white. I think one reason is we don’t teach probabilities in American schools. It drastically impacts a citizens ability to understand the news, and especially science.

Thinking about this more, I just don’t think it’s true. I can’t find a spot on Google maps where tractor supply is the only store for miles. In America, you can drive to many shitty corporations to buy stuff, no matter where in America you are.

Is that your situation? I live pretty rural, but there’s a Walmart, Lowe’s, or home depot pretty much the same distance as tractor supply, and that’s probably the situation for most of the US. I also buy online. Mom and pop feed stores are all over the place.

For me, it’s real easy to go somewhere else.

It’s so easy to shop somewhere else, might as well.

Could be that the paperwork for putting together a job ad is a pain, so they just reuse an old one. So maybe the title or position details change.

A blog post from Pornhub said that its latest locations for shutdowns are Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky and Nebraska. The site said it would end operations in those states in July 2024. The website closed in Texas last week, and has also blocked access to its site in Arkansas, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, and Virginia in response to similar state legislation.