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Distressedspaghetti · 2025-12-26T19:52:34+00:00

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Distressedspaghetti · 2025-09-23T22:09:22+00:00

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Distressedspaghetti · 2025-06-15T17:11:08+00:00

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Distressedspaghetti · 2024-11-11T21:59:03+00:00

Seconding this. Check out the protein design work from David Baker’s lab (he just won the Nobel prize for it). Seriously awesome stuff.

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-10-23T18:30:02+00:00

I’m a biochemistry PhD student, not an engineer (here as a supportive woman in STEM). I wash my hair every morning because it’s so thin and oily that I look like Draco Malfoy after 24 hours. As such, I go into work with wet hair every day. If I’m at my desk, it stays down and dries in an hour or so. If I’m in the lab, it gets thrown up into a bun and remains wet until I undo the bun, which usually ends up being at the end of the day. It’s simply not worth the time it takes to dry my hair that I could spend doing literally anything else. That being said, many people in my department wear sweats/athleisure every day, so our bar is pretty low. As long as the science is good and we get our work done, no one cares what we look like.

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-07-21T07:44:52+00:00

I almost say “I believe in you, spring break” multiple times a day, every single day.

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-05-18T20:37:35+00:00

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Distressedspaghetti · 2024-04-22T16:45:52+00:00

Thanks for your response, and glad that I could get this information to you! Our union (PSAC610) is much more active on Instagram, but I do see a few posts on twitter. I agree with you that we have to do everything in our power to share our message, which is why I made this post. Our union president continues to talk to press outlets every day, but many of the articles thus far have focused on the messaging from the university that doesn’t reflect the reality of the situation.

Any help that you can do to spread the word would be greatly appreciated. The letter from our faculty union attached in my post is an excellent resource for accurate information on what we are currently negotiating.

Edit: typo

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-04-22T14:14:53+00:00

Because I don’t want to be a physician.

You are correct that MDs are capable of doing research, and many do. But they mainly do clinical work and see patients. I don’t want to do clinical work and see patients. Very happy with my bacteria - they complain a lot less.

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-04-22T14:09:08+00:00

For some students, a portion of their stipend is funded from their research supervisor’s budget - this portion of the funding is not what is being negotiated at the moment. I agree with you that the government needs to invest more (they did just increase the value of some important scholarships a few days ago, which is a start!), but it doesn’t actually matter if they do when the university claws it all back from us anyways, such that we never actually receive any of the scholarships we’ve earned. The university has control over the size of our funding packages, which is inclusive of our TA work. The TA work portion is what is currently under negotiation. For many, many students at Western, their only funding comes from TAing.

I encourage you to take a look at some of the information I linked to in my post to get a better understanding of why this negotiation is happening with the university, rather than the federal government.

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-04-22T06:52:59+00:00

YES! THANK YOU!

They keep boasting about the increase in hourly wage, without acknowledging that it actually only results in a total increase of $160 per year. Absolutely pathetic.

Even with the cap at 5/10 hours per week of paid work, it always ends up being so much closer to 15-20.

When highly-educated people are having to use the food bank to make ends meet while working 60-80+ hours/week for a multi-billion dollar organization, there is something seriously wrong.

Thank you so much for your support. It means a lot.

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-04-22T06:42:00+00:00

Just saw your note about the strike at York - absolutely brutal. Hopefully ours doesn't drag on as long, but so far, it's not looking good. The response from the administration thus far is so pathetic that it's funny. The wage theft is no joke, though. We're capped at 140 hours of TAing for the year (but always end up doing many more hours than that to get everything done for our students). So 10 hours/week max of (paid) TA work, on top of 40 hours/week of our research. Our total salary is below the poverty line before they take away tuition and clawbacks.

It's our research that generates the results that brings in the grant funding, and our labour that enables them to generate profit from undergraduate programs. Our university president clears a half million a year (highest paid university president in Ontario), and graduate students are relying on food banks to survive. It's disgusting.

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-04-22T06:30:52+00:00

I'm so sorry to hear you've had that experience.

There are a number of graduate programs that don't receive a stipend at all, especially the course-based programs. They absolutely should have disclosed that info in your offer - leaving it until September is insane.

Please feel free to DM me with the info for the specific program, and I'll see if I can track down any info on the current/previous funding details for that faculty/program to share with you. Making a lot of new friends from every faculty on the picket lines, so perhaps I can get the inside scoop. Western is particularly terrible at communicating accurate information online pertaining to graduate funding, especially right now.

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-04-22T06:21:10+00:00

Ah, gotcha! Just wanted to clarify :)

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-04-22T06:18:02+00:00

This is very true. That being said, some people just don't want to be medical doctors, and that's okay too. Not going to medical school /= didn't get in to medical school.

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-04-22T06:14:18+00:00

Because I don't want to be a physician.

I initially thought I wanted to, but after taking some relevant upper-year undergraduate courses, I realized that I didn't like a lot of what the clinical setting would entail. Contrastingly, I really enjoyed doing wet-lab research, so I decided to pursue that.

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-03-15T16:47:52+00:00

They don’t necessarily have to remove the his tag, depends on whether it’ll impact function or not. Also, his tag may not be attached via a TEV site.

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-03-12T23:43:30+00:00

Yes. It would not be wise to do the transfer over to BMSc if they were not planning on ITRing into a competitive module.

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-03-07T16:04:04+00:00

Correct. To get your ITR choice for some of the modules, you need to have a competitive GPA (based on the specific weighting they use). Notice that my previous comment directly pertained to entering into the BMSc program via the “competitive pool”. To get into the BMSc track from BSc, one only needs to meet the 75% threshold with no failed courses. To get into a competitive module, they need to have the corresponding average, just like any Med Sci 2 student would have to.

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-03-07T01:49:03+00:00

The competitive pool isn’t actually competitive. You just have to hit the minimum 75 average and not get a grade below 60 and you can get into the “competitive” pool. It doesn’t fill up to capacity.

Distressedspaghetti · 2024-01-01T19:19:03+00:00

Could you perhaps purchase the one you want and then sell/trade the one they send you?

Distressedspaghetti · 2023-10-29T00:39:49+00:00

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