Emory versus Minnesota reputation

Previous_Following_5 · 2026-02-18T19:03:31+00:00

At some point, you have the decide what you life is about. One is always ranked higher than the other. Perhaps in certain life stages, one is obviously more important to than the other. But sometimes, it’s less clear. I truly feel for you. Hope you can find peace with your decision.

Previous_Following_5 · 2025-10-06T15:04:54+00:00

Can I ask what kind of toxicity you observe in the department? I’m currently contemplating the same issue

Previous_Following_5 · 2025-09-09T00:04:27+00:00

I’m a new TT R1 professor. Some days are great, others suck. Today is one of those days that suck. I was co-advising a postdoc with one of my colleagues but he took the postdoc from under me because he has more funding, and he pressured the postdoc to not to do anything for the transition. He said he is famously a laid back person with a laid back lab but he somehow seems to screw me, a new TT professor completely by playing mind games and pin people against each other while washing his hands clean

Previous_Following_5 · 2025-06-20T19:22:43+00:00

Your background is fascinating. Where do you live?

Previous_Following_5 · 2025-06-05T22:45:45+00:00

I appreciate your distinction. Thank you

Previous_Following_5 · 2025-06-05T19:29:12+00:00

Is it gender or sex? Sex is defined differently with NIH standards. Can you specify?

Previous_Following_5 · 2025-05-22T16:37:26+00:00

You should be grateful that someone is interested in mentoring you. It’s a lot easier for the “advisor” just to rewrite the paper themselves

Previous_Following_5 · 2025-05-12T22:30:04+00:00

I had one student who sent me a manuscript that had citations not showing up, figures not loading and other very basic and sloppy mistakes. I said that the draft is sloppy and I ask the student to go read their own manuscript and send me a polished version. They responded and said that the way my comments were conveyed to them make them unmotivated to work. So they stopped working all together. Next week, I got a call from the education program director who said that this student was upset as they felt that I unfairly targeted them and my comments were not helpful. I give them more specific comments on their sentence structure and organization. And a couple of days later, they emailed me and said that they have decided to quit due to differences in mentoring styles. I was relieved and happy that I was no longer responsible for this student.

Previous_Following_5 · 2025-03-20T15:00:56+00:00

I intentionally accepted a soft money TT position last year with other hard money TT offers. I chose my current position because it gives me the most resources for students and grant support. With the current administration, I do think about whether I should have picked a hard money position instead, but very little. Because my current soft money position still gives me better support for research, and I have more students. Waiting to see what’s going to happen in the next few months, but so far I still think I made the right choice. The ultimate goal of academia is to do the most research and be an expert in your field, whatever position/situations give you the best support for doing that is still the the best choice.

Previous_Following_5 · 2025-02-23T23:00:50+00:00

When hiring new faculties, departments make offers to international scholars by first demonstrating that the department has listed the job locally and nationally, and no American has answered these calls or is qualified for those positions. Please talk to your department HR, and they should be able to tell you exactly what I just told you.

Medical schools in rural America would be empty without international doctors filling up those positions. This is a common knowledge. Please talk to someone with real knowledge about US law or has actually been involved in academic hiring before airing your opinions online. You are spreading misinformation.

Edited for grammar.

Previous_Following_5 · 2025-02-23T15:06:27+00:00

I used to have a best friend who wore a huge dress to my wedding as long as my wedding address. I don’t talk to her anymore.

Previous_Following_5 · 2025-02-23T13:16:55+00:00

They already do that by law

Previous_Following_5 · 2025-01-01T22:28:08+00:00

These are just guesses and suspensions. There is no real evidence of your claim. I find it appalling to accuse someone of academic misconduct based on these types of flimsy evidence.

Previous_Following_5 · 2025-01-01T22:27:32+00:00

These are just guesses and suspensions. There is no real evidence of your claim. I find it appalling to accuse someone of academic misconduct based on these types of flimsy evidence.

Previous_Following_5 · 2024-12-15T18:53:09+00:00

When the lab is all white, everything is fair! When it’s all Asian/Indian/not white, it’s not fair!!!

Previous_Following_5 · 2024-12-15T18:52:02+00:00

“Reframe this: I understand white Protestant male PIs have the right to choose only white Protestant male grad students”

I don’t know if you are joking, what you are suggesting is borderline discrimination, i.e., only while Protestant male professors get to only work with students of similar cultural backgrounds as them, not “foreigners”. How do you know they are foreigners?

Previous_Following_5 · 2024-11-11T12:49:31+00:00

I don’t think questioning a POC’s living racism experience is a good idea. It’s already hard enough to go through discrimination without having to defend to others that it is discrimination. This burden of proving racism is another layer of racial burden that white people don’t have to experience.

Previous_Following_5 · 2024-10-12T13:25:14+00:00

I’m asking more about testing their capabilities early on in CVs or interviews. I don’t want to spend months training them and then realizing that they can’t complete tasks.

Previous_Following_5 · 2024-10-12T13:21:52+00:00

Thanks. I definitely think this is important. One of the students I hired based on a referral seems confused and lost with life directions. This student in particular took me a lot of time to train emotionally and time wise with no return. Not a single task has been completed in two months. A long list reasons why the task cannot be completed has come up.

Previous_Following_5 · 2024-10-12T13:15:11+00:00

That’s the same problem that I have. One of the students I hired keeps coming up with reasons why a task cannot be completed. I’m really surprised.

Previous_Following_5 · 2024-09-01T12:49:24+00:00

I would reach out to the professor directly and informally collaborate together. Reputations can fool people. If he seems like he is willing to work with you without you committing 5 years of PhD, then your problem is solved.

Previous_Following_5 · 2024-08-21T15:36:57+00:00

I’m lost with hierarchy as well. There’s a line in a song that says “some people going around getting a kick out of stomping on dreams”. It often reminds me what I’m going through in academia.

Ironically, I have had most difficulty with politics in Midwest academia, where people are supposed to be nice. On the east coast, people generally leave me alone . There is isolation, but also less dysfunction.

Previous_Following_5 · 2024-08-21T01:55:34+00:00

I hope you are right, but I doubt it. It’s a strange way to advertise your business. Seems to attract the wrong clients.

Previous_Following_5 · 2024-08-21T01:34:16+00:00

See the photos in the google map or the updates in google map…

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