'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Katalin Karikó
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#2> “I do hope that it causes Penn and a bunch of other institutions that fund science this way to reflect a little bit on what the chances are that some scientists who do not get funding, and wind up leaving, end up being like Katalin Karikó,” Scales said.
A brilliant woman scientist researching an uncool topic hits the trifecta of resistance to her work. It's wonderful to see her persistence vindicated but it sounds like time for a revolution in how university research is managed. The closing quote of the article is very disappointing.
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#3This article makes me wonder how many groundbreaking discoveries are buried under academia's bureaucracy and ego battles.
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#4So what are the repercussions for the admins who misjudged or mistreated her? If there aren't sufficient changes then maybe groups should move their funding out of Penn.
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#5UPenn is in the news again. Something tells me the fish stinks from the head.
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#6If there wasn’t COVID pandemic, and mRNA vaccines did not become widely used for another decade, ms Kariko would never get the deserved recognition.
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#7Just a reminder Einstien who was the most revolutionary scientist since Newton was unable to secure a teaching position prior to publishing 3 nobel prize worthy papers in 1 year. Why do we think academia has suddenly magically changed?
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#8Well...yes. Treating the actual high-value workers like sh*t has been American Academia's SOP for how many years now?
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#9This article makes me wonder how many groundbreaking discoveries are buried under academia's bureaucracy and ego battles.
Sadly it's not just academia either. I've seen brilliant innovative engineers get buried because they don't spend the requisite 75% of their time managing the bureaucracy of large orgs.
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#10If there wasn’t COVID pandemic, and mRNA vaccines did not become widely used for another decade, ms Kariko would never get the deserved recognition.
Ms?