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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: MillCreek on July 14, 2016, 09:00:26 AM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/upshot/so-many-research-scientists-so-few-openings-as-professors.html?hpw&rref=upshot&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0
Not find a tenure-track research professor position, it seems.
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Sounds like nothing new really.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/upshot/so-many-research-scientists-so-few-openings-as-professors.html?hpw&rref=upshot&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0
Not find a tenure-track research professor position, it seems.
And yet we are still importing scientists from India on H1-B visas. People with impeccable academic credentials who couldn't research their way out of a wet paper bag. (I see it with engineers and programmers; I'm extrapolating to scientists)
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McD's is hiring.
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McD's is hiring.
The one on Dorsett? Where Charlene works? :D
I think this is the one: https://www.facebook.com/McDonalds-at-12680-Dorsett-Rd-116223031738388/
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Maybe they should try the private sector.
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And yet we are still importing scientists from India on H1-B visas. People with impeccable academic credentials who couldn't research their way out of a wet paper bag. (I see it with engineers and programmers; I'm extrapolating to scientists)
That's a fair extrapolation - my employer had a number of H1B visa scientists (mostly physics and chemistry) who are a waste of oxygen. Not all, mind you; some are pretty sharp. But others left a lot to be desired. They mostly came from India and China, with the ones from India frequently displaying a certain arrogance and self-importance which was not merited by their competence or achievements.
As for the article about the wonderful stuff being done in academia . . . sure, SOME great discoveries come out of research done in our institutions of higher learning. But an awful lot of the research ranges from useless to downright silly. There really IS a lot of truth to the old saying "Those who can, DO; those who can't, TEACH."
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Except they often teach very little. Their primary job is bringing in research dollars and publishing.
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Except they often teach very little. Their primary job is bringing in research dollars and publishing.
True dat. I remember working under my principal investigator, and his job and salary were dependent upon how many grant dollars he brought in and how many papers his team published. I think he may have taught an occasional class, but not much.
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Welcome to McDonald's. Would you care for Solanum tuberosum that have been immersed in energy-enhanced, consumable, organic long-chain hydrocarbons until their albedo has been altered by the Maillard reaction?
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As usual, the bigbangtheorypedia has an entry:
https://youtu.be/w21cmT-T9H8
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Welcome to McDonald's. Would you care for Solanum tuberosum that have been immersed in energy-enhanced, consumable, organic long-chain hydrocarbons until their albedo has been altered by the Maillard reaction?
Don't forget the granulated sodium chloride.
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Don't forget the granulated sodium chloride.
Nope. Health Sciences PhD. Doesn't do salt. :rofl:
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As usual, the bigbangtheorypedia has an entry:
https://youtu.be/w21cmT-T9H8
In French? ;/
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In French? ;/
My machine brings it up in English audio with French subtitles.
What's up? Some kind of regional codex mixup?
Or is that a joke which I'm not getting (as usual)?
Terry
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You don't want to know, Terry. Shudder.
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Maybe Terry is a secret Canuckian....