Katalin Karikó, who won the Nobel Prize, was threatened with deportation as an international grad student by a toxic advisor once.
Professors, please don’t be jerks to international students. This happens too often & students shouldn’t have to win Nobel Prize for it become newsworthy.
#academicsky
Professors, please don’t be jerks to international students. This happens too often & students shouldn’t have to win Nobel Prize for it become newsworthy.
#academicsky
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This sounds exactly like my PhD advisor. Vindictive. Thank God I could master out of my PhD without getting deported.
How many talented scientists have we lost to harassment and abuse?
https://bsky.app/profile/alt-text.bsky.social/post/3kav5soedcy2m
(I went. Because fuck that).
Moved to industry 22 years ago, never had any regrets.
Unfortunately, so many pieces of her story are so familiar.
(Academia really sucks sometimes)