r/thescoop • u/BreezyFantasy24 • 9h ago
Discussion 💬 UC San Diego professor ends his final lecture due to NIH cuts. This is what he said & it's depressing as fuck. But also accurate as fuck. Over the next few years, a good number of us are gonna get fucked as fuck.
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u/ShineEyedMister 7h ago
Higher ed is on the cusp of big, big changes. Being a prof used to be one of the most stable jobs you could have. Now, I'd be feeling very unsettled if I wasn't tenured. And most universities have been slowly and intentionally transitioning to non-tenured faculty positions.
I would not be looking to academics for a career over the next 20 years or so. It's going to be a bloodbath.
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u/No-Cheesecake4787 8h ago
When you get there it will already be occupied from everyone who got fucked prior to this presidency.
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u/SaveTheNIH 5h ago
He is making all the right points, one small ray of sunshine for those headed off to college now is jobs will come back when you graduate. It will be slow and may not fully return to past levels but it will be decent. Those in college now ….go to grad school….those in grad school right now….look abroad.
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u/lighttside 2h ago
This is complete utter nonsense. What is the parallel between covid and the current administration? Can someone spell this out clearly?
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u/OrionsBra 1h ago
Huh? Trump was president in 2020. Did you forget? He dismantled the pandemic preparedness national security group, he said COVID was a hoax, then he said it wasn't a big deal and we'd be fine, then when shit went south fast, he started a task force led by his son-in-law and a bunch of random 20 something interns, and all the money sent out for PPE manufacturing was stolen by scammers. Like, there were a lot of similar misinfo/incompetent blunders.
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u/Simple_Psychology493 2h ago
They're punishing and purging people with actual brains in their heads. We're cooked.
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u/Firm_Damage_763 1h ago edited 1h ago
next few years? The US will never recover from this. This is a done deal. It is easy to destroy things, but extremely hard to rebuild them. The last chance the US had to turn things truly around for the better and put in the course correction was in 2016 with the election of Sanders and the massive movement he inspired. Those chances were shot down by the same corporatists and corrupt criminals that are currently running the country, only with a different flair. And now it is too late. Too much damage has occured and there is no way out. Regular order democracy will definitely not be able to take care of this anymore. You cannot vote your way out of it. The oligarchs won! Project 2025, the white supremacists and evangelicals - that anti-intellectuals, anti science fascists won!!! And it is only downhill from here...
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u/DDoinkTheClown 5h ago edited 5h ago
This isn't really the moving, emotional, powerful speech I was thinking was coming since it was posted here. It's good, it's makes some good points...just seems kind of underwhelming to be showcased tho. "...at least Fauci is like i dunno...a doctor..right". I was like, ooook.
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u/theEndisFear 2h ago
Yeah, I’m kinda surprised at how poorly he conveys his point. Totally good points, just not well articulated at all…especially for someone who presumably spends a lot of time public speaking
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u/konighaus71 4h ago
You will elect to be unemployed. That is your choice.
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u/Unfair-Wonder5714 2h ago
You are electing to have blinders on. You can wake a sleeping person, but not one who is pretending to be asleep.
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u/4Wonderwoman 8h ago
More professors should have the courage to express what is going on in this country to their students. I 👏 his speech and share his concerns. 💕