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  • mayo_cider [he/him]@hexbear.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyzOh, the humanity!
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    3 months ago

    I unfortunately don’t have any sources, but a few years ago I read or watched a video about an interview with a paleontologist who was asked about their opinion of the first sign of civilization

    Their answer was “a fossil of a skeleton with a broken and healed leg”

    Every other animal dies with a broken leg in nature, the only way to survive is with the support of others













  • mayo_cider [he/him]@hexbear.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyzElsevier
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    5 months ago

    One lecturer actually had notes on their slides for the differences between the latest version of the course book and the one before it, since the latest one wasn’t available for free anywhere but they wanted to use couple chapters from the new book (they scanned and distributed the relevant parts themself)


  • mayo_cider [he/him]@hexbear.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyzElsevier
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    5 months ago

    I feel like most of the academia in the research side would be happy to see it collapse, but the current system is too deeply tied in the money for any quick change

    I worked in academia for almost a decade and never met a researcher who wouldn’t openly support sci-hub (well, some warned their students that it was illegal to type these spesific search terms and click on the wrong link downloading the pdf for free)




  • I love Indian culture and food, back in university I lived, studied and worked with quite a few Indian people and they all were kind, smart and very hospitable

    I feel like quite large part of animosity towards Indian people (besides the usual racism) stems from the outsourcing of jobs there, especially with customer service, and even then going for the lowest offer

    I’ve personally had both good and bad experiences with Indian customer service, but even with the bad experiences it’s obvious that the problem is a lack of resources and not the worker

    Unfortunately people are quick to blame the service worker instead of the organization, and this gives an acceptable excuse for their internalized racism

    You said to not base the response on the people we know, but anything that I see from the news or read online doesn’t reflect the people, it reflects the system

    The only way to form an honest opinion of a group of people is to meet them, and even if all of those people somehow are the exception to the norm, they still represent and reflect their culture and where they come from