I had a lovely grad school cohort and great friends in my program, and an incredibly supportive dissertation adviser, and there was still a point near the end of my PhD when I was having random crying jags and feeling worthless all the time. It doesn't seem like much has changed in 20 years.
New data on PhD student mental health: "By the 5th year of studies, the likelihood that PhD candidates needed mental-health medications had increased by 40%, compared with the year before study" This is why, when giving advice to students, I always mention self care www.nature.com/articles/d41...
PhD students in Sweden accessed mental-health services at increasing rates as their studies went on.
In my case, all that plus book bans and other attacks on my profession, the current state of [gestures at everything in higher education], anti-LGBQIA+ legislation across the country, an ongoing pandemic, and on and on and on.
I used to see them when I lived in Connecticut, and we've even got them in Central Park in NYC!
Does… does JD Vance know what the Vice President’s actual job is? Like, for Kamala Harris to do all the things Vance is saying she should have done, she would have needed a Democratic supermajority in Congress and also to have murdered Joe Biden?
I hope this horrible smirky fascist and his horrible orange running mate lose so badly they can never show their faces in public again without getting jeered at and pelted with garbage. Seriously, fuck that guy.
Please read this short thread about the effects of pretending Covid isn’t real.
I don't stan politicians period, celebrity culture is poison and pedestals only exist to be razed, but when he called the giant kitty a handsome devil he almost got me
I don't want to put too fine a point on this but this was how Jim Crow was upheld. If you were a white person who thought it was a dumb system and did things that let others know that you might find a bomb in your house or in your car.
Remember how cancel culture was a national crisis because online mobbing with harsh words was a dire threat to free speech? Anyway, this man in Ohio, plus his family, are getting mobbed with death threats because he said that people Trump and Vance are viciously lying about are good workers
latest victim of the two minute hate www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/u...
The lifelong Republican employs fewer Haitians than others in Springfield, but his life has been upended since Donald J. Trump spread falsehoods about immigrants in his hometown.