TIR talks to immunologist Bruno Lemaitre, a key figure in Toll research, about science, academics, narcissism and narcissists. He is an observer and commentator on the dark side of success in scientific research.
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In January 2023, I resigned from my position at the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology at the University of Würzburg. Here are some of the things that I think I should have done differently when I moved there in 2015 to start my junior research group.
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A Nobel laureate’s insistence that he feels discriminated against as a white man illustrates how far STEM fields still have to go when it comes to gender equality.
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Being unemployed is making me realise how many unpaid hours I was committing to academia.
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We need to reduce the emphasis on first-author papers in academic career progression.
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If I’d known quitting felt this good, I would have sent in my resignation letter a lot earlier.
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You always feel better after throwing up, and that’s kind of where the world is right now.
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Might abandoning the vocational aspect of academia in favour of a 9-to-5 commitment be better for all of us? And is it happening already?
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