I regret to inform you that the humanities people spent the weekend doing phd work and compensation discourse again.
At least they started it themselves this time!
David’s @DMSabatini discoveries made some of the most important contributions to cancer & aging research; they were Nobel Prize-worthy.
This despicable woman not only ruined his life but also slowed research that will impact millions of lives. Yet she continues with impunity.
every data center not built is another delay in achieving ASI, and every day ASI is delayed means more people dying of diseases it could have cured
millions of lives lost
if you oppose building data centers you're a genocidal maniac
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The year is 2035. Every BART employee is paid as much as the CEO of PG&E. Somehow, against all odds, BART needs to ask the Bay Area voters for yet another sales tax increase to stay afloat.
Lmao that thread has everything: lack of self-awareness, attacking a dead, more ethical scientist because of "profanity", thinly veiled resentment by they don't realize there was a moratorium (mostly) on hiring out of their postdoc lab, and...
It's always hilarious reading the LinkedIn-style posts on here trying to hype up someone attempting to be on the job market.
"One of the most creative scientists I know" and their body of work is a bog-standard single cell RNA-seq paper. Let's not kid ourselves here.
In addition to all his other problematic personality traits (data manipulation/fraud, constant sexual harassment, an inability to ever not say the wrong thing, etc.), he's also either a liar or too dumb to understand things apparently!
I thought I knew every horrible thing about this story, but it was not until I read @neerajadeshp's interview with Sabatini that I realized how total his unpersoning was
If the HHS was going around secretly threatening vendors with debarment if they took non-Fed money from David for goods (him being debarred from having NIH grants would not prevent him from spending non-Fed money), that would be a slam-dunk court case and Beccera would have...
...been careless enough to leave a paper trail.
But, of course, conveniently, there's only David's word on this, just basically like every other aggrandizing, beneficial statement about him (or originates from an "anonymous" source). Wow!
Hey, fun fact: if you invoke a Latin quote in response to being called out for defending abhorrent behavior, you're 85% of the way to being nearly as bad. Wow!