UPenn slammed for celebrating Nobel prize of vaccine researcher it once demoted : science

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Really?
Are we just critiquing news sources and their poor headline or can we actually comment about the subject?

This person succeeded in spite of being told by an Ivy League school that she wasn’t faculty material. Considering the male professor wasn’t discouraged, I’m guessing it’s just simple sexism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Slammed!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

SLAMMED! BOOM!

[+] [email protected] -13 points 2 years ago

SLAMMED

[+] [email protected] -16 points 2 years ago

BOMBSHELL

[+] [email protected] -33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wait so she took to heart the criticism levied against her and improved herself? What's the problem? She wasn't good enough, she worked hard, did better and became good enough.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What you suggested cannot be further from the truth. The paper that got her the Nobel was from 2005 (https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(05)00211-6, see also cited in https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/), and UPenn claimed in 2013 — at least 7 years later — that she would not be “of faculty quality” (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech).

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

The context is literally in the article. The research she is literally winning a NOBEL PRIZE for was not deemed good enough for UPenn, and she was not reinstated to tenure track.

It’s not some “kumbayah I need to work harder” bullshit you see on corporate sales teams. How the fuck does one exactly “work harder” to improve their “personal” mRNA sequencing methods?

[–] TheLobotomist 5 points 2 years ago

No

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