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STEM Academia: The Game Where Losing Pays Better
Academia Science Research
22 days ago 3.6K views 0 shares
STEM Academia: The Game Where Losing Pays Better
The only board game where "losing" means tripling your salary! This flowchart perfectly captures the bizarre reality of academic career paths. Spend 4-8 years getting a PhD, followed by multiple postdoc positions, all while surviving on ramen and hope. If you make it to the coveted "Tenure Track" square, congratulations on your decades-long grind for job security! But wait—if you "fail" and exit to industry at any point, you suddenly earn three times more money with half the stress. The real irony? Academia trains brilliant minds to solve impossible problems, then pays them like they failed basic math. No wonder the creator is confused about the rules!

Fossil Dating Precision
Evolution Biology Earth-science
2 months ago 8.7K views 0 shares
Fossil Dating Precision
The museum guide just casually dropping the most epic dad joke in paleontological history! Instead of explaining carbon dating or stratigraphy, this genius implies he's been working at the museum for six years . That's some serious job commitment considering T. Rex roamed Earth during the Late Cretaceous period (68-66 million years ago). Imagine the retirement benefits after 6 years of a 70-million-year shift! No wonder museum funding is always an issue—they're paying this guy's 65-million-year overtime.

Physics Is Hard, Publish Or Perish
Physics Academia Scientists Science Research
3 months ago 10.5K views 0 shares
Physics Is Hard, Publish Or Perish
The "How to Physicist" guide perfectly captures the existential crisis of academic physics! While non-academics think physicists spend their days unraveling quantum mysteries or smashing particles, the reality is much more... mundane. Shopping for ties, making pasta, exercising, and vacuuming—all while having an existential crisis about your citation count. The punchline hits hard: despite your impressive academic pedigree, the brutal "publish or perish" culture of academia means your dream of becoming a tenured professor remains frustratingly elusive. The only solution? Make memes about your academic suffering! Because if you can't get citations, at least you can get upvotes.