Thank you for following me, Maryann! 😊🌿 Great to see you here!
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I'm on both Bluesky and Twitter but over the last couple of months I've just been using both less and less. Not sure why. Social media fatigue? Maybe it is a plague? But I've found that if I don't post all the time, almost no one notices my posts.

Very cool 😊 Thanks. Pollen are amazing

I'm thinking this has to change. Rejection, a word so loaded with negativity. I often see comments like: If you want to do research, you have to learn to handle rejection. As if we are ok with it. BUT if rejections were aimed at helping us improve instead of breaking us, we'd move forward immensely.

I'm really glad you took the time to try to put some emphasis on other aspects than merits. However, in reality, things like being inclusive , helpful and encouraging to colleagues are not valued at all.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it was. And now I am really struggling to find a way to stay in research, simply because academia do not appreciate you if you've had a career outside of it. You can never go back.