Extraordinary Resignation by a Geology Professor: ‘I feel the profession…is no longer worthy of my efforts’
17 hours ago Anthony Watts 77 Comments
On Twitter, there is a openly raw admission of why academia has decended into little more than intellectual tribalism, with ‘climate change’ being at the center of the issue. Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki has decided to leave the University of Alabama, citing personal reasons, as well as the clear rise of wokeness and protectionism over truth when it comes to climate science.
What follows is the collated series of tweets made by Wielicki in this thread – Anthony
Why I am leaving the University of Alabama: Some internet sleuths have discovered that I will be leaving my faculty position in the Department of Geological Sciences after this semester so I thought I should tell you why. As with most large decisions, the reasons…
…are mainly personal. COVID made me realize that we were really far from our families in CA and the travel on our elderly parents was taking a toll. The result was that our children were not seeing their grandparents very often. As a Polish immigrant I know what it’s like…
…to live far from family and I started to resent myself for choosing my career over my family’s time together. Furthermore, over the last decade or so, but especially the last few years, the obsession with universities and grant-funding institutions…
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/25/extraordinary-resignation-by-a-geology-professor-i-feel-the-profession-is-no-longer-worthy-of-my-efforts/
