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Poor mental health is an issue for many of our readers. That fact is underscored by the response to a tweet sent by @NatureNews earlier this week, which highlighted that rates of depression and anxiety reported by postgraduate students are six times higher than in the general population (T. M. Evans et al. Nature Biotechnol. 36, 282–284; 2018), and asked what should be done to help. The figures are a shock, but it was the reaction that blew us away: more than 1,200 retweets and around 170 replies.
“This is not one dimensional problem. Financial burden, hostile academia, red tape, tough job market, no proper career guidance. Take your pick,” read one. “Maybe being told day in, day out that the work you spend 10+ hrs a day, 6–7 days a week on isn’t good enough,” said another.
The feedback emphasizes something that Nature has highlighted often in recent years: there is a problem among young scientists. Too many have mental-health difficulties, and too many say that the demands of the role are partly to blame. Neither issue gets the attention it deserves. “I’d love to see some of the comments under this thread published,” wrote one responder. “There needs to be real conversation about this, not just observation.”
We agree — which is why we are publishing some of the responses. (You can read the full thread here.)
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @12:56PM
A lone man was walking down the sidewalk early in the morning. The man was rubbing his chin with his fingers, as though he were deeply contemplating a certain matter. Indeed, this man - Rickerson - was contemplating something, and that something was of the utmost importance: Rape.
How many women and children should Rickerson rape today? It was a difficult question to answer. Even men's rights philosophers - who studied issues such as this for their entire lives - would be at a loss as to what the answer was. Suddenly, and without warning, the answer came to him; it was deceptively simple and yet seemingly unfathomable. All of them. Why not simply rape all of them? Rickerson knew. Rickerson knew that he stumbled upon a world-changing insight, and so he immediately moved to contact the world's top science organizations.
The revolutionary knowledge spread throughout the world like wildfire. "Rape them all!" became a common expression. Several fields of science - chemistry, physics, psychology, computer science, and more - changed almost completely overnight to the point where they no longer resembled their former selves. In addition, rape rates rose to the maximum possible extent. As a result, men all over the world began reclaiming their rights. Some men even used devices to access parallel universes so that they could toy with the women and children there as well. And this was all thanks to Rickerson, who received a Nobel Rape Prize for his world-changing discovery.
It was a new dawn for humanity, one which brought limitless growth and endless opportunities. This time period would eventually come to be referred to as The Rape Age.