Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. points out this nifty visual on the social order of science from Matúš Soták. Well worth a look if you’ve ever been anywhere in the realm.
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It’s hilarious, because it’s TRUE
Interesting… top-o-the heap is the tech. I like it.
ROFLMOA!!!!!!!
As a now former 20+yr technician in a university physics department, the truth in this has me in hysterics!!!!
Brilliant!!!:-)
Wow…. print… post on door… tell colleagues…
lol
Where did they get that picture of me with the knife?
Well, I was once a MSc student, and that was a few decades ago. Then I graduated, found a real job in the real world, morphed from a social liberal who wanted to change the world to a realistic conservative who now knows that theory and practice seldom agree with each other. So which category do I fit in?
“Alan says on August 12, 2011 at 8:43 am… So which category do I fit in?”
This should have another row and another column…ADULT
I think you’d find yourself there. :’P
First time you’ve brought tears to my eyes, Anthony! 😀
If ever a picture was worth 1000 words. . . .
I assume the pictures along the bottom, of how I see undergrads, PhD students, postdocs.. that represents children in kindergarten? That’s pretty accurate. I don’t, however, see profs as That particular duck… Daffy, maybe… not Scrooge. And while I don’t see all techs as Chuck Norris, I do sorta see him peeking back from the mirror… coincidentally I started growing a beard at the beginning of this month.
Only one group actually DOES something.. the rest just talk about stuff. Yep… pretty accurate.
Paul Westhaver says:August 12, 2011 at 8:35 am
Where did they get that picture of me with the knife?
Could have been me with a pair of hotdog tongs experiencing a moment of discovery. Probably wasn’t dressed as nattily though.
I like the Chick, Chuck Norris , Dagobert and the Flaming eye very much.
Very funny indeed.
Been in the Ivory Tower. Perfect example. Plain fact.
WOW! As a non-degreed engineer who worked through the ranks as a technician, I periodically like to tweak my highly educated co-workers, that techs are a superior life form, especially when something is broken and they don’t know how to fix it.
Us technicians are always held in contempt…..till they need something. Then, we’re still held in contempt, they’re just nice to us.
Oh no, trust me – The tech seeing a PI as Scrooge is right on the money. Since when as a PI ever paid a tech what he’s worth?
Instant Classic!
Where is Darren McGyver on the technician row?
LOL! My thought exactly. While we might like to think of ourselves as Norris, McGyver would be far more appropriate.
One of the largest holes in our education system is a four year technician university. This would be one that teaches all kinds of real-world, functional problem solving and a whole lot less of fluff that has a small chance of ever being put to use. Meaning 140+ high intensity, 2 week cram sessions rather that 32 drawn-out semester courses including American History and volleyball. True we need the high level PhD+ institutions, too. For those who intend on getting into future teaching and/or heavy research. But the average 4 year degree has morphed into something almost useless to today’s employers. A technical university would teach many practical disciplines to the student so that when they exit they are almost as good as a trained engineer, and not just in one field, but in several. Hit the ground running rather than needing another year of on the job training…
Love it -too true…
Usually things like this are cute, but a bit lame and predictable. This would have been more predictable had I not expected it to be a bit lame.
A wonderful job on the photo selection (I’ve always felt sorry for that donkey, nice to see him again) and the undergrad column.
Re: kid with knife- a fellow stand-up comic in Colorado Springs, Brad Hartman, had a great line, something to the effect of “My dad beat the hell out of me for putting my sister’s bobby pin in the electric outlet- that’s not fair, just ’cause it was in her hair…”
Yup, looks pretty good to me. Might need a ‘Departmental Secretary’ line to complete it?
Hairpins work even better than a knife (my earliest memory!!)