Victor Markhoff / Ana Victoria Markhoff / vvictorman_uel - Powerchair faker pooner, has every illness, allergic to Krebs cycle, bed mayo enjoyer, kicked out of house and mental hospital, constant ebeggar, applesauce heiress paid to yeet her teets

[horse toots]

Just who do they expect to do all the grunt work and underpaid tutorial/lab supervision? I can't imagine they'll get it cheaper than a PhD student. For subjects where such things are important, I imagine there'd be a huge drop in undergrad enrolment and thus fees.

How are their illustrious professors going to publish their high impact papers that require 1000s of hours of work without people to actually do that work?

I can't speak to the social sciences, only hard science, but undergrad students do the bulk of the work.

The PhD student is usually focused on the higher level hypotheses, working on their thesis, and developing more advanced experiments in tandem with the professor they work under; a lot of that work can be delegated to anyone willing to learn and follow instructions (probably the most difficult part of lab staffing, some kids are just born dumb as fuck and many are too dumb to realize pre-med/STEM is not for them). The pipetting, measuring, cleaning, machine maintenance, mixing, sonicating, washing, timing, recording, testing, reporting, etc can be done by an army of eager undergrads desperate for that sweet sweet on campus extracurricular.

Spoiler: Powerlevel

In undergrad I worked in a biochemistry lab. Not a biochem major and did not have any real experience but did have two hands, a willingness to spend 1/3 of my summer in the lab, and could be trusted to run the expensive equipment. Didn't have to be directly supervised, so the PhD student focused on her thesis and occasionally checked in; the project itself was run by a really awesome and involved professor - I learned how to do stuff from the materials he provided and we probably could have kept the lab going without the PhD student (everything would just be on a much longer timeline). Also, all of our lab safety tutorials and certification courses were led by the body of professors and non-student staff who oversee lab safety and compliance. I can see where PhD students can prop up a program, but I don't think every program necessitates having PhD students all the time.

In any case, labs that are run well and projects led by competent professors will be fine as long as undergrads can be recruited into doing free labor for the "experience". There might be a drop in enrollment simply because without PhD students there are less available instructors for teaching lab sections and ultimately less attractive schedule options (although non-PhD grad students have picked up the slack at my former college so lab sections don't get cancelled due to lack of staffing), but it also might force professors to get back in the classroom, which, depending on the professor, might not be a bad thing.

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

Victoria is still going on about how she has been working in academia. And that this is the only job that has the flexibility she needs!



So dramatic.

 

[fitty tucker]

Victoria is still going on about how she has been working in academia. And that this is the only job that has the flexibility she needs!

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So dramatic.

Her rambling reply tells me the account that retweeted her sits higher on the Oppression Scale and therefore Vicky must kowtow and express her insuperiority or she may be labeled a Literal Nazi by all her adoring fans.

Given the "diaspora" in the account name, I'm guessing they have the race card in their deck.

So predictable.

Also, I'm dying laughing at her trying to sound important and like she wasn't just bumming off the rest of us. "Engaging academically in disability studies outside the institution of the academy" vicky bb it's okay to admit you were street begging for change while sitting in your wheelchair, perfectly able to stand and walk and work on your own

 

[glioblastoma multiforme]

The PhD student is usually focused on the higher level hypotheses, working on their thesis, and developing more advanced experiments in tandem with the professor they work under; a lot of that work can be delegated to anyone willing to learn and follow instructions (probably the most difficult part of lab staffing, some kids are just born dumb as fuck and many are too dumb to realize pre-med/STEM is not for them). The pipetting, measuring, cleaning, machine maintenance, mixing, sonicating, washing, timing, recording, testing, reporting, etc can be done by an army of eager undergrads desperate for that sweet sweet on campus extracurricular.

It depends on the research group and possibly country.

Spoiler: Also powerlevel

I can only speak to England, my PhD was in physics. For the foundation, first, and second year labs, there was one member of official staff and the rest was done entirely by PhD students. I wasn't experimental but a friend who was literally spent his entire PhD chopping shit up into different shapes and sizes and measuring its properties. He wasn't even basing his shapes and sizes on any theory, it was ridiculous. Another quit cos he was expected to sit in a dark room all day counting specs of light.

I've since moved to something biology-adjacent and have even seen proper faculty members doing insane amounts of grunt work. The only people immune to it are the professors. The PhD students are generally running experiments for studies designed by post docs or higher. If they are lucky they might get to add some of their own ideas towards the end. Their funding is generally tied to a particular grant that has been planned well in advance of them starting

Over here PhD students are treated as cheap labour. There are research assistants that only need an undergrad degree, I don't know their positions are paid for but they are technically employed by the university so probably cost a lot more and have better rights.

We sometimes get undergrads on summer placement but that's about it.

Victoria clearly has no idea what being a professor actually entails. It is not flexible. Grant application deadlines don't give a shit if you're in hospital refusing to poo. You can't be late for lectures when you're delivering them. You're expected to cultivate international collaborations, schmooze with the uni high brass, while maintaining the all important REF and TEF scores. Every professor (in the English sense of leader of a research group) I've known works pretty much constantly. Two lost their marriages cos of it.

 

[Sperghetti]

Victoria is still going on about how she has been working in academia. And that this is the only job that has the flexibility she needs!

I hate to be the one to tell her, but that statement is not making academia look better.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Her rambling reply tells me the account that retweeted her sits higher on the Oppression Scale and therefore Vicky must kowtow and express her insuperiority or she may be labeled a Literal Nazi by all her adoring fans.

Given the "diaspora" in the account name, I'm guessing they have the race card in their deck.

So predictable.

Also, I'm dying laughing at her trying to sound important and like she wasn't just bumming off the rest of us. "Engaging academically in disability studies outside the institution of the academy" vicky bb it's okay to admit you were street begging for change while sitting in your wheelchair, perfectly able to stand and walk and work on your own

She is higher on the oppression scale!. I was curious so I decided to check and she is a very woke, aggressive, (Muslim parents, if not Muslim herself) very black woman and trying to work as a musician in Kansas City. Her parents were both African immigrants from Sudan, She went to college and it doesn’t sound like it went well.

I’d love to know what she studied but she doesn’t say. She does refer to the college as being in “top 20 Southern Ivies” which I found hilarious. Southern Ivies is a term, but refers to just 5 schools, like Duke, Rice and Vanderbilt. The idea someone tried to stretch that list to 20 is absurd and makes it meaningless. It only tells me she just went to a generic university in the south, but Miss Very Black Anti-fascist who hates elite institutions trying to use “Ivy” for whatever school she went to was hilarious.

Anyway, she’s very angry at white people and Jews. America needs to be destroyed. Her parents would have had better results had they sent her to back to Sudan for four years instead of college in the USA.

She’s very disappointed she’s not being paid to tell white organizations and elite institutions how awful, racist, and fascist they are before belting out a musical number to huge applause.

Not sure if she has a job, she has complaints about Christianity in homeless shelters, so she might actually have to stay in them at times or just as likely she likes to complain about how gibs are given. She seemed like the type of token hire lots of progressive non-profits made only to immediately regret and figure out how to fire without being accused of racism. I bet 501c3 in Kansas City have PTSD from her.

She asked Twitter to give her a cost benefit analysis on establishing a community which tells me she’s dumb af, likes using but likes using jargon to try and sound smart. No surprise she is usually the only person replying to her tweets. I was disappointed, but not surprised, no one replied to her request on cost benefit analysis on establishing communities in her replies. But she went ahead and gave the answer anyway, it’s “Fuck Keynes btw” so you know she’s deep and very smart.

Idk if disability is involved with her, except maybe being super dark skinned. She’s is big mad at light skinned African Americans and brownies for their paper bag privileges. I didn’t see any mention of disability but couldn’t be bothered to review more than two weeks of her incessant tweeting.

She may or may not be gay, but supports LBGTQ shit.

But as a child of (real) immigrants, very dark skinned black woman (and possibly queer) who has all the correct and aggressive antifa opinions Vicky immediately kowtows and concedes to her African woman opinions as correct, knowing she has been outranked by her in the oppression Olympics and made a white privilege faux pas.

 

[The Judean People's Front]

Just who do they expect to do all the grunt work and underpaid tutorial/lab supervision?

This was my experience too, although I have an utterly useless Social Sciences degree befitting the woke idiot I was at 22. I also agree that if those programs get cut, humanity will survive.

I hate to be the one to tell her, but that statement is not making academia look better.

She is precisely why I got the fuck out of Academia despite initially planning a career as a professor. At some point I looked around me at the "Folx" who were doing this shit for a living and went "nah."

She is so goddamn entitled, she probably doesn't just think she is just gonna be handed a Disability Consultant career, but that she'll get that career in NYC instead of of having to move to Munsee Indiana to start her "career" like many "academics" do nowadays.

 

[horse toots]

It depends on the research group and possibly country.

Definitely. PhD candidates and post docs as cheap labor is true in the United States as far as staffing is concerned, they're cheaper than an adjunct AND they're doing research. Also in the U.S. there are tons of differences between private and public colleges, institutional research reputations, funding and endowments etc that influence all of this. Differences between and within departments exist here too. Some professors run their labs as training grounds for the next generation of post docs and researchers, while others primarily focus on the research itself and seeking funding. It seems mostly influenced by school culture, access to funding, and the people involved (at least in the U.S.).

Victoria clearly has no idea what being a professor actually entails. It is not flexible.

This is the funniest part to me. Regardless of location and institution, the heavy and high-stress workload of professors and post docs is known. A couple of the professors at my college are married to other professors in their same department, and they coordinated their research because work life balance is not a thing (least of all for PhD candidates and less so now that students are excessively helpless and needy little goblins). Academia is cutthroat, competitive, and full of petty politics and PhD programs are already limited to those who can put in the extensive hours and sacrifice, including being physically present, subsisting on pennies, and maintaining humility in the face of tenured/administrative buttholery. This "locked out of PhD" fantasy is more evidence of Vicky's raging external locus of control, now she can't even bother to try - meanwhile, a normal person would pivot to getting a masters, working as an adjunct, or getting a PhD overseas if they were so desperate to be an "academic". The only thing Vicky is allergic to is hard work, except when it comes to the mental gymnastics required to defend herself. And Vicky can (and will!) scream about ableism and politics all she wants, but this helpless turd can't even find a packet of mayonnaise in her own bed.

I think she's just soft launching her post undergrad plans which include languishing about, making excuses, and leeching off society.

 

[Sperghetti]

She is so goddamn entitled, she probably doesn't just think she is just gonna be handed a Disability Consultant career, but that she'll get that career in NYC instead of of having to move to Munsee Indiana to start her "career" like many "academics" do nowadays.

Vicky's career path is an underpants gnome scheme.

The end step is her being this respected authority figure on the topic of disability and human rights, but a whole chunk of crucial steps before that is just missing.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

vicky bb it's okay to admit you were street begging for change while sitting in your wheelchair, perfectly able to stand and walk and work on your own

I can't imagine her actually spanging like a gutter punk. She's too soft-skinned and delicate for that. It's all online.

 

[Jupiter Doughnuts]

I feel like for a normal person, step one of becoming a professor is talking to a professor whose class you're doing well in. Not tweeting a billion times about your goal to become a "academic" while avoiding interaction with the many professors whose classes you're flunking. Plus, if you've flunked classes or taken leaves of absence, there's a long journey back to credibility before you're a viable candidate for graduate programs. No professor wants to take on a PhD student who has not shown the ability to get through 4 years of school without a leave of absence. It's not impossible to go from a rough undergrad transcript to a quality PhD, but it's a long hard road of non degree classes, work experience, and doing very well on the GRE. And by rough undergrad transcript I mean a 3.3 GPA with a medical leave of absence.

 

[Fapcop]

I feel like for a normal person, step one of becoming a professor is talking to a professor whose class you're doing well in. Not tweeting a billion times about your goal to become a "academic" while avoiding interaction with the many professors whose classes you're flunking. Plus, if you've flunked classes or taken leaves of absence, there's a long journey back to credibility before you're a viable candidate for graduate programs. No professor wants to take on a PhD student who has not shown the ability to get through 4 years of school without a leave of absence. It's not impossible to go from a rough undergrad transcript to a quality PhD, but it's a long hard road of non degree classes, work experience, and doing very well on the GRE. And by rough undergrad transcript I mean a 3.3 GPA with a medical leave of absence.

You seem to forget that Victoria’s real ambition isn’t to be a professor, but to daydream about being a professor. And have extra credibility + oppression points when she tweets about inane stuff.

She likely has no idea what being a professor actually entails, but just has this vague vision of getting a 5000$ check every two weeks, “working” (working as in tweeting) from home and scheduling week long depression naps without any issues.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Victoria clearly has no idea what being a professor actually entails. It is not flexible.

I agree, but OTOH somehow Joe "Grace" Lavery has made it work. Then again, when you're lecturing about queerness in sitcoms or whatever he was doing where students had to memorize the blowjob poem, they'd probably prefer your only presence be via Zoom.

Not a STEM-supremacy shitlord, but I think Victoria is looking at the lit and crit flakes and hoping she can find a soft enough science where she just blogs about her personal experience and gets funding and publishing. Didn't she interpretive dance for one of her classes last year, and bitch about how she couldn't find her makeup for it?

 

[Fapcop]

Not a STEM-supremacy shitlord, but I think Victoria is looking at the lit and crit flakes and hoping she can find a soft enough science where she just blogs about her personal experience and gets funding and publishing. Didn't she interpretive dance for one of her classes last year, and bitch about how she couldn't find her makeup for it?

Yup, that’s pretty much the dream life and what she likely thinks of, when considering her “academic” career.

A yearly high five figure income for writing blogposts/blogpost papers about being “crippled” and talking on zoom about “her lived experience” occasionally. And preferably a direct line she can call with Campus police for when people say mean things to her on the internet.

 

[Free the Pedos]

she has complaints about Christianity in homeless shelters

Is she interested in a boyfriend in Spokane?

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

At 2:46 PM, Vicki whines that she has to get out of bed to go to the doctor and barber.



Enabler doctor offices love it when you no-show!

 

[AfghanBlue]

At 2:46 PM, Vicki whines that she has to get out of bed to go to the doctor and barber.

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Enabler doctor offices love it when you no-show!

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Aka we bill for both

 

[fitty tucker]

At 2:46 PM, Vicki whines that she has to get out of bed to go to the doctor and barber.

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Enabler doctor offices love it when you no-show!

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Doesn't she complain that doctors don't believe her because they don't see her ️at her worst️ in her flares? Why would she waste this opportunity for the doctor to see something that's impossible to schedule and could help her in the long run? Surely it's not just all bullshit!!1!

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

I think she's just soft launching her post undergrad plans which include languishing about, making excuses, and leeching off society.

I'm new to this thread but academia chews lazy people up and spits them out. She's setting herself up for a girlfail arc.

 

[Zemblan Physics]

She's setting herself up for a girlfail arc.

Fren, she IS a girlfail arc…