academia could fucking save the world, but it's too obsessed with its own petty, selfish fucking bullshit internal zero stakes politics and empty room mirror flexing posturing to mobilize the incredible skills of the people it has, and could have, in its ranks

UPenn has a yearly operating budget of 3.5 billion USD, and they were *lucky* to maintain the mRNA scientist for *LESS* than a UT Austin biology post-doc salary for fucking electric fish research

but what if I told you that electric fish researchers worked on neuron channels, the understanding of which is fundamental to neurophysiology and nervous systems? anyway