Research highlights, team achievements, and occasional perspectives from Laia and the group.
The Hidden Costs of Academic Culture
30 September 2025
Laia reflects on the pressures and invisible costs of academic culture in a LinkedIn piece.
“In conversations with colleagues from different institutions, she notes it is often not just the big challenges like lack of funding, workload, or precarity that wear people down, but also the subtle behaviours that chip away at you:
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- Names misspelled or mispronounced.
- Ideas ignored until repeated by someone else.
- Being left out of conversations you should be part of.
- Admin work dismissed as “less important,” then pushed onto others through weaponised incompetence.
And then comes the double bind:
- Speak up and you are labelled difficult.
- Stay quiet and you are labelled lame or a people pleaser. “
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