“Incredibly skilled, talented, qualified, very passionate people are leaving because no matter what they say, what they do, how many papers they publish … It doesn’t matter.”
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Adrift Lab researcher
Jennifer Lavers, on marine scientists leaving the field in droves. Mass die-offs of sealife have surged dramatically as a result of extreme heat in a third of the world’s oceans, and so has the despair amongst experts. “That’s the case for me,” Lavers says. “I have to literally say to people that my job is to describe the extinction of a species.”
