Postdac

WORD roots: POST* + DAC**
* = Post on social media
** = A dacian (a person who lived in Dacia, modern day Romania: the ancestors of romanians, besides romans and slavs)

Similar to Postac.

DEFINITION:
A person that posts frequently on social media about all sorts of political regurgitated propaganda and pretends to be an expert in anything and everything, but also pretends to be the ultimate nationalist / patriot and lives by his ancestors roots.

Example:
Ce POSTDAC e Marcel! Ieri a postat că el nu se vaccinează niciodată și că tunelurile dacice ne vor apăra de atacuri nucleare. Apoi a postat propagandă politică din alte țări, plângându-se de țara noastră.

Joh is such a POSTDAC.
He posted recently that he doesn't trust vaccines and the dacian tunnels extend to Rusia.

by Postdac August 1, 2024

postdoc-osphere

A term to describe the realm of short term university appointments inhabited by postdocs.

"Did he get that professor job."

"No way dude, now he's applying for another post-doc. I wonder if he'll be be spending his whole life in the

postdoc-osphere."

by Hank the Monster October 17, 2009

postdoc

Somebody who has recently completed a PhD and has no idea what do with their life after discovering they are completely unemployable. Anyone with the title "Post Doc" is a bright intellectual person without direction who is killing time waiting for the right job opportunity.

She was a postdoc at the university for ten years before she discovered that she had to find a permanent job to pay for the kitty litter to keep her family together.

by the lazy ass destroyer November 13, 2005

postdict

To report what already happened in the form of a prediction.

I postdict that Obama won the 2008 presidential election.

by julesk January 4, 2012

Postjacking

When someone comments on a Facebook post such as a wallpost, status update, or anything else in an attempt to bring in another conversation and divert attention away from the post and toward themselves.

Jason posted on Marie's Wall:
"Hey...how have you been?"
Jack commented on Jason's wall post:
"JASON! Why didn't you text me back?"

And Jason and Jack have a conversation on the wall post that was meant to be for Marie, and thus Jack postjacked the conversation. Postjacking can also occur in status updates, but it most common on wall posts.

by Johanson Johnson December 27, 2009

postdoc

A postdoc is a Ph.D. holder who has not been able to secure a stable academic position and therefore sticks around in different labs. A postdoc often lives off soft money in a series of 2-/3-year appointments, until he or she lands a tenure-track position, leaves academia for an industry job, finds a room in the parents' basement, or commit suicide in despair.

Jane: "You know, something's eating away that leftover muffins on the table. Must be mice or roaches hiding in this lab."

Tom: "No, that's our postdoc John."

by a postdoc February 17, 2008

Going Postdoctoral

Describes a situation when a person with a PhD goes on a killing rampage.

A variation of going postal, but used to describe a person with a doctoral degree.

" But of course lots of people--even Harvard grads!--suffer career setbacks, and few of them go postal (or should we say postdoctoral?). source: "Going Postdoctoral The bizarre case of Prof. Amy Bishop, Wall Street Journal Online, February 18, 2010.

by Oceanscribe February 19, 2010