At the beginning of 2022, Dr. Li Jiang was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Pathology. Now, more than seven months pregnant, she’s unemployed and facing deportation.
Dr. Jiang claims her position at UCSD was not renewed due to her unwillingness to falsify data after being pressured to do so by her supervisor this January and February.
“When I became a Postdoc at UCSD, I never imagined I would have to choose between participating in unethical research practices, or losing my job right before giving birth to my first child,” Jiang said in a statement to The Triton.
“She cannot fly safely in the current state of her pregnancy,” said Dr. Joyce Chan, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Neuroscience and Academic Workers Union representative. “She may have to give birth here as an illegal immigrant unless the department or UCSD is able to step in and support her.”
According to Dr. Chan, Dr. Jiang’s supervisor understood the precarity of Jiang’s situation and this contributed to the pressure to “collect and manipulate data in a way that lacked integrity”. After Dr. Jiang refused to do so, her supervisor encouraged her to leave the project, later announcing she would not reappoint Jiang due to insufficient funding. However, union representatives claim the supervisor advertised online to seek a new postdoc to fill Dr. Jiang’s position. The Academic Workers Union did not provide documentation of this job listing when it was requested by The Triton.
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