My masters thesis advisor would not let us use the word “that”. In his defense, 90%+ of the time, it’s useless filler and can be left out

I’ve only ever been academia adjacent and I’m glad. Some of the most soulless people I’ve ever met. It’s the lab grunts who know how to party. Until they have the life sucked out of them to meet some arbitrary writing spec for a journal

Haven’t been able to locate the definitive source, but there are several of these out there with Faith and Professor Kutaywa.

Believe it originates somewhere on LinkedIn, but very rare for a LinkedIn meme to escape the platform.