Something related: I just (indirectly through here and here) found a post from a microbiology grad student who was “fired” for blogging back in June. In my science blogging article I mention people getting fired for blogging briefly in the intro, but this is the first time I’ve heard of it in relation to science*. However, this blog was a personal blog, and the student in question was asked to leave because he was believed to have expressed a lack of interest in the project through his blog. (I assume this was one of the offending posts.) You probably won’t find any lack of interest in science in a science blog.
*I’m not counting the case of Jessa Jeffries here, who got fired from a museum, but still works at an aquarium, which I think is probably more related to her marine zoology degree.
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Your headline is a little misleading. It should probably read “prospective grad student with bad attitude can’t find anyone to rotate with” , which is not nearly so newsworthy. Reading the entry you linked above, (deleted but still available in Google’s cache) it kinda does sound like the student had had bad experiences with several of the faculty already, and was considering leaving grad school soon, so I don’t think the blog was the thing that hurt them. It just accelerated the finding out of the prospective student’s bad attitude, which most likely would have come out eventually anyways.
To nitpick, they didn’t get kicked out of grad school for it, either. They just made themselves unattractive to many of the labs they could have done rotations in. I’m betting that there were some things that happened and were said offline that actually got them dismissed from the program entirely.