I've been saying, PhD school isn't training for academic jobs, it IS an academic job. Doc students do research, teaching, service, present & write. Only difference is they make $20k w/ no chance of promotion. When they look for non-faculty jobs, they're LEAVING academia. 1/

This piece by Harley & al. shows, thinking of them as "students" is not just a category error, it's an equity issue with real consequences for academic disciplines. They're colleagues worthy of respect; labeling them "students" is a bad-faith excuse to pull rank & dismiss them 2/ https://twitter.com/raciolinguistic/status/1296598672344580097

This quote sums it up. Social scientists are trained to be vigilant about ways their positionality might make certain kinds of evidence invisible to them. But it all falls apart when the field site is their own workplace. 3/ https://twitter.com/raciolinguistic/status/1296598673502146563?s=09