#PhDs

Chris Cyr

ChrisCyr19

With the current state of the academic job market, a decent number of friends have reached out to me for advice about the #postac #altac jobs market. Most PhD programs

Dr. Thrasher, jouRNAlist

thrasherxy

Not to be a killjoy, but to be a killjoy:Almost every day I feel like we are NOT taking seriously how much life MUST change. The WH isn't treating the

Minorities in STEM

MinoritySTEM

#SciComm covers a mind-boggling set of skills and fields. You'll find us writing articles or books, making videos, designing infographics, presenting at festivals, etc. etc. What's key is we all

Jennifer Polk, PhD

FromPhDtoLife

Every time I think through what needs to change for humanities PhDs (esp the kinds that take too long) to be good for all involved, I wind up, eventually, at

Nikola Henderson

nik_henderson

The Tory cabinet as hospital staff, a thread. Matt, an A&E trainee doing anaesthetics. He’s tubed 11 people now and feels he’s got it. He thinks about personally performing a

Dr Aiko Holvikivi

AikoIiris

Having spent the last several years studying a related practice - gender training for military and police peacekeepers - I have some thoughts on this... In short, this is a

James Harland

DJMHarland

If your response to an impassioned plea outlining a scholar's work and its value, when they're at the risk of being imminently sacked, is to start criticising that scholarship, I

Mateusz Fafinski

Calthalas

Academic Job Discourseᵀᴹ is back (it’s never gone).Tl;dr: There are no jobs.Headline: Commodification of academia has decoupled the value of research from the chance of employability.Long read: Research and teaching

Caitlin Sanford DEFUND THE POLICE

CaitlinFSanford

This “expert” who provides PH guidance to Brookline schools decries the evid against in-person ed as “complicated” and yet comfortably rests his decisive opinion on a handful of studies w/

Ben Schneider

benmschneider

Future of Academia Thread This is a weird year from a couple of degrees to the historical side of the split between economics and history. On one side, talented young

Sunny Singh

ProfSunnySingh

This in @GQMagazine is an excellent demonstration of how press creates authorities. Lots of analysts, scholars and experts predicted this. So why pick this ‘expert’?https://www.gq.com/story/man-predicted-capitol-coup-interview Why get t

V Vinay

ainvvy

Everyone by now knows about the language policy in the National Education Policy 2020. I thought I will focus on lesser reported/known articles that caught my eye. There is a

Petra Boynton

DrPetra

So much mental distress in academia would be reduced if we taught how and why things work. A few I've spotted today - why your email isn't being answered, when

Happy Researchers

hapyresearchers

(1/5) Most people don’t realize if they have been engaged in academic bullying. Bullying can consist of passive-aggressive emails, verbal abuse (directly and indirectly) in private or during the lab

Christopher Berry

cplberry

Several people have asked about postdoc fellowships. There're a wide range. It's important to figure out which you are eligible for/interested in early, as deadlines sneak up on you! Here's

Alisa Hicklin Fryar

AKHicklin

Woke up to a remarkable number of bad takes on the “problem” of too many PhDs in political science. As someone with a 2nd tier PhD working in a 3rd

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