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Sometimes I ask myself what I'm so afraid of. And I realize it's failure: not living up to my potential, disappointing those who believed in me, confirming those who never

The older I get, the longer I do academic and intellectual work, the more suspicious I am of concepts like brilliance and genius. Even in fields like music, philosophy, and

It's around that time grad students start picking committee members for their dissertations! A brief thread here, but here's the key thing: there are lots and lots of criteria for

quick tip to anyone working on their first peer-reviewed article: the literature review is still part of the argument, not an autonomous part of the paper. Every sentence in the

You see this a lot, and the problem is, ironically, when the training/underlying philosophy of science is too focused on making qual methods look as much like quant as possible.

A while back, I had a thread on finding a mentor that I'm pasting below (I deleted a part I got helpful pushback on, more on this if you click

.@ASA_Religion did a workshop on mentoring advice, and @BradRFulton and I met with a lot of grad students doing really great projects to talk about getting the best out of

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