Top Articles and Videos about Academia on Pocket

Academia on Pocket

results

Trending

guzey.com August 15, 2019
How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation

Summary: academia has a lot of problems and it could work much better. However, these problems are not as catastrophic as an outside perspective would suggest. My (contrarian, I guess) intuition is that scientific progress in biology is not slowing down.
- Save
548 saves
Trending

medium.com August 15, 2019
Interpreting Deep Learning Models for Computer Vision

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a field restricted only to research papers and academia. Businesses and…
- Save
32 saves
Trending

nytimes.com August 14, 2019
College Campuses: Are They Too P.C.?

Readers react to Bret Stephens’s view that the culture of inclusion and diversity has gone too far and debased academia. Re “Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Excellence,” by Bret Stephens (column, Aug. 3):
- Save
29 saves
Trending

codastory.com August 6, 2019
Western Academia Helps Build China’s Automated Racism

Last summer, a respected U.S. academic journal about data mining published a study titled “Facial feature discovery for ethnicity recognition”, authored by four professors in China and one in Australia.
- Save
115 saves
Trending

spectator.org August 7, 2019
It’s Time to Declare War on Identity Politics

Three years ago, writing in the Federalist, I noted how the Left’s embrace — and political deployment — of identity politics had given rise to, and become a perverse justification for (in its own hive mind), white supremacy, a blunt rejection of the collective call by the Left and academia to
- Save
66 saves
Trending

scholars4dev.com August 5, 2019
British Chevening Scholarships for International Students

Chevening Scholarships are the UK government’s global scholarship programme, funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and partner organisations.
- Save
68 saves

slate.com May 23, 2016
The Craziest Black Market in Russia

Late last year, Russian newspapers reported what would have qualified as a stunning piece of news almost anywhere else: The chairman of the country’s largest parliamentary body had been exposed as a plagiarist.
- Save
1,256 saves
slate.com September 24, 2014
Why Your Cousin With a Ph.D. Is a Basket Case

It’s your sister’s wedding, and you and your quiet but nice cousin—he’s doing his Ph.D. in something, maybe history?—are doing your best to get drunk off the watered-down open-bar bourbon.
- Save
602 saves
calnewport.com April 20, 2014
Richard Feynman Didn’t Win a Nobel by Responding Promptly to E-mails

“To do real good physics work, you do need absolute solid lengths of time…it needs a lot of concentration…if you have a job administrating anything, you don’t have the time. So I have invented another myth for myself: that I’m irresponsible. I’m actively irresponsible.
- Save
629 saves
slate.com April 5, 2013
Thesis Hatement

Who wouldn’t want a job where you only have to work five hours a week, you get summers off, your whole job is reading and talking about books, and you can never be fired? Such is the enviable life of the tenured college literature professor, and all you have to do to get it is earn a Ph.D.
- Save
2,399 saves
forbes.com January 23, 2017
Dear Scholars, Delete Your Account At Academia.Edu

As privatized platforms like Academia.
- Save
840 saves
jakevdp.github.io October 26, 2013
The Big Data Brain Drain: Why Science is in Trouble

Update, August 2014: see Hacking Academia, my most recent reflection on this subject. Regardless of what you might think of the ubiquity of the "Big Data" meme, it's clear that the growing size of datasets is changing the way we approach the world around us.
- Save
1,670 saves
theguardian.com March 1, 2014
There is a culture of acceptance around mental health issues in academia

I’ve seen PhD students with depression, sleep issues, eating disorders, and thoughts of suicide. Mental health in academia is an issue that needs to be addressed
- Save
1,349 saves
slate.com March 13, 2014
Should I Just Quit Academia?

This article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed. The year 2011 was, for me, one of celebration. I finished a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago, with a dissertation on the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the cultural Cold War in Latin America.
- Save
459 saves
currentaffairs.org June 7, 2017
The Dangerous Academic is an Extinct Species

It was curiosity, not stupidity that killed the Dodo. For too long, we have held to the unfair myth that the flightless Mauritian bird became extinct because it was too dumb to understand that it was being killed.
- Save
973 saves
nytimes.com November 14, 2017
The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech

These days, big data, artificial intelligence and the tech platforms that put them to work have huge influence and power. Algorithms choose the information we see when we go online, the jobs we get, the colleges to which we’re admitted and the credit cards and insurance we are issued.
- Save
930 saves
thesiswhisperer.com February 13, 2013
Academic assholes and the circle of niceness

Two of my favourite people in the academic world are my friends Rachael Pitt (aka @thefellowette) and Nigel Palmer. Whenever we have a catch up, which is sadly rare, we have a fine old time talking shop over beer and chips (well lemonade in my case, but you get the picture).
- Save
688 saves
chronicle.com April 29, 2013
Self-Sabotage in the Academic Career

Pogo recognized long ago that we often are our own worst enemies. Sure, he was a cartoon character, but he had a point—especially in higher education, where self-sabotage seems to be a standard characteristic of academic careers.
- Save
504 saves
calnewport.com March 9, 2009
The Straight-A Method: How to Ace College Courses

Last year I introduced The Straight-A Method: a general framework for all of the tactical studying advice that appears in the red book and on this blog. A lot has changed since then, so in this post I describe a new and improved version of this key piece of the Study Hacks canon.
- Save
790 saves
chronicle.com July 1, 2015
@AcademicsSay: The Story Behind a Social-Media Experiment

I am not an intellectual, leading expert, or public scholar. I am a rank-and-file academic with the job of balancing respectable research with acceptable teaching evaluations and sitting on enough committees to not be asked to sit on more committees.
- Save
485 saves
nextscientist.com August 30, 2017
The Secret PhD Productivity Strategy: Do Deep Work In Less Hours

The worst PhD productivity advice is to work long hours. This advice is shared by successful people in Academia, so it should be good advice, shouldn’t it?
- Save
1,249 saves
chronicle.com February 15, 2018
Why I Collapsed on the Job

I’m a tenured professor at a large public research-oriented university. This was my first job straight out of doctoral studies. It was, and still is, the job of my dreams.
- Save
965 saves
aljazeera.com August 20, 2012
The closing of American academia

It is 2011 and I'm sitting in the Palais des Congres in Montreal, watching anthropologists talk about structural inequality.
- Save
704 saves
theguardian.com October 19, 2015
Humanities research is groundbreaking, life-changing… and ignored

Deep in the corridors of Stanford University’s English department, graduate student Jodie Archer developed a computer model that can predict New York Times bestsellers. Her soon-to-be published research landed her a top job with Apple iBooks and may revolutionise the publishing industry.
- Save
936 saves
washingtonpost.com August 1, 2016
New study finds that men are often their own favorite experts on any given subject

A fascinating new working paper finds that men are far more likely than women to back up their arguments with appeals to a higher authority: themselves. When an academic writes a research paper, it is common practice to give citations for various facts and assertions.
- Save
710 saves
nytimes.com March 12, 2016
Emoji Feminism

RECENTLY, upon notice that she’d received tenure, I texted a close friend to offer my congratulations. Later, I knew, we’d meet for drinks and celebration, but the day was early and I was thrilled, imagining her pleasure in her hard-won achievement.
- Save
523 saves
timeshighereducation.com October 20, 2016
Married to the(ir) job: living with an academic

My partner and I met 11 years ago while she was working in the public health sector and I was studying for my doctoral degree.
- Save
403 saves
buzzfeednews.com December 3, 2014
Leaving Academia For BuzzFeed: Six Months Later

Academia taught me how to do one thing well. It wasn't until recently that I understood how well it prepared me to do another. At this time last year, my entire body was tensed with a mix of anticipation and stress.
- Save
400 saves
medium.com October 19, 2016
Academia to Data Science

When you’re in graduate school, it seems like the only career option available is to remain in the ivory tower. And it’s reasonable to see why — your advisor and peers are very likely to encourage you to follow their chosen career path.
- Save
301 saves
nytimes.com December 29, 2016
A Peek Inside the Strange World of Fake Academia

The caller ID on my office telephone said the number was from Las Vegas, but when I picked up the receiver I heard what sounded like a busy overseas call center in the background.
- Save
1,866 saves
chroniclevitae.com March 6, 2015
Academia’s 1 Percent

Will your Ph.D. lead to an academic job? To answer that question, prospective students are often encouraged to see how recent graduates fared -- a task easier said than done. Department placement lists are catalogs of untold stories, a logroll of the disappeared.
- Save
573 saves
blogs.lse.ac.uk September 19, 2017
Clickbait and impact: how academia has been hacked

It has become increasingly clear that prevailing academic incentive structures have a potentially damaging and distorting effect on the nature of academic debates.
- Save
601 saves
timeshighereducation.com January 28, 2010
How not to write a PhD thesis

My teaching break between Christmas and the university’s snowy reopening in January followed in the footsteps of Goldilocks and the three bears. I examined three PhDs: one was too big; one was too small; one was just right.
- Save
1,059 saves
nytimes.com February 15, 2014
Professors, We Need You!

SOME of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates. The most stinging dismissal of a point is to say: “That’s academic.” In other words, to be a scholar is, often, to be irrelevant.
- Save
2,570 saves
lareviewofbooks.org May 1, 2016
Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities

Advocates position Digital Humanities as a corrective to the “traditional” and outmoded approaches to literary study that supposedly plague English departments.
- Save
1,056 saves
qz.com April 30, 2016
Academia is quietly and systematically keeping its women from succeeding

Academia’s war on women is real. Even though women outnumber men both in college enrollment and graduation rates, colleges aren’t exactly bending over backwards to accommodate them.
- Save
518 saves
calnewport.com March 13, 2017
Yuval Harari Works Less Than You

The 41-year old Israeli historian Yuval Harari has enjoyed a career rise that any academic would envy. He earned his doctorate at Oxford, specializing in medieval military history.
- Save
12,845 saves
chronicle.com October 5, 2016
The 40-Year-Old Burnout

Early in my career, when I heard the word burnout, I thought of aging. I imagined a senior professor who hadn’t updated his wardrobe or his lecture notes in three decades, someone who was stealing a position from a younger, more dynamic scholar. A burnout was a dinosaur, a silverback, deadwood.
- Save
769 saves
vox.com August 26, 2016
UChicago's anti-safe spaces letter isn’t about academic freedom. It’s about power.

A letter from the University of Chicago’s dean of students to the incoming students of the class of 2020 has been making the rounds on social media the past few days. Its purpose, I guess, was to let those students know they were in for a real education.
- Save
457 saves
slate.com June 17, 2013
In the Ivory Tower, Men Only

In 2000, I greeted the first entering graduate-student class at Berkeley where the women outnumbered the men. I was the first female dean of the graduate division. As a ’70s feminist I cautiously thought, “Is the revolution over? Have we won?” Hardly.
- Save
936 saves
nytimes.com May 6, 2018
Scholars Have Data on Millions of Facebook Users. Who’s Guarding It?

SAN FRANCISCO — In July 2014, a team of four Swedish and Polish researchers began using an automated program to better understand what people posted on Facebook.
- Save
453 saves
intellectualtakeout.org October 26, 2016
Why Professors Are Writing Crap That Nobody Reads

Professors usually spend about 3-6 months (sometimes longer) researching and writing a 25-page article to submit an article to an academic journal.
- Save
1,466 saves
theconversation.com March 8, 2016
Academics can change the world – if they stop talking only to their peers

Research and creative thinking can change the world. This means that academics have enormous power. But, as academics Asit Biswas and Julian Kirchherr have warned, the overwhelming majority are not shaping today’s public debates.
- Save
1,362 saves
slate.com October 24, 2013
“I Quit Academia,” an Important, Growing Subgenre of American Essays

Sarah Kendzior, Al-Jazeera English’s firebrand of social and economic justice, suggested this week that there should be a Norton Anthology of Academics Declaring They Quit, among whose august contributions she would place Zachary Ernst’s “Why I Jumped Off the Ivory Tower.” Ernst’s Oct.
- Save
874 saves
theguardian.com March 29, 2015
The war against humanities at Britain's universities

A war is being waged within the cloistered world of academia, a war whose repercussions will be felt down through the generations.
- Save
1,109 saves
news.stanford.edu February 21, 2017
John Etchemendy: ‘The threat from within’

Universities are a fundamental force of good in the world. At their best, they mine knowledge and understanding, wisdom and insight, and then freely distribute these treasures to society at large.
- Save
547 saves
qz.com November 12, 2015
There’s an awful cost to getting a PhD that no one talks about

One night during the third year of my PhD program, I sat on my bed with a packet of tranquilizers and a bottle of vodka. I popped a few pills in my mouth and swigged out of the bottle, feeling them burn down my throat. Moments later, I realized I was making a terrible mistake.
- Save
19,687 saves
openculture.com March 23, 2015
Umberto Eco’s How To Write a Thesis: A Witty, Irreverent & Highly Practical Guide Now Out in English

Image by Università Reggio Calabria, released under a C BY-SA 3.0 license.
- Save
639 saves
theverge.com November 27, 2017
Evidence mounts that laptops are terrible for students at lectures

Do you use a laptop or tablet to take notes during school lectures or meetings? If so, you might want to reconsider pen and paper; there’s increasing evidence that using laptops during lectures decreases learning, which can result in lower grades, reports The New York Times.
- Save
1,537 saves
theguardian.com June 2, 2016
Conference rage: 'How did awful panel discussions become the default format?'

A badly run conference is not only a lost opportunity, but is a waste of money and time. How can we improve them? With the occasional exception, my mood in conferences usually swings between boredom, despair and rage.
- Save
394 saves
chronicle.com September 26, 2014
Why Academics' Writing Stinks

Together with wearing earth tones, driving Priuses, and having a foreign policy, the most conspicuous trait of the American professoriate may be the prose style called academese. An editorial cartoon by Tom Toles shows a bearded academic at his desk...
- Save
3,538 saves
newyorker.com September 15, 2017
Harvard’s Dishonorable Treatment of Chelsea Manning and Michelle Jones

A chill has come early to Harvard this year. Last week, the university announced that President Trump’s increasingly unhireable, unfrocked campaign manager Corey Lewandowski had been offered a perch as a fellow at its Institute of Politics, traditionally an aerie for politicos in between jobs.
- Save
323 saves
slate.com July 25, 2018
Book Breaking and Book Mending

In January, Karin Wulf, a history professor at William and Mary, wrote an installment for her blog, Vast Early America, that promised to teach “How to Gut a (Scholarly) Book in 5 Almost-easy Steps.
- Save
489 saves
thepointmag.com February 21, 2017
Pilgrim at Tinder Creek

Like Amazon.com, OkCupid shows you, as you look at any particular profile, a sidebar that says in effect, “Users who liked this person also clicked on these ten people.
- Save
724 saves
businessinsider.com December 3, 2015
33 business books every professional should read before turning 30

Your 20s are the time when you lay the foundation for your career and finances, which means there's plenty to learn along the way. To help you figure out how to navigate the professional world and set yourself on the right trajectory, we've rounded up some of our favorite business books.
- Save
24,016 saves
timeshighereducation.com September 24, 2015
The story of a shy academic

When I got my first academic job in 1996, it was easy enough to be invisible. Universities were starting to create their first, text-heavy websites, but there were no staff profiles, with capsule biographies and headshots that had to comply with branding guidelines.
- Save
294 saves
ciencia.estadao.com.br October 14, 2014
Ciência brasileira adere ao ‘padrão salame’ de produção e avaliação científica

The idea to reward those who are productive seems fine at face value, but that idea has become ideology. Metrics of quantity once were the means to assess the performance of researchers, but now they have become an end in their own right.
- Save
157 saves
wired.com June 27, 2018
Academics Gathered to Share Emoji Research, and It Was ?

Two years ago, Sanjaya Wijeratne—a computer science PhD student at Wright State University—noticed something odd in his research. He was studying the communication of gang members on Twitter.
- Save
414 saves
washingtonpost.com July 10, 2014
Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes ‘peer review ring’

Every now and then a scholarly journal retracts an article because of errors or outright fraud. In academic circles, and sometimes beyond, each retraction is a big deal. Now comes word of a journal retracting 60 articles at once.
- Save
410 saves
slate.com December 23, 2013
The Brave New World of Academic Censorship

Last week, the Kansas Board of Regents, a nine-member governing body that controls six state universities and some 30 community and technical colleges, voted unanimously to approve a new policy that gives each institution’s “chief executive officer” discretion to discipline or terminate
- Save
282 saves
chroniclevitae.com October 17, 2014
The Adjunct Crisis Is Everyone’s Problem

Image: Strikers picketing during the 1913 Rochester, New York, Garment Workers' Strike. In 2012, I got my Ph.D. and left academia with no regrets. Like all decisions based on financial stability, it was not so much a decision as a reaction.
- Save
269 saves
matt-welsh.blogspot.com January 6, 2016
Academics, we need to talk.

Although I made the move to industry a bit more than five years ago, I still serve on program committees and review articles for journals and the like. So it's painful for me to see some of my academic colleagues totally botch it when it comes to doing industry-relevant research.
- Save
327 saves
theawl.com August 11, 2016
Can the Academic Write? — Part I

Editors think that scholars are bad writers, and they say so often and rudely. Academics think that journalists are lazy thinkers, and they’re no more polite.
- Save
415 saves
vox.com June 5, 2015
I was a liberal adjunct professor. My liberal students didn’t scare me at all.

I covered sensitive topics in my courses, including rape, capital punishment, female genital mutilation, and disputed accounts of mass atrocities. Our classroom debates were contentious, and forced students to examine their own biases.
- Save
1,127 saves
aljazeera.com April 11, 2013
Academia's indentured servants

On April 8, 2013, the New York Times reported that 76 percent of American university faculty are adjunct professors - an all-time high.
- Save
636 saves
zachholman.com March 28, 2013
If Only I Knew This Shit in College

Looking back, that’s really all I knew prior to graduating from university and joining the working world.
- Save
586 saves
howto.hackallthethings.com July 22, 2016
Learning Exploitation with Offensive Computer Security 2.0

After months of preparation, we are pleased to announce the official release schedule for Dr. Owen Redwood’s Offensive Computer Security (OCS) 2.0! This iteration of the course includes new content, all-new lectures, and all-new exercises.
- Save
316 saves
medium.com December 19, 2017
Transitioning From Academia to Industry: Perspectives from Indeed’s Data Scientists

I still remember the moment I told my advisor that I was considering leaving academia. The stress. The fear. Saying the words, “I don’t think I want this for myself” out loud. And afterwards, the relief.
- Save
170 saves
theguardian.com August 9, 2018
A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos

When you look at the stats, it’s hard not to conclude that the current PhD system is fundamentally broken. Mental health issues are rife: approximately one-third of PhD students are at risk of having or developing a psychiatric disorder like depression.
- Save
1,341 saves
blogs.lse.ac.uk February 5, 2014
Why do academics choose useless titles for articles and chapters? Four steps to getting a better title.

An informative title for an article or chapter maximizes the likelihood that your audience correctly remembers enough about your arguments to re-discover what they are looking for.
- Save
597 saves
timeshighereducation.com May 21, 2015
Bureaucracy: why won’t scholars break their paper chains?

We spend more and more time assessing what we do, and fewer and fewer hours doing it - just to give administrators something to do for their gold-plated salaries Time allocation forms, research excellence framework documentation, module monitoring, and research funding applications: these Gradgr
- Save
257 saves
timeshighereducation.com April 24, 2015
How to Write a Thesis, by Umberto Eco

These seem to be very bad times for graduate research students in the arts and humanities, the intended audience for this book.
- Save
457 saves
chronicle.com October 7, 2015
Why It’s So Hard to Leave Academe

It’s the time of year when fresh academic-job postings lure aspiring academics toward a future that promises intellectual fulfillment, professional respect, and economic security.
- Save
297 saves
raulpacheco.org December 1, 2011
Improving your academic writing: My top 10 tips

The topic of academic writing has been popular in the blogosphere and Twittersphere in the past couple of weeks. I think it all came from Stephen Walt’s Foreign Policy piece “On Writing Well“.
- Save
887 saves
academiaobscura.com September 16, 2016
Shit I learned during my PhD

Jon Tennant just finished his PhD in paleontology. This post originally appeared on Jon’s blog, Fossils and Shit. Follow him on twitter @protohedgehog. Doing a PhD is one of the greatest trials you will ever experience in your life.
- Save
164 saves
theguardian.com August 5, 2016
I’m a non-serious academic. I make no apologies for this

Wherever you go in the world, people are too busy checking their phones to really appreciate their surroundings. It’s so disappointing.
- Save
289 saves
argmin.net August 9, 2018
You Cannot Serve Two Masters: The Harms of Dual Affiliation

Facebook would like to have computer science faculty in AI committed to work 80% of their time in industrial jobs and 20% of their time at their university. They call this scheme “co-employment” or “dual affiliation.
- Save
305 saves
timeshighereducation.com July 30, 2018
Hundreds of academics give advice to their younger selves

The request attracted more than 900 comments.
- Save
198 saves
thenewinquiry.com June 29, 2015
Against Students

Complaining, censorious, and over-sensitive, university students are destroying their own institutions. Wait, seriously? People think that?
- Save
1,304 saves
slate.com December 4, 2014
The Campus Alcohol Problem That Nobody Talks About

This week the Chronicle of Higher Education is running a series of long-form investigations about drinking culture on American campuses.
- Save
189 saves
chronicle.com August 5, 2018
The Rise of the Promotional Intellectual

The main tasks of a professor are to teach and do research. The two sometimes vie for priority, but together they encapsulate what we expect professors to do, and they take the bulk of weight in yearly evaluations, tenure judgments, and other...
- Save
1,200 saves
economist.com June 15, 2018
Which traits predict graduates’ earnings?

WHICH university graduates will go on to the earn the most money? Labour-market observers should not be surprised to find that both the subjects people study and the universities they attend are strong predictors of career earnings.
- Save
1,272 saves
nytimes.com November 1, 2013
The Repurposed Ph.D.

ON a recent Sunday afternoon, a monthly meeting convened around a long table in a Whole Foods cafeteria on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. As people settled in, the organizer plopped down a bag of potato chips and tackled housekeeping matters, like soliciting contributions. But she did not insist.
- Save
1,565 saves
hackernoon.com June 4, 2016
The Art of Pivoting

Most of you know me as @BorisAdryan on Twitter or from my technical Internet-of-Things blog Opinions & Experiments. I’ve had a Medium account for a while, and I keep it for more subjective content. This is my second post:
- Save
282 saves
thesiswhisperer.com September 27, 2017
Academic writing is like a painful, upper middle class dinner party

This blog post is part of a series dedicated to developing ideas for a new book I am writing with Shaun Lehmann (@painlessprose on Twitter) and Katherine Firth of the Research Voodoo blog.
- Save
186 saves
harvardmagazine.com December 15, 2014
The “Wild West” of Academic Publishing

Last summer, Harvard University Press (HUP) asked a book designer to create a T-shirt for its softball squad’s intramural season.
- Save
289 saves
chronicle.com October 4, 2018
How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome

Pathologized for a reason, "impostor syndrome" runs thick in the veins of academics, from newly arrived graduate students to those nearing retirement (yes, really). It seems to be such a deep part of the ecosystem of the academy that it is hard to imagine faculty life without it.
- Save
642 saves
slate.com December 9, 2015
The Humiliating Nightmare of Academic-Conference Season

Conference season invokes the stuff of Hieronymus Bosch’s apocalyptic paintings. One of the advantages of an academic career is that most universities take a two- or three-week winter break.
- Save
126 saves
huffingtonpost.com June 9, 2017
White Men Of Academia Have An 'Objectivity' Problem

“Higher education too can make a fetish out of ‘objectivity’ and ‘rationality,’” observes John Warner, confronting specifically The Pitfalls of “Objectivity” in teaching composition.
- Save
81 saves
quillette.com December 21, 2017
It's Time to Marginalize the University and Revive the Café

It’s time to marginalize the university. Universities have come to play an outsize, unwarranted, and often malign role in American life. But their influence and prestige doesn’t stem from any recent intellectual accomplishment or even insidious political agenda.
- Save
233 saves
nytimes.com February 2, 2016
At Berkeley, a New Digital Privacy Protest

After hackers breached the computer network of the U.C.L.A. medical center last summer, Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California, and her office moved to shore up security across the university system’s 10 campuses. Under a program initiated by Ms.
- Save
3,958 saves
thewalrus.ca September 28, 2017
When Tenure Never Comes

Last Thursday, I lost my job. Despite conversations with over thirty colleagues who professed support for the renewal of my contract, the Deans at the university where I’ve worked since 2008 weren’t listening. Like a piece of once-glistening pork left out on a counter, I’ve expired.
- Save
220 saves
diggitmagazine.com February 22, 2018
The end of Academia.edu: how business takes over, again

Academia.edu used to be a refreshing and very useful platform for academics and students all over the world. That has ended with academia.edu introducing the ‘paid search’. When Academia.edu was launched, it was a welcome change in the academic publishing world.
- Save
330 saves
coursera.org September 11, 2017
Programming Mobile Applications for Android Handheld Systems: Part 1

Мэрилендский университет в Колледж-Парке The University of Maryland is the state's flagship university and one of the nation's preeminent public research universities.
- Save
401 saves
blogs.lse.ac.uk December 28, 2014
Shorter, better, faster, free: Blogging changes the nature of academic research, not just how it is communicated

Academic blogging gets your work and research out to a potentially massive audience at very, very low cost and relative amount of effort.
- Save
260 saves
chronicle.com July 5, 2017
How to Talk to Famous Professors

I once heard a famous scholar sigh, "I wish grad students would talk to me about baseball." At conferences, she sincerely wants to connect with early-career academics, but they often refuse her friendly overtures and instead babble frantically about their research in an effort to impress her.
- Save
334 saves
chroniclevitae.com June 14, 2016
So You Think You Want a Tenure-Track Job?

I wanted one, too. Badly. In fact, in 2010, I wrote an article for The Chronicle called “Message in a Bottle” in which I likened a Ph.D. sending out countless applications for tenure-track jobs to a castaway on a remote island, tossing messages out to sea in hopes of being rescued.
- Save
117 saves
slate.com March 17, 2014
Negotiating While Female: Sometimes It Does Hurt to Ask

Job-searching women have long expected to make less money than their male counterparts (which firms know, so they offer us less). We also tend to flinch from haggling with our bosses once an offer hits the table.
- Save
259 saves
prospect.org February 22, 2016
Academic Drivel Report

I don’t know if there is a statute of limitations on confessing one’s sins, but it has been six years since I did the deed and I’m now coming clean.
- Save
1,040 saves
lemire.me September 15, 2014
Academia or industry?

A real test of freedom is to look at what people do when they retire. Do they keep doing whatever they were doing? The first thing that most academics will do when they retire is to drop the grant applications, the graduate students, the teaching… in effect, they’ll drop the bulk of their job.
- Save
171 saves
longreads.com February 16, 2018
Grieving the Academic Life

Years ago, when I told a friend I was searching for more work in academia, she laughed and said she was looking for ways out of academia. Now that I’m in it, I understand what she meant. Most industries have their peculiarities and struggles.
- Save
256 saves