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What is Academaze? Academaze is a book of essays and cartoons on academic life at a major research institution. I wrote it under the pen name Sydney Phlox and it was published on June 20, 2016 by Annorlunda Books. The book title is a combination of “academic” and “maze,” hinting at the labyrinthian nature of academia. You can think of Academaze…
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Profdirector asked here: What is the best advice for more senior folk to support the junior faculty as they start? I am going to focus here on what one particular faculty member can do on their own, and not the systemic issues of department culture or tenure process that can indeed make or break a…
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Graduate-student recruitment season is upon us, and the inboxes of faculty who work at institutions with graduate programs are again filling with emails containing “prospective student” in the subject. I will be bringing on several people this year, so I started interviewing early. I have pretty much decided whom I want to recruit already based…
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Original post here. This was a busy weekend, with student paperwork emergencies, grading the midterm, helping out kids with some schoolwork, and also DH’s birthday, for which I did some extra special cooking (no guests, just us, but it’s nice to mark the occasion). I’m feeling a bit 😩😩😩😩😩 and there’s still grading to do,…
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Recently, I attended a workshop that discussed faculty transitioning into administrative roles. It was very well run, with engaging and, honestly, very impressive panelists. I did not think I’d ever be able to appreciate one of these event, but it was probably the double whammy of me being amenable and the workshop being well run…
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Original post here. A couple of weeks ago, I took an older colleague to lunch. He’s in a different area so we’d never interacted too much, but to the extent we had, I’d always thought he was pretty cool. Anyway, he’s 70, retiring, and moving cross-country to take up a research-only position elsewhere. I’d missed…
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https://twitter.com/scalzi/status/1588133006916653056?s=20&t=W7AlFtrJikd9eM22hzbHtg We succeeded in recreating a Neolithic flatbread! This is about as close as I can figure out how to make bread as it would have been baked in one of the first daily bread-making cultures, ca. 9,000 years ago. I’ll let you judge the authenticity…but the taste is fantastic. pic.twitter.com/z3cWIyVXbf — 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙻𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚂𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚛…
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>>NOVEMBER 2022: If you have a question you’d like me to answer during Nov 2022 daily blogging, please leave a comment to this post.<< Another question by Profdirector, originally posted here: What not obvious thing do you wish the old fully promoted men in your department knew? I’m going to assume this question ends with…
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Welcome to daily blogging in November! In the spirit of NaNoWriMo, there’s an old blogging tradition known as NaBloPoMo, national blog posting month. I will start with a question from Profdirector, originally posted here: Navel-gazing subject: what amount of yearly money could your research survive on? I.e. what annual budget would allow you to stop…
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The other day, I came across this tweet (screenshot below): I started fuming, but that’s neither here nor there, since I fume a lot, on account of being a perimenopausal woman and the world generally being a steaming cauldron of irritating shit. Still, upon closer inspection, I realized this was a very specific kind of…
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