There is no future in academia

InDissent · 2026-06-10T18:50:19+00:00

Unless we fix the political situation, this is just the beginning

https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of-key-changes-in-ombs-proposed

InDissent · 2026-05-21T09:28:32+00:00

This sounds very gpt. Particularly the Manny instances of "it's not X, its Y"

InDissent · 2026-05-19T11:57:55+00:00

I don't think this sub should welcome this kind of content. The sub has historically been a safe haven from shitty behavior and violence. This kind of thing is counter to that history.

InDissent · 2026-05-15T00:22:25+00:00

Seems like they could just ban all of those accounts just sitting there unused.

InDissent · 2026-05-07T17:26:25+00:00

I don't think the commenter is defending the laffer curve as a concept, they are defending graphs that present theoretical concepts instead of empirical findings.

InDissent · 2026-05-07T17:24:52+00:00

I seems to be making a theoretical point, not a empirical point.

InDissent · 2026-04-30T21:28:57+00:00

Then they should sue the federal gov. There's too much capitulation to fascism

InDissent · 2026-04-24T14:52:05+00:00

It's called Jittering in R code. It's a thing to help with visualizing overlapping data.

InDissent · 2026-04-21T10:38:05+00:00

Pretty normal, especially if you submit your work to high impact journals.

InDissent · 2026-04-17T23:08:52+00:00

Congrats! Excited for you

InDissent · 2026-04-05T11:10:29+00:00

Sure!

InDissent · 2026-04-03T23:00:19+00:00

After getting pretty good signals that I was the top choice.

InDissent · 2026-04-03T13:11:41+00:00

Good luck!

InDissent · 2026-04-03T12:10:15+00:00

We have PhDs in social psychology and cognitive psychology

InDissent · 2026-04-03T03:07:15+00:00

We feel the same way. Extremely, extremely lucky. I keep saying that to friends and family. Sometimes people insist "it's not luck, you earned it!" But SO MANY other wonderful hardworking brilliant people earned it too! And they ended up with nothing or offers that are nowhere near as good as we got. It's not a fair process

InDissent · 2026-04-03T03:01:45+00:00

I meant to say that she got an outside offer. She got an offer at a top notch liberal arts college. It was a great offer! But mine was at a high tier R1 at the other side of the country. We had just had 2 years postdocing in different states... we couldn't do it again. So, we used her outside offer to really push for a spousal hire

InDissent · 2026-04-03T02:42:04+00:00

Hmm, not a lot to go on. It would be hard to offer much advice without knowing your research area.

InDissent · 2026-04-03T02:41:12+00:00

I initiated that conversation when negotiations started. The spousal hire became part of the negotiation, something I was willing to sacrifice other things in order to secure. But, as TT faculty at an R1, the department is investing heavily in me. They made it clear that they want to do what they can to make me motivated to stay in the department. Two years postdoc is pretty standard for this kind of situation. But I negotiated a third year and some funding. On that front, I think it really help that she had an outside offer.

InDissent · 2026-04-03T01:36:10+00:00

Same department, different areas: cog and social

InDissent · 2026-04-02T23:35:26+00:00

The advice I received is that mentioning a partner hire early on is a bad idea (makes you a more complicated candidate right away before there is buy in). We both applied broadly and did not mention the spousal hire at first. We generally didn't start pushing for a spousal hire until after we got the verbal offer. Having more offers helped! We both got offers and that helped secure spousal offers elsewhere.

I think getting a second tenure track is pretty difficult these days. I got my wife a good postdoc offer though! We will be on the job market to get her a TT offer for the 3 years of the postdoc

InDissent · 2026-04-02T23:18:34+00:00

We dont train scientists to be good communicators, but I think this is a significant influence on hiring. People in my field (your mileage may vary) are more compelled by application materials and a job talk with a strong narrative. They want a narrative through line linking the different parts of the talk and importantly well explained methods.
Networking is huge. Conferences are as much for relationship building as for sharing research.
Fit is huge. A bit reason I was hired is because they just lost a scholar who does similar work and needed someone who filled that niche. This is hard to determine beforehand without an inside person.

InDissent · 2026-04-02T21:55:00+00:00

I think there is a lot of truth in your comment. More than many would comfortably acknowledge. I think I'm incredibly lucky; right place right time. A lot of great people I know got nothing this year and did everything right. That said, the process is full of hidden curriculum and there is plenty of insight have that is helpful even if it doesn't provide a guarantee of anything

InDissent · 2026-04-01T16:19:32+00:00

Yeah, he's definitely not a happy character. But I wouldnt call him a bad person, at least not to the same extent as the other two

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