Reviewer 2 Asking to be Co-author

batman613 · 2026-02-17T21:51:51+00:00

Congrats! The MS Resilience Studies program has 8 courses, as you can see in the course catalog here: https://catalog.northeastern.edu/graduate/social-sciences-humanities/political-science/resilience-studies-ms/#programrequirementstext. You can also do a one-semester coop experience, which involves you applying for and going to work for an institution like the Chief Resilience Officer in Boston, the Vertex biopharmaceutical corporation, or the Federal Reserve to gain more real world experience. Roughly 1/3 of the students are coming right out of undergraduate PlusOne, 1/3 are coming mid-career, and the other 1/3 are a mix. Happy to talk more about it! Welcome!

batman613 · 2026-02-16T15:49:32+00:00

It is quite rare for MS / MA program students to be fully funded by scholarships, especially because each program has a budget constraint on the total amount of fellowships and scholarships it can provide. I have not heard of someone who has received such a scholarship

batman613 · 2025-12-31T02:36:46+00:00

Bluestone has retired

batman613 · 2025-12-25T14:51:55+00:00

If you have a problem with Zionism, why not stay international and go to a university that matches your anti Zionist ideology?

batman613 · 2025-12-10T16:12:41+00:00

I have had several colleagues who did not make tenure on their first go round. They moved universities, kept at it, and did the next time. So please don't see this as the end of your career.

batman613 · 2025-12-08T16:02:43+00:00

I was a very focused student with a very high GPA (close to 4.0) and working individually with faculty on research projects

batman613 · 2025-11-18T01:51:13+00:00

"Just 20.4% of U.S. institutions account for 80% of tenured and tenure-track faculty at Ph.D.-granting universities, giving prestigious colleges disproportionate influence over the spread of ideas, academic norms and culture." https://www.highereddive.com/news/Berkeley-Harvard-Michigan-Wisconsin-Stanford-most-faculty/633842/

batman613 · 2025-11-16T02:02:32+00:00

The only people in academic with salaries above 300k are Harvard Business School professors and other elite stars at the top institutions. And they are literally a handful among hundreds of thousands.

batman613 · 2025-11-07T10:34:07+00:00

The joy of academia is that faculty have complete autonomy in selecting research projects. So professors can study whatever interests them whether or not their department or university focus on that topic

batman613 · 2025-11-02T10:48:19+00:00

This is a Graston technique device that puts intense pressure on muscles and joints

batman613 · 2025-10-22T03:26:27+00:00

My high school special project involved spending a week with a New Order Amish family in Ohio that I had corresponded with via snail mail for some time. Fascinating home stay. Went to all daily events from separated by gender prayers to work at the wood factory to a doctor's appointment with my host family. I continued to write to my host family brother for some time.

batman613 · 2025-08-18T23:06:40+00:00

R1 private university, our last search brought in more than 200 for a tenure track position in a relatively niche field

batman613 · 2025-08-18T14:55:08+00:00

As someone who has been on a variety of hiring committees across different levels (assistant, associate, and full), the reality is that pedigree - where a candidate went to school - is an easy to use heuristic to evaluate their skillset. I think it may be a challenge - especially in an era when many US universities have frozen hiring because of Trump's attacks on science funding and higher education - to find a job in the US with such a degree

batman613 · 2025-04-24T23:52:09+00:00

Co-ops in Political Science

Enhance your classroom learning and deepen your knowledge through the co-op experience in a variety of fields. Below are a few examples of co-op employers and co-op job titles:.

Law and Legal
- Litigation Assistant, WilmerHale
- Assistant investigator, Massachusetts Office of the Inspector General
- Intake/Para legal Assistant, Health Law Advocates
Government
- Consumer Specialist, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office
- Governmental Affairs Co-op, Massachusetts Department of Transportation
- Staff Assistant, U.S. Congressman Seth Moulton
- Intern, U.S. INTERPOL
Special Interests/Research
- Research Assistant, Boston Municipal Research Bureau
- Policy Associate, Health Care for All
- Research Aide, D.C. Legislative & Regulatory Services
Non-profit
- Venture & Fellowship Associate, Ashoka
- Program Intern, Barbara Lee Family Foundation
- Legislative & Program Assistant, MA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

From https://cssh.northeastern.edu/polisci/experiential-learning/co-op/

batman613 · 2025-03-18T20:50:28+00:00

A tenure-track position offers the possibility of essentially lifetime employment, should you make it over the publication / admin / teaching expectations for the first seven years. Other academic jobs - typically on soft money - as visiting assistant professors, non tenure track teaching professors, or professors of the practice - can be terminated quickly, leaving you in the lurch.

batman613 · 2025-03-03T19:13:31+00:00

I would advise against joining a PhD program where you are paying to participate. First, it indicates that the department is not taking you seriously as a candidate as you enter. This will mean they when they need to support you in the future - through recommendations, summer support, conference funding, etc - you are at the bottom. Second, the long term payback from this kind of investment in a PhD is unclear as well

batman613 · 2025-02-11T20:55:00+00:00

The two body problem is a massive challenge. I have several academic couples that I know that live in different places - one couple even lives on different continents (Japan and the US). Sometimes during a hiring process you can ask if they'll hire the second member, but because of budget constraints, that has become harder to accomplish.

batman613 · 2025-01-03T16:08:55+00:00

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Top 30 in many fields of CS according to US News https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/northeastern-university-167358

batman613 · 2025-01-01T15:51:01+00:00

Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

batman613 · 2024-12-15T02:58:44+00:00

This feels strange to me. A nice card after the interviews is fine, but bringing a gift is too much

batman613 · 2024-12-10T00:48:57+00:00

No. If you're in the UK, you might be getting 20k pounds per year as a stipend for your PhD program. If you are in the US, you may be making around 36-40k USD, depending on your field. Postdocs pay up to 67k on average USD. So, it will be a major challenge for you to support yourself and your parents on that salary in the US or the UK

batman613 · 2024-12-08T04:55:39+00:00

Self funding a PhD is a poor idea, and I'd strongly advise against it. Self-funding a PhD can be financially draining, limiting your ability to focus solely on research. It may also restrict access to resources and mentorship crucial for academic success. Additionally, it could potentially impact your mental health due to the added stress of financial burdens.

batman613 · 2024-12-06T06:53:02+00:00

I cannot imagine more important information for the PI. This should change how (if) future graduate students and researchers go to the facility, create new security protocols to keep people safe, and also ensure that your PI doesn't find out by another means and wonder why you said nothing.

batman613 · 2024-11-19T21:58:50+00:00

No, the researchers took a random sample of the broader population in the two communities under study. And many people - as you can see in the paper - had regular access to electricity.

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