3.29: How to Keep Going When You Don't Feel Like It
We continue with vintage – yet evergreen – recordings. It seems like everyone struggles with the desire to quit at times. It’s a natural response to external forces, but you can summon internal forces...
9 Aug 202237min
Ep 3:27 #LeavingAcademia: The Great Quitting
Academics are bailing in unprecedented numbers, and academia has finally started to notice. Karen was interviewed twice in the past couple weeks–once in Nature, once in the Chronicle — about mass resi...
20 Jun 202234min
Episode 3:25 Burnout Part II - Academia Has It Bad
One episode wasn’t enough to talk about burnout in the academy. Juxtaposing the WHO definition of burnout with a definition Karen read, that burnout is “investing emotionally in a job and not having t...
8 Jun 202240min
Ep 3:24 Academic Burnout: What It Is, Where It Comes From
Burnout is on everyone’s mind right now. It’s the end of the academic year, and what an academic year it was. Profs and students both are at the end of their ropes. Kel and Karen talk about the sympt...
12 Mai 202239min
Ep 3:23 Prepping for Next Year's Job Market
You didn’t get the job this year; what to do? Kel and I talk through what makes a competitive record and competitive presentation of that record, so you can know what to prioritize this summer, if an...
6 Mai 202241min
Ep 2:22 The Violence of Professionalism
We dig into the definition of “professionalism,” a term thrown around as an arbiter of correct and incorrect behavior in academia. Drawing from insights on a recent Twitter thread, Karen and Kel tal...
27 Apr 202235min
Ep 3:21 Surviving Your New Academic Thing
We did a survey recently and the message loud and clear was: please give us more advice about just… surviving in academia! So today we are talking about managing your transition into your new academi...
22 Apr 202242min
