Sociology PhD Candidate (on the job market)
I study race, multiracial identity & whiteness using
qualitative & arts-based methods.
From Colorado ๐ making a pit stop in Indiana โบ๏ธ
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Multiple cities reporting that ICE raids have begun.
I'm an immigrant & human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, the actions each of us can take to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate.
No paywall. Please share widely.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mass-anti-immigrant-raids
"Right-wing media launched an all-out assault on Budde that revealed exactly how power plans to deal with dissent in Trump's second term. โฆ
All of thisโthe full machinery of right-wing outrageโdeployed against a religious leader who simply asked for kindness toward vulnerable people. The disproportionate response tells us exactly what we're dealing with."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #BishopBudde #mercy #morality
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-price-of-speaking-up-in-trumps
Things I didn't realize about the #AcademicJobMarket
32) Interview prep: There's really no substitute for talking to someone who knows the institution. It really blew my mind how helpful this was, and how unfair. But the system's not fair.
So leverage your connections. Tell people about your upcoming interviews. There's a chance they'll know something or someone that might help.
Things I didn't realize about the #AcademicJobMarket
31) That first Zoom interview is a lifeline. Based on a robust n=2 ๐, October is consistently the hardest time on the market for me. But that first interview snaps everything into focus.
I hate that my emotional well-being is so tied to decisions completely outside of my control.
But folks who haven't heard back are going through it. Buy them a drink. Let them vent or cry. It's a miserable process.
Bluesky is blowing up, and I do like it on there, but in my mind, this thread will always be a Mastodon thing. ๐
Late finding this, but it's great.
"In Kamala Harrisโs Blackness, I See My Own" - Danzy Senna
"We are and always have been a Rorschach test for how the world is processing its anxiety, rage, confusion and desire about this amorphous construction we call race."
#MixedRaceStudies #MixedRace #Multiracial
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/opinion/kamala-harris-biracial.html
I consider giving a talk to my colleagues in my research dept about #Fediverse and #Mastodon. I wanted to do that 2 years ago but haven't take the time - yet.
I more or less know what I want to say, but I need a visual support. And maybe additional background would be a +.
Do you know of a nice presentation/doc from which I could extract useful visuals (and maybe quantitative facts)? Even better if it's meant for #academics / #researchers.
Things I didn't realize about the #AcademicJobMarket
30) Sometimes, when writing is getting too frustrating, submitting a job application is a quick, "I did something productive" dopamine boost.
Things I didn't realize about the #AcademicJobMarket
29) You live with a constant undercurrent of fear. Fear that your application wasn't good enough, your interview responses weren't strong, your job talk wasn't interesting or novel enough...
Then the bigger ones. The fears about the quality of your work, the years spent on this degree, and whether you'll get to have an academic career.
No wonder it's so exhausting.
Leaving was bittersweet. There is something that happens during the approach and aftermath of a hurricane that we want our children to see. It is clichรฉ, but the community comes together.
Last night, in a super market to get items for nervous snacking, small groups of people gathered in all parts of the storm to chat, to give people advice, to share lived experience. The cashier was curious about everyone's plans and wished everyone safety through the storm. As I left, a man asked me how bad it was in there. When I told time that there was evidence that people were snacking due to Milton, he laughed and sad, "That's what I'm here for!"
At home today, while prepping the house, we had more conversations with neighbors than we have had cumulatively over the last 6 months probably.
Why does it take an imminent disaster to bring us together like that? After the storm, there is always an outpouring of support, checking in on one another. We want our kids to know how to build community like this for their climate-altered reality, the only future they are going to have.
Protect your time. Don't let yourself be convinced that you must do someone else's work outside office hours.
We're hiring! - https://uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/175721
TT in sociology, focus on "socially informed AI" (broadly construed). I'm SC chair if you have any questions. Please share widely!
"I want to wax poetic about the blend of anger and tears, but more than that I want to halt the machine that sends bombs to kill innocents overseas while it simultaneously kills innocents here at home."
We're not allowed to release statements that "take a stance on current events" at my university anymore.
But previously it was part of my job. I would've been writing about Marcellus Williams this morning, teary while trying to find the right words.
Baldwin said to be conscious in the US is to exist in a constant state of rage.
Bro was not lying.
@VCP @tkinias @writingmonicker not just degree conferral--many institutions specifically require a specific number of graduate credit hours in a given field to be able to teach in that field
@tkinias @VCP Ah, I hadn't thought about degree verification. But right, you'd think the phd advisor letter would do it or even presence on the institution's website (I see some applications provide a space for optional links).
I've haven't seen any application specify PhD transcripts only, but that would save me a few steps!
@kennypeanuts oh wow! Guess I better keep my files organized enough to find them later.
@DamonHD @academicchatter @sociology
I don't think so because they've always asked for names of references too. (Whoops guess you're out of luck!)
Things I didn't realize about the #AcademicJobMarket
28) Including transcripts, I am now submitting configurations of 16 different documents for academic jobs.
[insert recommendation for structural change here ๐]
