I wish #tenure and #tenuretrack #academic #faculty in R1s who constantly complain about their job would all quit. As someone who has spent significant time in private industry and would love to spend the rest of their #career #teaching and doing #research, it's one of the most frustrating things to hear. Please stop telling me how awful your high status, privileged job is.
#Tenure
*guitar ballad music plays*
Me applying for #tenure:
YOU MAY CALL ME A DREAMER ! CAAAALL ME A FOOL! JUST A BLUE-EYED BELIEVER IN YOOOOU
AAAAAND I'D DIIIE FOR THAT SOMEOOONE! IN THE BLIIIINK OF AN EEEYE SO TELL ME JUST TELL ME, JUST WHAT KIIINDA FOOOL AAAAAM I?
It's only shortly past 8 in the morning, but I need to #vent.
I just overheard a new #tenure track assistant #professor talk about how they got there.
In a nutshell, they haven't left the department since their master studies and stumbled into the tenure process by accident.
I am (kinda) happy for them, but I am also so incredibly fucking jealous!
I have switched not only university but country after every degree/job, so by now I live in country number 5 since starting by studies.
The longest I've been in the same country was during my #PhD plus pandemic and unemployment for over a year.
Especially older #academics don't seem to understand this, because whenever I mention any of this I encounter completely blank stares. Note, I'm in a department where most senior staff is local and celebrating 15-35+ years at the same employer.
I'm in my mid-30, I don't want to move every few years when my temporary contract ends.
I want to be able to plan more than 1-2 years at a time.
I absolutely love doing #research, but I hate so many aspects of #academic culture or what has been normalized over the years for #AcademicLife.
I plan on staying in #academia despite of it.
#Rant over, time to calm down and sip my tea.
#PostDocLife #PhDLife #academicchatter #MyLifeAsAnAcademic #AcademicMastodon #tenuretrack
How to avoid reading – and how to avoid finishing a book.
👉 https://philosophics.blog?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social/2025/11/05/how-to-avoid-reading/
Whilst mired in adminstrivia, I happened upon The Intellectual Origins of Modernity – a favourite whipping boy (or girl, lest I come across as sexist).
I asked ChatGPT to parse it for me, and it told me – despite it is well structured and written – to skip it.
#books #reading #amwriting #technology #chatgpt #ai #critique #philosophy #history #modernity #society #origins #Publishing #tenure #academia #blog
On the one hand, I know that #academic institutions have changed and evolved.
OTO(ther)H, I just found 3(!) new organizations that came online relatively recently to deal with "misalignment between traditional academic metrics for hiring, #tenure, and advancement" which has been a problem since the 1980's.
(And we still can't deal with anything actually #interdisciplinary!)
WTF!?
#science #academics #AcademicChatter #bullshit #InstitutionalInertia #AcademicInstitutions #institutions
Government mulls extending parliamentary standing committee terms from 1 to 2 years for enhanced scrutiny & continuity https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/parliamentary-committee-tenure-extension-shashi-tharoor-f1zsjqi5?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #parliamentarycommittee #government #shashitharoor #tenure
Oh, how cool!
"we introduce the Claims Network approach, which collects information about REIL [Research (R), Education (E), societal impact (I), and academic leadership (L) ] contributions by inviting researchers to post about them on the distributed Mastodon social media environment."
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-05409-8_11
"The Claims Network: Collecting Research, Education, Impact, and Leadership Claims on the Decentralized Web"
by @hvdsomp
The Presidential Office confirms it has not discussed the tenure of the Supreme Court Chief Justice and has no plans to do so, signaling stability in top judiciary leadership.
#YonhapInfomax #PresidentialOffice #SupremeCourt #ChiefJustice #Tenure #JudiciaryLeadership #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=81876
Academic freedom is being legislated away — one law, one fired professor at a time.
Tenure isn’t a privilege. It’s a bulwark.
And it’s cracking.
https://brewminate.com/tenure-on-trial-how-academic-freedom-is-being-legislated-away/
I was informed I made it. I'm to be awarded #tenure and promotion, effective August 1st. There are crappy things happening, though, like hiring freezes and such. I almost expect to hear they won't be able to give me the raise that comes with my promotion. I'm relieved I'll have tenure, but would still consider other job opportunities if something interesting came along. I applied to a San Diego position last year, but the search was canceled and the position was swept. #academia
A tenure-track position in the functional ecology of lotic systems (CPJ-CNRS) is now available in my laboratory in Lyon, France.
#Science #Ecology #job #career #academic #tenure #professorship #lehna #LEHNA_lab #CNRS #UnivLyon1
🔗 https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/CPJ-2025-019/Default.aspx?lang=EN
“Already, #Trump has threatened to pull #funding from #colleges that don’t purge #language he considers #woke. He’s demanded new oversight of certain regional studies depts. Next he could #ban, as #Florida has, 'political or social #activism.' He could weaken the protections provided by #tenure & #faculty #unions. I saw this happen on my campus, & I know the toll it took. If the Trump admin has its way, my experience could offer a preview of what’s coming for other #universities.”
#Academia
#HigherEd
#Tenure
@academicchatter
Looks like my home state of #Indiana is going full maga bonkers on higher Ed. No thanks!
Indiana budget bill curbs university faculty power, ties tenure to new ‘productivity’ reviews • Indiana Capital Chronicle
https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/05/02/indiana-budget-bill-curbs-university-faculty-power-ties-tenure-to-new-productivity-reviews/
Pfft, who gets to tell a tenured Professor when to go to bed? You should file a grievance.
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