Hiring in academia places a higher value on a person's credentials rather than their abilities or potential. As a place that advocates for diversity, we filter out those that did not have a more traditional path of going to a research intensive university.
I am grateful a university took a bet on me and I have had success. But I did not advance in searches specifically because I did not go to a R1. I took the less traditional path of getting experience in industry and receiving my doctorate from a regional state university while working full-time and raising a family.
While I've been fortunate, others have not. This is a problem. How much potential are we denying in higher ed?
Responding to a post I saw from someone on the #tenuretrack -
I don’t care what your associate dean or department chair tells you: you have to rest. Not half-hour cat nap. Rest for a whole day. You need to do what you like. You need to walk in fresh air. You need to see friends and family. In the long run, it will help you, particularly in the final stretch. #academia#academicmastodon#academicchatter@academicchatter
I’m presenting at the Invisible Histories Project Queer History Teach in about my research, with research partner Evie Giaconia. Register for Fall 2023 Queer History Teach In! The Fall 2023 Queer History Teach In will take place on November 18th, 2023, from 11:00am - to 2:30pm hosted virtually. Registration link: https://bit.ly/2023TeachIn
Whirlwind November. Don't know if I am coming or going. Got an article publication, an article acceptance (with minor revisions), and another article revisions required but prior to peer review. This on top of everything else + two medical appointments due. I'll clock in more regularly in December when I expect I will want to be more sloth-like. Wish me luck! 😬
ps: #Watermyth is also in do-or-die mode. Publication by December or bust!
Embodying Space in Hypertext Through Psychogeography: A Creative Writing Workshop
15 November 2023 – 25 February 2024
This creative writing workshop explores the ways in which spatiality and narrative intertwine in the production of hypertext writing projects. In the webinar that kickstarts this workshop, participants will be briefed on general ideas and theories revolving around games-writing, narratives, spatial theory, psychogeography and hypertext fiction.
Note: If you are local to the Klang Valley you may apply for the entire workshop (it's free of charge but the deadline is 11/11/2023!). If you are not but are interested, you may register for the webinar alone.
I'm preparing my CV for a tenure track application and stepping through all my publications brings back so many memories.
The friends made, the fieldwork stories, the places visited, the teaching, the disappointment and frustration, the parties after (or before) things were finished.
I think I managed to do a lot of good science while having fun at it. It has been a privilege, which I hope to pay forward.
This is your yearly reminder that you can ask people to nominate you for awards.
If you don't know who to ask and I can nominate you, I will absolutely do!
This message prompted by me, starting to prepare an award nomination for a colleague (at my old institution). She didn't ask me to nominate her, but she absolutely deserves it.
I usually have one writing book in my reading rotation. They vary based on what I need & the state of my writing. My reaction to Pressfield's The War of Art is always the most telling.
As a freelance writer pre-grad school, it resonated deeply. I needed that "get over yourself & get to work" message.
But during other periods, I'm really turned off by it. That usually means I need to slow down, think through tough ideas, and/or seek out guidance.
Currently I'm re-reading Howard Becker's Writing for Social Scientists.
The "Terrorized by the Literature" chapter is a little too spot on. And the Risk chapter (Pamela Richards) hits a lot harder than it did my first year of grad school.
I am a PhD candidate in Tartu, searching for the imprints of dynamical friction in different environments, and how through this there might be a possibility to constrain the properties of dark matter and other dynamics in galaxies. Supervised by Rain Kipper.
I am very interested in galactic dynamics, computational astronomy and lately I am exploring superbubbles in NGC628 as seen by JWST-MIRI.
TW/CW: there is sexual assault in this very old Malay movie. I'm drawing comparisons between the descent into abjection in the protagonist here and in Lewis's The Monk.
ps: I will likely surface to post deets on two more events: one a creative writing workshop exploring spatiality and the hypertext with Dr. Darin Bradley, Dr Ewan Awang and Dr Fadhli Kaidhzir as guest speakers (I'll be doing the hypertext fiction workshop part), and the second one my second Memory Studies in Literature and the Humanities webinar.
To those wondering how my Halloween Pavlovian toss the students a candy bar when they speak experiment went: pretty much the same in both classes.
First 2 students were all “what is going on?” w/ 1 even doing the Pip from LoTR gazing up into the Heavens. The 3rd student then tested the theory that talking generated candy. Once that proved successful, the floodgates opened up. #academia#academicchatter#academicmastodon@academicchatter
Some folks here are in disciplines that have fewer folks here than others. Is there any interest in using a general academic #LiveToot hashtag so that if someone does us all the favor of live tooting an academic conference, we can at least boost the signal? This would eventually encourage an increased use of Mastodon over Txitter for live conference/workshop/seminar/symposium coverage, I hope. @academicchatter
Acta Sociologica is happy to publish the call for papers for a new special issue: 'Social investment in action' which will be guest-edited by @ditteandersen and Magnus Paulsen Hansen!
In the movie I watched last night, the bad guy tells the brilliant researcher to follow his commands or "I'll send you back to Cornell or whatever hole I found you in. Good luck supporting your lifestyle on an instructor's salary!"
And that's literally the only thing I remember about the movie now.
Critically acclaimed horror film of the 2010s or your PhD program? 😅
"You find yourself in an opulent but sinister setting that possesses subtle but undeniable links to antebellum slavery. Everyone who has been there longer than you seems to have completely lost the will to live. You are warned by at least one of them to get out. You try to comply but powerful forces keep pulling you back."
It didn't take me too long to get home from work today.
A clean home is always nice.
It's a rather desperate week in terms of getting stuff done + academic deadlines as always, but getting stuff done always give me an inner glow of satisfaction. That whole eudaimonia + arete cocktail thingo.