👇🎯 And seeing colleagues enthusiastically embrace this as a positive development in research & mentoring has been once of the most infuriating & demoralizing developments in my entire academic career.
i think we were already over-producing - and the incentives were toward producing a particular kind of inference - before AI came on the scene. the possibility that now people will be expected to produce 90 AI-aided papers per year or something is a collapse of the values at the center of the system
November 1, 2026 at 8:48 PM
👇🎯 And seeing colleagues enthusiastically embrace this as a positive development in research & mentoring has been once of the most infuriating & demoralizing developments in my entire academic career.
Ted mentoring Bill on how to handle his own pregnant crazy ex
#BeyondTheGates
#BeyondTheGates
November 2, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Ted mentoring Bill on how to handle his own pregnant crazy ex
#BeyondTheGates
#BeyondTheGates
Since then, my London Violence Reduction Unit has helped prevent violence before it happens, investing in young people through mentoring, sport, music and targeted support.
And recently, we celebrated a major milestone: one million Londoners reached.
And recently, we celebrated a major milestone: one million Londoners reached.
November 2, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Since then, my London Violence Reduction Unit has helped prevent violence before it happens, investing in young people through mentoring, sport, music and targeted support.
And recently, we celebrated a major milestone: one million Londoners reached.
And recently, we celebrated a major milestone: one million Londoners reached.
He's firmly liberal, in his 80s, has been out of elected office since 1991, and still volunteers a lot of his time to mentoring young Dem candidates
November 1, 2026 at 11:40 PM
He's firmly liberal, in his 80s, has been out of elected office since 1991, and still volunteers a lot of his time to mentoring young Dem candidates
I think this is already to some extent a real thing just we don't really acknowledge it. In fact some kinds of teaching or mentoring are more or less just facilitation of student achieving their potential in a way that looks closest to care labour. This is not a new idea (it's from Socrates!) but...
In the future, professors will be judged not by output but by their ability to care and nurture
This will be deeply unpopular in some quarters
This will be deeply unpopular in some quarters
And where will new professors come from without RAs. But clearly our institutions consider professors a nuisance and find this development a welcome excuse to stop pretending to care about that
November 2, 2026 at 12:35 PM
I think this is already to some extent a real thing just we don't really acknowledge it. In fact some kinds of teaching or mentoring are more or less just facilitation of student achieving their potential in a way that looks closest to care labour. This is not a new idea (it's from Socrates!) but...
Oppenheimer is a good example of why I think research, mentoring, and teaching reinforce each other rather than compete. Great research makes mentoring richer, and great mentoring builds the teams that make research stronger.
nikolai.slavovlab.net/Research,-me...
nikolai.slavovlab.net/Research,-me...
Research, mentoring, and teaching
Thus, choosing between great research or great mentorship is a false choice: One can succeed at both or is likely to succeed at neither.
nikolai.slavovlab.net
November 1, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Oppenheimer is a good example of why I think research, mentoring, and teaching reinforce each other rather than compete. Great research makes mentoring richer, and great mentoring builds the teams that make research stronger.
nikolai.slavovlab.net/Research,-me...
nikolai.slavovlab.net/Research,-me...
My Substack newsletter for November is live - and includes the launch of my new Six-Month Mentoring Programme for 2027, early reader responses to my forthcoming novel, and a few reading recommendations. ✒️📚🐢
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Joy of Tortoises and a new Six-Month Mentoring Opportunity for Novelists
Things I'm writing, things I'm reading, things I'm teaching...
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November 2, 2026 at 10:43 AM
My Substack newsletter for November is live - and includes the launch of my new Six-Month Mentoring Programme for 2027, early reader responses to my forthcoming novel, and a few reading recommendations. ✒️📚🐢
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
✨ INDUSTRY MENTORING ✨
Starting out, returning to the industry or looking to improve your business?
I offer personalised 1:1 mentoring covering branding, advertising, rates, client management and business strategy.
💜 $150/hour | Melbourne & Online
DM for enquiries.
Starting out, returning to the industry or looking to improve your business?
I offer personalised 1:1 mentoring covering branding, advertising, rates, client management and business strategy.
💜 $150/hour | Melbourne & Online
DM for enquiries.
November 2, 2026 at 9:27 PM
✨ INDUSTRY MENTORING ✨
Starting out, returning to the industry or looking to improve your business?
I offer personalised 1:1 mentoring covering branding, advertising, rates, client management and business strategy.
💜 $150/hour | Melbourne & Online
DM for enquiries.
Starting out, returning to the industry or looking to improve your business?
I offer personalised 1:1 mentoring covering branding, advertising, rates, client management and business strategy.
💜 $150/hour | Melbourne & Online
DM for enquiries.
the thing is...none of that was *for* Via, it was for Stolas.
mentoring Via, covering for Blitz at the auction - everything Vassago has done so far has been for Stolas and i think that distinction is important because of this scene right here. Blitz almost fell prey to doing the exact same thing.
mentoring Via, covering for Blitz at the auction - everything Vassago has done so far has been for Stolas and i think that distinction is important because of this scene right here. Blitz almost fell prey to doing the exact same thing.
November 2, 2026 at 12:39 AM
the thing is...none of that was *for* Via, it was for Stolas.
mentoring Via, covering for Blitz at the auction - everything Vassago has done so far has been for Stolas and i think that distinction is important because of this scene right here. Blitz almost fell prey to doing the exact same thing.
mentoring Via, covering for Blitz at the auction - everything Vassago has done so far has been for Stolas and i think that distinction is important because of this scene right here. Blitz almost fell prey to doing the exact same thing.
Be A Mentor brings mentoring into communities and to kids who really need the support.
Sign up for one of our mentoring programs (including Virtual) today! 🌟
beamentor.org/mentor
beamentor.org/virtualmentor
Can't commit to time but want to help?
beamentor.org/donate
#Mentoring #Hope
Sign up for one of our mentoring programs (including Virtual) today! 🌟
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beamentor.org/virtualmentor
Can't commit to time but want to help?
beamentor.org/donate
#Mentoring #Hope
November 2, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Be A Mentor brings mentoring into communities and to kids who really need the support.
Sign up for one of our mentoring programs (including Virtual) today! 🌟
beamentor.org/mentor
beamentor.org/virtualmentor
Can't commit to time but want to help?
beamentor.org/donate
#Mentoring #Hope
Sign up for one of our mentoring programs (including Virtual) today! 🌟
beamentor.org/mentor
beamentor.org/virtualmentor
Can't commit to time but want to help?
beamentor.org/donate
#Mentoring #Hope
Congratulations to UPSS mentees Fengyuan Liu, Kailyn Smith, Hannah Allen, Thomas Hasler, & Daisy Underhill, who were selected to participate in UPSS Mentoring Program Session @ upcoming #PSA26! Go hear their talks Friday Nov. 20, 1:15pm! Thanks to UPSS Steering Committee for refereeing #philsci
November 2, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Giana Dettloff, 19, of Carol Stream, is being remembered for her contagious smile, passion for cheerleading, positive energy and dedication to mentoring younger athletes.
Read more: https://wgntv.com/western-suburbs/community-mourns-suburban-cheerleader-killed-in-bloomington-mass-shooting/
Read more: https://wgntv.com/western-suburbs/community-mourns-suburban-cheerleader-killed-in-bloomington-mass-shooting/
November 2, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Giana Dettloff, 19, of Carol Stream, is being remembered for her contagious smile, passion for cheerleading, positive energy and dedication to mentoring younger athletes.
Read more: https://wgntv.com/western-suburbs/community-mourns-suburban-cheerleader-killed-in-bloomington-mass-shooting/
Read more: https://wgntv.com/western-suburbs/community-mourns-suburban-cheerleader-killed-in-bloomington-mass-shooting/
My students. They are kind, thoughtful, eager to learn & often very funny. Do sone have financial and/or academic challenges? Yes. But they rise to the challenge with the right kind of mentoring.
I like them because they are, by and large, good humans.
I like them because they are, by and large, good humans.
November 2, 2026 at 2:04 PM
My students. They are kind, thoughtful, eager to learn & often very funny. Do sone have financial and/or academic challenges? Yes. But they rise to the challenge with the right kind of mentoring.
I like them because they are, by and large, good humans.
I like them because they are, by and large, good humans.
If you are looking for a 2-4 month internship, either for college credit or for indie press experience, please reach out 🔮
November 3, 2026 at 3:08 PM
If you are looking for a 2-4 month internship, either for college credit or for indie press experience, please reach out 🔮
📻 🎧
Are you a postdoc studying genetics?
Heredity is launching a Junior Editor Mentoring Programme to introduce ECRs to the role and help them build experience in editing for a society journal.
Interested?
✉️ Email: heredity-journal@glasgow.ac.uk
🌐 Online form: forms.gle/EJj8BTYXK1SK...
Are you a postdoc studying genetics?
Heredity is launching a Junior Editor Mentoring Programme to introduce ECRs to the role and help them build experience in editing for a society journal.
Interested?
✉️ Email: heredity-journal@glasgow.ac.uk
🌐 Online form: forms.gle/EJj8BTYXK1SK...
November 2, 2026 at 9:48 AM
📻 🎧
Are you a postdoc studying genetics?
Heredity is launching a Junior Editor Mentoring Programme to introduce ECRs to the role and help them build experience in editing for a society journal.
Interested?
✉️ Email: heredity-journal@glasgow.ac.uk
🌐 Online form: forms.gle/EJj8BTYXK1SK...
Are you a postdoc studying genetics?
Heredity is launching a Junior Editor Mentoring Programme to introduce ECRs to the role and help them build experience in editing for a society journal.
Interested?
✉️ Email: heredity-journal@glasgow.ac.uk
🌐 Online form: forms.gle/EJj8BTYXK1SK...
She’s a shameful hag because she spent zero time mentoring somebody to run in her seat and retire a decade ago
October 30, 2026 at 4:43 AM
She’s a shameful hag because she spent zero time mentoring somebody to run in her seat and retire a decade ago
I'll add that one job is six figures and the other I don't know yet and so far all these jobs involve science, teaching, presenting, and mentoring. Can't know where I'll land yet but I'm definitely intrigued by non-tenured science positions right now
November 3, 2026 at 1:01 PM
I'll add that one job is six figures and the other I don't know yet and so far all these jobs involve science, teaching, presenting, and mentoring. Can't know where I'll land yet but I'm definitely intrigued by non-tenured science positions right now
I'm mentoring new hires again, can you tell?
"I took English in school, I can probably write a technical manual."
I hope your pillow is warm and balmy every day of your life.
"I took English in school, I can probably write a technical manual."
I hope your pillow is warm and balmy every day of your life.
November 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I'm mentoring new hires again, can you tell?
"I took English in school, I can probably write a technical manual."
I hope your pillow is warm and balmy every day of your life.
"I took English in school, I can probably write a technical manual."
I hope your pillow is warm and balmy every day of your life.
(PCL) Trust Across Differences: Promod Haque shares why humility, mentoring, collaboration, and trust are essential ingredients for distributed leadership and healthy polycentric organizations. #PolycentricLeadership #joehandley #A3Leaders
Trust Across Differences
Promod Haque shares why humility, mentoring, collaboration, and trust are essential ingredients for distributed leadership and healthy polycentric organizations.
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November 3, 2026 at 6:15 PM
(PCL) Trust Across Differences: Promod Haque shares why humility, mentoring, collaboration, and trust are essential ingredients for distributed leadership and healthy polycentric organizations. #PolycentricLeadership #joehandley #A3Leaders
God this all reminds me of the immediate post-Great Recession era so much. Hiring managers complaining nobody is qualified and they got too many resumes. Everyone felt overworked and nobody wanted to spend time interviewing or *gasp* mentoring.
“A 22-year-old with an undergraduate degree in biology has applied for 511 jobs and counting. She was recently rejected from a role at Whole Foods after being ‘interviewed’ by a chatbot named Sage.”
Bleak, bleak, bleak.
Among all the linked and stacked crises of our time this may be one of the bleakest.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Among all the linked and stacked crises of our time this may be one of the bleakest.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 29, 2026 at 2:50 PM
God this all reminds me of the immediate post-Great Recession era so much. Hiring managers complaining nobody is qualified and they got too many resumes. Everyone felt overworked and nobody wanted to spend time interviewing or *gasp* mentoring.
Attack on ALL fronts! Vote, organize, direct action which includes living and mentoring DIY culture repairing and direct recycling as opposed to buying new plastic crap from monopoly retailers
November 3, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Attack on ALL fronts! Vote, organize, direct action which includes living and mentoring DIY culture repairing and direct recycling as opposed to buying new plastic crap from monopoly retailers
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October 29, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Just had the 'workload' conv with my HoD. Does anyone have a job available for a grumpy, sad professor who apparently has no value bc I'm not on any big grants or teaching 6,000,000 undergrads? I can get 'supported severance' though. Mentoring, service to community are of no value at all. #help
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November 2, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Just had the 'workload' conv with my HoD. Does anyone have a job available for a grumpy, sad professor who apparently has no value bc I'm not on any big grants or teaching 6,000,000 undergrads? I can get 'supported severance' though. Mentoring, service to community are of no value at all. #help
I found that tech and data leadership role feels like a lot of the parts of academia I loved (collaboration, mentoring, teaching, strategizing) but without the stuff I don't like (competition etc.)
Also, I still partner with schools to do academic mentoring too.
Also, I still partner with schools to do academic mentoring too.
November 1, 2026 at 6:19 AM
I found that tech and data leadership role feels like a lot of the parts of academia I loved (collaboration, mentoring, teaching, strategizing) but without the stuff I don't like (competition etc.)
Also, I still partner with schools to do academic mentoring too.
Also, I still partner with schools to do academic mentoring too.
Wow I'm annoyed I had to be told this, but somehow I hadn't clocked teaching and mentoring as care work? But 100000%!!!
I think this is already to some extent a real thing just we don't really acknowledge it. In fact some kinds of teaching or mentoring are more or less just facilitation of student achieving their potential in a way that looks closest to care labour. This is not a new idea (it's from Socrates!) but...
In the future, professors will be judged not by output but by their ability to care and nurture
This will be deeply unpopular in some quarters
This will be deeply unpopular in some quarters
November 2, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Wow I'm annoyed I had to be told this, but somehow I hadn't clocked teaching and mentoring as care work? But 100000%!!!