lol yeah, my paper was specifically about Samus Aran and how the weird erasure of her in academia is in line with mainstream culture only valuing certain portrayals of women
March 4, 2026 at 9:34 PM
lol yeah, my paper was specifically about Samus Aran and how the weird erasure of her in academia is in line with mainstream culture only valuing certain portrayals of women
This is absolutely the case for me. It’s been a long time and I still wish that I had the job I trained for. But one really important thing I’ve realized is the number of my own personal strengths that academia was pretty committed to never recognizing or valuing. It has helped me to realize that.
One thing which I find telling, if not surprising: despite decades of rhetoric on transferable skills and alt-ac paths, nobody I’ve talked to about pursuing a PhD expresses much interest in them. Instead, they temper their hopes about how long they can do *this* work — even if it’s just a few years.
February 20, 2026 at 1:29 PM
This is absolutely the case for me. It’s been a long time and I still wish that I had the job I trained for. But one really important thing I’ve realized is the number of my own personal strengths that academia was pretty committed to never recognizing or valuing. It has helped me to realize that.
AI hype is poisoning academia, it's undermining learning, it's making research harder, it's corrupting knowledge, it's eroding scholarly norms, and it's monopolising funding & opportunities. It's a shame those with the power to change this aren't committed to valuing universities in the right way.
Looked at philjobs.org lately? 26/187 jobs want AI ethics as an AOS or AOC. That's 14% or nearly 1 in 7- and 17 of those are tenure track! This ratio won't reflect the current batch of early career scholars, so weaker candidates who are luckily in fashion are more likely to be hired.
Jobs in Philosophy - PhilJobs:JFP
An international database of jobs for philosophers
philjobs.org
February 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
AI hype is poisoning academia, it's undermining learning, it's making research harder, it's corrupting knowledge, it's eroding scholarly norms, and it's monopolising funding & opportunities. It's a shame those with the power to change this aren't committed to valuing universities in the right way.
Not just faculty. University administrators, trustees, etc.—in other words, pretty much the most insulated/privileged folks in academia.
Where are you? After spending your years at trustee meetings and lecture circuits talking about valuing free speech and valuing students, the silence is damning.
Where are you? After spending your years at trustee meetings and lecture circuits talking about valuing free speech and valuing students, the silence is damning.
Faculty on here: how are you protecting your international students? Are you connecting with local immigration defense groups? How are you protecting them from being snatched off the street?
March 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Not just faculty. University administrators, trustees, etc.—in other words, pretty much the most insulated/privileged folks in academia.
Where are you? After spending your years at trustee meetings and lecture circuits talking about valuing free speech and valuing students, the silence is damning.
Where are you? After spending your years at trustee meetings and lecture circuits talking about valuing free speech and valuing students, the silence is damning.
Indeed. Just checked, and I got £115 the last time I examined (2020). Ugh. Like a lot of things in UK academia, it's based on exploitation of our good will, rather than valuing our expertise.
April 27, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Indeed. Just checked, and I got £115 the last time I examined (2020). Ugh. Like a lot of things in UK academia, it's based on exploitation of our good will, rather than valuing our expertise.
Now would be a great time for academia to start valuing SciComm in service, tenure & promotion. The status quo of publishing in pay-walled journals for narrow audiences in the dozens & handwaving about 'broader impacts' is a threat to your funding, a broader understanding of science & public health.
January 10, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Now would be a great time for academia to start valuing SciComm in service, tenure & promotion. The status quo of publishing in pay-walled journals for narrow audiences in the dozens & handwaving about 'broader impacts' is a threat to your funding, a broader understanding of science & public health.
Super interesting article about valuing ecological field work more - both by academia and funding agencies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Removing institutional barriers to long-term fieldwork is critical for advancing ecology
Long-term fieldwork is essential for ecology and conservation, but is hindered by institutional barriers, such as the publish-or-perish culture of aca…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Super interesting article about valuing ecological field work more - both by academia and funding agencies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Finally, PLOS rightly acknowledges the importance of valuing more than total bean-counting of articles.
Publish or perish has wrecked us with waves of articles, and we need all hands on deck from authors, publishers, and funders, saying "academia needs to change its incentives structure."
8/8 🧵
Publish or perish has wrecked us with waves of articles, and we need all hands on deck from authors, publishers, and funders, saying "academia needs to change its incentives structure."
8/8 🧵
December 2, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Finally, PLOS rightly acknowledges the importance of valuing more than total bean-counting of articles.
Publish or perish has wrecked us with waves of articles, and we need all hands on deck from authors, publishers, and funders, saying "academia needs to change its incentives structure."
8/8 🧵
Publish or perish has wrecked us with waves of articles, and we need all hands on deck from authors, publishers, and funders, saying "academia needs to change its incentives structure."
8/8 🧵
Beyond publication-based metrics for evaluating and valuing scientists and their contributions @naturenews.bsky.social @drkellyallen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Move beyond ‘publish or perish’ by measuring behaviours that benefit academia
A standardized system to measure contributions in mentorship, collaboration and more could bring about systemic change in science.
www.nature.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Beyond publication-based metrics for evaluating and valuing scientists and their contributions @naturenews.bsky.social @drkellyallen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Yes. I think the answer to a lot of these issues is to start valuing description much, much more (as other disciplines do). JQD is a good step in this direction. But it's very telling that the best descriptive survey work is being produced outside of academia (eg Pew).
December 5, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Yes. I think the answer to a lot of these issues is to start valuing description much, much more (as other disciplines do). JQD is a good step in this direction. But it's very telling that the best descriptive survey work is being produced outside of academia (eg Pew).
💥New: American University is redefining what counts in #academia—valuing public & interdisciplinary work over outdated metrics. Colleagues Karen Baehler, Rachel Borchardt, Priya Doshi & Amanda Taylor share how faculty-led #reforms can align rewards with real-world #impact 🚀
Faculty promotion guidelines should account for a wider range of valuable academic work - Impact of Social Sciences
American University recently revised its faculty evaluation guidelines to better recognise public and interdisciplinary scholarship and move away from outdated metrics. Through inclusive,…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
💥New: American University is redefining what counts in #academia—valuing public & interdisciplinary work over outdated metrics. Colleagues Karen Baehler, Rachel Borchardt, Priya Doshi & Amanda Taylor share how faculty-led #reforms can align rewards with real-world #impact 🚀
Hi friends! I’m co-organizing a symposium by Sophia University on valuing “vulnerable” voices in global studies research dealing with dilemmas on research and academia. 🌏👇
November 17, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Hi friends! I’m co-organizing a symposium by Sophia University on valuing “vulnerable” voices in global studies research dealing with dilemmas on research and academia. 🌏👇
(academia about valuing inter/trans/cross disciplinary work, but then punishes you if your publication record reflects that. Also: relative absence of routes “back in” once you leave, unless you’re prepared to discount the relevant external experience and set yourself back years financially)
August 28, 2026 at 7:38 AM
(academia about valuing inter/trans/cross disciplinary work, but then punishes you if your publication record reflects that. Also: relative absence of routes “back in” once you leave, unless you’re prepared to discount the relevant external experience and set yourself back years financially)
I 1000% agree with it needs to start in academia valuing trainees who desire a career that incorporates this.
Often it’s looked at as a weaker thing to do.
Often it’s looked at as a weaker thing to do.
March 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I 1000% agree with it needs to start in academia valuing trainees who desire a career that incorporates this.
Often it’s looked at as a weaker thing to do.
Often it’s looked at as a weaker thing to do.
My biggest complaint with the current era is frankly that there is no moral leadership. I don’t see anyone at any high level making decisions based on the concept of doing what’s right. Of valuing truth, knowledge, empathy, and integrity. Not in govt. Not in business. Not in academia.
September 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My biggest complaint with the current era is frankly that there is no moral leadership. I don’t see anyone at any high level making decisions based on the concept of doing what’s right. Of valuing truth, knowledge, empathy, and integrity. Not in govt. Not in business. Not in academia.
New: American University is redefining what counts in academia—valuing public & interdisciplinary work over outdated metrics. Baehler, Borchardt, Doshi & Taylor @AmericanU share how faculty-led reforms can align rewards with real-world impact 🚀 blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New: American University is redefining what counts in academia—valuing public & interdisciplinary work over outdated metrics. Baehler, Borchardt, Doshi & Taylor @AmericanU share how faculty-led reforms can align rewards with real-world impact 🚀 blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
i will go so far as to say what qualifies for the published literary canon is still pretty eurocentric and racist so valuing those books over independently published writing is so academia-brained you are already lost to me
August 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
i will go so far as to say what qualifies for the published literary canon is still pretty eurocentric and racist so valuing those books over independently published writing is so academia-brained you are already lost to me
🌍 Inclusion in academia means valuing every voice - across borders, genders, and experiences.
This week’s International Students’ Day and International Men’s Day remind us that allyship and belonging are key to thriving research cultures.
We’re here to help build those spaces.
This week’s International Students’ Day and International Men’s Day remind us that allyship and belonging are key to thriving research cultures.
We’re here to help build those spaces.
November 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🌍 Inclusion in academia means valuing every voice - across borders, genders, and experiences.
This week’s International Students’ Day and International Men’s Day remind us that allyship and belonging are key to thriving research cultures.
We’re here to help build those spaces.
This week’s International Students’ Day and International Men’s Day remind us that allyship and belonging are key to thriving research cultures.
We’re here to help build those spaces.
PHENOMENAL thread. I would add that it’s a problem of valuing outputs, results, and getting them right now, rather than valuing ongoing research processes, academia as activity
tag yourself. sigh.
(superb thread on meeting students, and colleagues, where they're at as best-practice)
(superb thread on meeting students, and colleagues, where they're at as best-practice)
March 24, 2024 at 12:19 PM
PHENOMENAL thread. I would add that it’s a problem of valuing outputs, results, and getting them right now, rather than valuing ongoing research processes, academia as activity
i hate valuing the space in academia but also hating everything surrounding it
November 7, 2024 at 9:05 PM
i hate valuing the space in academia but also hating everything surrounding it
Each university that marketed itself as valuing and promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, accomodation, and justice faces a reckoning. How many will show their commitment to be sincere, how many passively accept the resegregation of academia?
#AcademicSky
greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...
#AcademicSky
greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...
This Is Not a Drill: How Universities Can Save DEI
A roadmap for university faculty, staff, and administrators to support DEI through legal challenges, collective resistance, and institutional protections for faculty.
greencarelab.ucdavis.edu
February 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Each university that marketed itself as valuing and promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, accomodation, and justice faces a reckoning. How many will show their commitment to be sincere, how many passively accept the resegregation of academia?
#AcademicSky
greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...
#AcademicSky
greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...
Academia is backing away from only valuing the input of people with degrees. We need more good humanities/science communicators who are just everyday folks in order to push back against the wave of malicious disinformation online
December 21, 2024 at 5:49 AM
Academia is backing away from only valuing the input of people with degrees. We need more good humanities/science communicators who are just everyday folks in order to push back against the wave of malicious disinformation online
(I really dislike talking frankly about money in academia because it often goes weird and also I have, I think, spent a lot of the past 13 years valuing my education above all else and making sacrifices to prioritise it, which have sometimes involved "eating" and "expenditure on health".)
May 30, 2026 at 11:29 AM
(I really dislike talking frankly about money in academia because it often goes weird and also I have, I think, spent a lot of the past 13 years valuing my education above all else and making sacrifices to prioritise it, which have sometimes involved "eating" and "expenditure on health".)
One thing I think about when it comes to writing in the college setting is the colonialism in "academic writing" and not valuing how our students think and write outside of the "acceptable" way we require in academia
November 26, 2024 at 1:57 AM
One thing I think about when it comes to writing in the college setting is the colonialism in "academic writing" and not valuing how our students think and write outside of the "acceptable" way we require in academia
I'm actually fairly bullish on AI and academia as AI tools demolish some of the threats to academia, such as de-valuing in-person education in favour of MOOCs and the like.
March 5, 2026 at 1:19 AM
I'm actually fairly bullish on AI and academia as AI tools demolish some of the threats to academia, such as de-valuing in-person education in favour of MOOCs and the like.