Curation of Social Media Posts
on Academic Life

Congrats to Wenxi (Vincent) Pu for a big hit! I always knew you were going to do great things! Our paper creates a foundation for...

Every so often, a poem captures an emotion perfectly. I felt this way when I finished my Ph.D., when I was untenured & had a new baby,...

Today, I took a day off and hung out with my dog. It’s easy to become a workaholic. Take some downtime if you can. You will be more...

Kudos to Alok Gupta for taking on a tough issue. He called for everyone to take a more sensitive approach to #diversity and to listen to...

An essential element of surviving #academiclife is knowing when to take a day off - be it in the States or further away - take a day off...

Ten years ago, I started posting about my away from work-life on social media - to an audience comprised largely of faculty at other...

Sexism is alive and well in academe. A colleague recently expressed – for the “purpose of discussion” - skepticism that work-family...

Recently, a senior faculty member emoted that if you have a strong research record, nothing else mattered, because teaching didn’t help...

"The Chair" on Netflix triggered me this week - watching the hapless Ph.D. student, marginalized by a self-absorbed advisor, subject to...

On the perils of research productivity papers and rankings. A student recently asked me: "what I thought was the most damaging paper to...

10,000 citations to my published work (according to GoogleScholar). A testament to my co-authors and students who have kept the ideas...