Curation of Social Media Posts
on Academic Life

Happy Festivus! One and all! Let the academic feats of strength begin! And then the airing of grievances! Watch out Reviewer 2! Beware...

Too often. Advisors find themselves sending emails asking PhD students for a status report. Typically, the student will have disappeared....

Rarely have I seen an image so accurately capture the state of DEI (EDI) in higher education. Replace services with university, & you'll...

I recently met with a student working on their first major project. The student had ticked the boxes on the empirical script. Interesting...

Every so often you come across a compelling paper that challenges how you understand your profession. Jim Witte, a fellow Clemson...

About now, two waves of news are filtering across many American campuses. Every year the first wave occurs. People receive bad news about...

Many thanks to Jan Recker and Nick Berente for recognizing Carolina Alves de Lima Salge and Elena Karahanna's paper that I tagged along...

I was shaken from concentrating on course preparation. By joy shared by Ph.D. students. One reported receiving outstanding teaching...

Kudos to Min-Seok Pang for successfully guiding our paper on revising journal submissions through to acceptance at the Journal of...

In the discourse about the cost of college in the United States, the voices that are most curiously silent are administrators & faculty....

A friend recently commented that their uni was revisiting tenure and merit standards. Resource declines, faculty turnover, & increasing...

Many thanks to the early career scholars who approached me this past week at different events and shared their appreciation of my posts....

I was woken up tonight by a text message. It contained a plea for help. Someone I am close to had attempted self-harm & refused...

Five tips for planning your time during academic breaks (or how to take time for yourself and not feel guilty about it). My student asked...

We all construct academic families differently. Mine includes faculty and students from three continents - most of whom I did not advise...

Recently, I posted a fair about work-life balance. My basic premise has been to be mindful of your context, assess your resources, & then...

Once in a while you hop into a family photo uninvited and are rewarded with an invitation! Thanks to Jan Marco Leimeister for having such...

A friend asked why I advocate for work-life balance in academia. I can point to three cathartic moments. The first was when I became a...

Recently, I was asked to offer tips and tricks for navigating academic life at a junior faculty consortium. Many thanks to Remko Helms,...

With the end of the year upon us, here are my posts that attracted the most attention in the past 12 months. 1. On the Stanford...