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 University Ranking of academic scholars (or how you should really take the measure of a scholar). (122,148 views)
2. Labor Day thoughts on US PhD student compensation (or why students deserve a raise!) (80,215 views)
3. On the most meaningful award that I have ever received. (67,546 views)
4. On why we need to stop asking academic authors to find the gap in the literature (and why we need to study real problems). (67,268 views)
5. On pressing issues for PhD students (or you need to be deep in a method, theory and storytelling). (55,162 views)
6. Three truths about academic privilege (or why we can’t count on academic elites to fix higher education). (54,792 views)
7. On why I stay in academe. (48,310 views)
8. On what to do if you earned your PhD from a school on the periphery (or can you create your own halo effect?) (36,522 views).
9. On learning to balance academic life with single-parent life. (32,820 views).
10. On the problem of late-round submissions. (32,786 views)
Next. I'll do the ones that attracted the most engagement. Or is that boring?
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