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For Faculty/PIs in STEM,
Glad to see you on social media voicing your support for #BIPOC. Good start! Now, time to be held accountable for your contributions to the problem and understand where your VOICE & ACTIONS will have real impact. A thread👇
#AcademicChatter #WithaPhD
Glad to see you on social media voicing your support for #BIPOC. Good start! Now, time to be held accountable for your contributions to the problem and understand where your VOICE & ACTIONS will have real impact. A thread👇
#AcademicChatter #WithaPhD
1- In department meetings, when you agree with colleagues about 'the best and the brightest' (referring ONLY to trainees from Ivy League Schools), and when you believe that Academia is a meritocracy system (spoiler alert: is not!).
2- In admissions committees, when you accept or make comments like:
"I’ve never heard of that school"
"He has done too much activism work"
"They won’t thrive in such a competitive environment"
"An A at Community College class is equivalent of a C in a top tier school"
"I’ve never heard of that school"
"He has done too much activism work"
"They won’t thrive in such a competitive environment"
"An A at Community College class is equivalent of a C in a top tier school"
Getting ready for #s1 at #AHA20 "Humanities PhDs Beyond the Academy: The Employers Perspective," featuring employers who have hired @ACLS1919 public fellows. #AHACareerDiversity
@ACLS1919 If you don't know about the @ACLS1919 Public Fellows program, you should definitely check it out. This is one of the flagship #CareerDiversity opportunities out there. 2020 applications will open soon.
acls.org/programs/publi…
acls.org/programs/publi…
@ACLS1919 The program places humanities PhDs in 2-year fellowships at nonprofits, govt, business, etc. Designed to benefit recent graduates #WithAPhD and provide a public demonstration of the value that humanists bring to a variety of careers.
#s1 #AHA20 #AHACareerDiversity
#s1 #AHA20 #AHACareerDiversity
a thread: it has been more than two years since i handed in my dissertation revisions and was done with my degree. i am still working through things that happened in the PhD. i am STILL rebuilding my sense of self. i am nowhere near the only one who feels like this.
i went looking through my journals from my phd and i can't tell you the number of times i have written "keep your head down." that was my entire survival strategy for the phd - become as small as possible so that i attracted the least amount of trouble.
also written over and over again: "you know who the safe people are: talk to them" and "you have worth, you are going to be okay. you will survive this." "you just have to make it one more year" "you can do this, even if no one else thinks you can"
