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Writer, organizer, insufferable online woman | recovering academic | itinerant Midwesterner | 🏳️‍🌈 she/her | trans women are women

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Anna Meier

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I am THRILLED to share that, in my first step out of academia, I'll be working as an organizer with SEIU Local 509 in eastern Massachusetts, building power among grad students and adjunct & NTT faculty. It's an honor to be entrusted with such important work.

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1 year

Students often come into my classes thinking that all arguments have two sides that must be treated as equally valid, with equal amounts of attention, and one of the most important things I try to do is help them unlearn that.

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The Collins family insists that their philosophy is not racist. Here is a thread of white supremacist tells that jumped out in this article alone. 1/

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America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be...

Elon Musk (father of 11) supports their cause. Thousands follow their ideology. Malcolm and Simone Collins are on a mission to make it easier for everyone to have multiple children. But are they...

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1. Hate is not a side in a debate. 2. If your reading of the evidence points in one direction or another, there's no need to contrive more evidence to present an illusion of a "balanced" argument. 3. Acknowledging nuance is not the same as refusing to take a stand.

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Anna Meier

5 years

Grad student side hustles aren't evidence of how industrious or skilled we are. They're evidence that our PhD stipends don't pay us enough to live on.

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2 years

Friendly reminder that if PhD students are organizing for cost-of-living adjustments that would make them higher-paid than some assistant professors, that's a sign that assistant profs are being underpaid and need to organize too.

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Words that mean different things in US and UK academia: a thread for confused academics on both sides of the pond, or, Anna writes the dictionary she wishes she'd had. 1/

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Me, writing a paper: I chose to look at Germany because I speak German. Everyone: NO. Me: ...here is a scientific reason I made up instead? Everyone: Yes good we like this illusion.

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Anna Meier

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Google Scholar: You have a new citation. Google Scholar: It's you, citing yourself again.

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The utter depravity of a university that milks Edward Said's name starving out and brutalizing students fighting for a free Palestine.

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The stats in this research are staggering. PhD students for whom English is not their 1st language needed, on average... -91% more time to read a paper -51% more time to write a paper -94% more time to prep a conference pres... ....w/ almost no support.

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Non-native English speaking scientists work much harder just to keep up, global research reveals

Our research found non-native English speakers face higher rejection rates and 12.5 times more revisions than their native English-speaking counterparts. But there are solutions.

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4 years

so everyone realizes that the bean dad story is exactly how many grad programs work, right

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A friendly reminder that white supremacy is structural, and you can play into it, perpetuate it, etc. even if that is not your intention. And, personally, I think the tells here are too substantial to be coincidental. /fin

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It's PhD program choosing season, so this is just a reminder, in case you need it, that money is absolutely a valid reason to pick or not pick a certain program. Research fit matters, but a prerequisite to doing research is not scrambling to pay rent and feed yourself.

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Second, Malcolm's claim that birth rates are a problem in countries where "women have rights." Whether he recognizes this as misogynistic or not, it's parroting some of the more violent manosphere language. Strike 2 on that front. 3/

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Anna Meier

4 years

Share with your students: UHaul is offering 30 days of self-storage at no cost to college students being forced out of university housing due to COVID-19.

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Sixth, the testing of embryos for IQ and "mental health-related stuff," which they insist is not eugenics but, well, is. (Sidebar: they also insist having children is not expensive, yet they have all their children through IVF, which is...notoriously expensive.) 7/

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This week, someone in my department said that if an applicant to our program didn't do undergrad research, they're not getting in, & I just want to make sure people know how fundamentally this statement misunderstands what college is like for many students. 1/

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Anna Meier

4 years

if a "second-rate" PhD program offers better mentoring and well-rounded support for grad students than a "top-tier" program is it actually second-rate

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First, the kids' names: Octavian George, Torsten Savage, Titan Invictus. Clear allusions to a) Rome, a common source of alleged "white perfection" for white supremacists & the manosphere, and b) Scandinavia (even starker alleged narratives of purity). 2/

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Anna Meier

1 year

1. Offer your RAs coauthorship. 2. Don't sleep with students. Can't believe we're discussing these things, and yet, academia never fails to disappoint.

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Fourth, the collection of weapons, while not inherently far-right, is a tell when considered in combination with everything else. Mounting an AR-15 on the wall of your office is not a choice made by a hunter, collector, or antifascist. 5/

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2 years

Academia socializes you to turn every interest into a research project. You don't have to do this. You can read about a topic, even in academic journals, purely because it interests you, not because it's going to be your next article.

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4 years

Many grad student TAs are doing a ton of extra, uncompensated work right now to keep courses afloat, often with minimal institutional support. They’re also doing a ridiculous amount of emotional labor. I’ll explain. 1/

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Anna Meier

2 years

Folks who speak multiple languages: does the *pitch* of your voice switch from accent to accent? My German accent is higher-pitched (hochdeutsch, Berliner-isch), whereas my English accent is deeper, and if I switch back & forth it is *abrupt* and I sound like a different person.

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Seventh, & most obviously, the open admittance of outward racists & Great Replacement "theorists" at pro-natalism conferences, which the Collinses don't deny or seem to view as a problem. If you say you're not a white supremacist but the white supremacists all agree w/ you... 8/

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The term "terrorism" isn't an empty signifier, nor is it randomly applied: it's a colonial tool of delegitimizing anything challenging or perceived to challenge colonial power structures.

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The Israeli parliament is in the process of passing a bill that designates UNRWA as a terrorist organisation. A reminder the Israel has already murdered around 200 UNRWA staff in Gaza.

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Third, this entire paragraph. 4/

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Anna Meier

3 years

Some thrilling news: After a horrid job market season, I am over the moon to share that I will be joining the University of Nottingham as an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, beginning in fall 2021. WE DID IT, Y'ALL.

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Today I entered a male-dominated academic space with a loud announcement of “I AM HERE TO FIX THE GENDER BALANCE”, and I think this will be my modus operandi from now on. 10/10 makes women laugh and men uncomfortable.

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Fifth, Malcolm and Simone's whole relationship story, encapsulated in this excerpt: "'Sitting down would drive me nuts,'" she says. Malcolm beams at her. "That's why I want to have kids with this lady.'" See also: how casually Simone's own body/uterus are discussed. 6/

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4 years

Thinking today about all the students who started school this year—undergrad, master's, PhD, professional program—in the strangest and loneliest of circumstances. I hope y'all are okay. I'm really proud of you.

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Some students will cheat no matter what we do, and also, our energy as teachers is better spent on modeling trust and respect in an environment where we treat students as both peers and full humans than on trying to be cops.

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3 years

I moved into my new flat today.

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1 year

An incomplete list of rpk clients (y'know, the firm that's dismantling WVU), spanning the country & all types of schools: -GWU -SUNY -CUNY -UCR -UT–Austin -Mizzou -U of Kansas -Washington State -UVA -UNC -Loyola Marymount -Gallaudet -Goucher -Utica -dozens of community colleges

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Hey grad students: if you're still on the academic job market this year, I was in your shoes at this point last year. I see you. None of this is your fault. If you’re a faculty member working with a grad student in this situation, some tips from my own experience: 🧵 1/

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Today's 🔥 take is that expecting PhD students to have pubs is silly but esp. so for UK PhD students, who only have 3–4 years to do so. I just got the proofs for an article I submitted 3 years ago. If I were a UK PhD student I'd have had to have submitted it almost on day 1.

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3 years

A senior scholar who calls junior scholars c*nts, wh*res, and losers has no place on a mentorship panel. Period. This is not a conversation.

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4 years

Grad programs need to include formal instruction in teaching. Grad programs need to include formal instruction in teaching. Grad programs need to include formal instruction in teaching.

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Anna Meier

11 months

Unpopular academia opinion of the day: you need to do your grunt work yourself, at least in significant part, for every project, because that is in fact the work.

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Daron Acemoğlu and David Card on undergraduate vs. graduate research assistants:

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Last week, I helped run a session on time management for PhD students. A quick summary thread of the big discussion points, in case others might find them useful: 🧵 1/

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4 years

Got an email today from a job I applied for that they've received over 450 applications, in case you were wondering how the job market is going.

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@ry0064 Yeah, so according to her, they won't pay for heating in their house to "cut costs" (despite all the IVF) so she usually wears Russian snowsuits, but they don't fit now because she's pregnant, so she's wearing...this.

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3 years

You can always call me Anna, but now you can add a Dr. in front if the urge strikes.

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After I defended my undergrad thesis, my thesis advisor gave me this set of pens. Yesterday, after defending my dissertation, I went to the shore, set the box on fire, and threw the pens in the lake. Here's a story I've never told before. 1/

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3 years

Free tip for PhD departments: advertise your grad students' achievements like you do your faculty members'. Not only do applicants want to see how grads are doing, but they may also want to know if you're hierarchical and what kinds of success you value.

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4 years

literally what is the point of tenure if not to give you space to make academia better without fear of retaliation

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It is striking to me, & yet so unsurprising, that there are open letters in support of Palestine from sociologists, psychologists, natural scientists, but none from political scientists. I hope I've missed it & also I know how much political science likes to play at neutrality.

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2 years

This term, my students are doing “think-alouds”: 15–minute audio recordings of their reflections on the first few weeks of content. Listening to these has taught me a lot about how they view their academic work. 🧵 1/

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PhD programs need to provide opportunities for students to teach & learn to teach. If the goal is to prep students for academic jobs, & if many grads will go for such jobs even though there aren't enough, not providing training for a critical part of those jobs is unacceptable.

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3 years

So much of social science is realizing that activists said it better than you could years before you started trying.

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1 year

I don't have a Soundcloud but the Trevor Project is an incredible org helping queer and trans youth and they could use your support if you're able.

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Donate to The Trevor Project

Your life-saving gift today will help us train a record number of crisis counselors, continue to provide all of our crisis services 24/7 AND FOR FREE

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3 years

Friendly reminder that you can link the Texas abortion ban to Christian fundamentalism—a link that actually exists—instead of sharia, a link with no basis in reality but a very strong basis in Islamophobia.

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Wild how first-year faculty are almost universally overwhelmed by the experience and PhD programs don't go "huh, maybe we should train folks for more than one part of their job."

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10 months

A reminder that genocide is about culture as well as life: the point is also to disconnect those who survive from their knowledge and history.

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No universities left in Gaza

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4 years

If departments want grad students to have websites, they should pay web hosting fees. If departments want grad students to belong to professional organizations, they should pay membership fees. *If you want grads to do professional things that cost money, pay for them.*

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Why yes, the article I have been "too busy" to finish for six months did indeed take only three hours to finish. 😑 Will I learn from this? No.

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P.S. If a department expects PhD applicants to have research experience but doesn't pay its own undergrad RAs...well.

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If you provide students with PDFs of articles to read (which you should!), please make sure they are OCRed so that they work with screen readers and text-to-speech software. Can you highlight text in the PDF? If so, good! If not, read on...

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People should know what salaries look like in UK higher ed, especially now that pensions have been slashed. I'll start. Assistant prof, full-time, permanent post. £36,914 before taxes. After taxes, closer to £27,000.

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First, there's an assumption here that undergrads have the *opportunity* to do research in the first place. This is likely less true at state schools, small schools, & cash-strapped schools than it is at Ivies, R1s, & small liberal arts colleges. 2/

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The point is that selecting on access to limited opportunities is selecting on privilege, not aptitude for academia, & this makes academia less in touch w/ diverse experiences & reproduces only a limited set of understandings of the world through who we admit. 7/

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4 years

Nobody taught me how to write a qualitative research article. Miraculously, I managed to publish one anyway. Here's a reflection on things I learned, in case no one taught you either.

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1 year

I'm old enough that my PhD friends who finished a few years ahead of me have now switched academic jobs, are seeking new jobs, or have left academia. There are a lot of lessons there, but 1 for new job-marketers is: "apply everywhere" & "you have no choice" is terrible advice.

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2 years

I have studied definitions of terrorism for years, been told in my PhD defense that these were uninteresting questions, and yet here we are.

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How to fight domestic terrorism? First, officials have to define it.

Republican attempts to minimize far-right violence hampers government efforts to combat the threat, extremism analysts say.

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5 years

Research often requires a strong mentor, esp. as an undergrad. Have you mentored a student who doesn't look like you? Has a student from an underrepresented background asked you for mentorship? If not, why do you think that is? 4/

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4 years

Just gonna drop this slide from the TA training I ran last year as my contribution to the Discourse.

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Anna Meier

4 years

Dear all universities proposing weekend classes in the fall (looking at you, @UWMadison ): I assume you'll also be providing free weekend childcare for instructors & students—the bare minimum condition that this proposal needs in order to work.

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Second, even if undergrads have the opportunity to do research, they may not have the means. Research is time-consuming—time that might need to be spent working, supporting family, etc. Or they might not be made aware of the opportunity or think it's for them. 3/

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Compounding the problem: grads may have to pay months in advance for flights & lodging, but they can't file for reimbursement until after the conference bc they need proof of actual attendance. Stop making grad students pay up front for conferences.

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2 years

Hive mind: my MA student's researching incel discourse on Reddit. She's being careful, w/ my support. Our IRB says she can't use direct quotes from her data in her thesis bc these are searchable & compromise anonymity. This feels...silly, right? It's public info? In a thesis?

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2 years

Writing my first lecture of spring term today, and while I don’t think I’m an expert by any means, there’s a process I’ve found to make it easier that I’ll share in case it’s helpful for others. It’s not like we’re taught how to do this! 1/

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Anna Meier

3 years

With all due respect, has Robert Pape, a political violence scholar, read any research on political violence published in the last 15 years. @nytimes , stop publishing this nonsense.

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NEW: When Robert Pape studied those arrested at the Capitol, he thought he'd find they were driven by economic anxiety. Instead, he found they came from places where residents were worried about immigrants and minorities taking over from white people.

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STOP GIVING GRANTS THROUGH REIMBURSEMENT. I have a friend who's paying cash incentives to experiment participants out of his own pocket. He'll be reimbursed the ~$3,000 that this will cost at the end of the summer. STOP IT.

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2 years

I'm compiling a one-page, front-and-back tips sheet to share with instructors on making university classrooms more welcoming places for students with anxiety. Anxiety folks, what would help/have helped you?

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One time I put a trigger warning as a TA on a reading about lynchings, and the professor took that to mean that I thought they shouldn't teach that material. I think this interpretation is common, so let me explain what it gets wrong. 1/

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I really want US folks to understand what just happened in UK higher education. Around 60% of all union members across all universities in the country voted on the same issues. Around 80% of those who voted said yes to industrial action. That is huge.

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PSA: You can mute Tim Gill. Never look back.

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Anna Meier

5 years

English-language outlets are reporting that the city of Dresden has declared a "Nazi emergency". I'd like to break down what that actually means (thread). 1/

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Dresden: The German city that declared a 'Nazi emergency'

The politician behind the resolution says he wanted Dresden to take a stand against the far-right.

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4 years

Before this fall, I didn't know about any academic job boards except APSA eJobs, & suffice it to say that if I'd only looked there, I'd have missed a ton of stuff. So I made a list of boards/listservs/Twitter accounts/etc. I've found helpful. Please share!

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"Open positions that once drew over 200 applicants now see fewer than 20." For those not in academia, I need you to understand how incredible this is. There are so few academic jobs. This many ppl choosing not to apply is how you know a place is poison.

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Are Florida laws chasing university faculty away? Some see a ‘brain drain.’

Tracking the reported exodus can be difficult, but evidence is starting to surface that it’s real.

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Anna Meier

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Quantitative methods do not make a paper better, just different. Quantitative methods do not make a paper better, just different. Quantitative methods do not make a paper better, just different.

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Anna Meier

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Met with a student today and she said, "A lot of faculty aren't approachable and that's so weird since their job is to work with students." Just a nice reminder that that is, in fact, the main reason we're here.

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Anna Meier

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About a month ago, my dad decided to leave the Methodist Church, the cornerstone of his life for almost 60 years, bc they decided to accept LGBT members. I came out to him the next day. So if today sucks for you too, goodness am I with you.

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Third, admit committees may be treating undergrad research as a signal of competence or skills...but they may also be treating it as virtue signaling, à la "this students knows the ways of academia & we will have to spend less time teaching them norms". 5/

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“Faculty” US: Professors UK: Like a college at an R1 in the US sense; the “Faculty of Social Sciences” would be all social science departments 2/

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Anna Meier

4 years

What are *TAs*, especially young female and/or POC TAs who are already seen as less authoritative, supposed to do when students don't wear a mask?

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Kathleen Belew

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Not a narrow question, an essential one. What are faculty supposed to do when students don't wear a mask?

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CONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE CONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE YOUR GIRL IS GONNA BE A PUBLISHED SCHOLAR* *ahem, I have some "personal news"

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I wrote this for students in my dept, but it might also be helpful for others going on the academic poli sci market in the fall. Basically, I wanted someone to lay out the market for me like I was a child & no one did, so this doc is what I wish I'd had.

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Advice on How to Prep for the Academic Job Market

Anna Meier, UW–Madison PhD, 2021 Last updated 5/4/2021 *Some of this advice is specific to students at UW–Madison. The gist No matter how you slice it, the academic job market is exhausting. If...

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Anna Meier

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Thinking today about the multiple grad students in my department who said they came into the office most days in the winter because they couldn't afford heat at home. The lack of guaranteed, livable stipends for grad students is a disgrace.

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I got it.

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Anna Meier

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applied for my dream job today pls send good vibes while I combust into a million little pieces!!!! 🫠

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I've been thinking a lot about what I learned this past year on the academic job market, & I might write more later, but here's what's most important for now: That advice you may have gotten that you should apply to everything? It's well-intentioned, but it's bad advice. 1/

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Anna Meier

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Sometimes I wonder how much interesting research we’re missing out on because female academics have to spend all of their time convincing male academics that sexism in the academy is real.

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Anna Meier

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It's that time of yr when PhD students start thinking about the next academic job market cycle. I made a bunch of resources last yr to help me process my experience, so I'll re-up them here in case they are useful to you. Geared toward US poli sci, but some things generalize. 1/

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Anna Meier

3 years

Dissertating in a pandemic is 10% writing and 90% storming through your apartment yelling "WHERE IS THAT BOOK" until you die.

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Anna Meier

4 years

We Northerners laugh at the cold in the South, but we forget how much infrastructure and gear enables us to think subzero temperatures are funny as opposed to life-disrupting. Don't be a dick.

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3 years

“Dissertation” US: A thing you write for your PhD and generally not for other degrees UK: Any thesis, including at the undergraduate and master’s levels /10

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Anna Meier

4 years

Replace three courses in every PhD student's first year with "WTF Have You Gotten Yourself Into," "Here are the Bureaucratic and Logistical Steps You Must Navigate to Do the Research You Want to Do," and "How to Teach." Demystify academia and teach people how to do their jobs.

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Anna Meier

5 years

There are many ways to signal critical thinking skills. There are many ways to signal dedication and perseverance. Restricting "accepted" signals of aptitude for grad school to one pathway is just bad science. /fin

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Anna Meier

4 years

Concept: an intro IR course of entirely women, queer, POC, and/or Global South authors, with one token "white cis men" day on which we make sweeping surface-level statements about their contributions to the field.

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