Some post-PhD job market transparency, lol:
-43 job applications
-27 replied to my application (12 automated rejection emails)
-15 first round interviews
-8 prolonged interview rounds
-3 I dropped out mid-rounds
-3 last round nos to me
-2 official final offers
Someone please tell this grad student on the job market that it does get better and there is a light at the end of the tunnel bc tbh this is the most hopeless I’ve felt in this program 😅😭
How we started 2nd year of my PhD program —> how we ended. Same spot, same maternity shorts 🤪
Mama and lil baby are gonna get this degree! 💪🏻
@Momademia
#academicmom
3rd year, here we come!!!
All to say, I’ve accepted an RPP position with
@RiceKinderHERC
! 🎉everyone was right—I wound up exactly where I’m supposed to be!
@DrErinBaum
I’m thrilled to continue on with RPP work.
This tweet was supposed to come with me wearing my Rice shirt, but Tom stole it already 🤣
Some post-PhD job market transparency, lol:
-43 job applications
-27 replied to my application (12 automated rejection emails)
-15 first round interviews
-8 prolonged interview rounds
-3 I dropped out mid-rounds
-3 last round nos to me
-2 official final offers
Happy Monday, Twitter/X! Your girl is OFFICIALLY on the job market 🥹 I’m defending May 10, 2024 and submitting my final dissertation in July. Wrapping things up a year early because I am READY to work with schools!
I know networking is 💪🏻 so plz refer me I beg of you plz
@Emanci_Payte
I keep track of things, and I really wished I had kept track of my total hours!!!! Dominated almost every night after my son went to bed. A lot of weekends.
Wow! And our first
#aefp
mentor match was a success! Thanks so much to these generous mentors for their time smiling and chatting with doc students at
#aefp2024
!!
@aefpweb
So many smiles in this room 🥹❤️
My beautiful mother… who my ENTIRE dissertation is dedicated to 😭❤️🫶🏻 Getting pregnant at the start of my research program was not in the cards, but she sacrificed the last two years to care for my son 😭🫶🏻 while I continued to chase my dreams…my parents are incredible people!
@aefpweb
Doc. Students! Nominations & input NEEDED!
We are planning a networking event for Ss and their "dream" academics for the '24 conference.
**If you are interested in attending this, PLEASE fill out this survey!
@Quintero05Diana
@_ajmoran
WHOOPS was a little too human on academic twitter last night and now my most viewed post is sad 😅
I am a confident and super, super courageous girly I promise 🤣 but job market season is low, wow.
Thanks to all that reached out ❤️
Someone please tell this grad student on the job market that it does get better and there is a light at the end of the tunnel bc tbh this is the most hopeless I’ve felt in this program 😅😭
Hi,
#AcademicTwitter
🥲 I had a baby six months ago. I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around that.
Happy 1/2 year to the best little homework partner! Even though he’s not very helpful with homework answers!!!!!
My first piece with
@educationweek
!
Lots of chatter about grading! Teachers are doing the best they can. Given the opp. to learn about grading practices, I believe Ts would be open to moving away from trad. grading. When we know better, we do better.
When I first met
@riandjita
at
@ua_edreform
, he told me “one of the most important things I learned in my first year was that descriptive work is still important. Never discount descriptive work.” Since then, he has been nothing but encouraging for all of us ❤️ congrats, brother!
A little intimidating to present qual work at an Econ conference, but it was a great day nonetheless!
I didn’t know Dr. Andrews personally, but I hope delivering this APAAS access study helped contribute to the weekend of honoring him.
Feeling like a kid in a candy shop — I love conference season!!!!! Giddy to learn all day long. Come say hi today in my poster session at 11:45am-1:15pm — I’ll be in the wrinkled purple blazer 🤪
#AEFP2023
What a day 🥲 the
#sweetestbabyever
got through security this morning at 6:50am central and is just now on the train to downtown Denver at 6:45pm mountain. I am pooped. No worries, I’ll rally and crush my poster convos tomorrow—come see me!!!
#aefp2023
A successful Eastern Educational Research Association conference! I think lil baby and I are finally getting over our cold and back to the land of the living.
We had a great first visit to Chicago, and it definitely won’t be our last! 🌃 CHI might be my new favorite city! 🥹 until next time!!!!!! Thank you for sending me,
@Office4EdPolicy
@ua_edreform
!!!
#MPSA2023
Hey,
@MatthewAKraft
,
@OliviaLChi
,
@KatharineStrunk
,
@LiFengBetty
! You four are currently in the lead for nominations! Us doctoral students think you all are perfect matches!!!!! *heart eyes!*
Please share our survey with your doc students if you’d like!
📣 FINALLY ✨ 1 of my 2 first year WPs is out in print!!
@scmcken
*Low SES 9Gs in AR are twice as likely to fail a course, even AFTER controlling for prior academic achievement—what are teachers including in a grade?
*This trend persists across time
Enjoyed our morning with
@ehutt1
! He advised us about the job market, connections, and publications.
My classmates and I are so thankful for the networking opportunities our department provides!! Thank you
@ua_edreform
!!
@uacoehp
I heard my dad tell
@P_Diddy_Wolf
that having my sister during his PhD at Princeton was his biggest motivator.
I didn’t plan on a baby during my PhD, but boy, I couldn’t agree with that sentiment more. I thought I was a hard worker before, but then I had a baby!
@Momademia
🥹🥹🥹 this sharp-dressed guy defended today, and I just wanted to share the biggest and best grin after seeing a
@Kate__Barnes
masterpiece 🥹🫶🏻
I don’t think any of us could say enough good things about
@andrewcamp_
😭
My first report as the
@Office4EdPolicy
@NWAESC
Strategic Data Partner! We distributed SPED growth reports to NWA districts this morning.
I'm excited for this new position and to work more closely with schools on topics that are important to them!
Have you seen
@JonathanPlucker
's and
@BrendaBerg
's
@The74
op-ed?
We released a mixed-methods study at
@Office4EdPolicy
today, providing additional reasons for WHY states should automatically enroll high-achieving students in advanced courses.
Poster ✅ thanks for everyone that stopped by to talk shop today! And a special thanks to all the academics who will meet with me to talk about their grading research, too 🥲🫶🏻
#AEFP2024
day 1 was so great! Thank you so much to
@SpEduwonk
for inviting me to be on an RPP panel!!! 🥹🥲🫶🏻
@Office4EdPolicy
does such great work for Arkansas and everyone should know about it 📣
@aefpweb
doc Ss! Know your presentation time now? Still interested in networking? We opened our survey back up!
If you are stuck on who to nom...here is a snapshot of cur. noms! REMEMBER: These noms. can go to academics AND policymakers/non-academics!
Hello twitterverse, say hello to
@ua_edreform
’s newest Ph.D. CANDIDATE,
@AlisonHeapeJohn
!!!!!!!!!!! Give her a congrats!!!!!!!
The three of us just have classes this semester and then we are ABD 🥹
In the spirit of giving, we have an early treat for you…. Check your inbox for decisions on your
#AEFP2023
conference submissions! We look forward to seeing you in Denver next year!
A few weeks ago we all found out our generous, loyal, and loving
@MattieH04
accepted a position in DC. While I selfishly wished she was completing her fourth year in NWA, I know she is going to do amazing things in DC!!!!❤️ your
@ua_edreform
loves you, Mattie!!
Who knows what the fabulous
@scmcken
@Office4EdPolicy
thought when she got assigned
@Kate__Barnes
and me as her mentees 2 yrs ago…
But now these 2 baby researchers are PhD cndts, and we couldn’t have done it without her!!! To be taught and influenced by her is such a blessing.
Every stranger in Chicago: “oh! How old is he?”
Me: “uhh, 7 months *knowing what’s coming next*”
ESiC: “OH WOW HES SO BIG WKFNDISLSHDHR…”
😅😅 I know, y’all, I know
While I had to cancel my APPAM and MSERA presentations, I still boarded a plane and traveled with my toddler yesterday for about a 10 hour travel day.
I miss y’all academics and the fun edu convos we could be having, but let’s get my brother married in OBX!!!!
Hi Academic Twitter 😊 Timothy Lawrence joined the Morris family August 31st. We’ve almost had a full month of loving on this little fella—although we are confident he won’t stay little much longer! (8 lbs 7 oz, 22.5 in !)
Just found out those two brothers in the middle have passed their comprehensive exams with flying colors!!!!! Congratulate
@riandjita
and
@andrewcamp_
!!!!!!!
Shout out to the dads who empower
#AcademicMoms
to thrive.
To go to the conference. To do the presentations. Take the time to network. Even grab a coffee without the worry that the kids need something. Clearly, they are doing just fine ❤️
@Momademia
#mnrs2023
3) But the true MVP is my mom, Tim’s Nana. I don’t know of many parents in their retirement that would travel from research conference to research conference just so I can continue to be a nursing Mama AND a young academic.
I had the chance to take part in a meta-analysis for school — thank you for teaching us,
@FlowTap1
and inviting us along!!!! Learned a lot about the life of a manuscript through this
— I guarantee my name will never cross a journal with an IF of 10.1 ever again 😅
#peaked
NEW STUDY: The high-impact peer-reviewed journal Educational Psychology Review just published our meta-analysis The Public Purposes of Private Schooling. We find that private schooling is associated w/ modestly higher
#civic
outcomes than public schooling
“You have really helped us out with understanding and thinking through our data.” 🥹
When I left my classroom, THIS is what I was imagining. “How can I affect more change beyond the walls of my classroom?”
I LOVE my meaningful partnership through
@Office4EdPolicy
&
@NWAESC
!!
My FIRST project from my FIRST year 🥲 out in peer-reviewed print!!!
@JSARD_
was a pleasure working with editor
@JoshKunnath
@Office4EdPolicy
@scmcken
Differences in college enrollment isn’t driven by urban, suburban, or rural locales!
🥹❤️🫶🏻 I am LUCKY to get to learn beside this gal!!!!! She is intelligent, curious, and wise!!!! Thankful to I got to spend more time with her this trip ☺️
@AlisonHeapeJohn
And Mattie’s going away party wasn’t the only surprise this week! We also got to celebrate Dr. Costrell’s last class!! He was so surprised. He deserves every bit of grandpa time that’s coming!!!!!!
@ua_edreform
📣 ‼️New OEP
@Office4EdPolicy
report!!
Through surveys and interviews, we find grading practices vary across Arkansas. We suggest districts give teachers more reflective opportunities about fairer grading practices through PD or PLC time.
One teacher suggested
@tguskey
’s work!
……..y’all could have just told me that our flights went so well because they were Wednesday morning travels 😅 ain’t nobody got time for a lil baby and a solo mama on a Friday night 😂
My 18 m/o took his 18th flight today 🥹 (full on unleashed lizard brain when he woke up from his nap too early .. busted my lip) but I’m still so happy to have his company for this conference 🥹🥹🥹
As conference season ramps up, remember to be kind to grad students. Your supportive word (or harsh jab) will stick with them. And, if you’re headed to
@aefpweb
#AEFP2024
, this 👇 is very much about to be my vibe when my student presents, so be extra kind to him 😉👏