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academic careers
6 posts tagged academic-careers.
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How academic careers actually work
Nobody trains you for the half of academic work that decides your career: making sure the right people know your work exists. Here is why that is a feature of the system, not a bug, and the fourth way to respond to it.
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Your worst blind spot is the thing you are best at
Your worst blind spot hides in the skill you are most expert at. A layoff, a Talmudic line about the beam in your own eye, and how to go looking for what you cannot see.
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She could've been Erdős-1, but she was shy
She turned down a paper with Paul Erdős because she was too shy. On the gender gap in self-promotion, why visibility is part of the job, and how to leave a trail without bragging.
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Why your acquaintances, not your closest friends, bring you the next opportunity
Granovetter's 'strength of weak ties': most useful job leads come from acquaintances you see rarely, not your closest circle. How to put yourself near the next opportunity.
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An Illustrated Guide to Academic Publishing
An illustrated story of how a paper is born — and why, among five million papers a year, most are read by almost no one. The problem is rarely quality; it is visibility.
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Where you debut probably decides where you stay
A network study of nearly 500,000 artists shows the first five exhibitions predict the next thirty. The same gatekeeper dynamics shape any institutional career — choose your first move carefully.