Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In
@professorisin.bsky.social
I talk about the accelerating implosion of academia, and advice on how to navigate it, maybe even break free of it. 2nd edition of the book coming in 2025!!
I also really, really like rabbits. 🏳️🌈✡️🍉
I also really, really like rabbits. 🏳️🌈✡️🍉
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Big news! 2nd edition of The Professor Is In book (Random House) starts shipping in September! New chapters: Articulating Academic Harm; The New Plan A - Leaving Academia; Making Academia Work for You. ALL NEW on disability, neurodivergency, LGBTQ, DEI attacks & more #academicchatter #academicsky
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The NSF grants suspended at UCLA total $179M, half of which was still outstanding: CAREER grants, a major math institute, and basic science research and training of all types.
More at grant-witness.us/posts/UCLA-n..., thanks to GW member Mally Shan, with grant-level details in our database.
More at grant-witness.us/posts/UCLA-n..., thanks to GW member Mally Shan, with grant-level details in our database.
August 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The NSF grants suspended at UCLA total $179M, half of which was still outstanding: CAREER grants, a major math institute, and basic science research and training of all types.
More at grant-witness.us/posts/UCLA-n..., thanks to GW member Mally Shan, with grant-level details in our database.
More at grant-witness.us/posts/UCLA-n..., thanks to GW member Mally Shan, with grant-level details in our database.
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We must see that our lives, our struggles and successes, are bound up in each other. What does collective action look like if you stop being optimistic your discipline's market will improve and instead think about academia as a whole?
July 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We must see that our lives, our struggles and successes, are bound up in each other. What does collective action look like if you stop being optimistic your discipline's market will improve and instead think about academia as a whole?
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Struck by this being an "ominous sign for the economy" because "Earning a Ph.D. in economics has long been a reliable path to affluence and prestige. Not anymore."
Why was it a reliable path? Why weren't history jobs disappearing an ominous sign?
Mini thread
Gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...
Why was it a reliable path? Why weren't history jobs disappearing an ominous sign?
Mini thread
Gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...
The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy.
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Struck by this being an "ominous sign for the economy" because "Earning a Ph.D. in economics has long been a reliable path to affluence and prestige. Not anymore."
Why was it a reliable path? Why weren't history jobs disappearing an ominous sign?
Mini thread
Gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...
Why was it a reliable path? Why weren't history jobs disappearing an ominous sign?
Mini thread
Gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...
Join us for Leaving Academia in 12 Steps, our FREE 12 week coaching program, starting today at 2 PM Eastern (ie in 10 min)! us06web.zoom.us/j/84809546934 #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #postac #altac #Leavingacademia #SaveYourself #DontDelay #ThingsAreBad
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June 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Join us for Leaving Academia in 12 Steps, our FREE 12 week coaching program, starting today at 2 PM Eastern (ie in 10 min)! us06web.zoom.us/j/84809546934 #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #postac #altac #Leavingacademia #SaveYourself #DontDelay #ThingsAreBad
Feeling overwhelmed? Who isn't? Get a little support and a calm space to consider options w Dr. Brielle Harbin in her short webinar tomorrow, Finding Direction when Academia Feels Like It's Falling Apart. theprofessorisin.com/webinars/ #PhD #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #postac #altac
May 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Feeling overwhelmed? Who isn't? Get a little support and a calm space to consider options w Dr. Brielle Harbin in her short webinar tomorrow, Finding Direction when Academia Feels Like It's Falling Apart. theprofessorisin.com/webinars/ #PhD #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #postac #altac
"What Leaving Academia Won't Fix" - Post II by Dr. Brielle Harbin. Join her webinar Finding Direction When Academia Is Falling Apart, this week! theprofessorisin.com/2025/05/18/w... #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #PhD #postac #altac
What Leaving Academia Won’t Fix - Guest Post - The Professor Is In
By: M. Brielle Harbin, Ph.D. Brielle Harbin, PhD, is a tenured faculty member, an award-winning educator, and the founder of Your Cooperative Colleague LLC, a consulting practice that supports purpos...
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May 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"What Leaving Academia Won't Fix" - Post II by Dr. Brielle Harbin. Join her webinar Finding Direction When Academia Is Falling Apart, this week! theprofessorisin.com/2025/05/18/w... #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #PhD #postac #altac
Join me in 15 minutes for a brief FREE JOB SEEKER COACHING session. It's just me today--Kel is traveling! I'm going to talk defeating academic exceptionalism and GETTING YOUR MIND IN THE GAME. us06web.zoom.us/j/8846227414... #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #Postac #Altac #LeavingAcademia #PhD
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May 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Join me in 15 minutes for a brief FREE JOB SEEKER COACHING session. It's just me today--Kel is traveling! I'm going to talk defeating academic exceptionalism and GETTING YOUR MIND IN THE GAME. us06web.zoom.us/j/8846227414... #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #Postac #Altac #LeavingAcademia #PhD
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I’ve had a manuscript somewhere for the entire academic year. I *know* peer-review takes time but I am feeling really discouraged. I can’t get tenure on doing reviews. I know you’re overwhelmed. We all are. But please do some reviews. Please return them on time. #academicsky #academicchatter
May 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’ve had a manuscript somewhere for the entire academic year. I *know* peer-review takes time but I am feeling really discouraged. I can’t get tenure on doing reviews. I know you’re overwhelmed. We all are. But please do some reviews. Please return them on time. #academicsky #academicchatter
Our Weekly FREE Post-ac coaching going on now! Pls join! Today we are talking (the mysteries of) LinkedIn. us06web.zoom.us/j/84809546934 #postac #PhD #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #altac
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May 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Our Weekly FREE Post-ac coaching going on now! Pls join! Today we are talking (the mysteries of) LinkedIn. us06web.zoom.us/j/84809546934 #postac #PhD #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #altac
Also from Dr. Brielle Harbin, a new guest post. "On the Fence About Academia? You’re Not Alone" "you probably feel conflicted. Not just about the future, but about what you owe the past. Leaving might feel disloyal. Staying might feel misaligned." theprofessorisin.com/2025/05/05/o... #AcademicSky
On the Fence About Academia? You're Not Alone - Guest Post - The Professor Is In
Post 1 of 4 by M. Brielle Harbin, Ph.D. Brielle Harbin, PhD, is a tenured faculty member, an award-winning educator, and the founder of Your Cooperative Colleague LLC, a consulting practice that suppo...
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May 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Also from Dr. Brielle Harbin, a new guest post. "On the Fence About Academia? You’re Not Alone" "you probably feel conflicted. Not just about the future, but about what you owe the past. Leaving might feel disloyal. Staying might feel misaligned." theprofessorisin.com/2025/05/05/o... #AcademicSky
Please join Dr. Brielle Harbin, founder of Your Cooperative Colleague, in an interactive workshop, "Finding Direction When Academia Feels Like It's Falling Apart" on 5/22. You get recording if you can't attend live. theprofessorisin.com/webinars/ #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhD #AcademicCollapse
May 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Please join Dr. Brielle Harbin, founder of Your Cooperative Colleague, in an interactive workshop, "Finding Direction When Academia Feels Like It's Falling Apart" on 5/22. You get recording if you can't attend live. theprofessorisin.com/webinars/ #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhD #AcademicCollapse
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Cannot even begin to adequately express how much Devon Price's writing on Autism resonates with me. Absolutely blown away every time I read his work. https://medium.com/@devonprice/im-pathologically-demand-avoidant-it-rules-a034a4e20da4
July 7, 2023 at 3:49 PM
Cannot even begin to adequately express how much Devon Price's writing on Autism resonates with me. Absolutely blown away every time I read his work. https://medium.com/@devonprice/im-pathologically-demand-avoidant-it-rules-a034a4e20da4
Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/
May 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Everyone should listen to this by @govpritzker.illinois.gov
The Republican and Democratic senators who aren’t calling this despicable regime out are condoning it by their silence.
The MSM who are even now normalising a lot of what is happening are complicit.
youtu.be/zMndfvxVeRo?...
The Republican and Democratic senators who aren’t calling this despicable regime out are condoning it by their silence.
The MSM who are even now normalising a lot of what is happening are complicit.
youtu.be/zMndfvxVeRo?...
Gov. Pritzker blasts Republicans and ‘do-nothing Democrats' in fiery speech (FULL)
YouTube video by NBC Chicago
youtu.be
April 30, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Everyone should listen to this by @govpritzker.illinois.gov
The Republican and Democratic senators who aren’t calling this despicable regime out are condoning it by their silence.
The MSM who are even now normalising a lot of what is happening are complicit.
youtu.be/zMndfvxVeRo?...
The Republican and Democratic senators who aren’t calling this despicable regime out are condoning it by their silence.
The MSM who are even now normalising a lot of what is happening are complicit.
youtu.be/zMndfvxVeRo?...
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Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?
April 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?
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Good read. Her name was Sophie Mousseau, and her story is worth remembering and contemplating.
April 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Good read. Her name was Sophie Mousseau, and her story is worth remembering and contemplating.
Sorry, Roath.
Actually, you should watch Lynch's outburst. His irritation is intense. From @masslive.bsky.social
Mass. Rep. Lynch gets heated during frosty Boston rally for federal workers
YouTube video by MassLive
www.youtube.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Sorry, Roath.
Watch this and donate to Roach.
Actually, you should watch Lynch's outburst. His irritation is intense. From @masslive.bsky.social
Mass. Rep. Lynch gets heated during frosty Boston rally for federal workers
YouTube video by MassLive
www.youtube.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Watch this and donate to Roach.
Primary all these fuckers.
Stephen Lynch, aiming to be top Dem on the Oversight Cmte, blew up at a constituent who asked him to oppose the GOP.
"I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
"I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
May 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Primary all these fuckers.
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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
April 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
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it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months
April 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months
This word cloud tells the whole story. Fucking enraging/heartbreaking. #PhD #Academicsky #AcademicChatter
Word cloud of the titles of the over 500 NSF grants canceled, as documented in grant-watch.us/nsf-data.html . The two most common words (research, collaborative) excluded. The word cloud tells the whole story. 🧪#AcademicSky
April 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This word cloud tells the whole story. Fucking enraging/heartbreaking. #PhD #Academicsky #AcademicChatter
Share this widely.
NEW: We (mostly @noamross.net) launched a website to shine a brighter light on terminated NIH and NSF grants.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
Grant Watch
grant-watch.us
April 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Share this widely.
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Don't read unless you want to be infuriated. The Trump regime is taking willful ignorance to new heights (depths?). I hope the UC system is considering ways to resist, even if it means tapping the sacrosanct endowment.
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Science #HigherEd
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Science #HigherEd
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Commentary: She was wrongly snagged by Trump's word police. Now her medical research is down the drain
A UC San Francisco eye doctor mentioned "hesitancy" and "uptake" in her grant application. That cost her $3 million in funding for shingles vaccine research.
www.latimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Don't read unless you want to be infuriated. The Trump regime is taking willful ignorance to new heights (depths?). I hope the UC system is considering ways to resist, even if it means tapping the sacrosanct endowment.
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Science #HigherEd
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Science #HigherEd
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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House Republicans Advance Plan to Upend Student Loans
Democrats argued that the bill has nothing to do with lowering college costs or wasteful spending and everything to do with funding tax cuts for the wealthy. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4jVnfYi
Democrats argued that the bill has nothing to do with lowering college costs or wasteful spending and everything to do with funding tax cuts for the wealthy. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4jVnfYi
Student Loan Overhaul Clears House Committee
Democrats argued that the bill has nothing to do with lowering college costs or wasteful spending and everything to do with funding tax cuts for the wealthy.
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April 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
House Republicans Advance Plan to Upend Student Loans
Democrats argued that the bill has nothing to do with lowering college costs or wasteful spending and everything to do with funding tax cuts for the wealthy. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4jVnfYi
Democrats argued that the bill has nothing to do with lowering college costs or wasteful spending and everything to do with funding tax cuts for the wealthy. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4jVnfYi