I am currently in Hell (also known as the academic job market). Currently an assistant prof on a temp contract at UCD in Dublin, still working on babies, EEG, and motor development.

Give them the moral support they need to resist the impulse to caveat, hedge, and point out limitations.

You're saving the environment by not eliciting a load of additional useless emails. That deserves a Praise.

It was idyllic (in a way) to be there in 2020/21. Lots of open green spaces, paths, and cycle routes for the daily mental health jaunt. 10/10, would pandemic again.

As someone who got the feedback "just a load of post-doc work" on a job talk (even after cutting out an entire series of studies on an adjacent topic), I can vouch for the editorialized approach. People love a straightforward narrative & a focus on a (supposedly) career-defining problem.

My tinfoil hat is telling me it's because they want you unmuted to maximize their recorded data for training voice/sound models.

Credentialism has been the word of my year on the job market. I knew that credentials were no guarantee of success, that they're more of an adversarial shield - you might not say yes, but you can't say no to me on this basis. I did not expect them to mean nothing & to constantly hear about "fit".

Congrats Karla and so well-deserved! Anyone brave enough to tackle measurement of EF in early life has my admiration 😅 thank you for sharing your journey - I've been having a tough year on the job market and it's reassuring to know that others have found success even when the horizon looks hazy.

Such a clever idea to recruit from a population about whom there is already so much social and health data!

I miss spring at UW! The cherry blossoms, the bald eagles and herons, the increasingly distracting party boat and seaplane noises right outside my office window on the cut...

I want to know how much they paid the aide who had to wrestle a cat, let alone one known for scrapping with a fox, into that get-up.

The biggest source of innovation in academic publishing has been fraud-related every year since 1950 or whenever Robert Maxwell bought his first press.
Actually probably before, I'm not letting scholarly societies off the hook.

This better not provide any distracting haptic feedback.