A weekly collection of interesting things I find around the Internet. Find something I didn’t? I’d love to hear about it the comments!

What people were talking about this week

Have you seen the hilarious WTF Should I Do With My Life? You really ought to check it out.

If you’ve been lucky enough to land more than one job offer, Eliza Woolf offers advice for making a choice.

Strategies for approaching editors at conferences if you’re a graduate student.

Jessica Quillin offers advice for starting your own consulting business while you’re still in academia.

It seems all the academics are buried in the usual end-of-semester grading and graduating and etc.

And the summer news slump begins!

A weekly collection of interesting things I find around the Internet. Find something I didn’t? I’d love to hear about it the comments!

What people were talking about this week

The Michigan Board of Regents changed a bylaw to extend the “maximum allowable pre-tenure probationary period” available to member institutions. In other words, schools can set their tenure clock to anything up to 10 years.

A look into what journal editors do.

Apparently the paranoia induced in grad students by the grad school experience might even be helpful. (Perhaps true for only specific values of “helpful”?)

Advice for landing an online teaching position.

Tenured Radical highlights an article that calls out the high levels of stress and low levels of self-care common to assistant professors specifically and professors more generally.

Dr. Crazy argues that, in spite of the long-standing trope of the liberal professoriate, it’s a pretty conservative position.