Fresh, hot-off-the-digital-press: "Giving the outrage a name – how researchers are challenging employment conditions under the hashtags #IchBinHanna and #IchBinReyhan"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2452273 1/🧵
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Fresh, hot-off-the-digital-press: "Giving the outrage a name – how researchers are challenging employment conditions under the hashtags #IchBinHanna and #IchBinReyhan"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2452273 1/🧵
It was reading this book back when I did my PhD, and when I read it I was struck just how much the academic "career path" resembles the "tournament career path" of street gangs as described in this book - and then I realized I needed to make an exit plan for academia. #Academia #IchBinHanna
Others later came to the same conclusion independently, so it wasn't just me:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/12/11/how-academia-resembles-a-drug-gang/
It was reading this book back when I did my PhD, and when I read it I was struck just how much the academic "career path" resembles the "tournament career path" of street gangs as described in this book - and then I realized I needed to make an exit plan for academia. #Academia #IchBinHanna
Others later came to the same conclusion independently, so it wasn't just me:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/12/11/how-academia-resembles-a-drug-gang/
This. Is. Hilarious.
The PhD-Simulator
https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html
#PhDs #phdlife #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #WissZeitVG #AcademicChatter
Wer hätte es gewusst? 1920 gab es ein Pendant zu #IchBinHanna, nur dass es um die "Zwangspensionierungen" von Professoren "über 68" ging. Die Berliner Zeitung "Der Tag" beklagte zum erzwungenen Abschied, dass hier Beamte gemaßregelt würden, dass "geschätzte Lehrer" zur Untätigkeit verdammt würden. Es sei zu beklagen, dass damit "große Lücken ... gerissen" würden. Eine #Zwangspensionierung sei das Damoklesschwert über so vielen glänzenden Karrieren, so der Tenor. Der beste Satz steht am Ende:
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