Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In
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. 🏳️🌈✡️🍉
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- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InWe 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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- 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
- "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
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InI’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
- 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
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- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InEveryone 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?...
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InSen. 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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- Sorry, Roath.
- Watch this and donate to Roach.
- Primary all these fuckers.
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InApril 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is Init 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
- 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.
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InDon'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...
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- CV Strategizing Service reduced rates continuing... in recognition of <all this>. How it works: You send me your CV & goals, concerns, queries. I respond w recommendations. Covers #academicexit planning as well as academic. www.e-junkie.com/i/pxz2?card #AcademicChatter #Academicsky #PhDlife
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- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InA headline from Hell. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
- You’re welcome. “Je suis en homme blanc, mon avis est interessant” 😂 www.instagram.com/reel/DHtdfsd... #mansplaining #PhD #Academicsky
- Good writing advice! Inc. many versions of "the best diss is the finished diss"
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- V. bad news from Indiana "Gov. Mike Braun [gets] sole appointing power over Indiana U's board of trustees, subjecting tenured faculty to "productivity" quotas that could lead to termination, dissolving faculty governance organizations... no public testimony. www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
- Holy shit.
- "Goldilocks and the Three Interviewees" - new on blog. How to strike the middle ground of scholarly, collegial collaboration, and avoid the pitfalls of arrogant lecturing and/or abject pandering. Once you hear it you know. theprofessorisin.com/2025/04/04/g... #PhD #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
- Join Kel and me for Free Live Coaching on Leaving Academia in 2 minutes! (2 PM Eastern). We talk 7 common mistakes you make on your resume and how to fix them. us06web.zoom.us/j/84809546934 #AcademicChatter #PhD #LeavingAcademia #AcademicEscape
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- NYT continues to embarrass itself. (if it were capable of embarrassment i mean).
- Food is expensive right now. These expert hacks can help you lower your grocery bill. nyti.ms/3YKjPzw
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- Some points from Small Biz webinar: Academics have a negativity bias, are risk-averse; You can start small; Your first business is not your last; You've got skills people need; Find your Unique Value Proposition... Got to share my new biz, Mad Bunny Vintage! www.ebay.com/str/badbunny... #academicsky
- 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
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InOne of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InHarvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
- When your trolls are sexist and ageist. Stay classy, historians.
- New on blog, "Moody's Ratings and Due Diligence in the Academic Job Search." Small colleges are closing at a rate of approx 1/week (per @edufuturist.bsky.social). Check public data as you consider applying to or taking positions. theprofessorisin.com/2025/04/14/m... #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InAgain, birds have a lot to teach us. #birds
- 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
- Starting Your Small Business webinar today! Learn about academia's elitism & $$ shaming (@kreggallagher.bsky.social, @drhardesty.bsky.social @drewmckevitt.bsky.social for ex) & how it holds you back / blocks autonomy/creativity. Code GRIFTER 20% off! theprofessorisin.com/webinars/ #academicchatter
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InBe specific, strategic, and savvy. In this episode, Dr. Karen Kelsky, founder of @professorisin.bsky.social, shares: ✅ How to avoid common application mistakes ✅ What hiring committees actually look for ✅ How to stay grounded and thrive in academia #PhDSky bit.ly/4cItzQO
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InReporter @klburke.bsky.social dives into how these PhD researchers left the academic track to forge independent research careers in rural, small town or hometown locations and how you could do it, too. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InNEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. propub.li/43487Tj
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InPresident Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InThere are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂
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- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InLast night MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said Trump was the first U.S. president to “switch sides during a war.” That aptly describes Trump’s betrayal but it can’t begin to convey the depravity of what Trump did in throwing our ally overboard and lying about every facet of Putin’s criminal aggression.
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InWhat the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!
- Escalating violence. All in line with the fascist playbook. Beware, beware.
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- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InThe root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
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- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InThe flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InOld friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InWe need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.
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- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InI am extremely freaking thrilled to announce that Bad Company is *officially* available for preorder wherever you buy books. (I am linking to Bookshop but buy it wherever!) I worked so, so hard on this book, and it would mean a ton to me if you ordered it. bookshop.org/a/109816/978...
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InRepublicans in Congress want Americans struggling to afford student loan payments to shell out nearly $200 more each month to fund tax cuts for billionaires.
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- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InSnoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate Kendrick: actually
- Reposted by Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is InNot exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.
