Fight for your right to plan! Why? Because planning is taking control of your own vision for your career and your life. It’s especially essential in an industry (academia) that takes away your agency at every turn. You are entitled to be the captain of your own ship, and envision your academic future. Karen and Kel tell you why and how.
Academics are bailing in unprecedented numbers, and academia has finally started to notice. Karen was interviewed twice in the past couple weeks–once in Nature,...
We talk breaking points. Kel suggests to anyone feeling they’ve reached the breaking point at the end of the semester: pause, and appreciate that...
One episode wasn’t enough to talk about burnout in the academy. Juxtaposing the WHO definition of burnout with a definition Karen read, that burnout...