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@Virusnerdette @MateHG Same! Former UK academic here, now working in the Canadian system. Went through the same stuff which eventually drove me away to better pastures. Keep going!!

@MateHG I knew immediately reading your tweet that you are based in the UK…I faced these types of crappy opinions from stale pale males all the time when trying to gain independence in UK. Money gets money! Keep going & don’t listen. Every fund matters and builds your track record 👊🏼

@ashleyruba_phd I guess unions aren’t really a thing in the US - but in Canadian TT system, if someone is giving you issues you can get them off your committee, so you can avoid this sort of situation to begin with of “staying silent”.

@MarvinSchmittML @ashleyruba_phd Generally true, altho those of us in tech subjects are already very aware of the transferable skills we possess and often have a company on the side of our academic jobs, just in case things tank with the university system ;)

@ashleyruba_phd Professors often don’t know much about non-academic careers. A great way to get first-hand information is reaching out to alumni of your university who currently work in industry. And of course people like you who are very vocal about alt-ac 👍

@DutchOven969 Have a look at academic job wiki (#Music_Technology/Composition" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">academicjobs.fandom.com/wiki/Music_Stu…) I found my current tenure track position there (went from UK academia to Canada academia)

@FromPhDtoLife Postdoc —> Assistant Prof

What was your first job title after earning (or leaving) your PhD? ☑️ Postdoc ☑️ Assistant professor ☑️ Research scientist ☑️ [Your job title] What else is out there? (I know there is TONS.) What was your job title?

@willyn_w Nice!

@oddfuckingtaco @thought_bender @Austen @villi 💯!

One of the reasons I’m so skeptical of universal basic income is that when you run a school you see just how strong the human impulse to not really do anything is. I’m convinced 99% of humans would just watch insane amounts of Netflix and play a lot of video games.

@thought_bender @Austen @villi You need some hobbies that aren’t just work/capitalism related.

@Austen @villi I don’t think people truly understand the weight of what you are saying. Doing nothing, being a blob is the worst. It destroys a person from the inside, fills them anxiety and feeling useless as well as just losing their will to live

@Austen @villi capitalism is also very much a recipe for all of those things as well. Perhaps not seeing everything through a lens of toxic productivity is a good start.

@villi A recipe for mass depression and suicide, maybe

New music ahead of a (mini) tour xylemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hold-on

@sethw Wooo!!!

@JasiBP LOL!! I turned down a senior lecturer job in London when I couldn’t actually rent a one bed for something resembling *reasonable*

@PatricProAuthor Half southern British/half west coast Canadian (I’m a Canadian who has lived in UK for over 12 years so things are a bit weird now accent wise 🥴

Describe your accent. And yes, you do have one.

@LauraJaneMayne Omg this is basically my entire experience as a UK lecturer summed up 😟

@yevgenydevine @williamdawalrus @leahculver Your sexism and stupidity is showing, sir.

Happy Friday all.

@ashleyruba Awesome!

@n_g_laskowski I just kept pushing and got a TT job, but have always kept doing software eng consultancy work - cause having that industry connection keeps me sane.

@yael_niv @_rdgao @ashleyruba Just putting this is out there but I’ve noticed a lot of post docs in Australia are paid ~95k (around 100k CAD/60k GBP). So it IS very much possible to pay a decent salary to a so called trainee.

@_rdgao @ashleyruba No. I'm just saying that it's also not exactly like a job. I'm not their boss. I don't tell them what to do. They don't necessarily produce stuff I need, or stuff *for me*. Even though I pay their salaries. That's all.

Xylem artist @Electro_Lou (Dr Louise Rossiter) will be performing a series of events starting this weekend!:

@UusitaloLaura @almostbrenda @AcademicChatter Thank you ❤️

People who get their bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree at the same university: why? @AcademicChatter