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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In

@professorisin.bsky.social
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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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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 01/08/2025
The NSF grants suspended at UCLA total $179M, half of which was still outstanding: CAREER grants, a major math institute, and basic science research and training of all types. More at grant-witness.us/posts/UCLA-n..., thanks to GW member Mally Shan, with grant-level details in our database.
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NSF Grant Suspensions at UCLA total $90M lost in value – Grant Witness
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We 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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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Struck by this being an "ominous sign for the economy" because "Earning a Ph.D. in economics has long been a reliable path to affluence and prestige. Not anymore." Why was it a reliable path? Why weren't history jobs disappearing an ominous sign? Mini thread Gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...
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The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy.
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
"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
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What Leaving Academia Won’t Fix - Guest Post - The Professor Is In
By:  M. Brielle Harbin, Ph.D. Brielle Harbin, PhD, is a tenured faculty member, an award-winning educator, and the founder of Your Cooperative Colleague LLC, a consulting practice that supports purpos...
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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
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Amanda Hernandez, Ph.D @uhmanduhdawn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I’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
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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
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On the Fence About Academia? You're Not Alone - Guest Post - The Professor Is In
Post 1 of 4 by M. Brielle Harbin, Ph.D. Brielle Harbin, PhD, is a tenured faculty member, an award-winning educator, and the founder of Your Cooperative Colleague LLC, a consulting practice that suppo...
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
#AcademicChatter
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Christina Lattimer @christinalattimer.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Everyone 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?...
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Gov. Pritzker blasts Republicans and ‘do-nothing Democrats' in fiery speech (FULL)
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Ossoff's Office @ossoff.senate.gov · 30/04/2025
Sen. 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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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Good read. Her name was Sophie Mousseau, and her story is worth remembering and contemplating.
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Sorry, Roath.
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Watch this and donate to Roach.
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Primary all these fuckers.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2025
it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This word cloud tells the whole story. Fucking enraging/heartbreaking. #PhD #Academicsky #AcademicChatter
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Share this widely.
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Freddy Tran Nager @professorfreddy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Don'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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Commentary: She was wrongly snagged by Trump's word police. Now her medical research is down the drain
A UC San Francisco eye doctor mentioned "hesitancy" and "uptake" in her grant application. That cost her $3 million in funding for shingles vaccine research.
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 30/04/2025
House Republicans Advance Plan to Upend Student Loans Democrats argued that the bill has nothing to do with lowering college costs or wasteful spending and everything to do with funding tax cuts for the wealthy. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4jVnfYi
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Student Loan Overhaul Clears House Committee
Democrats argued that the bill has nothing to do with lowering college costs or wasteful spending and everything to do with funding tax cuts for the wealthy.
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 26/04/2025
Imagine hating Black people so much you don't want clean milk or healthy kids.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
A headline from Hell. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
You’re welcome. “Je suis en homme blanc, mon avis est interessant” 😂 www.instagram.com/reel/DHtdfsd... #mansplaining #PhD #Academicsky
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Good writing advice! Inc. many versions of "the best diss is the finished diss"
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Roman Piso @romanpiso.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
#PoliticsSky #PoliticalSky #DemSky #DemocratSky #BlueSky #RainbowSky #BlackSky #ProgressiveSky #LiberalSky #NewsSky #EducationSky #TeachingSky #LearningSky #LifeSky #WorldSky #HistorySky #booksky #EduSky🍎 #HumanitySky #HumanistSky #SecularSky #AtheistSky #ReligionSky #ActivistSky #AcademicSky #Info
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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...
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'Complete takeover': Lawmakers exert control over university policy in 11th hour
They appeared near the bottom of the 220-page budget bill Wednesday evening, and rose to the forefront of the heated debate Friday morning.
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Holy shit.
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
"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
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Goldilocks and the Three Interviewees - The Professor Is In
I’ve been doing loads of Interview Interventions these days (there are still some open searches going on!) and over the past few weeks I’ve come upon an insight that I really want to share. While I’ve...
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Amazing article. We can't let institutions use backsliding against DEI as reasons for going back on their promise to support Black Studies. theconversation.com/reckoning-an... #academicsky
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Reckoning and resistance: The future of Black hiring commitments on campus
The true commitment to racial justice lies not in performative statements, but in sustained support for marginalized scholars and research, even during economic and political precarity.
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
NYT continues to embarrass itself. (if it were capable of embarrassment i mean).
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/04/2025
Karen Durbin, a fierce feminist who championed sexual liberation and served as the second female editor in chief of The Village Voice, died this month. She was 80.
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Karen Durbin, 80, Dies; ‘Fearless’ Feminist Who Edited The Village Voice
A fierce advocate of sexual liberation, she pushed the alternative weekly to cover women’s issues, as well as gay rights and avant-garde culture.
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF
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NPR @npr.org · 24/04/2025
Harvard 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.
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Colleague of Harvard scientist held by ICE warns that foreign scientists are scared
Harvard 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.
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
When your trolls are sexist and ageist. Stay classy, historians.
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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
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Moody's Ratings and Due Diligence in the Academic Job Search - The Professor Is In
This quick blog post is drawn from advice given to someone considering a job offer at a “V. small college” that shall remain nameless.  I think few academics know to consult Moody’s and other financia...
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💖 Birdhism Jen @birdhism.com · 24/04/2025
Again, birds have a lot to teach us. #birds
Cockatoo removes anti-nesting spikes and throws them away
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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
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Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In @professorisin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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
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STEMCELL Technologies @stemcell.com · 17/04/2025
Be 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
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Kendall Powell @kendallsciwrite.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Reporter @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...
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PhD scientists who forged a career off the beaten track
These seven scientists escaped big-city life after completing their PhDs. Here’s how they make it work.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2025
NEW: 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
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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