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There are way more Ph.D.s than jobs for Ph.D.s.

The other thing we have to stop.doing as academics is churning out Ph.D.s In 2023 there were 57k Ph.D.s awarded in the U.S., which is sharply up from numbers more like 40k about ten years ago. Are job prospects better? Professors: if you want to do research, do it yourself.

#AcademicSky 🧪

I hate fighting -- so much more fun to work collaboratively but okay, let's fight

#fight

www.msn.com/en-us/lifest...

I don't think of people as awful, but it's not hard to find reports of Silicon Valley execs telling a group of eager college students that they must work every waking minute if they want to build a successful company.

That's the subtext. Also: the messengers here bragging about how much they work are sometimes / often full of shit

Stop the madness. Slow the fuck down. Cooperation >> competition. Goes for any endeavor: you don't have to be "better" to reap the benefits, you just have to actually love people and want to help them in collective solidarity, instead of wanting to beat them at some fucking game.

#AcademicSky 🧪

Comments from @barackobama.bsky.social reveal why the Democrats are little better than fascists when it comes to this.

What they are crushing along with their competitors is their own well-being, and that of their colleagues, and that of the planet as a whole.

The reason is that those three people are supposed to be viciously greedy, wanting all the benefits of whatever they are building for themselves. Unwilling to share with a broader collective. Absolutely focused on crushing the competition, including the people they work with.

Why is it that you have to work every waking moment -- 120 hours a week or whatever, like some people brag about -- when three people working 40 hours a week with unity of purpose can produce the same -- and probably better, given their improved physical and mental health -- output?

The only reason the idea that constant monomaniacal work is required for greatness has any credibility at all is that we live in a world of absolutely competitive, toxic individualism.

This is fascism and ecocide, barely disguised. The idea that great things are only possible if you create unhealthy living conditions for yourself and the planet desperately needs pushback.

Let me say a few words about the parade of executives in Silicon Valley and elsewhere claiming that 'you can't do anything great' unless you devote your entire life to working.

AI is not even remotely coming for developers' jobs. If you believe that it is, you are buying a line from those who want developers to fear for their jobs.

#AI

higher ed will not survive in its current incarnation as the gatekeeper of class privilege. there simply aren't enough wealthy liberals, and it has long since alienated anyone else who might have risen to its defense

this in itself is not a bad thing

#AcademicSky 🧪

the way we (incessantly) publish is what needs to perish

#AcademicSky

What if I just eat an entire avocado and call it dinner?

#Cuisine

A bit of #yoga on a dry creekbed @ohiopyle.bsky.social

The US National Science Foundation -- where 'good' means 'bad' and 'competitive' means 'snowball's chance in hell'

🧪 #AcademicSky

A bowl of pasta, farfalle with tomatoes and pesto

pesto in a bowl

Chopped pesto on a cutting board with knife

basil, garlic, parmesan and peanuts on a cutting board

fresh pesto season

#ecstaticdance

Dude at a set of decks with a drum in the foreground

me in my natural state

Like Mark Cuban and Barack Obama, this founder says work–life balance doesn’t exist for the successful: ‘Even if I am on vacation, you're on 24 hours a day' Even after successfully building a multi-million dollar business, the CEO of That’s It Nutrition still grinds all hours of the day: ‘Even if I am on vacation, you're on 24 hours a day.'

The people quoted in this article are all "progressives".

We used to take pride in the fact that unions created the 40-hour workweek, but I guess that's just another way in which 'the left' fails to distinguish itself from fascists nowadays.

fortune.com/2025/07/18/f...

Fritatta in a pan on a stove

It's not that I'm a great cook but it's hard to go wrong with fresh and local ingredients, like the garlic, lion's mane, zucchini and eggs in this fritatta

#food #cooking #summer

*thought

selfie taken at a coffee shop with computer, glasses and bread pudding

selfie taken from the coffee shop to prove to my neighbor that I made it across the river in the kayak the other day. it was longer than I though and hot and I lost my sunglasses in the river but . . . made it and I think it's a real option

#commuting #urbanism

circular fern image says those who keep trying cannot be defeated

important messaging #streetart

I guess this means I'm sticking around WV for awhile