Monday roundup

A weekly collection of interesting things I find around the Internet. Find something I didn’t? I’d love to hear about it the comments!

And, yeah. Apparently it’s Tuesday. C’est la vie.

What people were talking about this week

Best news ever! Jorge Chan’s (in)famous comic strip, “Piled Higher and Deeper,” is getting the movie treatment.

The visiting professorship is an interesting cross between adjuncting and tenure-track – with more weight towards the former. Eliza Woolf doesn’t like it much.

There’s a new profession in academe, and it’s called the research administrator.

Rena Kraut found out she wasn’t chosen for a tenure-track job on Facebook.

Jessica Quillin argues that academics have a lot of useful skills we tend to ignore.

What’s your career story? Everyone needs one.

Dean Dad talks about a common interview-killer: claiming to never change.

Tenured Radical has a cogent take on the move to dismantle tenure and other protections.

Notorious PhD offers some advice for presenting at conferences.

Dean Dad talks about whether community college alums have an edge on community college tenure-track jobs.