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A weekly collection of the interesting, intriguing, and otherwise notable stuff I find around the web. If you have something to add, comment!

(Aside: Sorry for the disappearing act. My father-in-law died a week and a half ago and it’s taken me this long to get myself back on track. I’ll tack a week on to the calling thread into September….)

The New York Times wonders if the hiring debacle is the fault of tenured profs who just won’t retire. A panel of academics weighs in.

Has your ability to do simple things (addition! division!) disintegrated under the weight of academia? Now I know I’m not alone.

The AAUP and the New Faculty Majority both submitted statements advocating for tenure for adjuncts and the dismantling of tiered academic labor. Favorite dissenter/pragmatist/whipping-boy Dean Dad weighs in and then again a few days later.

How to avoid being a jerk in the classroom. Really, the title says it all.

U.S. academics don’t really understand the systems abroad, and vice versa.

A faculty member in psychology considers the social trap of both being responsible for graduate students (and their job prospects) and needing to admit and graduate lots of grad students to be deemed “successful.”

One woman’s story of being a trailing spouse.

Editing to fix that last link — thanks Cate!

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Looking forward to talking with you!