If ever there was a word that needed reclaiming from the faux culture wars stoked by right-wing media machines, lost and wounded in an online no-man’s land of internecine strife, it is “elite”. Continue reading
Excluding elites
Matthew effect
Potential Difference
Recruitment is also about screening for potential, and not just for finding finished products. Continue reading
Graves’ inversion
A thought experiment: what if career security in academia was inverted, and the positions of junior and senior faculty were reversed? Continue reading
Learning the lingo
Should there be a kind of “jury service” for young faculty on grant funding panels? Continue reading
