Please post links to any and all blogs that might be useful, or fun, to those of us in academia, and on the academic job market in particular.[]
Such as:[]
- MLA Job List blog offers tips and advice on careers and on job seeking inside academia and out. For PhDs and other higher ed graduates.
- Tenured Radical
- The Philosophy Smoker
- Blog U.(InsideHigherEd blogs)
- Get A Life, PhD: http://getalifephd.blogspot.com/
- "On the Fence" has info. on the academic and nonacademic job markets. www.phd-onthefence.blogspot.com
- The Professor is In : a website that offers academic career advice for graduate students, the job market, the tenure-track, and even the tenured. "The Professor" is a former tenured professor and Department Head with 15 years of experience advising and teaching in the humanities. She offers much of her advice on her daily blog "Pearls of Wisdom"-- but is also available for hire on a contractual basis. A good source for no-nonsense, practical, honest advice from the point of view of a career academic.
- Lumpenprofessoriat
- Dedicated academic job board for Australia https://www.academicjobs.com/australia (this seems to show global jobs, not just Australian ones).
- https://melissaridleyelmes.wordpress.com/ is a blog written by a first-generation graduate student and aimed at helping other graduate students navigate the PhD, with particular emphasis on teaching and professionalization.
- Very useful practical tips to secure academic jobs as lecturers, research assistant and postdoctoral researcher. https://www.academicjobs.com/become-a-university-lecturer-earn-115k