*taps mic* Y’all still here? 🙃 Some of y’all ‘bout to receive a job offer soon so let’s disrupt our cultural unease about money with a 🧵 on negotiating academic job offers. 1/

I don’t be on here much—maybe I’ll change that 🤔—but when I do, it’s often to gloat about the exceptional 🤌🏾students I work with @UCRSOE 🙏🏾 10 out of 10; no notes! 👌🏾

🫣 i got other movement plans this saturday morning, papo, but the 17th, i’m there 🫡 here 4 the call out too 😂

A reminder—it’s okay to skip your national or subfield conference to stay home and prioritize your writing routine (or other important matters). Sadly, conferences are high costs, low rewards. You aint missin’ nothin’ by not attendin’—do you instead 🙌🏾

The way im ‘bout to sit in this faculty meeting and buy tix so I can giddy up, giddy up with the 🐐Bey come May 😮‍💨 Priorities, y’all—priorities 👌🏾

Are you a MA/PhD student considering careers in social science/humanity research? Apply to the Summer Institute in Liberatory & Decolonizing Research Methods @GeorgeMasonU by Feb 3! Selected participants'll have all expenses covered except travel for the week-long workshop in Jun

Academics need to embrace confrontation. It is good. It tells us something important is at stake. It shows us where we can grow. Dialogue & active listening will get us to the other side. Until then, we need confrontation. Avoiding it only worsens matters 4 us all.

I’d get let go so swiftly if I was academic admin. here in SoCal. Heavy rain? Cancel classes. Uncontained wild fires? Poor air quality? Cancel. the. damn. classes! It aint that deep.

Me realizing I have to start teaching again on the 6th 😭😭😭 I’m trynna give up a couple weeks of summer for longer breaks between quarters fr ‘cause this aint it and sneaks up on me every single time 🤦🏾‍♂️

Learn from the legitimate parts of their feedback. Acknowledge constraints they may not be able to understand. Grow where you can, but don’t shame yourself for evaluations that just aren’t fair. Your teaching will not resonate with everyone. There is beauty in that.

Don’t internalize your teaching evaluations. Sometimes, students are frustrated with things beyond your control. They use the evaluation as a space to feel seen in an education system that rarely values their voice. I don’t blame them. But, carry what is yours, not theirs.

“Publish or perish” as a culture is real indeed, but that doesn’t mean we must subscribe to it mindlessly and merely publish for quantity’s sake. The quality of the work is important too. The possibilities of its influence matter. Take your time. Take your time.

Learn the craft. Develop your ideas. Put them in convo with existing work. Don’t rush to coin a “new” term just ‘cause. If you have a mentor to show you the publishing way, great! If not, that’s fine, but take your time and work to publish something meaningful to you and field.

As someone who finished grad school with no pubs in hand but doin’ just fine now, I am compelled to remind grad students to only publish when they feel they have something meaningful to say. Don’t publish just to publish. There’s too much tepid stuff out as is. Take your time.

Fall semester/quarter should end the week b4 Thanksgiving. We all need the break. This work week, holiday week, work week, and back to a holiday week set-up aint really it. This and a 3-day weekend is on my wish list for ‘25 & beyond 😭🙏🏾

I know we migratin’ to the butterfly app, BUT ⁦⁦@UCRSOE⁩ is searching for a critical quantitative scholar/methodologist ✨ Deadline closes in jan. Reach out if you have questions and share widely please 🙌🏾

Protectin’ my time, my peace, & my wellness is one of my favorite hobbies 🙏🏾

Break the mould within reason. Say something meaningful. And strive for your peers to actually enjoy reading your work. We been goin’ through the motions as academic writers, yet we, the work, field, & public writ large deserve so much more. Write with intention & zeal ✍🏾

Encourage your students, peers, & yourself to inject some life, character, & personality into our prose. Don’t let your due diligence to the literature rob you of your voice/argument. Don’t think mirroring senior folx is the only way to publish in “good” outlets.

We, as academic readers, have grown to be complacent with the research literature reading boringly and void of life—this is not a requirement of good academic writing.

A reminder… Academic writing should make you “feel” something. It’s not drama. It’s not comedy. But the literature should read well and excite your senses. What questions did it spark? What connections did it inspire? Where did it lead your mind to wander & be curious?