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Weird the things that most remind you of someone you lost. A few days ago, I was buying baby Tylenol (and beer) at Rite Aid and saw a box of

quick tip to anyone working on their first peer-reviewed article: the literature review is still part of the argument, not an autonomous part of the paper. Every sentence in the

Academic writing has a lot of problems, but I'm always struck by the regular complaints about vocabulary. Sometimes people use a fancy word when a simple one would be better,

One of the worst parts of academia (and a lot of other creative careers) is all the damn waiting for things with pretty low odds but which you *just* might

This is a really interesting conversation about numbers in qualitative work I think about a lot. I’m deeply ambivalent if not skeptical of counting in qualitative work unless it’s a

One test to see if your argument is a work of social science is to find out if the people you are writing about learn something from the concepts you

I really needed this reminder that words are not enough. That goes as much for my academic tweets as for my articles/books and seminars/lectures. But even if words are not

1. A lot of people talk a lot of crap about book chapters especially for junior people and it’s generally true that the untenured or folks on the market should

So I'm fascinated by this thing some white conservatives do when talking about how everyone has a struggle so we shouldn't talk about white privilege or systemic racism: they list

1. The world does not become better by all of us being our best selves. That’s because there are things in the world that are the citizenship equivalent of taking

Hey academics-coming-up! Congratulations on sending out that article! However, that probably also means, a few months later, you got your article rejected. Not even a Revise and Resubmit. Worry not.