Responding to a post I saw from someone on the #tenuretrack -
I don’t care what your associate dean or department chair tells you: you have to rest. Not half-hour cat nap. Rest for a whole day. You need to do what you like. You need to walk in fresh air. You need to see friends and family. In the long run, it will help you, particularly in the final stretch. #academia#academicmastodon#academicchatter@academicchatter
Anyway, bringing it back to CS... if you think you'd like a half-teaching, half-research tenure-track position in CS at a friendly, mid-sized school in a unique city in a beautiful place, then consider applying here!
#tenuretrack job posting: Assistant Professor in #ClimateChange & #biodiversity in the Department of Ecology & Evolution a Stony Brook University, New York. Application review starts Oct. 23 but you can apply through Nov. 6. I love working in this dep't. Happy to answer any questions I can. Looking forward to a new colleague!
Given that "the era of exponential growth in academic research is over", Casey Bergman had (2012) some advice for senior academics:
"3) For established academics: you came up during the halcyon days of growth in science, so bear in mind that you had it easy relative to those trying to make it today. So when you set your expectations for your students or junior colleagues in terms of performance, recruitment or tenure, be sure to take on board that they have it much harder now than you did at the corresponding point in your career [see points 1) and 2)]. A corollary of this point is that anyone actually succeeding in science now and in the future is (on average) probably better trained and works harder than you (at the corresponding point in your career), so on the whole you are probably dealing with someone who is more qualified for their job than you would be. So don’t judge your junior colleagues with out-of-date views (that you might not be able to achieve yourself in the current climate) and promote values from a bygone era of incessant growth. Instead, adjust your views of success for the 21st century and seek to promote a sustainable model of scientific career development that will fuel innovation for the next hundred years."