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Category: Alt-Ac Jobs
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A reader wrote in to draw my attention to a cool new podcast, Off Campus., featuring interviews with academics who left the academy for alternative ('alt-ac') careers. Here's the full podcast description: Each episode features a guest who has completed substantive postgraduate education in the humanities and who currently works in an alt-ac career. By…
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A reader writes in: I wonder how you felt about having a post about job ads. I was thinking even one that might have a pinned link on the side. Many of the jobs are posted on PhilJobs, but there are plenty that are not. UK jobs and postdocs are sometimes only on jobs.ac.uk; European…
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In our January "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: Has anyone heard logic based therapy and is it legit? I saw a friend who had become certified or something on social media and I am somewhat skeptical. Honestly, I hadn't heard of this until now, so I looked it up! Apparently, it's…
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Over at Daily Nous the other week, Carolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced) provided a 10-year update on the Academic Placement Data and Analysis (APDA) project, the purpose of which "is to collect, analyze, and distribute data on job placement for graduates of PhD programs in philosophy." As a member of the ADPA's board of advisors,…