{"id":1220,"date":"2007-05-08T18:48:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T23:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/05\/08\/the-message-that-is-sent\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T18:48:16","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T23:48:16","slug":"the-message-that-is-sent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/the-message-that-is-sent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Message That Is Sent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rob Knop<\/a> is blogging about the difficulties in getting tenure — his difficulties in particular, not the issue in some vague degree of abstraction. Very worth reading for a candid look at the kind of thing that goes on.<\/p>\n

On a meta level, it’s interesting to contemplate how hiring and tenuring will ultimately be effected by blogs. Scott Aaronson<\/a> is blogging at least some occasional facts about his job search. The proliferation of online rumor mills<\/a> has already taken a lot of what used to be quasi-private information, shared among the old-boy network but invisible to outsiders, and put it out there for everyone to see. I can imagine a similar kind of effect if we ever get to the point that a critical mass of job- and tenure-seekers are blogging about their progress.<\/p>\n

In the short term, I worry that the most obvious effect will be a deleterious one for the bloggers. For the most part, I don’t think that hiring\/tenure committees care<\/a> if you have a blog, occasional anonymous scare-mongering<\/a> notwithstanding. (It might even help<\/a>.) But blogging about<\/em> the process might be the kind of thing that makes committees nervous. Personally, I would never blog about a major occupational transition while it was going on; when it’s all set up and the ink is drying, it makes sense to let people know<\/a>, but in the middle of the process I would be (with good reason) worried about stepping on people’s toes. (Same thing with getting engaged<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

So, blogging about tenure and job searches: crazy or courageous? Or is there a difference? I guess we’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rob Knop is blogging about the difficulties in getting tenure — his difficulties in particular, not the issue in some vague degree of abstraction. Very worth reading for a candid look at the kind of thing that goes on. On a meta level, it’s interesting to contemplate how hiring and tenuring will ultimately be effected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}