Misc

When academics leave academia, the reasons mirror most career transitions: the misalignment between personal values and organizational culture becomes too great. But academia has a particular way of manifesting this misalignment. It promises freedom and autonomy, the ability to pursue questions that matter to you, while simultaneously creating conditions where that freedom feels increasingly illusory. I'm not talking about workload modelling or administrative creep, though those matter. I'm talking about something more fundamental: academia's unique relationship with control, or rather, the illusion of it. The Predictable and Unpredictable in Academic Life Here's what we can predict in academia: the pressure to publish will continue to exist. The volume of output will continue to grow at a seemingly impossible rate. Quality will remain variable as a result. What we cannot predict, and what many struggle to accept, is nearly everything else. Which journals will accept yo...