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Today is my last day in a university position so I wanted to write a few things about #leavingacademia⬇️
On NLP, Computational Linguistics and Meaning. Above all: on loving your object of study and owning it. \1
On NLP, Computational Linguistics and Meaning. Above all: on loving your object of study and owning it. \1
I don't often post here. I’m not a great talker. Which is a real shame because my research field loves talking on social media. About big engineering feats, conference acceptance rates, one's own success or struggles. Although, I note, relatively little about language itself. \2
At the risk of sounding sentimental, I became a computational semanticist because I cared about meaning. Deeply. I wanted to know what it was, the same way others want to know about beetles, asteroids or gravitation. I wanted to do science. \3
Why are the #humanities dying? Why is enrollment dropping precipitously, why are departments shutting down from lack of funding and support? A 🧵by a former English professor:
The answer: the humanities are becoming more and more irrelevant, and its stakeholders are refusing to critically address its irrelevance.
A case study from my former field, #literarystudies: the central object of analysis in literary studies has not changed for century: only novels, poetry, drama are acceptable. Everything else is either on the margins or relegated to another department.
In my past life as an academic, one of the things people would do is examine my tweets for subtext whenever they were trying to say 💩 things about me to discredit this in some way.
But the funny thing is as my friend @jessifer said to me when he encountered those folks, “Have you even met Adeline? She already says all the things she’s not supposed to say! What is the need to look at subtext?” 😂😂😂
This sheds on light on some of the numerous ways I did not fit into #academia. I am honest and direct and forthright as much as I am able.
This never fit into academic social norms, which rely on courtly manners, prevarication and dissemination in majority of social contexts.
This never fit into academic social norms, which rely on courtly manners, prevarication and dissemination in majority of social contexts.
Things I do not miss about academic discussions now that I’ve left, a 🧵:
- In most discussions I’ve been in I see that participants are often barely listening to one another. They are just waiting for their turn to speak and show off their brilliance.
- In most discussions I’ve been in I see that participants are often barely listening to one another. They are just waiting for their turn to speak and show off their brilliance.
It’s why these are often not real discussions, because participants rarely deeply engage with one another. It’s mostly peacocking.
- Courtly manners. In more sanguine environments, most discussions take place whereby the participants make superficial nods to one another’s work, for the seeming purpose of showing what an intellectual powerhouse is currently at the table.
This is something I’ve wanted to say to well-meaning liberal white women who are in senior positions for a while. I’m saying it now because my voice has been freed after winning the book award recently.
Dear liberal white women: I know that often you try to support and promote women of color as part of your commitment to #antiracism. It is great that you do this, but:
You need to understand that women of color are not a monolith, and that white supremacy in many institutions makes some women of color fight against others women of color to gain the attention, validation and praise of senior white people.
I ugly cried when I first read this email from my book publisher @EileenAJoy about Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities, upon learning that my book with @dorothyk98 won the @AmerStudiesAssn #digitalhumanities book award: a thread 🧵 
The recognition with the prize has been really healing. The toxicity of my field caused me a lot of mental health stress and started a debilitating depression.
Because I called out the racism of the digital humanities, senior white members of the field blackballed me and said I was toxic, warned junior colleagues no one would ever publish again if they worked with me. This was part of the reason why I left.
"It’s mediaschmerz—a sadness about the news cycle and news media, which is distinct from the experience of our everyday life. I’m not sure if I think this is good or bad. It simply is. Individual hope and national despair are not contradictions." @DKThomp greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2022/06/02/dai…
Has the 'great resignation' hit academia?
nature.com/articles/d4158…
#GreatResignation, #LeavingAcademia, #EarlyCareerResearchers, #TenureTrackPositions, #GrantMill
nature.com/articles/d4158…
#GreatResignation, #LeavingAcademia, #EarlyCareerResearchers, #TenureTrackPositions, #GrantMill
'Everything Is Terrible, but I'm Fine'
theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
#weltschmerz, #EconomicWellBeing, #PerceptionGap, #BadNews, #MediaSchmerz
theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
#weltschmerz, #EconomicWellBeing, #PerceptionGap, #BadNews, #MediaSchmerz
