Mastodawn

I've learned a few unpleasant things about #academia that should be useful to know to young folks.

1. Doing a PhD in the Scandy #humanities makes you *less* employable after those four years than if you had just had a normal job.

2. Being highly productive in top scientific research venues is far, far less important to an academic getting tenure than just being buddies with the director of a department. Scandy uni departments aren't even evaluated on research productivity.

#archaeology

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kit

@mrundkvist some things never change.

A friend of mine in the 80s was doing archaeology, and at the end of his degree, his professor/supervisor said to him the important thing is that we get you on the circuit, it doesn’t really matter much where.

I’ve never really gotten the impression that other academic disciplines are different, although I am an outsider and would not really know.