McNeese University is advertising on Reddit?!
Go, McNeese, go!
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john laudun
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Researcher interested in how narratives cascade across networks. So, a folklorist.
To paraphrase Magritte, this is not a book, but my library now counts it as one.
If you want to know what grief looks like for an academic, especially for a folklorist, then you need look no further than this image of an empty library bay which once held a myriad of folklore reference books: indexes and bibliographies covering a variety of areas and peoples and approaches. Those books are all gone now, swept away because they were not checked out often enough. THEY. WERE. REFERENCE. BOOKS.
Our library has not seriously purchased books in 20 years: the English department hasn't had a book budget above $3500 (for a department of 30+ faculty members) since 2005. It's not like we need to clear out shelf space for all the new books flooding in.
The new normal: Microsoft Outlook tags a Microsoft Defender email as suspicious.
Posted this on the-platform-formerly-known-as-twitter, but it's worth repeating here: we need to talk about search terms and results, @usajobs. (Please note: I tried to fill out a contact us but the page collapsed out from underneath me.)
Sure, sure, everybody’s smarter with AI. So why does @linkedin have such poor job recommendations? Midwifery? I think highly enough of the profession to know that I’m in no way qualified.
I have been asked to be a part of a panel discussion on graduate studies at my local university. I take these things seriously, so I was doing a bit of digging, and ... did anyone else miss this Nature piece from ten years ago? https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.2706 The graph is for science and engineering PhDs, but surely humanities looks much the same?! It's kinda chilling what we've done here.
