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Are things getting worse? Or is dystopia the new normal?

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Jo VanEvery

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Is dystopia the new normal? Things were already bad. You were already more tired than usual before the break. Maybe you’d just started getting your head around how to keep going in a pandemic, even if you didn’t like it much. The readers of this newsletter are based in […]

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Prioritising meaningful work when you are feeling overwhelmed and powerless

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Jo VanEvery

This is a follow up to the post about being an academic in dystopian times in which I encouraged you to : “Double down on the work that is meaningful to you. What makes your teaching meaningful to you? What makes your research meaningful to you? What makes your writing and publishing meaningful to you? How […]

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Being an academic in dystopian times, reprise

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Jo VanEvery

I wrote a couple of posts about how you keep going while the world descends into fascism in the wake of the 2016 US election, and then again after I can’t even remember which horrific white supremacist incident in the US in 2017. I stand by what I said then and recommend you read those […]

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