Non-white woman in a white male dominated field. Left academia. Tweeting about life in industry and academia and other stuff. Based in Europe 🏳️🌈
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3 Dec 2021
How to leave academia (thread).
1. Make the decision
When it's time to leave academia, you'll know about it. If you're still unsure, it's not time yet. That's when you make a decision. 1/n
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After a long break I'm back to doing some small projects with academics and somehow I'm reminded why I'm no longer there. A male academic mansplaining to me my own domain, the very reason I was hired on the project. 1/n
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This and some other things in academia are driving me crazy and are a short reminder why I am not there. Stay tuned for more crazy stuff. 3/n
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P.S. I'm just in-between jobs, so I was naively thinking I could diversify my income a bit by taking some academic gigs. 4/4
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26 Jul 2024
I just started my second job in industry. It's within the same company and the same department but a completely different role. I want to share some learnings from this journey 1/
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26 Jul 2024
My current role is super easy and not challenging at all. I'm enjoying it now but after a while my brain will need more stimulation. Nobody around me understands why I find this job super easy. 3/
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26 Jul 2024
Often as a PhD you have experiences and solutions nobody has ever thought of and the company can benefit a lot from it. However, they don't have the thinking of a PhD to understand that they can benefit from it. Even if you translate it to numbers and business cases 4/
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29 Feb 2024
In my entire academic and #altac life I've seen the worst toxic masculine behaviour coming from women. I've also seen the best empathetic leadership coming from women. Lead like a woman and not a man. Otherwise #dei is not worth it. #womeninSTEM
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Part of me wants to write a book about leaving academia and thriving professionally a little over a year only to be crashed in the worst possible way that even academia couldn't do. Narcissistic leaders are real and the world needs to do something about them. @AcademicChatter
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15 Jan 2024
Observation: in 2022 when I was applying for #altac jobs, it took me only two months from the first application to landing a rather prestigious job.
Right now I'm in my 4th month, way higher interview rate (20%), still no job.
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2 Jan 2024
There is a new EU requirement, according to which employees should register the time they worked. Would love to see how this works out in academia. Ppl competing who worked more w/o being paid for it. Glad I'm in #altac @AcademicChatter
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30 Dec 2023
City I dislike: Moscow
City I begrudgingly respect: Paris
City I think is overrated: Lisbon
The city I think is underrated: Copenhagen
City I like: Porto
City I love: Rome
City I dream of living in: Dublin
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22 Dec 2023
I sometimes think that an objective reason for me never getting a TT position was b/c I was too much of a generalist, jumping from one research topic to the other instead of specializing in one. Then I remembered the white male profs doing the same w no issue. @AcademicChatter
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21 Dec 2023
Things I learned being in an #altac hiring committee for @AcademicChatter folks considering #altac
1. The length of your résumé doesn't matter, as long it's not "too academic": we interviewed ppl w 1-3 page résumés 1/8
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8. If you're in an interview and the hiring manager doesn't seem to be listening to you, doesn't look at you, constantly looks at their phone, run! No matter how much you want that job, you shouldn't take it. A narcissistic boss will turn your life into a nightmare 8/8
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Example for 2: the candidate w a PhD said they were leaving academia b/c of stress. Hiring manager saw it as a problem b/c our job is pretty stressful. I had to explain to them that stress in academia is b/c of temp contracts and lots of competition and not the nature of tasks
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