Category: Academic Life
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Academic Publishing Profits from Free Labor…and We Call It Productivity
This post examines how the academic publishing business model relies on unpaid academic labor, public funding, and prestige-based incentives, and how common productivity metrics in academia quietly reinforce that system. Researchers write the articles.Academics review the articles.Academics edit the journals.Universities pay the salaries.Libraries pay the subscriptions. Yet academic publishers continue to generate billions in profit.…
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Why We’re Exhausted Despite Flexible Schedules
It’s Monday. Specifically, the Monday between Christmas and New Year’s—the liminal space of the calendar where time is fake, inboxes are quiet(-ish), and everyone is technically “working” while hoping no one notices they are not. You are free to work today.You are also free not to.Both options feel vaguely wrong. Welcome to the promise of…