1/ There is a truly magical shift in perspective that occurs when you're able to move from "oh no, this scholar stole my idea [ten years before I started grad school!" towards "oh wow, look, a fellow traveler!" Broken parts of academia inhibit this transition.
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2/ If you want a {
#phdlife,#postdoclife,#gradlife,#proflife} heuristic for intellectual maturation, use your reaction to other people making the same arguments you'd make or like to make as a guide.2 replies 1 retweet 12 likesShow this thread -
(This is kinda inspired by
@LilyMasonPhD's Uncivil Agreement, which my committee member@jennifernvictor sagely insisted I read as part of her reaction to some of my dissertation's implications. Reading it now, I realized I'm mostly just smiling and saying, "oh, yes, good!")1 reply 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @generativist @jennifernvictor
FYI, while I was writing my dissertation on “behavioral polarization,” Iyengar et al published their poq article on “affective polarization”. I took a week to mourn being academically “scooped”, then sat down and figured out my theoretical contribution. Keep faith in your work!
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