UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Grad student lunch is about to start in 2032 LIB! #NextGenPhD  https://twitter.com/SarahEBond/status/837337435424112641 …

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:04:17

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:04:17

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Starting off talking about the timeline of blogging during grad school. Varying degrees of privacy and transparency.

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:05:49

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:05:49

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Talking about MLA job ads--grad student anxiety vs what's expected in hiring process vs what's actually needed in faculty jobs

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:07:51

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:07:51

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

.@JudithMPascoe asks about HR relationship to job ads. Who's controlling ads/process, @pankisseskafka mentions albeist langauge in ads.

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:10:22

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:10:22

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

.@pankisseskafka definitely NOT on the academic job market. Mentions coaching faculty on book deadlines, working as translator, freelancing

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:12:35

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:12:35

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

.@pankisseskafka mentions real world financial planning dimensions of freelancing. Need to think through concretely planning, having cushion

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:13:51

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:13:51

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Mentions networking significant in freelancing. Breaking in requires connections, follow/lurk on their careers. FB groups for female writers

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:14:56

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:14:56

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Many ways to break in with paid freelance writing, but most helpful existing writers vouching for you. Be a "known, reliable entity"

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:16:57

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:16:57

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Record of punctuality is significant--making deadlines w/out prodding, reminders. Real contrast w/ academic culture on deadlines/timeliness

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:18:56

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:18:56

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Talking process--academic culture around writing doesn't promote best practices. Seeing deadlines as real obligations w/ people behind them

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:21:45

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:21:45

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Need to even see conferences, panels, etc as opportunities to practice professionalism alongside effective, timely project management.

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:23:08

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:23:08

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Traits that run contrary to academic culture often valued in non-academic spheres.

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:24:20

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:24:20

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Grad student question about building an audience. @pankisseskafka mentions not having an early audience, also writing unpaid print columns

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:25:40

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:25:40

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Blog rebirthed itself after leaving academia, @Slate piece "Thesis Hate" rebirthed personal blog.  http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/04/there_are_no_academic_jobs_and_getting_a_ph_d_will_make_you_into_a_horrible.html …

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:27:14

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:27:14

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Line of the day, from Peeta in the Hunger Games. "If I'm going to die, I want to still be me." @pankisseskafka: "YOU ARE PEETA."

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:29:09

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:29:09

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

.@SarahEBond now joining the lunch! Thinking about the intellectual project of graduate education alongside political shifts in IA & US

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:32:59

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:32:59

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Talking about impact of anti-intellectualism/anti-labor combination on grad students and faculty at public universities.

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:37:06

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:37:06

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Talking necessity of communication across academic hierarchies, working toward intersectional collaborations that reconfigure structures.

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:40:52

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:40:52

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Changing definitions of labor/work for grad students/intellectuals challenges so many aspects of graduate training/academic culture.

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:44:58

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:44:58

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

Talking about cultivating book audiences alongside social media presence. University publishing model vs mainstream publishers.

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:46:31

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:46:31

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

.@pankisseskafka talking about production labor in academic publishing in relation to compensation models.

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:48:00

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:48:00

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

.@SarahEBond talking about career mobility/movement, and R1 as the goal, how that relates to labor and poaching

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:56:33

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:56:33

UIowa ASGRAD@uiasgrad

.@pankisseskafka follows up: "We don't live in a Marxist utopia"

Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:57:01

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— UIowa ASGRAD (@uiasgrad)Thu, Mar 02 2017 18:57:01