[shinjitsu]

Was the one who got tenure the one who brought in bigger grants? Unfortunately in the R1 Universities these days that is probably the most important thing, even more than your academic family tree https://academictree.org/

[bboygravity]

Sounds like academia is turning into another (internet) marketing agency where the best marketers also happen to be teachers and researchers as a side hussle.

[ke88y]

If I were an Atlantic staff writer i would pitch “the rise of the twitter professor”.

Want a top 5 TT job? Find 10k followers. There are other paths but this is by far the easiest