links for 2010-01-05

• At Colleges, Humanities Job Outlook Gets Bleaker - NYTimes.com
  Oversupply? Is academia a demand or supply-driven business?

  "With colleges and universities cutting back because of the recession, the job outlook for graduate students in language and literature is bleaker than ever before."

  
  
  (tags: academia research business school trend)
  
  
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  Relevant History: Academic job market sucks for thirtieth year; Ph.D.s remain unaware of other job markets
  
  
  So true.

  "But this is old news. What gets me about this piece, I realized, is how it's framed. It equates "the job outlook for graduate students in language and literature" with "the academic job market:" there's no sense that Ph.D.s might be capable of doing SOMETHING ELSE with all that knowledge. Demonstrably wrong, guys."

  
  
  (tags: science business academia jobs)
  
  
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  Postdockin' in the free world : Article : EMBO reports
  
  
  
  (tags: science business postdoc research lab)