January 2015 – Ronin Institute

News Flash: Postdocs are a Screw Job

by Jon F. WilkinsAcademia January 10, 20155 comments

To people who have been involved with academic science recently (say, the past forty years), this will not come as a shock, but the National Academy has released a report concluding that, well, being a postdoc sucks. The report, released in December, was summarized by Science Careers: The penetrating analysis in The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited …

Introducing the Ronin Institute Newsletter: Kitsune

by Jon F. WilkinsAbout the Ronin Institute, Ronin Activities January 8, 20150 comments

Happy New Year to everyone out there. In December, the Ronin Institute published the first issue of Kitsune, a newsletter that will come out six times a year and will keep you up to date on the happenings at the Institute and in the world of alternative scholarship more generally. That first issue is now …