blog index
Table of contents
Academic shenanigans
General advice / how-to
- Unsolicited advice about bad conferences
- What can you ask for in a grant?
- How to write a trade book, according to Bruce Schneier
- Guides to academia
- Staying in the US as an international student + advice for faculty
- How to write an op-ed, according to Bruce Schneier
- Advice for potential MIT HASTS applicants
- Do you need to get copyright permissions for images in a thesis?
Job stuff
- Notes on running a humane job search
- How to "know your worth" with non-academic work
- Lessons from re-negotiating an academic job offer
- How much have I been paid in academic (or ac-adjacent) jobs?
- Job market reflections
- Responsible tech job resources
- What can you negotiate for in an academic job offer?
- Questions I used to prepare for my academic job interview
Academic reflections
- My project compost pile from my first semester as a professor
- I got scooped
- Does academic work really have to be new?
- How I did my PhD
Writing and research methods
- Experiments with Zettelkasten and writing in Markdown
- Two opinionated approaches to personal knowledge management
- On "optimal" writing software
- On designing the perfect workflow
- Writing is hard
- Back at writing
- I'm struggling to teach and work with gen AI
- Organizing PDFs for research
- On distraction- and AI-free writing
Live-blogged seminar talks
- Ethan Zuckerman and the quotidian internet
- Suresh Venkatasubramanian on practical AI governance
- Adam Berinsky on misinformation
Subject-specific posts
Disability
Social media / internet
- Research insights on misinformation for non-academics
- What does a good internet look like, and how do we get there? (a liveblogged account
Reading lists
- Disability studies
- Science and technology studies
- Human-computer interaction and data visualization
- Media and mediation
- Introductory reading list about participatory AI systems (part 1 with Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly, part 2)
- Food studies
Miscellany
- My favorite vegetarian meat alternatives
- Twenty-three books in 2023
- New blog, new me
- Where to find $1 oysters on the Red Line
Good Twitter threads I've written
(RIP academic twitter. But if you want to know what I think about academic Twitter back when it was not a complete and total cesspool, see here.)
- On fighting white supremacy (2021)
- On negotiation (2021)
- On COVID data visualizations (2021)
- On media literacy (2021)
- On cheap, good Chinese seitan alternatives (2020)
- On gig work + labor organizing (2020)
- On Harry Potter and portrayals of higher ed (2020)
- On the promises & perils of AI (2019)
- On the MIT-Epstein scandal, part II (2019)
- On the MIT-Epstein scandal, part I (2019)