Academia is slow to change. There's those of us who shake it up, force it to change or even decide to leave and poke it from the outside! Change does happen but it's a challenge. When I was a professor, I would write blogs, engage in public outreach that involved I'm A Scientist Get Me Out Of Here, cocktail evenings with science, and other silly ways to get people the knowledge I was producing. I also made experiments fun by bringing VR to prisons and schools. And I brought Capoeira, a Brazi ...
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An Academic Meeting Spurred a Chocolate Biz with Dr Sonia Tucci
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An insufferable staff meeting inspired a side-gigAutor: Academic Misfits
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A PhD Doesn’t Have to be a Creativity Sap with Dr Nai Kim
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Dr Nai (Nayoung) Kim talks about being a misfit in #academia in many ways… mostly in its requirement of a written doctoral thesis for… an English (literature) major! How very dare academia! ;) We also talk about our mutual need for creativity, the realities of ocean crossing and Nai’s label of Ms Strawberry! Find Nai… Read More »A PhD Doesn’t Have …
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Defying Expectations and Following My Passion Out of Academia with Dr Gina Petonito
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Gina Petonito – Founder of Writing Your Way and Academic Women Reclaim Your Power – talked about how her writing passion has opened doors, raised her visibility on social media and given her a ready made community to advertise to. This is information she’s rarely shared before! It may have made her an academic misfit… Read More »Defying Expectation…
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