Las Ofrendas

This episode, we discuss FASHUN (or as close as academics can get to it) and how we move through the world.

The COVID public health emergency was recently ended. Before we get started with Season 3, we weigh in on the implications of this transition for, well, the health of the public.

It's your research. So why is it so hard to feel like you can just change it?

The first episode in our hidden curriculum series, we discuss how we made our decisions, things to consider when choosing your own, and what we wish we had known if we had it all to do over again.

The hidden curriculum - those unwritten rules about navigating academic spaces that make all the difference between just trying to survive and actually thriving. We decided to make it a series! In this season's bonus episode, we introduce the concept and what we hope to accomplish with the series.

This week, we discuss peace corps from the perspective of people who have never been in the peace corps, come from places where people like to go save our people, and have worked with returned peace corps volunteers. Spoiler alert: it gets spicy. 

This week, we talk about the lie that is imposter syndrome.

This episode, we discuss diversity hires, how they are band-aids to structural issues and yet also weaponized to other and diminish people's accomplishments?! We fail to make it make sense but have a blast along the way. 

So we've got these PhDs. A few years post-graduation - do we still think it was worth it? Listen to find out.

Adulting sucks sometimes. This week, we talk about it.