Elizabeth and Roger talk about how we evaluate professional success in academia and its unintended consequences.

Elizabeth and Roger give the inside scoop on applying and interviewing for your first faculty position.

Elizabeth and Roger talk about recognizing and managing misaligned incentives and unfunded mandates in academia.

Elizabeth and Roger talk about managing risk and dealing with failure and rejection.

Elizabeth and Roger talk to a special guest and Full Professor, Brian Caffo, about the challenges of being on the other side of promotion to full professor.

Show notes:

Brian Caffo's web abode

Brian Caffo on Twitter

Elizabeth and Roger talk about the academic wardrobe and academic metrics for prestige-real and perceived.

Notes:

Getting email responses from busy people: http://simplystatistics.org/2011/09/23/getting-email-responses-from-busy-people/

Elizabeth and Roger talk about the role of gender in academic careers (and what it's like to feel like a fish out of water).

Show notes:

Guardian article on why women leave academia: https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2012/may/24/why-women-leave-academia?CMP=share_btn_tw

Elizabeth and Roger discuss a recent opinion piece in PNAS as well as keeping the grant-to-paper ratio in check.

Show notes:

Science in the age of selfies http://www.pnas.org/content/113/34/9384.full

The Troubled Future of Colleges and Universities http://gking.harvard.edu/publications/troubled-future-colleges-and-universities