We are even being fed quite nicely at this writing accelerator. Our university is paying for it. This is the first time since I started working here in 2009 that the university noticed that some of us are not only tuition extracting machines but people with intellectual interests. To be fair, very few of us are, so it’s fine, I guess.
I always have mean, unpleasant feelings towards the idiots who prattle on about “the publish or perish environment in academia.” Oh, how I would enjoy spending a week being pressured to publish! Forget pressure. I’d love not being treated like a person with severe brain damage for wanting to do it. When I was naive enough to tell the Dean’s Office in 2015 that I was invited to a conference at Oxford, they treated me for months afterwards like I’d said I was speaking at a conference of pedophiles. Speaking at conferences means you aren’t 100% dedicated to tuition extraction, and that’s unacceptable. People kept throwing that conference (for which I paid 100% out of pocket) in my face forever afterwards.
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