Table of Contents for Academaze

Foreword: What This Book Is About

Chapter 1: What Professors at Research Universities Actually Do

• A Mysterious Vocation
• Things I Love about My Job
• What Professors Do All Day When Not in Class
• Work Hiding in Plain View

Chapter 2: The Academic Job Search

• An Insider’s View of a Faculty Search
• Surviving the First Cut
• Know Thy Friends
• Notes from the Search
• Feelers
• Upgrading Institutions Midcareer

Chapter 3: The Tenure Track

• The First Few Years As an Assistant Professor
• Support on the Tenure Track
• Slightly Scary Tenure Stories
• Traveling without Moving
• Tenure Denial
• How Much Is Enough for Tenure?
• Collaborations on the Tenure Track
• Tenure, for Better or for Worse
• Ride It Like You Stole It

Chapter 4: Teaching and Service

• What Makes a Good Teacher?
• Flipping the Bird Classroom
• Grouchy Musings on Teaching
• Quixotic Grading Dreams
• Bimodal
• On Classroom Teaching
• On Classroom Teaching, Part Deux
• Serves You Right
• Not Your Emergency
• Real and Surreal Academic Work

Chapter 5: Grant Proposals and Funding

• Grant Proposals: Love ’Em, Hate ’Em
• Who’s on Your Proposal?
• NSF CAREER Tips
• Academoneya
• Writing in a Time Crunch
• Proposal Review Silliness
• Funding Dread

Chapter 6: Working with Grad Students and Postdocs

• Are You Your Advisor?
• Beyond Scores
• Switch-a-roo
• Postdocs Only
• Musings on Postdoc-ing
• Murphy’s Law of Graduate-Student Recruitment
• Doing Science, Advising Students, and a Bit of Shockley
• The Seven-Year-PhD Itch
• Potential and Ambition
• Advice on Job Hunting for a Recent PhD Graduate
• There Are Humans in Academia

Chapter 7: Technical Writing with Junior Scientists

• Summertime, Academic Rendition
• Favorite Papers
• Why We Write in STEM
• Who Teaches a Grad Student How to Write?
• Write-a-doodle-doo
• Why Your Advisor Takes Forever to Edit Your Paper
• My Darling
• Let It Flow — Part 1
• Let It Flow — Part 2
• This Bean-Devouring Leprechaun
• Stephen King’s On Writing

Chapter 8: Peer Review of Papers and Grant Proposals

• Your Paper Is Really Boring
• In Defense of Tardy Reviewers
• Editorializing
• Revision Trumps Rebuttal
• Propeller Referee
• Panelicious
• Panella Bread

Chapter 9: Giving Talks and Networking

• On Presenting Research Data
• Giving Talks at Meetings
• How Do You Know That Your Talk Didn’t Suck?
• On Communicating Science
• How Do You Like Your Conferences?
• Musings on Networking
• Following Up with New Connections

Chapter 10: Colleagues, Collaborators, and Academic Politics

• Choosing Collaborators
• Collaborativignette
• Collaborative Paper Writing
• Collaboration Dissolution
• In Praise of Respectful Colleagues
• Political Skills in Academia
• Accolade Magnet
• Young Administrator
• Meet-the-Speaker Paradox
• Musings on Departmental Politics
• Shut Up
• The Fourth Aspect of an Academic Job

Chapter 11: Work–Life Balance

• Little Pockets of Time
• The Sucky and Awesome of Academia
• Everyday Superpowers
• Academental Health
• Academic Breathlessness
• Limits
• Saying No to Invited Talks
• The Split Shift

Chapter 12: Women in STEM

• Honorary Dudeness
• Sisterhood
• Goofy
• Women sans Babies Q&A
• What Impostor Syndrome Is About for Women in STEM
• Sexist Logorrhea
• Superlative Fatigue
• Survival Tips for Young Women in STEM
• Working-Mom Haiku
• Does Anyone Else Care about Your Work–Life Balance?
• On Working Long Hours
• Manicure That
• Oversharing
• Benevolently Sexist

This is the Table of Contents for Academaze: Finding Your Way through the American Research University, by Sydney Phlox.