An opinion on APA’s decision to terminate its 2+1 virtual pilot early – by Kino Zhao By Kino Zhao In 2022, the APA announced its pilot 2+1 virtual conference program, stating “the three APA divisions have agreed to conduct a three-year experiment with a rotating schedule of two in-…

I wrote a thing

2025 Survey Results: financial satisfaction and labour status, comparison to 2023 In both the 2023 and 2025 surveys, we asked participants who list as current students to rate their satisfaction with their financial situation on a 5-point scale (very unsatisfied, unsatisfied, neutr...

Excellent post on financial satisfaction and labor status for graduate students by Kino Zhao @kinozhao.bsky.social at APDA: apda.ghost.io/2025-survey-...

Short write up here: dailynous.com/2026/03/10/u...

2026 Data Update on Placement, Program Ratings, Student Comments, and Keywords Permanent academic placement for philosophy PhDs looks steady, while program and climate ratings are up.

The new APDA data is out!

New Leadership at APDA As of September 15th, APDA has three directors: Carolyn Dicey Jennings, Travis LaCroix, and Kino Zhao. This post provides a brief history of the project and an interview with the new directors and the...

Announcement: APDA now has three directors! @kinozhao.bsky.social and @travislacroix.bsky.social joined the project last month and will help lead this year's data gathering/survey effort. Our joint blogpost provides a brief history of APDA and more information about the new co-directors 🥳 #philsky

New Leadership at APDA As of September 15th, APDA has three directors: Carolyn Dicey Jennings, Travis LaCroix, and Kino Zhao. This post provides a brief history of the project and an interview with the new directors and the...

apda.ghost.io/new-leadersh...
I joined the APDA!

Does this make me think twice whenever I want to ask a Q in subsequent talks? Yes. Does it make me a worse Q asker? Probably. Is it a sign that I’m too weak? Who knows.

So, I slept on it and decided to whine some more. Just to be clear: I asked my question at the 15min mark of a 30min long Q&A block and was told to “wrap it up” after ~5 sentences. The last Q was just as long. Does it have something to do with me being the only nonwhite person to ask a Q? Who knows.

#EPSA

So, as it turns out, I still see things others don’t see. And I will have to very begrudgingly tell others about it. For me. For others whom I don’t see either. It sucks. I’m doing my part. I don’t enjoy it at all. But I’m doing my part. So I’m on Bluesky now. 4/4

I also finally revisited the assumption that the reason people who (1) have read my work, and (2) are working on the exact same topic, but (3) don’t cite me, is perhaps not because I wrote poorly and no one understood. It took me 4 or 5 instances to entertain this idea but I got there eventually. 3/

I thought my days of seeing others don’t see have passed. There’s no good reason to think this but I did. I was proven wrong.
Today I was the proud recipient of the only “please wrap up your question” from the chair of a session, where at least 5 other people asked questions of the same length. 2/

Hello philosophers, I’m on Bluesky. #philosophy
Some of you may know that I hosted a philosophy Mastodon for a few years. When I shut it down, I was going to stop doing social media. But today I realized I couldn’t afford to be off social media. It wasn’t an option for me. 1/