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I have several advisees who have chosen this route, most of whom could have landed entry level academic jobs (postdocs or better) and simply wanted something different. All of them seem extremely happy.

I took a great seminar on arts based research and the professor brought it her friend who left academia to write ethnographic novels on her own. She was so happy and content, she inspired me to change tracks too.

It’s a tough spot. But being you/doing whatever you end up doing most certainly won’t give them what they want, in the big picture.

It me! Down with traditional inside/outside distinctions! (Not least so we can see the actual “outsides”—eg the exclusion from institutional resources and support across boundaries.)

Currently mid-pivot from fairly lucrative tech career to social sciences and idk maybe I needed to hear this

I have a PhD in neuroscience who works outside academia and I approve this message

I’m ABD Sociology and turned that into a successful accounting career.

I saw your like and liked your like

I am a PhD sociologist who works outside academia and I approve this message.

And as we build new institutions in the coming years, as we must, we can prioritize blurring the distinction that academia built up like a plaque between learning and the world. And then you won’t be outside at all.

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

Bangkok after Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies

If you’re interested, I wrote an entire book structured as an acknowledgement:

www.dukeupress.edu/bangkok-afte...

It is not livable alas, but it’s really fun. Hit me up if you’d like to learn about specific opportunities!

Academia should have more and better jobs, of course, but insofar as it currently doesn’t, nobody should be beating themselves up. Moreover, the outside is actually pretty nice for most people, and there are many places to use what you learned to do.

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

Bring back the spirit of Bill Veeck and all that, give the kids a fun spectacle. No reason not to try.

Look, I’m not gonna ask for anything like their current payroll, this is meant to be affordable labor, but yes I would do the work for $30, $40 million for the year. It would be worth it to me.

I think the fans might enjoy seeing me run about trying to play all nine defensive positions, and changing costumes between at-bats in an effort to fool the umpire into thinking I was a new guy each time

If the Mets need someone to lose 11 straight baseball games, not to brag, but I could do that all by myself, at a much more affordable rate than they’re currently paying.

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*The Dude voice* "I'm just gonna go find a cash machine"

I also appreciate “Juice N Beatz”

They’re really nice

An auto body shop called “Who’s Papi? Tires by Papi”

Always and forever my favorite NYC shop name. I don’t know why it works but it does. They’re good too.

The Straits Times on Instagram: "🤖 A humanoid robot in Beijing learned about gravity the hard way when it tumbled and fell apart shortly after starting a half-marathon test. #humanoid #robot #maratho... 19K likes, 1,062 comments - straits_times on April 16, 2026: "🤖 A humanoid robot in Beijing learned about gravity the hard way when it tumbled and fell apart shortly after starting a half-marathon tes...

Really really pleased with this

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He also produced for all the best mor lam vocalists. When they move from those amazing koerns in the intros to the heavy heavy syncopated basslines crossed with klong yao and the singer still lamming. Mwah.

What interests me so much about Surin’s work in this period is how well you can hear the traces of the danzón/mambo that he has talked explicitly about being obsessed with in the 1950s. There’s also a lot of mor lam in there. Together, the styles just absolutely mesh and slap.

ラム・プルーン なだめてくれないと愛さないわ YouTube video by Release - Topic

These Surin Phaksiri productions just go so damn hard

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGL-...

ラム・プルーン なだめてくれないと愛さないわ YouTube video by Release - Topic

These Surin Phaksiri productions just go so damn hard

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGL-...

This talk is at 7:30 tonight! I've written it to feel like a Friday night academic talk (!)

Here's my opening listen, from Suraporn Sombatcharoen (king of luk thung, sorta single-handedly invented the genre as we know it, killed after one of his concerts in 1968)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aTT...