{"id":72472,"date":"2020-09-30T09:15:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=72472"},"modified":"2020-09-30T09:18:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:18:17","slug":"academia-needs-a-reality-check-life-is-not-back-to-normal-gruber-van-bavel-cunningham-somerville-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/09\/30\/academia-needs-a-reality-check-life-is-not-back-to-normal-gruber-van-bavel-cunningham-somerville-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Academia needs a reality check: Life is not back to normal [Gruber, Van Bavel, Cunningham, Somerville, &#038; Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/careers\/2020\/08\/academia-needs-reality-check-life-not-back-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Academia needs a reality check: Life is not back to normal<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from sciencemag.org by June Gruber, Jay J. Van Bavel , William A. Cunningham, Leah H. Somerville, Neil A. Lewis, Jr.; with special thanks to Dr. Kate Byerwalter for this resource<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The problems don\u2019t end there. Many academics are also grappling with ongoing racial injustices and associated protests, wildfires, and hurricanes. We continue to see widespread effects on mental health, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/covid19\/pulse\/mental-health.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roughly one-third<\/a>\u00a0of Americans reporting symptoms of clinical depression or anxiety. June and her colleague recently described the escalating mental health crisis as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/flattening-the-mental-health-curve-is-the-next-big-coronavirus-challenge-139066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">next biggest coronavirus challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We have struggled with our own mental and physical well-being\u2014as well as challenges associated with canceled vacations, lack of child care, the illnesses and death of people close to us, and the mental weight of difficult conversations about racial injustices. We\u2019ve also been worrying about our trainees and the undergraduate students in our classes. The academic and non-academic job markets have cratered, and some of our colleagues and students have lost internships and job offers as organizations have been forced to cut expenses.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Expecting the same output as in previous years, even though many people have less time and more stress than ever, is not a sustainable or humane solution. The world is not normal\u2014so the way we do science cannot be normal either.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academia needs a reality check: Life is not back to normal &#8212; from sciencemag.org by June Gruber, Jay J. Van Bavel , William A. Cunningham, Leah H. Somerville, Neil A. Lewis, Jr.; with special thanks to Dr. Kate Byerwalter for this resource Excerpts: The problems don\u2019t end there. Many academics are also grappling with ongoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,364,115,302,71,3,217,83,480,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-research","category-science","category-society","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72474,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72472\/revisions\/72474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}