The spotlight has certainly brought an increase in posting volume! Hope this particular post doesn't feel too much like clutter.

I just wanted to remind everyone (new and old) about the introductions post here -- new members are welcome to post comments there, introducing themselves. Glancing over there now there seem to be about eight new ( Read more... )

Hello all!

Academics_anon will be in the LJ spotlight for a week (April 27th to May 3rd). A few things that you ought to know:

1. We are going to move temporarily to moderated posts -- your posts will have to be approved by one of the mods (rockstarbob, rabswom, or owl_of_minerva) before they appear. This is a temporary move so we can keep an eye on things with the influx of ( Read more... )

rabswom and I have agreed to ask folks to post any job advertisements to academicjobs rather than academics_anon.

We'd also, at the same time, like to remind the a_a membership that academicjobs exists. (It's fairly low-traffic, so it won't take that long to skim through if you're looking for something relevant ( Read more... )

I confess up front that I usually fail to tag on the rare occasions when I post to this community.  While searching fruitlessly for the past 40 minutes for a specific post, I am in the majority.

The tags are useful not only for people who are searching for a specific post,  as I am, but also for people who care to take the time to find out if posts ( Read more... )