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Perrine

3 years ago: PSR featured a well-maintained wiki listing nearly all poli sci jobs, their interview status, then who got the job in the end

2 years ago: The wiki still listed most all of the jobs, but placements were now chronicled in a single large thread.

1 year ago: The wiki was destroyed by trolls and lack of any moderator oversight, the placement thread was incomplete and then stopped updating due to a glitch with the automated moderation that replaced live mods.

Today: No wiki. Very few people from departments hiring or with people on the market visit the site anymore, so the only information comes as scraps picked up from Twitter.

Put a fork in PSR. It's over.

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Sylvie

What jobs?

3 years ago: PSR featured a well-maintained wiki listing nearly all poli sci jobs, their interview status, then who got the job in the end
2 years ago: The wiki still listed most all of the jobs, but placements were now chronicled in a single large thread.
1 year ago: The wiki was destroyed by trolls and lack of any moderator oversight, the placement thread was incomplete and then stopped updating due to a glitch with the automated moderation that replaced live mods.
Today: No wiki. Very few people from departments hiring or with people on the market visit the site anymore, so the only information comes as scraps picked up from Twitter.
Put a fork in PSR. It's over.

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Ferdinanda

you couldn't manage to read the list until the end, eh?

kids these days...

What jobs?
3 years ago: PSR featured a well-maintained wiki listing nearly all poli sci jobs, their interview status, then who got the job in the end
2 years ago: The wiki still listed most all of the jobs, but placements were now chronicled in a single large thread.
1 year ago: The wiki was destroyed by trolls and lack of any moderator oversight, the placement thread was incomplete and then stopped updating due to a glitch with the automated moderation that replaced live mods.
Today: No wiki. Very few people from departments hiring or with people on the market visit the site anymore, so the only information comes as scraps picked up from Twitter.
Put a fork in PSR. It's over.

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Lolicia

Good candidates are definitely getting jobs. Congrats!!

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Osanne

Harv: SK (Yale, AP)

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Francois

Harv: SK (Yale, AP)
Me: killing myself

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Adrien

Sarah Kahn is leaving Yale for Harvard after one year on her tenure track? Without any publications?

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Letty

Several of the jobs this year were at small teaching oriented institutions where you wouldn't want to end up. Imagine spending you life teaching 4-4. Better to leave the profession entirely. This is a blessing in disguise.

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Geoffrey

Several of the jobs this year were at small teaching oriented institutions where you wouldn't want to end up. Imagine spending you life teaching 4-4. Better to leave the profession entirely. This is a blessing in disguise.

Absolutely correct. You wouldn't be hanging out with people who are publishing in the APSR or serving as subfield chairs for big conferences. You would not have the daily interactions with colleagues about methodology, techniques, and math. And methodology. It would be all politics, politics, politics and maybe complaining because your salary and benefits aren't what you want and because your summer break goes by too quickly.

You dodged a bullet by not getting one of these jobs.

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Carlene

Sarah Kahn is leaving Yale for Harvard after one year on her tenure track? Without any publications?

That's right. She has published zilch. Nada. Nothing. (Unless you count a chapter in an edited volume). But hey, she's a female!

This tells you all you need to know about the priorities of the academic job market.

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Carlene

^And not just a female, but a female who studies female voters! But again, none of it is published. (Probably just another sign of discrimination against females in political scientists, and why we again need to favor female over male candidates, right?)

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Yolande

Several of the jobs this year were at small teaching oriented institutions where you wouldn't want to end up. Imagine spending you life teaching 4-4. Better to leave the profession entirely. This is a blessing in disguise.

I'm surprised they can find people who will accept these jobs. They are not at the heart of the political science discipline, and we all long to be part of that.

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Theophile

Sarah Kahn is leaving Yale for Harvard after one year on her tenure track? Without any publications?

But she's a woman of color. What more could anyone want?

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