I'm getting ready to write my PhD...on substack! (Not 100% of it, but putting out major excerpts as I write for feedback and communal engagement). Coming this summer!
P.s. I 'appreciate' the principle of the PhD - as it represents an endeavour to drill into the depths of something, whereas so many of us today live & operate at the surface (I personally see the inclination to 'travel' as symptomatic of this, often).
Agreed. Actually my desire to write a PhD is only partially relating to professional aspirations. I don’t think I’ll ever have (or necessarily aspire to) a career in “academia” or tenure-track work in a university. I’m getting a “traditional” doctorate at a German university, which is outside the course-intensive, 5-7 year American model in which one is part of cheap university labor - that is to say it is dissertation only.
I am doing the PhD so that I can understand the guts of my vocation and field -- the cantorate, that is to say the history of prayer leaders in Judaism and also the religious (and transgressive) dynamics of the practice of music in Judaism, Western culture, and human life.
.”...the religious (and transgressive) dynamics of the practice of music in Judaism, Western culture, and human life.” Interestingly,I’m a Catholic cantor and have this very specific same interest. Please stay connected with me as you start this pursuit.
Interesting! Certainly, in Islam at least, music has been exploited/banned/enjoyed - depending on which side of the power dynamic one resides; & where in the World you are, which sect, & in which era.
I’m an academic considering starting a Substack. The hesitations I feel are less related to time (although that is a factor for all of us). Instead, I worry that I am overly trained in scientific writing and won’t be able to translate my ideas in an engaging way for the public. I know I just need to try it and learn as I go!
First, I don’t see trying this out as a significant risk in any regard. Second, don’t underestimate the audience. Last, best wishes on whatever action you take.
Thanks God, IQ is not the property of academia. You'll find people even more intelligent than you without any formal education, giving you cross-pollinated input you'd never ever imagined.
I agree with you that academia has no monopoly on intelligence. I was speaking to my own concerns about being overly trained in writing for a specific audience. I’m definitely interested in getting input from new sources.
There is a niche for everyone, and you can let the feedback help you adjust to connect with your target audience. It takes time. Those who choose not to utilize prior notoriety must be extra patient. I’m trying to make some specialized info more accessible. It’s a worthwhile experiment.
As an academic in the humanities, I definitely understand this concern. I felt when I finished my last post that it was more dense than its predecessors. But I trust that the interested people will be ok with that, even if my longer posts are not for everyone. Now that I’m a few months into a Substack, I’m enjoying the flexibility to make different kinds of posts, some lighter, some, yes, more academic. But that’s who I am! A journal wants one side of my brain. I like that I can use my right and left hemispheres together on my Substack. ... So yes, I’m for “try it and go”!
I started reading academic journals for a job the past few years and once you get the hang of it it's not so bad. Usually just have to read it multiple times.
I have been a Lawyer and Bioethicist for 30 years, most of my career as Legislative Advisor. I have also been in Academia for nearly 20 years, not full time but very much engaged. During the last years I felt very constrained and limited in my work and in Academia. I got tired of talking among “ourselves”, the so called academics. During the pandemic this tiredness became frustration, and last year I decided to quit and to follow another path, that involved a different form of communication. I decided to organize Online Literary Salons, where we can talk about the interaction between Science, Art, Politics and Literature. And I found Substack, only starting, but so far I think is a fantastic platform for communicate serious stuff in a more friendly way and to a wider audience.
I am not a scientist nor academic, but certainly well trained in life itself. I grew up in a Salvation Army home for children in the Netherlands and never had an opportunity to even study till in my late twenties. Life and staying alive, was first priority.
Although a concious choice, I have felt very constraint in my job as an analytical accountant, no room for personal (job) expression or new ways of thinking. The corporate world was, still is imo, a punishing world. Stay within the borders or else. The psychological, often unethical games, between top and bottom within this corporation, were mentally exhausting.
Untill I decided to change profession all together, I didn't even realise how constraint and frustrated I was.
It's very refreshing to read that even in 'your world' constrainment is frustrating and break outs are happening. The 'fights' that are now happening everywhere, not for rebellious reasons, but for liberation, personal growth and freedom of expression are to get out of the settled orders and old ways of thinking. It's giving me hope for a better future.
Thank you for the invite! I would love to. However, we are most likely in different time zones. I live in Australia (emigrated 20 yrs ago) and I am about to travel for 4 months to go around this beautiful country again. Timeszone and internet reception can be an issue. I have put it in my diary and love to join when possible.
Tell us Bluestockings more about your online Salons--where, at Books & Ethics? I dream of opening an actual brick-and-mortar “Salon”--but I live in Portland, OR. Not sure how diverse the discussions and ideas would be.
I usually organized two online salons per months, where we talk and debate issues related to Bioethics or Law, using a book as a guide. In June will be Mrs. Dalloway and Bioethics, and the idea is to talk about mental health, doctor-patient relationship, the post pandemic, etc.
I am so intrigued. I have wanted to create online salons for a while and just recently started imagining spreading the word here on Substack. Getting ready to subscribe to your Books & Ethics after I press "post."
Thanks Renee!! Next Salon will be Wednesday June 14 7pm CET via zoom. We are going to talk about Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, pandemic and post pandemic, mental health and much more. If you want more information, please email at betinabythebook@gmail.com
Cool. I liked your piece on Mrs Dalloway’s granddaughter--hadn’t considered that as a post-pandemic novel. And I’m a recently broken plate myself;) Hit me up to announce your next Salon.
Next Salon will be on Dalloway Day, via zoom Wednesday June 14 7pm CET, if you are interested and want more information, please email me at betinabythebook@gmail.com
Your use of a novel to open conversation sounds wonderful. Will you have info about that for subscribers in your Stack ? I also write about literature (and enchantment and the strange interpersonal relations it induces) , and just swelled your subscription numbers by one. Looking forward to seeing more about your literary excursions. 👍
Thanks Tara! I don’t have too much information on the Salons in my Substack, but I can see some people are interested, so maybe I’ll write a bit about them soon. In the meantime, next Salon will be on Dalloway Day, via zoom, Wednesday June 14 7pm CET. The novel will be Mrs. Dalloway, of course! For more information and registration, please email me at betinabythebook@gmail.com
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We desperately need academics who are academics, not just public intellectuals. I'm a former academic historian, now writing for the public, and my Substack is practically a full-time job. It would have been extremely difficult to do this and an academic job well at the same time. Plus I'm keenly aware of the pressures that attend writing for a public audience, and how those can skew what we write. It concerns me that, as support falls for university careers, the pressure to indulge confirmation bias grows, whether academics join think tanks or write newsletters. It's something I point out to my readers, and the reason why I'm so grateful that my paying subscribers support my work. I would be rich if I only wrote for an audience that doesn't want to be challenged.
What do you think is the role of Freemasonry in history? e.g. American and French revolutions?
In 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations was founded, to infiltrate and control democracy, by freemasons David Rockefeller, Paul Warburg, Herbert Hoover, Allen Dulles, Walter Lippmann and Edward M. House. The impressive 10-thousand members list proves the power grab was successful.1 Since 1921, the CFR has chosen almost every single Secretary of State: they only need to infiltrate or bribe the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (only 11 of 20 members), and influence the Senate.
Similar mason institutions, most with similar names, were founded in over 100 countries, including Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs and the European Council on Foreign Relations2: practically, there’s no war where the CFR isn’t involved on both sides. 3 Their magazine Foreign Affairs is one way they send orders to all members.
In 2018, Wikileaks proved the CFR controlled all mainstream media.4
Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, Bush father and son, Carter, Clinton, Obama 5 ... some argue that, with few exceptions like JFK and Trump, at least since WWII, all US presidents were freemasons and many CFR. All administrations were filled with thousands of CFR members. 6 The Trump administration was no exception. 7 It’s not a coincidence that Neil M. Gorsuch, CFR Supreme Court Justice appointed by Trump, betrayed conservatives by ruling in favour of homosexual marriage and other New World Order “progressive” agenda.
Another proof of grooming for infiltration: 28 Jun 2019 Democrat Tulsi Gabbard wasn’t renewed the 5 year CFR membership. 8 Because she wouldn’t obey all orders? In 2020, she was still pro-homo-marriage9 and pro-abortion (a basic CFR request) and pro-Biden, but wanted paper ballots, Electoral College, supported Trump in breaking up Big Tech and removing their censorship through section 23010, Glass-Steagall, pro-natalism paid family and medical leave plans up to 12 weeks, less public and defense spending, drug patent breaking, no war.11 That’s probably why she was defamed by Kamala12, Hillary Clinton and mason RINO Mitt Romney.13 In 2021, she questioned Fauci on COVID origin and masks.14 Tulsi was groomed by the WEF in the "Forum of Young Global Leaders" but suddenly was disappeared, and not because of her age: she had turned 38 (41 in 2023), while the “young” freemason Macron (45) is still in the search results. Fremason Trudeau, 51, isn’t, but is listed in weforum.org15, while Tulsi has been erased from there, too, in Apr 2022 (she independized from the Democratic party in Oct 2022).16 Maybe this was the drop that filled the cup: she’s against CBDCs and social scoring.17
I’ve been studying the CFR for over 40 years. I started with the JBS and moved into deeper study. When I got my Masters Degree in National Security Studies (concentrations in Intelligence Analysis and Counterterrorism--with Honors) I had the opportunity to independently verify many of the allegations made in the famous work by James Perloff “Shadows of Power.”
For a very brief time I myself was a member of the Blue Lodge of Free Masonry. That was a time when I was running hard from Jesus.
When I came to my senses (and my knees) I saw the craft for what it was. And it’s not Christian! But it’s not really a factor in the NWO, either. Not even historically speaking (I’m a retired educator of Government, History (World and American) and Psychology/Sociology. 30 years in the fourth largest school district in the country. I taught AP.
Freemasonry was possibly a conduit for the short lived “Illuminati” founded by Adam Weishaupt on May 11, 1775. His vision of world government was spread to Europe POSSIBLY by the Freemasons. But they really didn’t have much more to do with global politics. The Illuminati died out within 50 years and the darkest parts of them morphed into what became the CFR and Bilderberg.
Today, while not the bastion of good and truth, the Freemasons are mostly harmless at the common levels 1-32nd degrees. Now, the rare 33rd degree is a far different beast. They will also be associated with some other nefarious groups like the CFR, Bilderberg and the WEF.
The powers that be are seen in what is now known as the “Deep State” who can easily be identified by their memberships. CFR represents the primary identifier because you cannot just “join.” You have to be formally invited or proposed for membership by another member and then be vouched for by yet another member. They are the trench grunts of the NWO. They do the work to get legislation passed and to shape the minds of the populace because they control the media. Their “Overlords” are represented by the Bilderberg Group.
If there were tens of thousands of CFR members they could be discounted for their roles in reshaping and in large part destroying our country and its Constitution. But there’s less than three thousand members and not all of those are active. I just saw a Fox News commentator or maybe a guest from Congress who’s commenting about something (issue in this case is irrelevant) hold up an issue of Foreign Affairs to “bolster” the case he’s trying to make. Foreign Affairs is the publication of the CFR. Articles that are published there often if not mostly appear soon in the form of US Foreign Policy.
I am a 20+ year police supervisor, and I’ve been writing on Substack since February. I encourage your readers to enjoy a perspective from someone who’s been there tackling current issues with Integrity. Courageous Nobility with Jeff Daukas.
Substack has provided a forum for me to release stress through the gift of writing, and to help enhance the lives of the people around me!
This was so interesting to read, thank you. I’m a recently first published academic and about to start my PhD this autumn. I’m keen to get into the habit of using Substack to share ideas, research, and gain insights.
I'm an English and Women's and Gender Studies professor and Substack has helped do what seemed impossible: make my scholarship and teaching public facing. There's been a big push to break down the walls of academia through a commitment to public humanities scholarship, and I feel like the newsletter (where I translate WGST concepts to understand local South Carolina culture and politics) is helping me to finally join in making what we do at colleges and universities more widely available. I wonder if Substack could partner with foundations like Mellon or NEH to help sponsor more of this work? Will be interesting to see what the future holds!
Speaking of gender, what do you think about biological males winning in women' sports presenting themselves as women? About those males in women's bathrooms?
What do you think about using trans phobia as a screen to reinforce normative patriarchal gender systems that oppress everyone into such narrow categories that we're all miserable? These are statistical nonissues that only serve as a means to bully children and harass and persecute trans people. I'm more worried about all these evangelical sex offenders that keep popping up! I'll take people assigned male at birth in the bathroom any day over those literal groomers!
Are you OK with so many rapes done by bio-males self-identifying as women in girls bathrooms and lockerrooms and even more rapes committed by such in women's prisons, many becoming pregnant?
None of this is grounded in fact and is only meant to drum up hysteria. I'm more concerned with sky high abuse committed by cis men. I won't respond to any more transphobic comments. I hope you can find your way out of that mess, for everyone's sake.
Emily. I read with interest as each side throws up walls, become intransigent, and then anger and name calling. I think we can do better if we actually communicate with some empathy. For instance the first question of how do you feel if a bio man participated in “women sports”. I think that this is a legitimate concern for many participants and parents. I have thought about it and maybe the answer would be to have all mixed sex sports, with participants competing based on body height and weight. And then maybe that would open up sports to a much wider field. That is the way I always thought as fair even before the recent issue of transphobia.
How are we going to figure out much larger issues if we cannot figure out the lesser ones. Example, how to deal with the climate crisis. Peace.
I agree, if the questions had been in good faith, which they clearly weren't. Also agree: re, climate crisis, but that of course is also bound up in heteropatriarchal colonial gender systems.
That "scientific progress" account is a far right conspiracy account that was just trying to get a rise for self-promotion. FYI. I just did a deep dive because I was curious.
Looks like your entire program is “white Christian heterosexual men bad; everyone else good” and that you’re emotionally and financially vested in that message. Own it.
Looks like you need to work on your close reading skills instead of superimposing your confirmation bias on an entire academic field. Own that. But, also, thanks for reading my work!
Are you confused about how academia works and how people earn PhDs or are you just yelling at women on the internet? As my grandmother used to say, now don't be ugly! xo
I like how any time I say I teach Women's and Gender Studies it's an excuse for men to yell at me lol. They really get triggered, bless their hearts. I wish they would read up on it for real.... would make their lives better. Sigh.
Substack was a more civil place for a minute. Thanks for bringing the personal insults into it. In case you'd like to put a name to your rhetorical strategy, what you're doing here is called an ad hominem attack whereby the person attacks the character of the person instead of engaging in substantial debate. In other words, instead of offering an actual idea of your own to contribute to the debate, you claim I'm an unlikable person because of my area of academic specialization, a claim that is also heavily gendered because we expect women to conform to expectations of likability and agreeableness. Your attack wouldn't land as well if you were using this against a man. Free WGST lesson for you, you're welcome! xo
Thanks :). It's also pretty amazing to watch people so clearly illustrate the need for WGST to combat sexism by being so sexist in their "debating." We obviously still need the feminisms lol. This is also been my experience my entire academic career so I guess I'm used to it by now? Le sigh. Liz Lenz's newsletter Men Yell at Me is great. https://lyz.substack.com/
Well, I won’t yell at you. That’s obviously a waste of time. I will pray for you, though. I guess that to YOU, Jesus Christ is the ultimate in “patriarchy,” huh?
I am a professor and I have a free Substack about books, libraries and censorship. Today I have 759 subscribers. I use Substack posts as outside reading in my classes.
Ebla to E-Books: The Preservation and Annihilation of Memory.
Well...I am a professor but because I am an adjunct...no publishing and no push. Which makes me kinda sad. I teach because my students are awesome, but the idea that I could expand my thinking here is intriguing.
However, I teach a really really narrowly technical subject...food safety auditing. But maybe I can figure out how to create a whole set of writing that reflects the whole me.
You may be surprised that some of the potential audience actually does eat food and would be interested in knowing the complexity of auditing for food safety. For example, how is auditing there different at source than distribution? Is rail different than truck for food safety transport? How is food safety auditing different/same as financial auditing?, what are the best practices? Etc. And finally with regard to writing more about your whole self; well who could deny that you are not a fascinating, intelligent, beautiful woman with a wealth of insights to share?!
Welcome Richard. (Why cant we tag writers in comments Substack???)
I first came to know Richard when i read 'The God Delusion' back in 2006. Since then, i have enjoyed his books. i am kicking off my Masters of Law degree later n September so i will be writing about my journey as well in academia and share excerpts of my thesis.
Asha Rangappa using her former credentials to decry "misinformation" is unfortunately the opposite of that, particularly since she and her ilk promote actual misinformation. However unlike them I still believe they should be able to say what they want on the internet.
So far my favorite refugee from academia is euggypius from a plague chronicle. My second-favorite is me. Neither of us have yet used Substack to write much or really at all on the subjects that occupied our minds in academia - I think partly because they are very niche subjects, and partly because having been canalized for so long into these narrow capillaries of thought, we'd rather right about almost anything else.
Nevertheless the possibilities of using Substack to build out an ersatz academia have been on my mind a lot. The utility for conventional writing and even instruction are obvious enough. I do wonder about the natural sciences though - technical papers are an enormous amount of work, of relatively negligible general interest, but extremely important to scientific progress. Can an audience-supported model support scientific research? Jury is out I think.
Writers at SubStack are pre-digesting scientific literature for others’ ease of consumption. Some, such as @ModernDiscontent, present a variety pack of new research. Now it’s easier to keep current. Too much science “news” in legacy media is not detailed or accurate enough to use. Great science writers are showing up here.
Yes, no question that it is good for popularization. What I wonder about is how the actual research survives in an online context. Given that the universities are falling apart, this seems to be a pressing question.
Research necessarily gets a little diluted when making it accessible, but the newz media often destroys the meaning entirely. There are better writers at Substack, so less dilution, more understanding and better decision making by more people. I'm optimistic. We are becoming a wreck as a civilization, because people who have no understanding of the information and the scientific method are making decisions, based on unproven or false assumptions.
Some of them used to call little ol' weedom from time to time, plus one guy called every June when the news cycle got slow. (I found that interacting with media got me onto a journalists' go-to list for specific topics.) It was formerly possible to convey some basic concepts to science reporters, and see some evidence that the ideas were taken in. In recent years, things are so infused with ideology and special, financial interests that effective communication with the legacy science reporters is not likely. The worst is when they write generically: "experts say"......
I’m a fulltime academic, and I write three to four essays per month here on Substack, where I explore the mysteries of your brain and the magic of life.
My day job is that of experimental neuroscientist and psychologist. Substack allows me to step outside the usual boundaries of academic publishing (important though they are - in their own domain!) - Substack provides an ideal platform to explore life through a neuroscience and psychology lens. I am dedicated to writing pieces firmly rooted in evidence-based research, and scientific understanding, and avoiding pseudoscience or “woo” in my writing. This doesn't mean you can't have fun, though: in my latest piece I was able to explore speculative relationships between hypersleep in the move Aliens, and a new method for stimulating the brain that steps down metabolism and induces torpor.
Substack allows me to strike a balance between academic rigor and accessibility: this bridging of the gap between academia and the public fosters greater understanding and appreciation of the nuances within neuroscience and psychology.
I’ve found that Substack has been a wonderful place to explore themes around my broader writing, including books I’ve published, or have in press. In revising and rewriting for my current book, my editors and I found lots of material that just didn’t fit: but as standalone pieces here on Substack, they work very well indeed.
I also find Substack Notes is a great alternative to the bad-bird-site - I've recently deleted my Twit account, and I am glad I did so.
I was delighted to be made Substack Featured Writer in 2022!
Hello Clyde, I stumbled into your article in my mailbox and I was delighted in reading it. Beyond the fact that Substack can be an adjunct for academics who are currently employed in colleges, universities, or research centers, there’s also the issue of those academics (like me) who, after defending the PhD thesis, have been adjuncts for a number of years while looking for a tenure track job, one that never happened. I believe you could expand the list here on Substack with so many fully qualified scholars who are still writing outside the tenure track, despite the lack of research funding. Thanks to Substack for this opportunity to test ideas for my book project on Enlightenment Legacies in the study of Buddhism!
I'm getting ready to write my PhD...on substack! (Not 100% of it, but putting out major excerpts as I write for feedback and communal engagement). Coming this summer!
P.s. I 'appreciate' the principle of the PhD - as it represents an endeavour to drill into the depths of something, whereas so many of us today live & operate at the surface (I personally see the inclination to 'travel' as symptomatic of this, often).
Agreed. Actually my desire to write a PhD is only partially relating to professional aspirations. I don’t think I’ll ever have (or necessarily aspire to) a career in “academia” or tenure-track work in a university. I’m getting a “traditional” doctorate at a German university, which is outside the course-intensive, 5-7 year American model in which one is part of cheap university labor - that is to say it is dissertation only.
I am doing the PhD so that I can understand the guts of my vocation and field -- the cantorate, that is to say the history of prayer leaders in Judaism and also the religious (and transgressive) dynamics of the practice of music in Judaism, Western culture, and human life.
.”...the religious (and transgressive) dynamics of the practice of music in Judaism, Western culture, and human life.” Interestingly,I’m a Catholic cantor and have this very specific same interest. Please stay connected with me as you start this pursuit.
Will do!
This is a place for intellectuals…
Grow up, man!
Interesting! Certainly, in Islam at least, music has been exploited/banned/enjoyed - depending on which side of the power dynamic one resides; & where in the World you are, which sect, & in which era.
What a fantastic meeting of the three major monotheistic religions in the world on a common vibrational, musical plane!
I don’t think Islam is a religion, but rather a political ideology masquerading as one.
Daughters! Super dad for participating in her life and showing that it moved you. If that’s transgressive, gold stars for transgression!
Will look out for it! 👍🏽
It’s live! mattausterklein.substack.com
Great idea…look forward to reading .
It’s live! Mattausterklein.substack.com
BS Degree: Bull Shit
MS Degree: More Shit
PhD: Piled higher Deeper
TIL that's allowed haha. I would have assumed it's meant to be private until published.
Ok well you are still going to die so maybe figure out how to live a nice life or just waste your energy trolling . Your choice
I’m an academic considering starting a Substack. The hesitations I feel are less related to time (although that is a factor for all of us). Instead, I worry that I am overly trained in scientific writing and won’t be able to translate my ideas in an engaging way for the public. I know I just need to try it and learn as I go!
Just try, you will find what works in stages.
First, I don’t see trying this out as a significant risk in any regard. Second, don’t underestimate the audience. Last, best wishes on whatever action you take.
Precisely, we’ll let you know, lol 😆. Looking forward to seeing you soon.
Thanks God, IQ is not the property of academia. You'll find people even more intelligent than you without any formal education, giving you cross-pollinated input you'd never ever imagined.
For instance watch this:
Presented by Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of mRNA tech (rwmalonemd.substack.com):
https://youtu.be/SOIs42o5AI8?t=30585
Based on 2000 papers: https://bit.ly/research2000
I agree with you that academia has no monopoly on intelligence. I was speaking to my own concerns about being overly trained in writing for a specific audience. I’m definitely interested in getting input from new sources.
There is a niche for everyone, and you can let the feedback help you adjust to connect with your target audience. It takes time. Those who choose not to utilize prior notoriety must be extra patient. I’m trying to make some specialized info more accessible. It’s a worthwhile experiment.
As an academic in the humanities, I definitely understand this concern. I felt when I finished my last post that it was more dense than its predecessors. But I trust that the interested people will be ok with that, even if my longer posts are not for everyone. Now that I’m a few months into a Substack, I’m enjoying the flexibility to make different kinds of posts, some lighter, some, yes, more academic. But that’s who I am! A journal wants one side of my brain. I like that I can use my right and left hemispheres together on my Substack. ... So yes, I’m for “try it and go”!
Thank you for the encouragement, Tara! I will check out your Substack.
Thank you. :-) I look forward to your posts if you decide the platform is right for you. I’ve enjoyed it.
I started reading academic journals for a job the past few years and once you get the hang of it it's not so bad. Usually just have to read it multiple times.
Yeah don’t even try, when you are at your level of genius nobody will understand
I can help you transform anything into engaging content 😉
Thank you! could you help me with this? https://bit.ly/research2000
I have been a Lawyer and Bioethicist for 30 years, most of my career as Legislative Advisor. I have also been in Academia for nearly 20 years, not full time but very much engaged. During the last years I felt very constrained and limited in my work and in Academia. I got tired of talking among “ourselves”, the so called academics. During the pandemic this tiredness became frustration, and last year I decided to quit and to follow another path, that involved a different form of communication. I decided to organize Online Literary Salons, where we can talk about the interaction between Science, Art, Politics and Literature. And I found Substack, only starting, but so far I think is a fantastic platform for communicate serious stuff in a more friendly way and to a wider audience.
Well that received my attention!
I am not a scientist nor academic, but certainly well trained in life itself. I grew up in a Salvation Army home for children in the Netherlands and never had an opportunity to even study till in my late twenties. Life and staying alive, was first priority.
Although a concious choice, I have felt very constraint in my job as an analytical accountant, no room for personal (job) expression or new ways of thinking. The corporate world was, still is imo, a punishing world. Stay within the borders or else. The psychological, often unethical games, between top and bottom within this corporation, were mentally exhausting.
Untill I decided to change profession all together, I didn't even realise how constraint and frustrated I was.
It's very refreshing to read that even in 'your world' constrainment is frustrating and break outs are happening. The 'fights' that are now happening everywhere, not for rebellious reasons, but for liberation, personal growth and freedom of expression are to get out of the settled orders and old ways of thinking. It's giving me hope for a better future.
Thank you
You are more than welcome in the salon!
Thank you for the invite! I would love to. However, we are most likely in different time zones. I live in Australia (emigrated 20 yrs ago) and I am about to travel for 4 months to go around this beautiful country again. Timeszone and internet reception can be an issue. I have put it in my diary and love to join when possible.
I'm a bioethicist, too. Taught over 10 years. You might like adding this to your discussion (check my other posts):
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Tell us Bluestockings more about your online Salons--where, at Books & Ethics? I dream of opening an actual brick-and-mortar “Salon”--but I live in Portland, OR. Not sure how diverse the discussions and ideas would be.
I usually organized two online salons per months, where we talk and debate issues related to Bioethics or Law, using a book as a guide. In June will be Mrs. Dalloway and Bioethics, and the idea is to talk about mental health, doctor-patient relationship, the post pandemic, etc.
I am so intrigued. I have wanted to create online salons for a while and just recently started imagining spreading the word here on Substack. Getting ready to subscribe to your Books & Ethics after I press "post."
Thanks Renee!! Next Salon will be Wednesday June 14 7pm CET via zoom. We are going to talk about Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, pandemic and post pandemic, mental health and much more. If you want more information, please email at betinabythebook@gmail.com
Cool. I liked your piece on Mrs Dalloway’s granddaughter--hadn’t considered that as a post-pandemic novel. And I’m a recently broken plate myself;) Hit me up to announce your next Salon.
Next Salon will be on Dalloway Day, via zoom Wednesday June 14 7pm CET, if you are interested and want more information, please email me at betinabythebook@gmail.com
Your use of a novel to open conversation sounds wonderful. Will you have info about that for subscribers in your Stack ? I also write about literature (and enchantment and the strange interpersonal relations it induces) , and just swelled your subscription numbers by one. Looking forward to seeing more about your literary excursions. 👍
Thanks Tara! I don’t have too much information on the Salons in my Substack, but I can see some people are interested, so maybe I’ll write a bit about them soon. In the meantime, next Salon will be on Dalloway Day, via zoom, Wednesday June 14 7pm CET. The novel will be Mrs. Dalloway, of course! For more information and registration, please email me at betinabythebook@gmail.com
We desperately need academics who are academics, not just public intellectuals. I'm a former academic historian, now writing for the public, and my Substack is practically a full-time job. It would have been extremely difficult to do this and an academic job well at the same time. Plus I'm keenly aware of the pressures that attend writing for a public audience, and how those can skew what we write. It concerns me that, as support falls for university careers, the pressure to indulge confirmation bias grows, whether academics join think tanks or write newsletters. It's something I point out to my readers, and the reason why I'm so grateful that my paying subscribers support my work. I would be rich if I only wrote for an audience that doesn't want to be challenged.
What do you think is the role of Freemasonry in history? e.g. American and French revolutions?
In 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations was founded, to infiltrate and control democracy, by freemasons David Rockefeller, Paul Warburg, Herbert Hoover, Allen Dulles, Walter Lippmann and Edward M. House. The impressive 10-thousand members list proves the power grab was successful.1 Since 1921, the CFR has chosen almost every single Secretary of State: they only need to infiltrate or bribe the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (only 11 of 20 members), and influence the Senate.
Similar mason institutions, most with similar names, were founded in over 100 countries, including Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs and the European Council on Foreign Relations2: practically, there’s no war where the CFR isn’t involved on both sides. 3 Their magazine Foreign Affairs is one way they send orders to all members.
In 2018, Wikileaks proved the CFR controlled all mainstream media.4
Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, Bush father and son, Carter, Clinton, Obama 5 ... some argue that, with few exceptions like JFK and Trump, at least since WWII, all US presidents were freemasons and many CFR. All administrations were filled with thousands of CFR members. 6 The Trump administration was no exception. 7 It’s not a coincidence that Neil M. Gorsuch, CFR Supreme Court Justice appointed by Trump, betrayed conservatives by ruling in favour of homosexual marriage and other New World Order “progressive” agenda.
Another proof of grooming for infiltration: 28 Jun 2019 Democrat Tulsi Gabbard wasn’t renewed the 5 year CFR membership. 8 Because she wouldn’t obey all orders? In 2020, she was still pro-homo-marriage9 and pro-abortion (a basic CFR request) and pro-Biden, but wanted paper ballots, Electoral College, supported Trump in breaking up Big Tech and removing their censorship through section 23010, Glass-Steagall, pro-natalism paid family and medical leave plans up to 12 weeks, less public and defense spending, drug patent breaking, no war.11 That’s probably why she was defamed by Kamala12, Hillary Clinton and mason RINO Mitt Romney.13 In 2021, she questioned Fauci on COVID origin and masks.14 Tulsi was groomed by the WEF in the "Forum of Young Global Leaders" but suddenly was disappeared, and not because of her age: she had turned 38 (41 in 2023), while the “young” freemason Macron (45) is still in the search results. Fremason Trudeau, 51, isn’t, but is listed in weforum.org15, while Tulsi has been erased from there, too, in Apr 2022 (she independized from the Democratic party in Oct 2022).16 Maybe this was the drop that filled the cup: she’s against CBDCs and social scoring.17
https://www.younggloballeaders.org/community
The CFR is just a small piece of a large puzzle of thousands of organizations, trusts and funds
Will soon post about this!
I’ve been studying the CFR for over 40 years. I started with the JBS and moved into deeper study. When I got my Masters Degree in National Security Studies (concentrations in Intelligence Analysis and Counterterrorism--with Honors) I had the opportunity to independently verify many of the allegations made in the famous work by James Perloff “Shadows of Power.”
For a very brief time I myself was a member of the Blue Lodge of Free Masonry. That was a time when I was running hard from Jesus.
When I came to my senses (and my knees) I saw the craft for what it was. And it’s not Christian! But it’s not really a factor in the NWO, either. Not even historically speaking (I’m a retired educator of Government, History (World and American) and Psychology/Sociology. 30 years in the fourth largest school district in the country. I taught AP.
Freemasonry was possibly a conduit for the short lived “Illuminati” founded by Adam Weishaupt on May 11, 1775. His vision of world government was spread to Europe POSSIBLY by the Freemasons. But they really didn’t have much more to do with global politics. The Illuminati died out within 50 years and the darkest parts of them morphed into what became the CFR and Bilderberg.
Today, while not the bastion of good and truth, the Freemasons are mostly harmless at the common levels 1-32nd degrees. Now, the rare 33rd degree is a far different beast. They will also be associated with some other nefarious groups like the CFR, Bilderberg and the WEF.
Thank you so much for your honest feedback. So who are "the powers that be"?
What do you make out of this?
ex-illuminati Ronald Bernard's confessions:
http://youtu.be/JAhnCdXqPww
The powers that be are seen in what is now known as the “Deep State” who can easily be identified by their memberships. CFR represents the primary identifier because you cannot just “join.” You have to be formally invited or proposed for membership by another member and then be vouched for by yet another member. They are the trench grunts of the NWO. They do the work to get legislation passed and to shape the minds of the populace because they control the media. Their “Overlords” are represented by the Bilderberg Group.
If there were tens of thousands of CFR members they could be discounted for their roles in reshaping and in large part destroying our country and its Constitution. But there’s less than three thousand members and not all of those are active. I just saw a Fox News commentator or maybe a guest from Congress who’s commenting about something (issue in this case is irrelevant) hold up an issue of Foreign Affairs to “bolster” the case he’s trying to make. Foreign Affairs is the publication of the CFR. Articles that are published there often if not mostly appear soon in the form of US Foreign Policy.
So brilliantly (and importantly) articulated.
I am a 20+ year police supervisor, and I’ve been writing on Substack since February. I encourage your readers to enjoy a perspective from someone who’s been there tackling current issues with Integrity. Courageous Nobility with Jeff Daukas.
Substack has provided a forum for me to release stress through the gift of writing, and to help enhance the lives of the people around me!
It's of uttermost importance that law enforcers understand that sometimes, enforcing the law, means injustice, especially in lockdowns:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/amnesty-or-justice
This was so interesting to read, thank you. I’m a recently first published academic and about to start my PhD this autumn. I’m keen to get into the habit of using Substack to share ideas, research, and gain insights.
God, I love this place. Thank you, Substack people.
I'm an English and Women's and Gender Studies professor and Substack has helped do what seemed impossible: make my scholarship and teaching public facing. There's been a big push to break down the walls of academia through a commitment to public humanities scholarship, and I feel like the newsletter (where I translate WGST concepts to understand local South Carolina culture and politics) is helping me to finally join in making what we do at colleges and universities more widely available. I wonder if Substack could partner with foundations like Mellon or NEH to help sponsor more of this work? Will be interesting to see what the future holds!
Speaking of gender, what do you think about biological males winning in women' sports presenting themselves as women? About those males in women's bathrooms?
What do you think about using trans phobia as a screen to reinforce normative patriarchal gender systems that oppress everyone into such narrow categories that we're all miserable? These are statistical nonissues that only serve as a means to bully children and harass and persecute trans people. I'm more worried about all these evangelical sex offenders that keep popping up! I'll take people assigned male at birth in the bathroom any day over those literal groomers!
Are you OK with so many rapes done by bio-males self-identifying as women in girls bathrooms and lockerrooms and even more rapes committed by such in women's prisons, many becoming pregnant?
None of this is grounded in fact and is only meant to drum up hysteria. I'm more concerned with sky high abuse committed by cis men. I won't respond to any more transphobic comments. I hope you can find your way out of that mess, for everyone's sake.
I'm sorry, I didn't intend to offend you at all, just asking innocent questions based on facts, not ideology:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/23/us/trans-women-incarceration/index.html
Emily. I read with interest as each side throws up walls, become intransigent, and then anger and name calling. I think we can do better if we actually communicate with some empathy. For instance the first question of how do you feel if a bio man participated in “women sports”. I think that this is a legitimate concern for many participants and parents. I have thought about it and maybe the answer would be to have all mixed sex sports, with participants competing based on body height and weight. And then maybe that would open up sports to a much wider field. That is the way I always thought as fair even before the recent issue of transphobia.
How are we going to figure out much larger issues if we cannot figure out the lesser ones. Example, how to deal with the climate crisis. Peace.
I agree, if the questions had been in good faith, which they clearly weren't. Also agree: re, climate crisis, but that of course is also bound up in heteropatriarchal colonial gender systems.
That "scientific progress" account is a far right conspiracy account that was just trying to get a rise for self-promotion. FYI. I just did a deep dive because I was curious.
Thanks for doing that so the rest of us didn't have to :).
Yes, the aggressiveness and testosterone surges may be death for all of us.
Looks like your entire program is “white Christian heterosexual men bad; everyone else good” and that you’re emotionally and financially vested in that message. Own it.
Looks like you need to work on your close reading skills instead of superimposing your confirmation bias on an entire academic field. Own that. But, also, thanks for reading my work!
Are you confused about how academia works and how people earn PhDs or are you just yelling at women on the internet? As my grandmother used to say, now don't be ugly! xo
I like how any time I say I teach Women's and Gender Studies it's an excuse for men to yell at me lol. They really get triggered, bless their hearts. I wish they would read up on it for real.... would make their lives better. Sigh.
So very engaging. I bet you’re a hit with everyone who agrees with you.
Substack was a more civil place for a minute. Thanks for bringing the personal insults into it. In case you'd like to put a name to your rhetorical strategy, what you're doing here is called an ad hominem attack whereby the person attacks the character of the person instead of engaging in substantial debate. In other words, instead of offering an actual idea of your own to contribute to the debate, you claim I'm an unlikable person because of my area of academic specialization, a claim that is also heavily gendered because we expect women to conform to expectations of likability and agreeableness. Your attack wouldn't land as well if you were using this against a man. Free WGST lesson for you, you're welcome! xo
Dismantling the gender system is hard for people I guess?
These are serious questions?
With all due respect, what is your opinion on this fact?:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/23/us/trans-women-incarceration/index.html
Emily has provided responses to all topics brought up thus far and I’d defer to her.
For my part, especially on the first day of Pride Month, I will not debate the legitimacy of trans womanhood. Period.
Why are you being so vociferously challenged on your academic pedigree by literal play school internet debaters?? 😭😭😭
This is so funny. Thank you so much for your whip smart takedowns and elegant reads of the real issues here.
Thanks :). It's also pretty amazing to watch people so clearly illustrate the need for WGST to combat sexism by being so sexist in their "debating." We obviously still need the feminisms lol. This is also been my experience my entire academic career so I guess I'm used to it by now? Le sigh. Liz Lenz's newsletter Men Yell at Me is great. https://lyz.substack.com/
Well, I won’t yell at you. That’s obviously a waste of time. I will pray for you, though. I guess that to YOU, Jesus Christ is the ultimate in “patriarchy,” huh?
Can't let you only highlight the fellows.
Kathleen McCook
I am a professor and I have a free Substack about books, libraries and censorship. Today I have 759 subscribers. I use Substack posts as outside reading in my classes.
Ebla to E-Books: The Preservation and Annihilation of Memory.
https://kathleenmccook.substack.com/
Speaking of censorship. I've detected archive.org deleting records... just like 1984
I encourage you to study why life-saving scientific knowledge is censored:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-real-covid-timeline
I heard that Archive.org lost a copyright lawsuit. I wonder if some documents are disappearing because of that.
Sure about copyright but that doesn't explain why content which has no copyright issues is being deleted, especially related to this:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/unsung-heroes-whos-who-in-the-global
I'll keep an eye on that. I get a lot of rare books from there but have not paid close attention to science resources.
Start with this best-sellers and scientific:
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/free-3-books-rfk-malone-dowd
Not really my expertise but I could look at galileo.
Well...I am a professor but because I am an adjunct...no publishing and no push. Which makes me kinda sad. I teach because my students are awesome, but the idea that I could expand my thinking here is intriguing.
However, I teach a really really narrowly technical subject...food safety auditing. But maybe I can figure out how to create a whole set of writing that reflects the whole me.
You may be surprised that some of the potential audience actually does eat food and would be interested in knowing the complexity of auditing for food safety. For example, how is auditing there different at source than distribution? Is rail different than truck for food safety transport? How is food safety auditing different/same as financial auditing?, what are the best practices? Etc. And finally with regard to writing more about your whole self; well who could deny that you are not a fascinating, intelligent, beautiful woman with a wealth of insights to share?!
There’s a whole community of people who might be writing on related topics. I’d pop by Notes and see who’s out there.
Start expanding here:
The Hall of Fame of our unsung heroes: who’s who in the global #FreedomMovement
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/unsung-heroes-whos-who-in-the-global
Maybe; but if you felt so inclined, I'm sure you'd find a very interested audience for your area of expertise, presented to the layman.
Welcome Richard. (Why cant we tag writers in comments Substack???)
I first came to know Richard when i read 'The God Delusion' back in 2006. Since then, i have enjoyed his books. i am kicking off my Masters of Law degree later n September so i will be writing about my journey as well in academia and share excerpts of my thesis.
I dare Richard or anybody speaking about this as delusion:
Mathematical proof of God’s mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlD2rcm971U
Scientific proof of God and the soul:
http://www.catholic365.com/article/26227/scientific-proof-of-god-and-the-immortal-soul.html
Scientific proof of religion
https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-really-happens-after-we-die/answers/46502105
What do you believe comes after death (Science backs religion)?
https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-believe-comes-after-death/answer/Federico-A-Nazar
https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-really-happens-after-we-die/answers/46502105
Why aren't atheists convinced by miracles which happened, and are scientifically proven?
https://www.quora.com/Why-arent-atheists-convinced-by-miracles-which-happened-and-are-scientifically-proven/answer/Federico-A-Nazar
Which is the true Christianity: Protestantism or Catholicism?
https://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-true-Christianity-Protestantism-or-Catholicism/answer/Federico-A-Nazar
Will soon post more about that in my subs.
😂😂😂
Still no.
“Continual questioning
Recurrent uncertainty
And stimulating dialogue”
Good directions.
Question this, then:
FREE “wake-up” MOVIES !
15 million watched the first one in 3 days!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/wake-up-videos
Thanks for the link. Good questions are fundamental.
Asha Rangappa using her former credentials to decry "misinformation" is unfortunately the opposite of that, particularly since she and her ilk promote actual misinformation. However unlike them I still believe they should be able to say what they want on the internet.
i started my substack when I was shut out of academia
Making Peace With Never Doing a PhD
https://www.karlstack.com/p/making-peace-with-never-doing-a-phd
Self education is the way, and you can become a leader.
Never give up. There's Ph.D. by publication! Especially in UK, even not travelling
Still, better truthful than a Ph.D. scam!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/amnesty-or-justice
So far my favorite refugee from academia is euggypius from a plague chronicle. My second-favorite is me. Neither of us have yet used Substack to write much or really at all on the subjects that occupied our minds in academia - I think partly because they are very niche subjects, and partly because having been canalized for so long into these narrow capillaries of thought, we'd rather right about almost anything else.
Nevertheless the possibilities of using Substack to build out an ersatz academia have been on my mind a lot. The utility for conventional writing and even instruction are obvious enough. I do wonder about the natural sciences though - technical papers are an enormous amount of work, of relatively negligible general interest, but extremely important to scientific progress. Can an audience-supported model support scientific research? Jury is out I think.
That's a bigger goal
Writers at SubStack are pre-digesting scientific literature for others’ ease of consumption. Some, such as @ModernDiscontent, present a variety pack of new research. Now it’s easier to keep current. Too much science “news” in legacy media is not detailed or accurate enough to use. Great science writers are showing up here.
Yes, no question that it is good for popularization. What I wonder about is how the actual research survives in an online context. Given that the universities are falling apart, this seems to be a pressing question.
Research necessarily gets a little diluted when making it accessible, but the newz media often destroys the meaning entirely. There are better writers at Substack, so less dilution, more understanding and better decision making by more people. I'm optimistic. We are becoming a wreck as a civilization, because people who have no understanding of the information and the scientific method are making decisions, based on unproven or false assumptions.
I have experienced this first hand, and yes, "science journalists" are consistently terrible. They don't translate ideas, they butcher them.
Some of them used to call little ol' weedom from time to time, plus one guy called every June when the news cycle got slow. (I found that interacting with media got me onto a journalists' go-to list for specific topics.) It was formerly possible to convey some basic concepts to science reporters, and see some evidence that the ideas were taken in. In recent years, things are so infused with ideology and special, financial interests that effective communication with the legacy science reporters is not likely. The worst is when they write generically: "experts say"......
Please add yourselves to the list:
The Hall of Fame of our unsung heroes: who’s who in the global #FreedomMovement
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/unsung-heroes-whos-who-in-the-global
You had me at “narrow capillaries of thought.”
Worse when the capillarity is clotted by censorship: instant gangrene of ideas =)))
For instance:
16 laws we need to exit Prison Planet
Politics got us in, politics is the way out ... after prayers!
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/laws-to-exit-planet-prison
I’m a fulltime academic, and I write three to four essays per month here on Substack, where I explore the mysteries of your brain and the magic of life.
My day job is that of experimental neuroscientist and psychologist. Substack allows me to step outside the usual boundaries of academic publishing (important though they are - in their own domain!) - Substack provides an ideal platform to explore life through a neuroscience and psychology lens. I am dedicated to writing pieces firmly rooted in evidence-based research, and scientific understanding, and avoiding pseudoscience or “woo” in my writing. This doesn't mean you can't have fun, though: in my latest piece I was able to explore speculative relationships between hypersleep in the move Aliens, and a new method for stimulating the brain that steps down metabolism and induces torpor.
Substack allows me to strike a balance between academic rigor and accessibility: this bridging of the gap between academia and the public fosters greater understanding and appreciation of the nuances within neuroscience and psychology.
I’ve found that Substack has been a wonderful place to explore themes around my broader writing, including books I’ve published, or have in press. In revising and rewriting for my current book, my editors and I found lots of material that just didn’t fit: but as standalone pieces here on Substack, they work very well indeed.
I also find Substack Notes is a great alternative to the bad-bird-site - I've recently deleted my Twit account, and I am glad I did so.
I was delighted to be made Substack Featured Writer in 2022!
What do you make of this in neuroscience?
Presented by Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of mRNA tech:
https://youtu.be/SOIs42o5AI8?t=30585
Based on 2000 papers: https://bit.ly/research2000
Will soon post about my research
Hello Clyde, I stumbled into your article in my mailbox and I was delighted in reading it. Beyond the fact that Substack can be an adjunct for academics who are currently employed in colleges, universities, or research centers, there’s also the issue of those academics (like me) who, after defending the PhD thesis, have been adjuncts for a number of years while looking for a tenure track job, one that never happened. I believe you could expand the list here on Substack with so many fully qualified scholars who are still writing outside the tenure track, despite the lack of research funding. Thanks to Substack for this opportunity to test ideas for my book project on Enlightenment Legacies in the study of Buddhism!