blogs - psych grad students, prof, postdoc

[auro]

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Which (regularly updated) blogs do you read that are written by psych students/academics? Here are a couple I recently found, but I'm sure some of you might be able to share more

Stressful Times for Psych Girl
http://psycgirl.blogspot.com/
Grad student blog (she is going through tough personal stuff right now though that has little to do with grad school)

Life of a Psychology PhD Student
http://psychnihilist.blogspot.com/
Doesn't seem to update too often, but interesting (today about an email from her advisor)

Female Science Professor (my favorite)
http://science-professor.blogspot.com/
Updates often. Really interesting issues about being a professor and female.

Psych Post Doc
http://psychpostdoc.blogspot.com/
Updates regularly, looking for a job right now

 

[islandgirl1]

there's a list here of blogs but they seem more resource focused: http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/05/guide-to-psychology-blog-o-sphere-part.php

i like the ones u suggested too 🙂

 

[JockNerd]

Nothing like explosive self-disclosure for some light reading 🙄

I'm not sure why some people would put such intimately person things online.

 

[RayneeDeigh]

Nothing like explosive self-disclosure for some light reading 🙄

I'm not sure why some people would put such intimately person things online.

'cause the "anonymity" is comforting and the self-disclosure is probably cathartic.

I dunno, I read the first blog the OP posted. I think the emotional honesty was refreshing especially coming from someone in the same boat education-wise.

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

'cause the "anonymity" is comforting and the self-disclosure is probably cathartic.

I dunno, I read the first blog the OP posted. I think the emotional honesty was refreshing especially coming from someone in the same boat education-wise.

The good ones are better and more insightful than 99% of professional writing I read, while the rest are taking up bytes that could be better used elsewhere. 😀

 

[RayneeDeigh]

Haha this whole thread has made me self-conscious about what I put in my own blog. Joy.

 

[Ollie123]

Nothing like explosive self-disclosure for some light reading 🙄

I'm not sure why some people would put such intimately person things online.

I'm not bothered by the self-disclosure, though I do think people often disclose more than they should online, and then act shocked when people find out who they are. Well, perhaps bothered isn't the right word. Moreso I wasn't surprised by it.

Mostly, it just reminds me of what we had mentioned in the other thread, about how many folks in this field just live their lives in a perpetual state of freaking out. Not to say it wasn't justified in some cases on those blogs (and elsewhere), it just struck a chord since it seems a large number of people are very unhappy with the field and their experiences with it. I used to think it was reflective of the field, but I have my doubts the further on I go. I'm trying to figure out if I just got ridiculously lucky with my program/lab/advisor, tons of grad students are just very easily stressed, or somewhere in between. Again, that's not to say some people aren't justifiably upset, I just think back to when I was applying and from surfing the web I was led to believe that things would be an absolute nightmare and that after the nightmare I would still have precisely zero chance of actually landing a faculty job.

I guess blogging is just like the news. "I'm busy but having fun" doesn't exactly make for an exciting blog post.

 

[JockNerd]

I'm not bothered by the self-disclosure, though I do think people often disclose more than they should online, and then act shocked when people find out who they are. Well, perhaps bothered isn't the right word. Moreso I wasn't surprised by it.

I'm not bothered by self-disclosure, but most blogs weird me out. The public ones all seem to be explosively self-disclosive without much insight, and I don't see much value in that. It may a thread of cynicism, but I have this thought in my head that many bloggers think that one day a record of their personal communications will be published and mulled over, or something.

 

[myelin]

I never understood the point of reading blogs.