Comments on: Where's the discipline specific academic gossip?

Question: Where's the discipline specific academic gossip?

ontic — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:59:09 -0800

I know where to go for gossip within my own academic discipline, but are there canonical blogs (on moves, hiring, graduate apps, big books, occasional meta-discipline discussion, etc). or rankings in other disciplines? The Chronicle and Arts and Letters Daily are more general. I'm looking for more discipline specific stuff.

I want to clarify that I'm not supporting the occasionally crazy gossip and navel gazing. I'm more interested in the sociology of academia here.

By: danb

danb — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:40:32 -0800

I'm not sure if this is quite what you're looking for, but LISNews is a Slashdot-inspired site about librarians and information science.

By: salvia

salvia — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:49:32 -0800

For city planning (and similar): Planetizen and (supposedly, but I use it less) Cyburbia. Hmm, I'm not sure if it has the latest dish in the same way the site you linked does, so maybe there's an even better one out here. And I'm not sure "city planning" counts as a discipline, but I think it does.

By: gmarceau

gmarceau — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:17:43 -0800

Lambda the Ultimate, the weblog of the academic community which does programming language research.

By: fizzix

fizzix — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:21:25 -0800

I've found listservs to be a pretty good source of information, news, gossip in Academia.

Go to google and type in the search box:

site:.edu listserv and add the subject that you're looking for.

A couple others that I know real quickly:

Human Rights

Anthropology, Transnational issues, working class studies (a bit broader)

Additionally, professional academic associations (i.e. APSA for political science; AAA for anthropology) may their own listservs or links to discussions.

By: chickletworks

chickletworks — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:47:13 -0800

This one in political science is pretty insane. Hasn't been updated in a while, though.

Also, grad students' blogs tend to be pretty gossipy.

By: ontic

ontic — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:09:07 -0800

Man, I've known philosophy was a little weird in this respect, but now I'm suspecting the worst -- that we're somewhat unique in our public navelgazing.

For what it's worth, chickletworks' example is exactly what I'm looking for.