{"id":9672,"date":"2014-11-16T08:15:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T13:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9672"},"modified":"2014-11-16T08:15:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T13:15:40","slug":"benefits-of-an-academic-day-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/11\/16\/benefits-of-an-academic-day-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of an Academic Day Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been quieter than usual here, partly because I’ve been crushingly busy, but primarily because most of the things I want to talk about, I can’t. Not yet, anyway. But I’m still alive, and this murderous term will be over soon, at which point blogging will pick up a bit.<\/p>\n

I will throw in a quick teaser for something coming up in the future, though, by way of a thank-you to the folks at Schaffer Library who let me take some photos of the rare books collection:<\/p>\n

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An 1845 edition of “Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation,” published anonymously but now known to be the work od Robert Chambers. From the rare books collection at Union College.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was going to be my semi-flippant addition to Sean’s advice on making a career in science communication<\/a>: Try to have a day job associated with an academic institution. Not only does it give you stuff like health insurance and a steady income, but you get access to library resources like journal subscriptions and, well, cool old books.<\/p>\n

And, as you can see up top in the “featured image,” you get to work in pretty surroundings… (This photo offers the added bonus of showing off my new wide-angle camera lens…)<\/p>\n

So, why am I taking photos of this specific old book (an 1845 printing of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation<\/a>, in case you can’t read the photo or caption)? Well, you’ll need to wait a while to find that out. But I bet it won’t surprise you to learn that it’s related to the forthcoming publication of my new book<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been quieter than usual here, partly because I’ve been crushingly busy, but primarily because most of the things I want to talk about, I can’t. Not yet, anyway. But I’m still alive, and this murderous term will be over soon, at which point blogging will pick up a bit. I will throw in a… Continue reading Benefits of an Academic Day Job<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,67,680,80,2,50,132,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academia","category-book_writing","category-eureka","category-history_of_science","category-personal","category-pictures","category-publicity","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}