If you are not Extremely Online, 1) congratulations, but 2) you probably missed the conversations prompted by this remark from Kieran Healy, a sociology professor at Duke: A somewhat odd trend in Academic Twitter discourse is TT faculty who say they won’t consider giving an ordinary departmental talk in their own discipline unless there’s an honorarium involved, and who insist that being invited to dinner by your hosts is a really a sort of insult. — Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) November 3, 2021 Lots of people weighed in, and lots of comments addressed important issues.  Is the implicit expectation that scholars Read more