Faculty Job Announcements on Twitter
While scrolling through my Twitter feed, I’ve started seeing people officially announce that they have accepted a faculty position. It would seem that this would be about the right time of year (with many jobs first being advertised near the end of the year), though I was curious whether I could actually use Twitter data to figure out when most people would be hearing back, negotiating, and signing offers. Thus, I searched for phrases such as “I’ve accepted an assistant professor”, “starting my lab”, “be an assistant professor”, and “accepted a faculty position” to find announcements and record the date on the tweets.
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Indeed, the major season for these job announcements seem to be between February and May. It looks like there’s also a small blip of announcements shortly before Christmas. Accordingly, there seems to be a lack of announcements during the Christmas / New Years break (makes sense, as things shut down) and shortly after the start of the academic year.