Erica Bailey

Oh, thanks so much for having me again. It's so good to see you.

Oh, thanks so much for having me again. It's so good to see you.

Oh, thanks so much for having me again. It's so good to see you.

So I had just had my very first paper accepted. And that's a huge accomplishment as a PhD student. You're obsessed with getting a certain number of publications. In my mind, this is one step towards my dream job. You usually share these papers or these announcements with people, other academics. This used to be a space on Twitter. We called it Academic Twitter.

So I had just had my very first paper accepted. And that's a huge accomplishment as a PhD student. You're obsessed with getting a certain number of publications. In my mind, this is one step towards my dream job. You usually share these papers or these announcements with people, other academics. This used to be a space on Twitter. We called it Academic Twitter.

So I had just had my very first paper accepted. And that's a huge accomplishment as a PhD student. You're obsessed with getting a certain number of publications. In my mind, this is one step towards my dream job. You usually share these papers or these announcements with people, other academics. This used to be a space on Twitter. We called it Academic Twitter.

Now I think we're sort of migrating to different platforms. But usually you'll have an announcement. This is the paper I just published. This is who I worked on it with. And it can be a sort of self-promotional impression management self-expression. And I felt that drive to tell everyone how amazing I was that I had just gotten this paper accepted.

Now I think we're sort of migrating to different platforms. But usually you'll have an announcement. This is the paper I just published. This is who I worked on it with. And it can be a sort of self-promotional impression management self-expression. And I felt that drive to tell everyone how amazing I was that I had just gotten this paper accepted.

Now I think we're sort of migrating to different platforms. But usually you'll have an announcement. This is the paper I just published. This is who I worked on it with. And it can be a sort of self-promotional impression management self-expression. And I felt that drive to tell everyone how amazing I was that I had just gotten this paper accepted.

But what I thought would be even better is to sort of poke fun at the whole idea, right, that we're constantly trying to show other people this badge of our worth that we get externally. And so I tweeted, I just had my first paper accepted, and I'm happy to report that my self-esteem is now perfect and everything that's broken in me is fixed.

But what I thought would be even better is to sort of poke fun at the whole idea, right, that we're constantly trying to show other people this badge of our worth that we get externally. And so I tweeted, I just had my first paper accepted, and I'm happy to report that my self-esteem is now perfect and everything that's broken in me is fixed.

But what I thought would be even better is to sort of poke fun at the whole idea, right, that we're constantly trying to show other people this badge of our worth that we get externally. And so I tweeted, I just had my first paper accepted, and I'm happy to report that my self-esteem is now perfect and everything that's broken in me is fixed.

And as you can imagine, that kind of went viral in its own way, because I was poking fun at this idea that, of course, we want to share our accomplishments with other people. But at the end of the day, we're still here living with ourselves. I kind of didn't feel any different two days later after that paper got accepted.

And as you can imagine, that kind of went viral in its own way, because I was poking fun at this idea that, of course, we want to share our accomplishments with other people. But at the end of the day, we're still here living with ourselves. I kind of didn't feel any different two days later after that paper got accepted.

And as you can imagine, that kind of went viral in its own way, because I was poking fun at this idea that, of course, we want to share our accomplishments with other people. But at the end of the day, we're still here living with ourselves. I kind of didn't feel any different two days later after that paper got accepted.

Yeah, part of the pressure of social media that is so maladaptive and harmful for people is this pressure to always be sharing positive things and to only see the positive things that are going on in everyone else's life. This also happens at academic conferences.

Yeah, part of the pressure of social media that is so maladaptive and harmful for people is this pressure to always be sharing positive things and to only see the positive things that are going on in everyone else's life. This also happens at academic conferences.

Yeah, part of the pressure of social media that is so maladaptive and harmful for people is this pressure to always be sharing positive things and to only see the positive things that are going on in everyone else's life. This also happens at academic conferences.

I go to talk after talk of an amazing paper and then an amazing experiment and a crazy keynote speech that's summarizing someone's entire career. And that pressure that can make you feel like everyone is living this perfect, glamorous life because you don't see all the messy details that went into what people are going through or the steps that it took for them to get to where they are.

I go to talk after talk of an amazing paper and then an amazing experiment and a crazy keynote speech that's summarizing someone's entire career. And that pressure that can make you feel like everyone is living this perfect, glamorous life because you don't see all the messy details that went into what people are going through or the steps that it took for them to get to where they are.