Sean Carroll

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | September 2026 · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

And things seem to have worked out so far. podcast-host

I'm glad they have. podcast-host

Thank you, Emmett. podcast-host

I think it's much more your fault than mine, I'm quite sure. podcast-host

Now I'm approaching my first cycle applying for faculty positions, and I'm curious if you have any pointers you would be willing to share. podcast-host

For context, I'm mainly applying to engineering departments in the US. podcast-host

My background is bioengineering, but any thoughts on the faculty application process in general are much appreciated. podcast-host

Yeah, you know, there's this standard problem that we train people at every stage to do a certain thing, but that's not what we want them to do at the next stage where their training is supposed to come into um play. podcast-host

So podcast-host

Of course, the the when you ask for advice about applying for faculty jobs, there's really two kinds of advice. podcast-host

One is getting a faculty job, and the other is being a good faculty member if you get the faculty job. podcast-host

And those are two different things. podcast-host

For the getting of the faculty job, I think, you know, most of your work is already done one way or the other. podcast-host

If you're already applying podcast-host

You have a C V, you have um publications and whatever. podcast-host

You know, the departments will hire podcast-host

on a l uh s I'm hesitating myself here 'cause it's not a hundred percent true. podcast-host

What I want to say is they'll hire on hope. podcast-host

They will hire on the hope that you grow into the best version of yourself, right? podcast-host

And in the back of their minds, whether they say it or not, they're thinking, well, if they don't podcast-host

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