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

We'll just not give them tenure and we'll be rid of them, right? podcast-host

So that's willing to roll the dice a little bit. podcast-host

Um, but what that means is you have to sort of make it clear what that best version of yourself is. podcast-host

How big can you be? podcast-host

How great can your research be? podcast-host

What is the highest achieving version of the scientist you want to become? podcast-host

And you want to make that clear. podcast-host

Um, that includes the research you. podcast-host

do but also, you know, can you are you enough of a self-starter to take initiative, to apply for grants, to set up a lab if that's relevant to what you want to do? podcast-host

to advise graduate students, to start new courses, all of these things that you weren't expected to do as a postdoc. podcast-host

Now you're going to be expected to do them. podcast-host

And so giving the impression that you'll be good at doing all those things, as well as keeping up your research at whatever level you can. podcast-host

Of course, the most important thing is to have really, really good research. podcast-host

And I I can't help you with that. podcast-host

Like that by now you do or you don't. podcast-host

Um, in terms of being a good faculty member, you know, it's there's again, twenty different things that go into it. podcast-host

This is the weird thing about being a faculty member. podcast-host

Everyone knows that it's really hard, it's very busy, you have a lot of demands on your time. podcast-host

it's still surprising how busy you are, uh how many things not any one thing. podcast-host

It's not like, oh, there's this new responsibility you have. podcast-host

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