Section: Why I Left Academia

Two months before I defended my dissertation, I discovered that a professor had published my own work before me. This is the story that sparked the attention of academics across the world in 2017 with half a million views, talk about good trouble. It's why I left academia, and what I discovered when Post-PhD the Blog went viral: that I'm far from alone.

This is Post-PhD’s origin story, as it were, and my personal account of what happens to whistle-blowers after the fact. From being served a defamation lawsuit to a phyrric victory by filing for bankruptcy to those who stood by me. (More than a few of you have told me some of these should come with academic trauma trigger warnings, so consider yourself warned :P ).

Below are posts from 2017 to 2019, in order of the most recent: