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I write mostly about the philosophy job market, using data to track hiring trends, application numbers, and AOS patterns.

June 2, 2026

AI and jobs in academic philosophy

April 4, 2025

how many people applied for jobs in Fall 2024?

August 30, 2024

Update to 2024 Secondary Cycle Post

August 29, 2024

Secondary Job cycle, January - June 2024

March 20, 2024

How many people are applying for jobs?

January 25, 2024

2023 Primary Job Cycle

September 15, 2023

AOS for 2022-2023

July 20, 2023

Job market, secondary cycle for 2023

March 15, 2023

Follow up to newspaper sentiment analysis

March 14, 2023

What are they saying about us?

January 18, 2023

AOS for 2022-2023 primary job cycle

January 10, 2023

2022-2023 job cycle thus far...

December 23, 2021

How many people are applying for jobs?

October 25, 2021

Open ads over time

October 6, 2021

THE JOB MARKET IS BACK, BABY!

May 18, 2021

When does a PhD go stale? A crack at figuring it out...

May 12, 2021

Update on junior posts on PhilJobs

April 30, 2021

Junior placements from PhilJobs

November 1, 2020

How blue can you get? The 2020-2021 job cycle

March 22, 2020

The award for most job postings in the 2018-19 job cycle goes to...

March 20, 2020

2018-2019 Job Cycle: some data on dates

March 4, 2020

2018-2019 job cycle: how many and where

January 27, 2020

“Leiter Year in Review” Review

January 24, 2020

Leiter Reports year in review, 4th quarter

January 24, 2020

Quick detour

January 24, 2020

Leiter Reports year in review, 3rd quarter

January 22, 2020

Leiter Reports year in review, 2nd quarter

January 19, 2020

Leiter Reports year in review, 1st quarter

December 18, 2019

What is the PGR supposed to measure? Part 3

December 18, 2019

What is the PGR supposed to measure? Part 2

December 17, 2019

While I'm on the usefulness of Web of Knowledge for grad students...