
{"id":46585,"date":"2026-04-29T16:45:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/?p=46585"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:45:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:15:52","slug":"academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos","title":{"rendered":"Academia\u2019s Midlife Crisis: Four Conversations that Cut through the Chaos\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If academia is going through a mid-life crisis, the symptoms&nbsp;aren\u2019t&nbsp;hard to spot.&nbsp;Policies are evolving,&nbsp;ideologies are at war, the&nbsp;infrastructure is groaning under new expectations, and the&nbsp;academic industry acronyms are multiplying faster than we can decode them.&nbsp;Amidst all this, the Insights&nbsp;XChange&nbsp;podcast hosted by Nikesh Gosalia&nbsp;is slowing down the discourse to make sense of what is changing, why it matters, and how the people who hold the system together are adapting.&nbsp;(Full disclosure: I&nbsp;have a hand in&nbsp;producing these podcasts so you can call me&nbsp;biased, if&nbsp;you may. But once you listen in, you will find the insights&nbsp;as compelling as I do).&nbsp;I have distilled the key insights from&nbsp;four of my&nbsp;favourite episodes for you&nbsp;here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In one of my favourite episodes, Joy Moore, an experienced executive with deep expertise in strategic planning and publishing innovation, along with Kent Anderson, founder and former editor-in-chief of&nbsp;<em>The Scholarly Kitchen<\/em>&nbsp;and founder of Caldera Publishing Solutions, talk about trust issues, tech fads, and the open access jumble.&nbsp;\u201cWhat if the real crisis in academic publishing&nbsp;isn\u2019t&nbsp;a lack of innovation but a terminal addiction to chasing every \u201cmove fast and break things\u201d trend?\u201d&nbsp;is the key question that Nikesh wanted to explore.&nbsp;Nikesh kicks off with a question that sets the tone for the episode,&nbsp;\u201cHow do we balance the need for stability with the push for bold change?\u201d&nbsp;Joy Moore and Kent Anderson made&nbsp;an important point&nbsp;that publishing is meant to provide&nbsp;<em>stability<\/em>&nbsp;to science but very often gets caught up with the latest tech fads.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q3ptVp_naBk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cScientific and scholarly publishers are actually designed for stability\u2026 deciding what goes into the scientific record should be a stabilizing force, not something you disrupt because you\u2019re in love with the latest fad,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;says Kent.&nbsp;While AI&nbsp;is important, regaining trust by being serious about quality, ethics, and restoring science\u2019s role as a stabilizing force is even more necessary.&nbsp;Joy critiques \u2018open\u2019 as a catchall ideology and calls out messy&nbsp;realities&nbsp;underneath. \u201cThe broader the&nbsp;open access&nbsp;tent gets, the more completely out of control the circus underneath it becomes\u2026 We need to stop treating&nbsp;open access&nbsp;as the punchline to every problem,\u201d&nbsp;says Joy.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Joy and Kent talk about why publishing is losing its footing, the conversation between Nikesh and&nbsp;Colleen Campbell&nbsp;shifts from the&nbsp;<em>why<\/em>&nbsp;to the&nbsp;<em>what.<\/em>&nbsp;Colleen, one of the most influential voices in the Open Access movement, leads OA2020, a global effort focused on accelerating the transition to Open Access. She has contributed to major initiatives like Projekt DEAL and has been a strong advocate for&nbsp;library-led&nbsp;infrastructure and reform in scholarly publishing.&nbsp;What does it take to build&nbsp;a&nbsp;firmer ground in&nbsp;publishing,&nbsp;and&nbsp;the discussion goes beyond&nbsp;debating&nbsp;ideologies&nbsp;to&nbsp;examining&nbsp;the pipes, writing, and policy plumbing needed to make&nbsp;open access&nbsp;workable,&nbsp;equitable, and sustainable.&nbsp;In this second episode Colleen reminds us that even the most well-intended ideas will&nbsp;collapse&nbsp;without&nbsp;the scaffolding to hold&nbsp;them up.&nbsp;She offers a&nbsp;sobering,&nbsp;but pragmatic take on Open Access and how it&nbsp;isn\u2019t&nbsp;a one-and-done flipping of journal portfolios.&nbsp;It\u2019s&nbsp;an ecosystem of policy shifts and funding realignment. There are multiple local adaptations and cultural changes.&nbsp;\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N2RZDEkvxoQ&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">One-size-fits-all is not going to work. We need nuance, we need agreements that are customizable,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;says&nbsp;Campbell emphatically.&nbsp;Transparent data and flexible strategies are essential because we need to get out of the one-size-fits-all fix mode. It&nbsp;doesn\u2019t&nbsp;exist and simply never did. In the episode, she talks about mindful evolution over disruptive upheaval, urging academic institutions and libraries to get smart about their investments.&nbsp;Nikesh summed up with \u201cWe can keep the open access transition aligned with values of equity, transparency, and global inclusion.\u201d&nbsp;But policy and agreements&nbsp;are&nbsp;only half the story. All the nuance in the world means little if the platforms themselves&nbsp;can\u2019t&nbsp;stay standing.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All that policy nuance and infrastructure scaffolding sets the stage for the next episode where Nikesh poses the unavoidable question:&nbsp;even if we get the agreements right and the funding aligned, can our platforms&nbsp;actually withstand&nbsp;the weight of what we are asking them to do?&nbsp;That\u2019s&nbsp;exactly why Will Schweitzer\u2019s episode hits so hard.&nbsp;Will Schweitzer is the CEO of Silverchair,&nbsp;that powers everyone from small society publishers to academic institutions.&nbsp;Nikesh starts by saying \u201cAI tools are not just&nbsp;supporting but&nbsp;accelerating the research pipeline. And publishing platforms are stepping up, evolving from service providers to strategic partners at the heart of this ecosystem.\u201d In this episode,&nbsp;Will Schweitzer&nbsp;talks about how resilience is the real revolution.&nbsp;Amid conversations of platform modularity, new features, and&nbsp;the several&nbsp;integration buzzwords&nbsp;that&nbsp;we&nbsp;can\u2019t&nbsp;seem to keep up with, Will Schweitzer cuts to the chase&nbsp;on the pod.&nbsp;In this episode, he talks about how the real innovation is building platforms sturdy enough to survive everything from bot traffic to pandemic-induced workflow chaos,&nbsp;preferably without users crying over corrupted PDFs. Stability in infrastructure is the steady foundation upon which anything truly innovative must be built, and complexity more often hinders than helps.&nbsp;Will&nbsp;insists&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wEIOl3ObMU0&amp;t=4s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cKeeping the platform upright while 60% of traffic is non-human.\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next conversation zooms out to an equally critical question: even if the platforms hold steady, how do we ensure that the entire ecosystem is what we are looking at?&nbsp;Resilient platforms may keep the system alive, but metadata gives it memory. And no one explains that better than Ed Pentz.&nbsp;Ed is the&nbsp;Executive Director of&nbsp;Crossref. Under his leadership,&nbsp;Crossref&nbsp;has become a global leader in open scholarly infrastructure, advocating for transparency, metadata standards, and persistent identifiers that enable global research discovery.&nbsp;He&nbsp;talks&nbsp;passionately&nbsp;about&nbsp;metadata&nbsp;the unsung hero of academia.&nbsp;If&nbsp;you\u2019ve&nbsp;ever cited a paper or followed a digital trail to a research article, chances are Ed Pentz\u2019s&nbsp;Crossref&nbsp;has done the heavy lifting.&nbsp;In this episode,&nbsp;Ed highlights that open knowledge requires more than&nbsp;open access;&nbsp;it demands robust, transparent, global infrastructure made of persistent identifiers, rich metadata, and open standards.&nbsp;As he reminds us,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=blzhv4U_HSY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cMetadata and identifiers are really critical to provenance and citation, and that becomes even more important with all the developments in AI.\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;His insight:&nbsp;the plumbing of scholarly communication is as vital as the content itself.&nbsp;The future&nbsp;now&nbsp;depends on collaboration&nbsp;and patience. Building this open ecosystem takes time and constant&nbsp;iteration. Ed also&nbsp;talks passionately about&nbsp;the potential of&nbsp;AI&nbsp;with regards to&nbsp;discovery and efficiency.&nbsp;He is&nbsp;cautious and urges the academic&nbsp;community&nbsp;to&nbsp;follow suit.&nbsp;Ed cautions listeners and stresses the importance of being&nbsp;vigilant.&nbsp;Fake citations&nbsp;and&nbsp;fabricated data&nbsp;are&nbsp;very common. AI&nbsp;may be&nbsp;the future,&nbsp;but human&nbsp;supervision&nbsp;is still&nbsp;essential.&nbsp;Nikesh reinforces this when he notes, \u201cThat initial euphoria around AI has&nbsp;probably tempered&nbsp;down.&nbsp;We\u2019re&nbsp;somewhere on the path, but this phase really requires balance and care.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across these conversations runs a simple thought,&nbsp;I&nbsp;believe&nbsp;scholarly publishing&nbsp;is changing, but not in the dramatic, overnight ways our headlines often suggest.&nbsp;It\u2019s&nbsp;shifting through accumulated decisions,&nbsp;some ideological, some structural, and some deeply technical and these decisions are made by people who understand how much is at stake. Paying attention to these quieter shifts helps us see the&nbsp;academic landscape&nbsp;not as a field in crisis, but as one engaged in the difficult, necessary work of recalibration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If academia is going through a mid-life crisis, the symptoms&nbsp;aren\u2019t&nbsp;hard to spot.&nbsp;Policies are evolving,&nbsp;ideologies are at war, the&nbsp;infrastructure is groaning under new expectations, and the&nbsp;academic industry acronyms are multiplying faster than we can decode them.&nbsp;Amidst all this, the Insights&nbsp;XChange&nbsp;podcast hosted by Nikesh Gosalia&nbsp;is slowing down the discourse to make sense of what is changing, why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":19937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6487,308],"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-46585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editage-insights-category","tag-publishing","tag-scholarly-publishing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Academia\u2019s Midlife Crisis: Four Conversations that Cut through the Chaos\u00a0 | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Academia\u2019s Midlife Crisis: Four Conversations that Cut through the Chaos\u00a0 | Editage Insights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If academia is going through a mid-life crisis, the symptoms&nbsp;aren\u2019t&nbsp;hard to spot.&nbsp;Policies are evolving,&nbsp;ideologies are at war, the&nbsp;infrastructure is groaning under new expectations, and the&nbsp;academic industry acronyms are multiplying faster than we can decode them.&nbsp;Amidst all this, the Insights&nbsp;XChange&nbsp;podcast hosted by Nikesh Gosalia&nbsp;is slowing down the discourse to make sense of what is changing, why [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Editage Insights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Editage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-04-29T11:15:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-29T11:15:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Aparna Ayyar\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Editage\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Editage\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Aparna Ayyar\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Aparna Ayyar\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#\/schema\/person\/cd0b1891ebf0c5ab5ebf1797b16252d7\"},\"headline\":\"Academia\u2019s Midlife Crisis: Four Conversations that Cut through the Chaos\u00a0\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-29T11:15:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-29T11:15:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos\"},\"wordCount\":1448,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/podcast-content-type-icon-1.svg\",\"keywords\":[\"publishing\",\"scholarly publishing\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Editage Insights\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos\",\"name\":\"Academia\u2019s Midlife Crisis: Four Conversations that Cut through the Chaos\u00a0 | Editage Insights\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/podcast-content-type-icon-1.svg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-29T11:15:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-04-29T11:15:52+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/podcast-content-type-icon-1.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/podcast-content-type-icon-1.svg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Academia\u2019s Midlife Crisis: Four Conversations that Cut through the Chaos\u00a0\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/\",\"name\":\"Editage Insights\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Editage Insights\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/editage-insights-logo-1-scaled.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/editage-insights-logo-1-scaled.webp\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":324,\"caption\":\"Editage Insights\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Editage\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/Editage\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#\/schema\/person\/cd0b1891ebf0c5ab5ebf1797b16252d7\",\"name\":\"Aparna Ayyar\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e05d4d007e5592e8056444b3ef1ef7d67bcf4363234ffbb2efbcdf0781ac5b69?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e05d4d007e5592e8056444b3ef1ef7d67bcf4363234ffbb2efbcdf0781ac5b69?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Aparna Ayyar\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/aparna-ayyar\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Academia\u2019s Midlife Crisis: Four Conversations that Cut through the Chaos\u00a0 | Editage Insights","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Academia\u2019s Midlife Crisis: Four Conversations that Cut through the Chaos\u00a0 | Editage Insights","og_description":"If academia is going through a mid-life crisis, the symptoms&nbsp;aren\u2019t&nbsp;hard to spot.&nbsp;Policies are evolving,&nbsp;ideologies are at war, the&nbsp;infrastructure is groaning under new expectations, and the&nbsp;academic industry acronyms are multiplying faster than we can decode them.&nbsp;Amidst all this, the Insights&nbsp;XChange&nbsp;podcast hosted by Nikesh Gosalia&nbsp;is slowing down the discourse to make sense of what is changing, why [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos","og_site_name":"Editage Insights","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Editage","article_published_time":"2026-04-29T11:15:38+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-04-29T11:15:52+00:00","author":"Aparna Ayyar","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Editage","twitter_site":"@Editage","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Aparna Ayyar","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos"},"author":{"name":"Aparna Ayyar","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#\/schema\/person\/cd0b1891ebf0c5ab5ebf1797b16252d7"},"headline":"Academia\u2019s Midlife Crisis: Four Conversations that Cut through the Chaos\u00a0","datePublished":"2026-04-29T11:15:38+00:00","dateModified":"2026-04-29T11:15:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos"},"wordCount":1448,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/podcast-content-type-icon-1.svg","keywords":["publishing","scholarly publishing"],"articleSection":["Editage Insights"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos","url":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos","name":"Academia\u2019s Midlife Crisis: Four Conversations that Cut through the Chaos\u00a0 | Editage Insights","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/podcast-content-type-icon-1.svg","datePublished":"2026-04-29T11:15:38+00:00","dateModified":"2026-04-29T11:15:52+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/podcast-content-type-icon-1.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/podcast-content-type-icon-1.svg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/academias-midlife-crisis-four-conversations-that-cut-through-the-chaos#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Academia\u2019s Midlife Crisis: Four Conversations that Cut through the Chaos\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/","name":"Editage Insights","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#organization","name":"Editage Insights","url":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/editage-insights-logo-1-scaled.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/editage-insights-logo-1-scaled.webp","width":2560,"height":324,"caption":"Editage Insights"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Editage","https:\/\/x.com\/Editage"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#\/schema\/person\/cd0b1891ebf0c5ab5ebf1797b16252d7","name":"Aparna Ayyar","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e05d4d007e5592e8056444b3ef1ef7d67bcf4363234ffbb2efbcdf0781ac5b69?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e05d4d007e5592e8056444b3ef1ef7d67bcf4363234ffbb2efbcdf0781ac5b69?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Aparna Ayyar"},"url":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/aparna-ayyar"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46588,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46585\/revisions\/46588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46585"},{"taxonomy":"new_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/new_categories?post=46585"},{"taxonomy":"new_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/new_tags?post=46585"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=46585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}