Under pressure: Becoming the good enough academic (Tekeste 2025)

English Podcast Starts at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:14:03Hindi Podcast Starts at 00:30:24German Podcast Starts at 00:49:24ReferenceTekeste, M. (2025). Under pressure: Becoming the good enough academic. Organization, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084251383285‌Youtube Channel⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠Connect over linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mayukhpsm/🎙️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit — the podcast where ideas evolve, papers grow, and academics breathe between deadlines. 🌿Today, we open the doors to a story every Early Career Researcher will feel deep down in the pulse of their inbox. 📩 Imagine this — an email ping for yet another round of revisions... and you, halfway through a medical procedure, still typing “Thank you for your feedback.”This episode dives into “Under pressure: Becoming the good enough academic” — a powerful reflection by Milena Tekeste, published in Organization — a prestigious Scopus Q1 journal by SAGE Publications, released on October 22, 2025.Tekeste invites us into a quiet, brave space — one where being “good enough” challenges academia’s obsession with perfection. She writes not just with intellect but with pulse — tracing exhaustion, identity, and the strange pride of working through pain. 💭What does it truly mean to be a good academic… when being human already feels like the hardest part of the job? 🤔Thanks to Milena Tekeste and SAGE Publications for this candid, courageous work.🎧 Don’t forget to subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, Amazon Prime, and Apple Podcast, and catch all our behind-the-desk reflections on the Weekend Researcher YouTube channel. 🌍Now… hit play, and let’s revise what it means to belong in academia.