About Remotely HigherEd

Remotely HigherEd is a newsletter that provides twice-weekly emails with active, curated jobs for academics.

Meet the Creator

Hi, fellow academic. I'm Amelia McNew, PhD, a recent graduate, nutrition scientist, and editor with two decades of experience.

After defending my dissertation, I did what every new PhD does: look for a job. What I found demoralized in ways the dissertation never did.

  • Job boards full of postings that had been filled months ago.
  • "Remote" roles that weren't remotely remote.
  • Daily alert emails with zero relevant listings.
  • Aggregator sites recycling the same expired positions across six different platforms.
  • Premium upsells, premium job boards, premium everything.
  • AI-driven searches that returned absolutely irrelevant positions.

There are amazing human-curated newsletters that list remote jobs, journalism jobs, editorial jobs, writing jobs, marketing jobs, and on and on. What about academic jobs?

I realized that what I was looking for didn't exist. So I created a system to cut through the noise. Like a lit review, but for jobs. After finding plenty of roles that never appeared on job boards, I wondered: do other people need this, too?

Remotely HigherEd is a different kind of academic job board. It sends two emails a week. Every listing is verified as live on the institution's website. Every role is fully remote or hybrid. This isn't a copy/paste from the popular job boards that academics haunt. This is the excavation of the unicorn roles that haven't already been filled.

Text that says "Thank you for your email. The position has been filled."
A real email received after inquiring about a "new" job listing from a popular academic job board.

This is the humanization of the hunt for academic (and scholarly-adjacent) work. No aggregators. No recruiters. No middle-persons. Just one human to another.

Right now, Remotely HigherEd is free or pay-what-you-can. The more people who can pay a little, the more this can grow and remain free or almost-free for all.

We're all broke academics. Let's help each other.