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Whereas concerns in the past largely centered around postdocs’ difficulty getting faculty positions, “now, academe is really worried about the low applicant pool,” she says.

Because “The Laughter” is not just any book from such a perspective — it’s a no-holds-barred comic achievement that lambastes the power structures keeping men like Oliver skulking the halls of academe.

It said the “unspeakable violence against students is an assault on the sanctity of education, academe, and fundamental human rights.”

Keegin, a philosophy student at Tulane University, argues that, confronted with “the slow slide of academe into oblivion,” scholars — especially in humanities departments, which are losing undergraduates, prestige, jobs and funding — “desperately grasp for relevance.”

Haustein suggests, though, that scientists consider strategically presenting metrics from Twitter or other social media to highlight papers that mattered to audiences outside of academe.