When a 1970s paper has stolen your new idea

'Article Reviewed' oil on canvas, 2024

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Twitter remains unrivalled as a space for intellectual academic exchange

American academic conferences:

8:15-10:00: Panel A
10:30-12:15: Panel B
13:45-15:30: Panel C
16:00-17:45: Panel D

European academic conferences:

'As Smith argues (2009: 1)*...'

* I swear to God I read more than one page

How productive you imagine everyone else is when you're struggling to write:

Great list, but definitely add Bram Stoker’s Dracula for a “fun” classic.

Romance, evil, mysticism, science, religion, sexuality, modernity - it’s got it all! And a super readable epistolary style!

In My Struggle to Make the Article Shorter, I Made It Much Longer, an Academic Journey

Me: 'I'd like to copy and paste from this pdf please'

Adobe Acrobat: 'no worries, I took the liberty of stacking each word on top of each other in a vertical column, adding mysterious symbols, and removing every instance of the letter 't''

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All I’m saying is academics talk a lot about “citing contemporary sources” for a bunch of people using 15 year old professional headshots

4:45pm…why not treat yourself and start work on the thing you meant to do today

who are we?
ACADEMICS!
and what do we do?
DOWNLOAD ARTICLES!
and then what do we do?
DOWNLOAD ARTICLES!

Academics: “I’d love a permanent position”

Universities: “best I can offer is fetal position”

Be extremely careful before asking a loved one to critique your writing, because they actually might do it rather than tearfully praising your rare intellect

Academics to students: “carefully structure your research”

Academics to themselves: “these are my 56 browser windows and 900 tabs, organised according to my neurosis”

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Blackthorne: Reviewer One wants me to expand my case study. Reviewer two wants it replaced with a different case study. And reviewer three wants no case study. What the hell am I supposed to do?!

Mariko: the Anjin thanks the reviewers for their helpful feedback