Happy new year my fellow academics! New year new start! That means close all your tabs. NOW. If you really needed them you'll find them again.

Excuse me Google but what us up with your AI??

I mean If Mother Nature wants me to start my weekend early who am I to say no? (in all seriousness though the rains in Sydney be cray everyone stay safe)

Join us for the first AusCADASIL online webinar at 6pm on Wed 29 January, hosted by CHeBA and the HNE Health. National experts will explore the latest research on CADASIL, a rare genetic condition often under-investigated. 🔗bit.ly/4jq9otF UNSW Medicine & Health Perminder Sachdev

Nothing like working for weeks on an idea for a conference submission, getting null findings and giving up the night before the deadline, and then getting inspiration the next morning and fixing it and submitting to co-authors 17 hours to submission deadline hoping they respond

I see openings and ads for PhD positions everywhere but barely anything for postdocs. Almost makes me want to do another PhD just for the paycheck.

Postdoc walking away from a meeting after making a throwaway comment that becomes a full fledged project idea that the RAs have to work on

Been stuck in commute for almost 2 hours now. Shouldve known better than to arrange work meetings on a Friday with storms and industrial actions. Ain't nothing getting done today. #sydneytrains

Can't decide if i need coffee or alcohol to write this grant

Hanging this up in my office as the patron saint of women in academia

Whoever made that feature in Outlook where it reminds you to attach something to your email if you mentioned an attachment but forgot to actually attach anything, may Carl Sagan bless you and the next seven generations of your family

just got the call. fired. i was the DEI coordinator at my lab. i was responsible for making the mice transgender. (this is a joke sorry work mutuals)

Dissertation by Dr Rachel Los not only includes acknowledgements, but also .. anti-acknowledgements. delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a-n…

Just told my non-academic friends that "I'm an apology" for hanging out this weekend and they were so confused about what I meant. I need to touch some grass soon.

#WhiteLotus

VasCog 2025 conference has been announced! Calling all researchers with work in vascular cognitive impairment and vascular dementia. Call for abstracts will open soon so stay tuned! Follow VasCog for more details and updates as they arrive. #VasCog2025

Me on a Monday morning nine minutes after clocking in and checking my emails

Was in a Teams meeting and one senior academic found a new background and they were raving about how pretty it is and I'm like *squints* "Haha is that from Minecraft?" and they look at me like I'm nuts? Like bro look at the picture your mountains are voxelated lmao it's cute wdym

Students when the marking rubric I was given doesn't let me give them 100% because "that's technically impossible"

I've seen so many dank memes from Australian Labor social accounts that I fear it's permanently shifted my sense of humor. From now on nothing will be funny to me unless it's been explicitly authorized by P. Erickson ALP Canberra