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Other things in my life have needed full attention, so I totally forgot that book number 10 was due to make its way into the world!

A great collab!

This book shows you how to work with the research mess without getting into a mess. I hope people enjoy ❤️

www.routledge.com/Managing-You...

It's one to keep an eye on for sure

Reducing the cost of your digital academic life Before I start this post – a quick announcement. My business partner and pod cohost, Dr Jason Downs, is visiting the UK in late April. If you’d like to meet and chat with him about the …

Reducing the cost of your digital academic life thesiswhisperer.com/2026/01/24/r...

Reducing the cost of your digital academic life Before I start this post – a quick announcement. My business partner and pod cohost, Dr Jason Downs, is visiting the UK in late April. If you’d like to meet and chat with him about the …

Reducing the cost of your digital academic life thesiswhisperer.com/2026/01/24/r...

So @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social and I have SUBMITTED the second edition manuscript to our publishers! And on time.

If you loved How to Fix your Academic Writing Trouble you will love MOAR WRITING TROUBLE 2FAST 2FURIOUS out next year.

If you can’t wait that long, it’s probably in your library ✨📚

Emergency Pod - Welcome to the resistance Calibri! Podcast Episode · The Type Pod · S2, E3 Bonus · 34m

Welcome to the resistance Calibri. Maybe you should wouldn't have been cancelled and replaced by Times New Roman been called Calib-bro?

Listen to learn the history of Calibri, Black Letter type and authoritarianism.

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

Machines are talking about you behind your back For many years, this postcard was taped to my office door: It’s funny because it’s true. The machines really do talk about us behind our backs. Machines talking to machines helped me pa…

Things have been shitty, making it hard to write, but I managed this post and I'm pretty happy with it thesiswhisperer.com/2025/12/11/m...

Machines are talking about you behind your back For many years, this postcard was taped to my office door: It’s funny because it’s true. The machines really do talk about us behind our backs. Machines talking to machines helped me pa…

Things have been shitty, making it hard to write, but I managed this post and I'm pretty happy with it thesiswhisperer.com/2025/12/11/m...

📚 Academia Wrapped 2025 !!!
- Papers downloaded:
- Papers read (subset of above):
- Submissions:
- Desk Rejects:
- Revisions:
- Publications:
- Days with head in hands watching the fall of the U.S. gov:

Monash University are paying back their wage theft bill at last!
But if you might be affected and are wondering how the remediation process will work, @NTEUMonash are hosting an online session to explain all.
Read more and register:
www.nteu.au/News_Article...
#HigherEducation #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Is boredom your academic superpower? (episode 82) YouTube video by On The Reg Pod

Latest episode of On The Reg is now also on YouTube ✅✅✅: is boredom your academic super power? Video version here youtu.be/h0-OdBAme1k?... or on your favourite player via @buzzsprout.bsky.social here onthereg.buzzsprout.com

Call me old-fashioned, but I much prefer doing my research amidst the shimmering glow of lanterns in an old-fashioned library in Prague during a thunderstorm, so I therefore must politely decline your suggestion to “just Google it.”

The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901

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I'd appreciate help circulating this survey, part of our overall work on neurodivergence.

This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines.

You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...

Occasionally people send me books they have published - mostly they are pretty average, but this one was delightful and useful. Recommended! www.amazon.com/Pocket-Guide...

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Research Skills Series: Getting and managing grants - Episode 13 (with Elizabeth Macpherson) - Law at the End of the World In this episode of Law at the End of the World, we kick off our new ‘Research Skills Series’. In this first installment, Liz shares her extensive experience of obtaining and administering research fun...

Our new episode of Law at the End of the World is all about research grants - the wins, the failures, and everything in between. Plus, updates on NZ marine law, Australian EPBC reforms, and the problems with carbon offsets.
Perfect for anyone navigating academic funding (or the curious among you).

Past Inger left me an Easter egg in these page proofs for the new book 😂

In a similar vein, yes

Oh yes - I read Chokepoint Capitalism already (enjoyed it very much). Saw them both speak at ANU too. He does refer back to the earlier work at points in this book. This new book riffs on many ideas, but with a different emphasis

So @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy delivers early in his new book 'Enshittification': The Enshittocene is going into high rotation vocab immediately ✅

Yes, me too

It's been a shitty week - so getting this from past Inger was good. Expect a review soon

UTS Governance Project Survey: A Staff-Led Collaborative Project The UTS Governance Project is an independent, staff-led initiative to strengthen transparency, accountability and participation in how our university is run. Inspired by the ANU Governance Project, ...

Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.

Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Feedback on ANU Governance Project Draft Report The ANU Governance Project Working Group are proud to present the Draft Project Report for community feedback and consultation. The Draft Project Report is available on our website or through THIS LINK. Using a process that has involved deep listening and a participatory and deliberative process across the ANU community, we have compiled a unique and valuable body of evidence that documents what’s wrong with governance at the ANU and charts a way forward to help rebuild trust and to deliver best practice governance. Over 600 ANU staff, students, and stakeholders have participated in this project, and in contributing constructively to the future of ANU. This includes 590 members of the community who participated in our survey, 75 who participated in one-hour small group discussions, and over 40 from across the university who participated in our project workshop. The ANU community told us there a critical need for change: Over 96% of survey respondents and all discussion group participants believe current ANU governance is not fit for purpose and should be reformed. Over 92% of survey respondents and all discussion group participants expressed dissatisfaction with current ANU governance. Over 93% of survey respondents said they were dissatisfied with current practices of transparency at the ANU. Over 93% of survey respondents said they were dissatisfied with accountability frameworks at the ANU. The ANU Community has proposed the following near-term steps forward for a reformed ANU: Council must direct Finance to produce and publish a current budget breakdown. Council must revise and publish selection criteria for Executive positions. Council meetings must immediately be made fully accessible to the community. Academic Board must regularly review and assess the financial decisions of senior executives and Council. Commence senior leadership listening tours with the ANU community. Additional recommendations forwarded by the community are summarised in the full report, including a proposal to co-design legislative reform of the ANU Act with the community. The Working Group invites the ANU community and stakeholders to offer feedback via this form on the draft report by midnight on Tuesday 7 October. This deadline has been extended in order to allow us more time to hear and incorporate community feedback ahead of the release of our final report on Monday 20 October.

ANU colleagues and students - please share this post if you can:

The ANU governance project has extended our deadline to comment on the Draft report to next week - 7 October.

Here's a link to a feedback form, which also contains the link to the draft report:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Exactly - there is a UTS governance group forming in the spirit of our ANU governance group to ask these questions 🙌

Both I think 😮‍💨

Cheers! Always love to visit and chat ❤️

Not currently on my itinerary, but I do have a day free towards the end...