Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Wishing for a joyous Chinese New Year 2025! May the Year of the Snake bring you immense happiness, prosperity, and countless opportunities.
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Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Wishing for a joyous Chinese New Year 2025! May the Year of the Snake bring you immense happiness, prosperity, and countless opportunities.
Feeling lost or off-track? Reignite your passions with a vision board! Join me this Sunday for a workshop from 9 am to 12 pm CET (1:30 pm to 4:30 pm IST / 4 pm to 7 pm SGT). Discover clarity and direction for the year ahead. Enroll now: https://buff.ly/3W5Zbsr. #VisionBoard #IntentionalLiving
11.01.2025 03:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What will you do to embrace "new year, new you"? Discover your purpose and manifest change. Join our vision board workshop for reflection and self-discovery. Align actions with intentions to gain clarity. Invest in yourself this Sunday, 9-12 CET. Sign up here: https://buff.ly/3W5Zbsr #VisionBoard
09.01.2025 07:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Find your compass
@mehtatext will guide you through a fabulous 3-hour session of self discovery and inquiry on Jan 12.
Vision Board Workshop, 12 Jan, 9am-12pm CET.
Start the year by uncovering your true desires and creating a visual guide and reminder for a fulfilling year. Participants called it โtherapeutic, uplifting,โ and a โrevelation.โ Join me for this once-a-year journey to clarity and purpose.
Sign up now!
Find your compass
@mehtatext will guide you through a fabulous 3-hour session of self discovery and inquiry on Jan 12.
Vision Board Workshop, 12 Jan, 9am-12pm CET.
Start the year by uncovering your true desires and creating a visual guide and reminder for a fulfilling year. Participants called it โtherapeutic, uplifting,โ and a โrevelation.โ Join me for this once-a-year journey to clarity and purpose.
Sign up now!
@juliencayla and @mehtatext in pink
@juliencayla and @mehtatext in blue and white
Together in life and work, 22 years and counting!
Assoc Prof Julien Cayla and I are running a 6-week workshop to teach you how to write a paper for top tier business journals - marketing, management, IS, accounting. 
For doctoral students and ECRs. Starts 16 January. Online. Limited spots. Enrol.
#Academicsky
11.11.2024 04:31 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0November is #AcWriMo! #Academics! Join me for a FREE program to help you boost your word count this month. 3x weekly Zoom-Room writing collective, a platform to track your word count, a template to help you reflect on your writing, newsletters and more! mehtatext.com/coursesandworkshops #edusky #phd
11.11.2024 04:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0also, not exactly nanowrimo and not exactly acwrimo, but like, book writing month - get the book proposal written and the chapter on clarity.
02.11.2023 07:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The most valued thing in #academia? A safe, non-judgemental space to explore your ideas, away from the hyper-critical eyes of peers, colleagues and co-authors. Can your editor support you in your #writing AND thinking? Read how I do it: mehtatext.com/blog/difficu... #AcWri #academicwriting
02.11.2023 07:42 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Prof Doug Hesse spoke this morning about #Academicwriting and #ChatGPT. The main takeaway: give students specific research-oriented subjects for writing assignments + get them to work WITH #AI, while documenting it ALL. As for writing #grants: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 
Have you used AI yet?
I love Microsoft Word. A look at how it has changed our world, subtly.
26.10.2023 00:57 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We all knew it all along - governments and banker-wankers are all in it together. Nothing changes. 
Cap on bankers' bonuses to be scrapped www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines... #greed #financialcrisis #banking
Nope, not the same at all. I talk about revising as moving the furniture & editing as decorating with books/knickknacks. You can't/shouldn't decorate if you don't have the furniture where you want/need it. #AcademicSky #AcWri
18.10.2023 14:42 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Kill your darlings! Ezra Poundโs advice still holds!
20.10.2023 04:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0When will my students (doctoral and faculty) stop being scared to write in plain English? When they see established names in their field writing in plain English. #Academics, please, if you write for an audience of more than 3, then perhaps more than 3 will read it. #courage #AcWri #academicwriting
20.10.2023 03:55 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Since you didnโt ask: podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/e...
17.10.2023 05:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Living up to my non reputation as a good post colonial subject, Iโve been listening to a fantastic podcast called Empire by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand. 
Listen and weep.
#AcWri #AcademicWriting #Edibuddies #Amediting - i'm here, i'm excited, and i think there should be one universal style guide. because let's stop wasting our life on formatting. i'll die on this hill.
16.10.2023 06:47 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0