Girl, InterruPh.D 🧿 (dr emma seaber)

My favourite fantasy series is Law and Order SVU

Are you "suffering from burnout" or is it more like ... sparkling ennui?

(it's perfectly okay to wish you were paid more or feel bored at work or find your colleagues tiresome or infuriating. AND not every emotion has to be CATACLYSMIC)

I try really hard to keep my commitments, and to turn around requested reviews very quickly (usually within a few days). As far as I know, so do most people. I have no idea where the bottleneck is but it's not in MY house.

P.S. I am available for peer reviews ;-)

August 27: I email Editor asking for update, expressing concern that the deadline "by September" is now just 2 working days away and may now be unrealistic...

I don't know if this is an author problem or a journal problem or an editor problem or what, but it's definitely not a *reviewer* problem.

[*crickets for several weeks*]

August 11: I email Editor asking again for article ETA. (I'm well aware August goes more quickly than it seems.)

August 14: Editor replies, it’s “practically ready”, will be available “in the coming week”.

[*crickets*]

"Why does peer review take so long??"

July 14: Editor emails me requesting peer review “in the coming weeks”
I reply accepting, asking for article ETA so I can plan my summer commitments
July 21: Editor simply says they need it “completed by September”. No problem, I can do that. I confirm.

the worst part is that this would almost certainly work really well, because we are sad, fragile humans whose careers are built entirely on external validation

Just 8 working days left at this job I love and I feel very sad

Ooh, a sequel to Bunny!

"As a father of daughters..." Yeah, you know who else was a father of daughters????

Former Superman actor Dean Cain reveals he’s becoming an Ice agent to support Trump’s mass deportation agenda The actor will be sworn in ‘ASAP’ amid the federal agency’s recruitment drive and unprecedented immigration raids that have sparked protest across the US

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I always preferred Jimmy anyway.

That I don't want to go? That it was never my choice? That it's not me, it's them? That I'd stay if they wanted me to? That I thought they liked me? That I'm the saddest dumpee in the whole wide world????

Sad!!!!

Less than 4 weeks till my FTC ends and I have received an email from HR telling me they're "sorry to hear [I'm] leaving" and they're "always keen to understand why colleagues decide to leave".

What to say to that?????

The Beautiful South are really underrated in my opinion. They only have like one shit song.

what English/humanities postdoc/early career funding pots are available when you're more than three years out from your PhD and have been doing FTC teaching replacement posts and are now facing the abyss?

I'm too old for BA and Leverhulme... 🙃💀🙃💀🙃💀

how long till hadl*y fre*man uses the fact that she was anorexic once as the pretext for some bullshit take on the deliberate starvation of Gazans

(i guess it'll be several months yet because she's famously slow off the mark and her bad takes are all pitifully tepid, too)

A New York Times story titled "These Americans Went Looking for the Britain Found Onscreen. They Found a Different Story". The subheading reads, in part, "they moved across the Atlantic with visions of Jane Austen and Merchant Ivory. The reality was a little less dreamy." There is a photograph of a chubby tourist in her 40s dressed in a bonnet and empire-line white dress.

this is like buying a great Dane because you want a dog who can make you 3 feet tall club sandwiches.

Freud Museum faces call for inquiry over bullying and board misconduct claims Writers and academics urge charities regulator to investigate ‘serious issues’ with London institution

👀👀👀👀 www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

I love Mark Heap!

these pathetic incel London trees, street harassing me with their useless pollen like so many Miggses

This looks great!

And zero is also singular, when the noun is abstract/uncountable (zero insight, zero food, zero emotion).

I am sad

people who pronounce it "nucular" need to stop presenting news podcasts

This is BS.

I ran for office in a red state and won with 80% of the vote. I regularly talk about my identity when I knock doors. The key is to do so a way that connects to other issues (e.g. being trans shapes how I think about ALL healthcare access, threats to education, etc.).

It's that simple.

Explain your @

In the erstwhile BBC2 series Look Around You, Mark Heap plays a beleaguered inventor called Leonard Hatred.

+ if I can call "local interest in the weather" my field I would add:

London is not rainy. London is one of the least rainy cities in Europe + is MUCH less rainy than many places not at all associated with rain. I have needed an umbrella maybe once in the last yr (I made do with a copy of CItyAM).

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

"Performative" (Butler/Austin) doesn't mean something (statement, action, identity) is fake, pretend, showing off, artificial, inauthentic, false, factitious or merely lip service.

Opinions welcome!

hardly slept last night because I couldn't stop thinking about what c20th literary figure could beat sylvia plath in a fight-fight