after transcribing text in 18th century German dialect for a month, I have lost all capacity for detecting whether or not something in modern German is spelled correctly or not.

#dialect #AcademicWoes #histodon #AcademicChatter

For heaven’s sake, SOMEone remind me not to apply for another grant for at least 5 years 😭

I have GOT to stop doing this to myself

#academicchatter #academia #academicwoes @academicchatter #OwnWorstEnemy

@thesiswhisperer

Good job on making the jump. There's lots of guides on how to get started but one easy thing is doing a pinned post and writing a #Introduction You can have up to 5 of them. All posts are editable! 😀

Also, there's no freetext search so you need # to connect, maybe this post will get you started! 😀

#IngerMewburn #Academic #Academia #AcademicWoes #AcademicWriting #PhD #students #PhDStudents #researcherDev #AustralianNationalUniversity #thesisWhisperer

Friday night rant:

Is it a universal truth that academic departmental research infrastructure is designed to be almost completely opaque, whilst simultaneously having as many layers of bureaucracy as possible?

#academia
#universitylife
#academicwoes
#researchers
#AcademicTooting
#academicmastodons
#sciencemasto

So to attend the session I am a part of at the conference i am speaking at remotely I have to get up at 4am

it's in Australia.

#Academia #AcademicWoes #Australia