The Argument The Empirics

Academic LinkedIn: 'Thrilled and proud to have completed my 9th book; just in time for my new promotion!'

Academic Twitter: 'anyone know how to finish a sentence?'

Downloading the article in the footnote of the article you downloaded in the footnote of the article you downloaded

Critical damage

Google Scholar alert: “you were cited in this recent article”

Premium Google Scholar alert: “you should have been, but weren’t, cited in this recent article”

'AI tools like Lavender, Gospel and Fire Factory...became ... a digital check-in-the-box used to channel the outwardly aimed rage of the Israeli masses. In so doing, they became an accelerant for Israel’s collective revenge against Gaza’s civilian population.'

Writing is like having a baby. Anyway, meet my draft, he's 96 months old

Can’t talk, new deadline just hit

When a 1970s paper has stolen your new idea

We will hear from fantastic speakers: Peggy Hicks,
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Twitter remains unrivalled as a space for intellectual academic exchange

American academic conferences:

8:15-10:00: Panel A
10:30-12:15: Panel B
13:45-15:30: Panel C
16:00-17:45: Panel D

European academic conferences:

'As Smith argues (2009: 1)*...'

* I swear to God I read more than one page

How productive you imagine everyone else is when you're struggling to write:

Great list, but definitely add Bram Stoker’s Dracula for a “fun” classic.

Romance, evil, mysticism, science, religion, sexuality, modernity - it’s got it all! And a super readable epistolary style!

In My Struggle to Make the Article Shorter, I Made It Much Longer, an Academic Journey

Me: 'I'd like to copy and paste from this pdf please'

Adobe Acrobat: 'no worries, I took the liberty of stacking each word on top of each other in a vertical column, adding mysterious symbols, and removing every instance of the letter 't''

God tier recommendation letter

All I’m saying is academics talk a lot about “citing contemporary sources” for a bunch of people using 15 year old professional headshots