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I am currently away from the office and have intermittent access to email. If your email is not urgent I will in all likelihood still reply within 10 minutes due to ineffective self-regulation and an inability to maintain work-life balance.

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I WILL ACCOMPLISH MY WRITING GOALS THIS SEMESTER ⓘ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱

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The brevity formerly necessitated by the 140 character limit on Twitter served as a hallmark of the platform in mandating terse yet cogent communiques by way of edited cognition and enforced selectivity thus accelerating the connectivity often foregone in online discourse... 1/78

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Active voice: I love your writing Passive voice: Your writing is loved Passive-aggressive voice: I love how you think you can accomplish all your writing goals this summer Aggressive-aggressive voice: How’s your writing going so far this summer

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6 years

How to find manuscript typos: 1. Click submit

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6 years

Active voice: I love your blog Passive voice: Your blog is loved Passive-aggressive voice: I love how you have time to write a blog

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2 years

if you’re worried about billionaires owning publically sourced content on social media wait until you hear about academic publishing

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7 years

Choose a discipline you love and you'll never work a day in your life likely because there are no jobs in your field.

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4 years

ACADEMIA IS A MERITOCRACY ⓘ 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆

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Active voice: I love your writing Passive voice: Your writing is loved Passive-aggressive voice: I love how you sincerely believe you will accomplish all of your writing goals over the winter break

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5 years

Being an academic is basically just saying “I‘ll finally get that paper written this summer” until you die

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7 years

My writing process: 1. Procrastinating about writing 2. Thinking about writing 3. Reading about writing 4. Writing about writing 5. Netflix

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5 years

“I’ll Finish it in the Hotel Room after Arriving at the Conference the Night Before: An Autoethnographic Interrogation of Procrastination and Spectacular Time Misestimation in the Academy” #OverlyHonestPaperTitles

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Am I getting writing done? No. But am I keeping up with readings and emails? No. But am I at least not inducing unnecessary anxiety by comparing myself to others who are highly productive and thriving during the pandemic? Also no.

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that feeling when you take a 10 minute break from writing and it accidentally lasts eight months

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Academic Writing Genres: First draft: Horror Abstract: Action thriller Hypothesis section: Fantasy Results section: Tragedy Limitations section: True crime Implications section: Satire Grant application: Science fiction

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A doctoral student and their advisor walk into a bar. The advisor orders a rough draft and they sit in awkward silence for eight months.

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The best way to find manuscript typos is to click submit.

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A manuscript is never finished, only submitted.

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Active voice: I love your blog Passive voice: Your blog is loved Passive-aggressive voice: I love how you have time to write a blog

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6 years

Retweets are not endorsements. They are performative engagement markers that intentionally confound direct alignment with ironic promotion, ambivalent reflection, or personal brand management so as to reveal all or nothing of one’s authentic perception depending on the observer.

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Active voice: I loved your book Passive voice: Your book was loved Passive-aggressive voice: I love how you felt the need to write a book

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6 years

If you can't say anything nice¹ _____ ¹Say it in a footnote.

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6 years

me at any conference session outside my subdiscipline

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7 years

Academic wishlist 10. Fewer committees 9. More reading 8. Less grading 7. More writing 6. Fewer forgotten attachments 5. More Oxford commas 4. Less rejection 3. More acceptance with minor revisions 2. Less replying to the entire listserv yes Sheila I’m talking to you 1. More pens

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that feeling when you take a 10 minute writing break and it accidentally lasts six months

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A good dissertation is a done dissertation. A great dissertation is a published dissertation. A perfect dissertation is neither.

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We’re all just two drinks away from being interdisciplinary

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Therapist: And what do we do when we feel guilty about not finishing old manuscripts Me: Agree to multiple new conference papers as a form of denial replacing guilt with anxiety through overcommitment Therapist: No

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┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲house ▔▏┗┛▕▔ we ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ single space after periods because this isn’t the 1980s when typewriters and monospace fonts warranted an additional space for readability ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔

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4 years

Head nodders are the heroes of modern academia

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7 years

footnote goals | via @tedgioia

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Me: This is the last time I procrastinate on writing Narrator: It was not

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6 years

scary

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Me (before coffee): “Academia is a publishing-industrial complex fuelled by status cues and free labour to create terminological proliferation, wheel reinvention, and self-preservative avoidance of relevance” Me (after coffee): “Don’t get me wrong I love what I do”

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3 years

Best,

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7 years

I am away from the office and checking email intermittently. If your email is not urgent, I’ll probably still reply. I have a problem.

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6 years

Before one sends the syllabus one must first (•_•) <) )╯write / \ \(•_•) ( (> the / \ (•_•) <) )> syllabus / \

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Academic social media Google Scholar: I am my h-index ResearchGate: Give pdfs back pls Academia. edu: Give time back pls Instagram: My desk & wine glass y’all Snapchat: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ LinkedIn: Low key leaving my uni Facebook: Everything is great mom Twitter: Burn it all down

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4 years

A linguist dies. At the funeral, a fellow academic asks the wife, “Do you mind if I say a word?” She nods. He stands and says “Plethora”, and immediately sits down. She says, tearfully, “That means a lot.” Contributor: @cd_fuller

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How it started How it’s going (in prep, 2018) (in prep, 2021)

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coauthor goals

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Obviously Co-authoring a paper. #AcademicChatter #phdchat

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Academic freedom is the freedom to humblebrag an inflated estimate of the hours per week you engage in academic tasks thereby tacitly contributing to the valourization of overwork, overcommitment, and overt exploitation of intrinsic motivation in academic employment.

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4 years

“It’s not a paywall, it’s knowledge distancing“- Elsevier

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7 years

Ideal writing process: 1. Plan, strategize, proximal goals 2. Time management, self-monitoring, incremental progress 3. Revise, review, revise again 4. Writing goals accomplished 5. Self-respect and accolades Actual writing process: 1. Netflix 2. Guilt

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3 years

academia is wild because one day you get behind on writing and then you stay that way your entire career

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4 years

If I throw a manuscript into the forest did I just submit it to nature Contributor: Alexander Lin [FB]

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5 years

You can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead, and lifeless hands.

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Active voice: I will write Passive voice: Writing will be done Passive-aggressive voice: I love how you always say you'll write but never do

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Master’s —> PhD —> Adjunct

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Let’s be honest: we are all two drinks away from being interdisciplinary.

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true

Bryan Gaensler 📡🧲

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Research is spending 6 hours reading 35 papers, so you can write one sentence containing 2 references.

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happy social construction of time

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“Actually, it’s Dr.” - Not a male academic

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we’re all just works in progress hoping for acceptance with minor revisions

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we now go live to current PhDs entering the academic job market

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A good dissertation is a done dissertation. A great dissertation is a published dissertation. A perfect dissertation is neither.

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happy social construction of time

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#AcademicHalloween | via @claranellist

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Manuscript in preparation (2̶0̶1̶8̶2019)

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📂Manuscripts └📂In Preparation └📂Final-Final 2017 └📂Final Edits 2015 └📂Near Final 2008 └ whyicry.doc

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4 years

“Read the syllabus” - @SnoopDogg

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It’s not academic writing procrastination. It’s a preemptive withholding of linguistic capital until such time as anxiety elicited by nonnegotiable deadlines exceeds deep-seated doubt as to the necessity of the eventual publication.

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courtesy of the @NewYorker

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I am currently out of the office but will nonetheless reply immediately due to self-regulation inefficiency & a profound inability to say no

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6 years

There are two types of people: those who use the Oxford comma, those who don't and those who should

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should I ask my question | courtesy of @DaniRabaiotti

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A manuscript is never finished, only submitted.

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Reviewer 2 walks into a bar complaining immediately of this not being the joke they would have written.

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Keep your friends close, and your personal shame over failing to meet overly ambitious summer writing goals closer.

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When you take a 10 minute writing break and it accidentally lasts six months

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“These are not the parents I would have chosen.” - Reviewer 2

Björn Schumacher

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A reviewer is born

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via @upmicblog

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Reviewer 2 and my mom raise a lot of good points about my future in academia

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Me: **Reads email request on a Friday** My brain: Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Me: “No problem I’ll do it by Monday”

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The importance of stupidity in scientific research |

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To err is human. To err repeatedly is research.

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Active voice: Covid delayed my research Passive voice: My research was delayed by Covid Passive-aggressive voice: It’s so great how you did even more research during Covid

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manuscript in progress (2̶0̶1̶9̶2020)

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just wondering if you had time to grab a coffee to discuss how busy we all are

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Manuscript in preparation (2̶0̶1̶7̶2018)

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Me: It’s beginning to look a lot like... My brain: Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Don't say it Me: ... I will fail to meet overly ambitious fall writing goals

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You can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead, and lifeless hands.

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manuscript in progress (2̶0̶1̶9̶2021)

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Write drunk. Edit sober. Revise and resubmit with an explicit recognition of the academic publishing industry as a parasitic drain on the curiosity and scholarly integrity otherwise associated with post-secondary career pursuits.

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I don’t procrastinate. I proactively accumulate guilt-contingent motivation.

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Zoom teaching moment

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when theorists design multiple choice questions

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Two academics walk into a bar. They bring their own drinks, pay $5000, and leave feeling proud and ashamed of propagating a massively profitable academic publishing industry increasingly fuelled by exorbitant article processing fees under the guise of open scholarship ideals.

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accurate