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• The Second Annual Academics with Cats Awards!

  3 min read   ·   November 03, 2015

  2015   ·   academics with cats   animals   book   cats   prizes   ·   Misc.

• Still. Not. Significant.

  11 min read   ·   October 05, 2015

  2015   ·   p values   p=0.05   significance   statistical significance   statistics   ·   Academic Humour   Adjuncts (guest posts)

• A New Academic Year Begins... Bring on the Ig Nobels!

  3 min read   ·   September 28, 2015

  2015   ·   chickens   dinosaurs   eggs   Huh?   Ig Nobels   kissing   linguistics   Oxford Comma   penguins   punctuation   twitter   ·   Academic Humour   Crazy Research   Misc.

• 12 Things I Learned About Academia from Google Suggestions

  2 min read   ·   September 18, 2015

  2015   ·   funny   google   internet   stereotypes   suggestions   ·   Academia Obscura

• 10 Quite Useful Tools for Academics

  8 min read   ·   September 14, 2015

  2015   ·   Anti-Social   Coach.me   Crashplan   Drive   Dropbox   evernote   Freedom   hard drives   mendeley   productivity   Scrivener   tools   Trello   twitter   Unroll.me   useful   writing   zotero   ·   Surprisingly Helpful

• 11 Essential Hashtags for Academics

  6 min read   ·   September 07, 2015

  2015   ·   beer   cats   hashtags   PhD   twitter   ·   Surprisingly Helpful

• What PhD Life is Really Like

  9 min read   ·   August 31, 2015

  2015   ·   corrections   Council Tax   dentist   endnote   mendeley   PhD   students   undergrads   zotero   ·   Academic Humour   Adjuncts (guest posts)

• The Workaholic and Academia: in defense of #AcaDowntime

  8 min read   ·   July 31, 2015

  2015   ·   #AcaDowntime   family   feminism   mental health   privilege   self-care   work-life balance   workaholism   ·   Adjuncts (guest posts)   Surprisingly Helpful

• The Portrayal of Academics in Kids Books - a chat with Melissa Terras

  5 min read   ·   July 24, 2015

  2015   ·   cartoons   digitisation   illustrations   interviews   kids books   libraries   side projects   stereotypes   ·   Crazy Research

• Male, Mad and Muddleheaded! The portrayal of academics in kids books

  15 min read   ·   July 24, 2015

  2015   ·   children   digitisation   kids books   libraries   side projects   ·   Crazy Research