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• Academic Easter Eggs

  4 min read   ·   April 04, 2015

  2015   ·   asshole   cats   Chinese   crack rocks   dirty old man   dogs   easter   easter eggs   Gadaffi   hamsters   Italian   papers   rickrolling   sonic   unacknowledgements   ·   Academia Obscura

• Cars on Campus Rooftops and R2D2 Observatories: 6 awesome college pranks

  4 min read   ·   April 01, 2015

  2015   ·   animals   Caltech   cars   college   flamingos   football   Goose Girl   Harvard   MIT   pranks   sports   Wisconsin   Yale   ·   Academic Humour   Guardian Blog

• The PhD Path Less Travelled: share your story!

  2 min read   ·   March 23, 2015

  2015   ·   Misc.

• 11 things I learned about academia by analysing 14 million RateMyProfessor reviews 

  3 min read   ·   February 16, 2015

  2015   ·   alcohol   clickbait   dental hygiene   elbow patches   gender   hair   listicles   RateMyProfessor   weird   ·   Academia Obscura

• An Academic Guide to Love & Romance - Happy Valentine's Day!

  4 min read   ·   February 14, 2015

  2015   ·   academic publishing   hashtags   heart   loneliness   love   neuroscience   orgasm   Rate My Professor   science   sex   sexology   socks   twitter   Valentine's   ·   Academic Humour   Guardian Blog

• After almost 10 years, progress towards new agreement on high seas

  3 min read   ·   January 26, 2015

  2015   ·   BBNJ   International   Marine Governance

• Academics with Cats Awards: Cats with Computers

  1 min read   ·   January 16, 2015

  2015   ·   cats   ·   Academia Obscura

• Academics with Cats Awards: the results are in!

  2 min read   ·   January 15, 2015

  2015   ·   cats   ·   Academia Obscura

• A Day in the Life of an Academic (with cats)

  3 min read   ·   January 10, 2015

  2015   ·   cats   listicles   ·   Academia Obscura

• 10 Brilliantly Banal Books to Bore Your Bookshelf

  1 min read   ·   January 10, 2015

  2015   ·   Academic Humour   Publications