Academia Obscura
Academia Obscura — the hidden silly side of higher education. Blog, book (Unbound), and ongoing cabinet of academic curiosities by Glen Wright.
If you think the groves of academe are all stuffiness, elbow patches and greying old men… think again. Academia Obscura is an irreverent glimpse inside the ivory tower, exposing the eccentric and slightly unhinged world of university life.
A cabinet of academic curiosities: odd papers, obscure rituals, and the moments where higher education gently collapses under its own weight. Take a trip through the spectrum of academic oddities and unearth the Easter eggs buried in peer reviewed papers, the weird and wonderful world of scholarly social media, and rats in underpants.
Born as a blog in 2014, later a book with Unbound, still a love letter to curiosity taken too far. Silly, not stupid.