Academia Obscura
The hidden silly side of higher education
Academia Obscura is a playful excavation of the stranger, sillier, and often unintentionally hilarious corners of academic life.
Born as a long-running blog and later a book, it collects curious research, baffling studies, and the moments where higher education collapses under its own weight. It is a love letter to curiosity taken too far: knowledge production is often weird, occasionally wonderful, and never quite as tidy as it pretends to be.
The dedicated site is at academiaobscura.com.
The Book
Academia Obscura: The Hidden Silly Side of Higher Education was published by Unbound (2018).