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"I don’t think of [blank pages] – or of new projects – they all pile in on top of each other…" – @ProfMarysiaZed
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"The pressure you – I, we – feel isn’t because you’re not doing enough. We’re feeling this pressure because academia as a business is broken."
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"And this would be my tip for you today, on how to navigate academia: have a plan to get out, even if you never use it."
Read more of my musings on how to navigate academia (ah, hindsight is a marvellous thing) 👉 lttr.ai/AW7sy
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"Writing is only hard because I know I won’t want to stop once I begin." – @shambhawi_t
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No US President has ever given birth so explain to me why suddenly we think that’s necessary
Dr Cait Hamilton | Hamilton Editorial retweeted
What PhD examiners expect from you...
ALT Table 1 from Hodgson, D. (2020). Helping doctoral students understand PhD thesis examination expectations: A framework and a tool for supervision. Active Learning in Higher Education, 21(1), 51-63. DOI: 10.1177/1469787417742020
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Lots of amazing folks have just started new faculty jobs, and it's prompted me to reflect on the last 5 years of my TT experience. So here are 15 lessons I wish I'd learned earlier as an academic:
"I don’t write now because I can write but because I cannot do without writing." – @swatipash
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"I would like my words to find as many homes and friends as they can." - Q Manivannan
Read more of Q's gorgeous reflections 👉 lttr.ai/AUgBc
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"Even in the midst of deep writing, I am still taking walks, peering at wrens in shrubs, and searching for sea glass, often in company." – @shambhawi_t
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"We have this vision of our brains coming up with ideas that our fingers then type out, and that This Is Writing." (And, spoiler alert, this is not how most people – anyone? – writes.)
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"I do see myself as a writer – a chaotic one, but a writer, nonetheless." - Lucy Hall
Lucy Hall: the (academic) writer ▸ lttr.ai/ALF2B
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"The hardest part of writing is making space for it, and taking that space seriously." – @marieb_atelier
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"I continue to [write] because I enjoy it and because there is immense satisfaction that comes from writing something that is meaningful and important to me." – Will Clapton
Love this! More from Will here 👉 lttr.ai/AS7Hr
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"No matter how much writing I do, each time I start a chapter, I text my close friends to say that I don’t think I know how to write a sentence." – @shambhawi_t
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"I have always written and wanted to write." - Megan MacKenzie
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"I often write when I can’t stand to not write any more." – @shambhawi_t
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"I still live in the hope that we’re just using the wrong pen or that the words will flow as long as we begin writing precisely at 1.17 pm every third day."
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"Editing I kind of like – that’s when I get to really be close to words… so it’s not really ‘editing’ in the traditional sense – it’s just more writing…" – @ProfMarysiaZed
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