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Jayaprakash

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2 years

Who calls it ontology of grief and not Dard-E-discourse.

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@ghostpnctuation Interesting! I borrowed a copy of the book from my professor who was super reluctant to lend me the book because it was a really old copy. Later I bought two copies online, one for myself another for the library. He was thrilled to see this.

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Dear authors who have published with international presses, would you be dissapointed if I tell you I have actually downloaded a free pdf copy of your books and got them printed in a local print shop for personal use? Guilty, but sorry, cannot afford them even with 50% discount.

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Will I ever be able to fly to conferences at beautiful international locations again to present my 8 minutes substandard papers? Only time will tell.😬

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3 years

If we stop centering the US in academic research for a moment, my ethnography in small towns of Odisha shows that intimate male friendship is only thriving and nothing is killing it. If you commision me I may write a piece on it. 😁

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I just submitted this huge fellowship application and cannot stop thinking of how kindness in academia really goes a long way. I could not even think of applying for this one a few months ago, but then a very kind academic I barely knew generously offered all the help.

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I miss collecting useless tote bags from conferences and giving them to my over excited mom who use them to carry vegetables from the market.

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Undergraduate and grad students in India who are experiencing difficulties with work and deadlines, pls reach out to me. I can help you with assignments and writings. Happy to read your work and offer feedback Discipline: Sociology, Anthropology. Literary and cultural studies

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3 years

You know what kills sports in India? Tuition after school.

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2 years

I wrote my thesis through the pandemic. I am so relieved that j submitted and graduated. It's so exhausting and I am not sure if I can do this now. So sending love,hugs and solidarity to anyone who is writing now.

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3 years

I don't understand White people.

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3 years

So a friend of mine who has a PhD in Literary studies texted me today that she got published in a Scopus indexed and UGC enlisted journal. It literally took me five minutes to find out that it was a predatory journal. I didn't have the heart to tell her but has to break the news.

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2 years

@professor_dave So sorry. Diversity and inclusion are buzz words in many spaces including academia. Also rightly siad by you these activities are looked as merely checking the boxes. Academia needs to do better.

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2 years

Friends, I might have a major career announcement to make. This has been an absolutely fantastic beginning to a equally fabulous month. Cannot wait to share more, soonest. 🧿🥰

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3 years

A Bahujan friend who just finished their PhD from IIT has excellent publications with more than 200 citations. They cannot apply for SOME of the special recruitment at IITs and IIMs because they do not have first class in class 10th. This defeats the purpose.

Rohit Bhatia

@BhatiaRohit10

3 years

So, 130 papers, 5000 citations, H-index 39, funding of nearly $ 5000000, three prestigious international fellowships are not enough to get an interview call at iits cause you do not have 1st division in masters. We won't attract talent back with this kind of approach.

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An academic I admire a lot just called my writing unpretentious. That's a good thing, right?

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2 years

How are academic institutions in India still charging an application fee for an Assistant professor position? Have some shame. This is just exploitative.

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2 years

Academics who do podcasts are doing god's work. It feels great to be able to listen to hosts asking meaningful and engaging questions while guests telling the stories of their works in their own voices with occasional silence, pauses and giggles. Intellectually intimate chats!

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2 years

Super excited about Monday!! Cannot wait to share my work and interact with brilliant folks at Anthropology department.

Paras Arora

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2 years

@ActuallyyJP is inaugurating our anthropology brownbag series on care, queerness, & disability with this very promising talk! Open to everyone via zoom! Write at siobhan.ellis @stanford .edu to receive the link. #AnthroTwitter #MedAnthro #QueerStudies

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Friends who are writing today, you are incredibly brave to be sitting in front of that blank document trying your best. Solidarity!

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2 years

Ending the day on a happy note. Received a very kind email from someone I greatly admire. They told me that they have not only cited 2 of my papers in their forthcoming book, but also teaching my writings this semester. I live for such kindness in an otherwise gloomy time. ❤️✨

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2 years

My first goal as an Asst prof is to design a course Anthropology of popular culture with a special focus on Srk. Inshallah soon.

Raja Sen

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2 years

30 years of Shah Rukh Khan. Congratulations to us all.

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Interesting! My PhD research shows that single young gay men from small towns are very ambivalent about city as queer utopia. Some of them who have migrated to bigger cities have eventually come back to small towns to marry women and to look after the older adults in the family.

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So many young people move to bigger cities thinking they can be someone else there. It takes time to realise you are always the same person, no matter what the city.

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3 years

@loveofcinemasf8 Andaz apna apna. I still don't understand what's the big deal. Why do people laugh at over the top acting and lots and lots of misogyny?

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3 years

Why do we sense an anxiety among senior White academics re: SV case. It's okay not to be able to contribute anything substantial to this conversation for now.

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I want apply for n number of jobs and do an ethnography of academic job interviews. Then publish papers and include them in my cv when I go for the next. 😁😁

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3 years

Friends! We are building our library and buying books. Kind people on twitter, please suggest BOOKS on 'Disability and Care Work'. Also generally, MONOGRAPHS and EDITED VOLUMES on 'researching disability in the South Asian contexts'🙏🏾 Thank you so much fr considering this request

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8189 words later the book chapter is finally in. Friends, please clap for me. ✨

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In grad school we don't say 'I love you', we say 'let me know if you need another pair of eyes to look at your draft' and I think that's beautiful. #AcademicChatter

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4 years

“What’s your major?” “Sexuality studies” *Long awkward silence* *I have gotten used to it* @AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

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Jayaprakash

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2 years

First invited in person lecture went well- so heartening to see young brilliant students engaging in a conversation around law, queerness, marriage and kinship. Our future is in safe hands. 😄

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3 years

@pykelets Some time they are honoured and also have the rare privilege.😂

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@PoojaMarwaha_ Thanks for asking Pooja. I will probably take a picture and tweet about it. And spend hours on my phone looking for matches. Lol

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Friends, I had a great time writing about queering kinship and reproduction in the movie #SuperDeluxe for @TheSocReview . Also, if you want me to share a pdf copy for better reading/listening, please let me know. Happy to share a copy. ✨ #TSRfilmTV

‘Be a man or be a woman, just be with us’: Queering Kinship and Reproduction in Super Deluxe (2019)

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Wow! Thank you so much everyone for this encouragement. Those of you who don't know me, I recently finished my PhD and wrote a thesis on gay men married to women in small towns of Odisha demonstrating how they negotiate with the social institution of marriage and family.

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Friends!! I sat and wrote a 45 pages final project report in the past few days. Pls clap for me. (Drafted and deleted a tweet about how exhausting it was n everything that is wrong with this world rn)

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I didn't work today. Cooked a meal. Watched a movie. Ran four kms. My to do list is practically screaming at me, but I just decided to work tomorrow, not today. As the world witnesses one of its most turbulent times in recent years, we can only be kind to ourselves and others.

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I used to get very anxious while doing academic writing. Questions like am doing it right, is the opening sentence/paragraph fitting or is the flow okay etc were some of the dominant thoughts. I became much calmer once I accepted that the writing is inherently chaotic.

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They not only read my draft with great interest, but also offered well-thought out comments. They always encouraged me to keep reading, reflecting and writing until I finished the final draft. Feeling so grateful right now.

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Writing this ethnographic narrative and suddenly I feel like an accomplished film writer who has some control over their character and the narrative. Also a cliff hanger in the middle of this paper. Lol I don't feel this way about my writing everyday.

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People who can afford to slowdown a bit should never feel guilty about it. I am working at my own pace and this has literally been a life saver. I am reading, revising drafts, doing interviews, organising, shopping, drinking chai, socialising and accomplishing- all on MY terms.

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3 years

Confession. I once blocked someone because they would emerge intermittently to announce their publication, collaboration, success stories, and how amazing their life is all the time. In my defense, I was writing my thesis in the middle of a raging pandemic with little support.

Richard Mirabella🦌

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Have you ever blocked someone on twitter just because they were annoying, ruined jokes, or were generally contrary to everything you tweeted, but were never MEAN?

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Friends! What are our worst fear about writing? That we will end up producing something mediocre? I say take that long shot. When Chetan can make a living out of writing and Manu can write a full-fledged show now, it's time to stop being self-deprecating and get into action.💙

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People here are doing such fantastic work!! I am in awe of my twitter friends doing brilliant research and putting it out there in the world. You keep it going for so many of us. I read each and evey tweet about your accomplishments and 👏🏼👏🏼 for you even when I don't say it. 🥰🙏🏽

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Jayaprakash

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3 years

It's easy to spot a predatory journal. There is a list available online. And also there are tonnes of infographics that help you to spot one. There are structural issues with publishing in journals, and unless we address them, it will only lead to more of these scams.

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"How are you going to contribute to our department?" "You have read my CV, research and teaching statement, diversity statement, all my publications and 10 other docs that you asked me to submit. Please you tell me how do I contribute to your department." 😁

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