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Neil Renic

5 months

🚨 Thrilled to announce that my latest article, with the fantastic @ElkeSchwarz , is now out (open access): "Crimes of Dispassion: Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing"

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Neil Renic

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4 months

Getting a PhD: Cons: - anxiety inducing - poor work-life balance - brutal job market - low pay Pros: - When your amazon package is delivered you can say, "ah, just what the doctor ordered!"

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Neil Renic

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Junior scholars: "I feel awkward citing myself" Senior scholars: "as I cleverly argued (1988; 1991), admirably reiterated (1993; 1995; 1996); and handsomely concluded (2001; 2004; 2007)..."

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Explaining to your friends in manual labour that the emails beat the hell out of you today

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Me: "I'd like to copy and paste from this pdf please" Adobe Acrobat: "no worries, I took the liberty of stacking each word on top of each other in a vertical column, adding mysterious symbols, and removing every instance of the letter 't'"

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10 months

Cinema peaked in the 2009 movie “Knowing”, when Nicholas Cage flashed an MIT badge that simply read “Academic.”

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2 months

Sigmund Freud on lecturing, 1884

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7 months

Academia is held together by free labour, coffee, and the two people who nod encouragingly during presentations

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4 months

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography” - Mark Twain

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2 months

When everyone's in the google doc

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2 months

Student assistant: "I am truly sorry for disturbing your busy and important work day. Attached is the document you requested. If there is anything else you need please do not hesitate to reach out. Kindest regards from your humble servant." Prof: "thamks" - sent from IPhone

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2 months

Pre-PhD: I'm not that clever Post-PhD: I have a sophisticated grasp of precisely how stupid I am in multiple fields

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2 years

Hail to the nodders

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Neil Renic

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1 month

Everything is peer-reviewed if your spouse is judgmental enough

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2 months

Academics to students: "Be sure to substantiate your claims with credible, verifiable sources" Academics to readers:

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2 years

Immediately replace academic titles with these:

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3 months

“I have no idea” ⭐️ “That is beyond the scope of this paper” ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

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2 years

Academic conferences should replace the lanyard with individualised vests listing our anxieties.

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1 month

The golden rule of academic etiquette: If the public speaker makes direct eye contact with you, you respond with an enthusiastic nod of encouragement.

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“This article will” “This article has”

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6 months

Academia isn’t about wealth, or fame, or approval. It’s about downloading as many pdfs as you possibly can until you retire without reading any of them

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Neil Renic

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7 months

Students: "I wanted to email an academic to compliment their article, but I'm not sure it's appropriate" Academics receiving praise of any type in any form at any time:

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Neil Renic

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2 years

Teaching in your 30s and 40s

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3 years

Academics who work and publish in their non-native language are superheroes. I actually can’t imagine how difficult that must be.

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American academic conferences: 8:15-10:00: Panel A 10:30-12:15: Panel B 13:45-15:30: Panel C 16:00-17:45: Panel D European academic conferences:

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2 years

Me, a very serious scholar, having to sing the alphabet song every time I add a source to my reference list.

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1 year

“I’m not a regular lecturer; I’m a cool lecturer,” you tell yourself, as you reference another tv show cancelled before your students were born.

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23 days

Editor: “please check the proofs carefully as this is the last opportunity to correct errors before publication” Academics: “yeah, looks sweet 🤘”

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Neil Renic

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6 months

This article will This article has

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Neil Renic

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2 years

Senior scholars, what controversial opinion do you hold that would immediately get you fired if publicly aired, opening up space at your institution for early career academics?

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Neil Renic

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5 months

ACADEMIC WRITING TIPS 1) Open a Word doc 2) Make a coffee 3) Type a sentence 4) Stare out the window 5) Delete the sentence 6) Wonder if you'd make a better fictional author

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Neil Renic

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6 months

Attending a conference in a different discipline

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4 months

PhD student: one month preparation for lecture Postdoc: two weeks preparation for lecture Professor:

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4 months

Academics will spend a full work day reading half an article then take 3 books onboard a 2 hour flight

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4 months

Don't forgot, editing is part of writing. Reading is part of writing. Lying facedown on the floor, worrying those around you, is part of writing.

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6 months

Academics to students: Start the essay early to ensure it is of a high standard. Academics to conference audience: Thank you for listening to my bullet points written on a napkin in the taxi.

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4 months

To all my academic friends, never give up! My article got 5 rejections before it got its 6th.

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6 months

Where it all began

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Neil Renic

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1 year

Academics to their students: “Write clearly and concisely” Academics to their editors: “Complexity and Crisis in a Time of Complex Crisis: Unpacking the Complexities of Crisis Within Conditions of Crisis-Induced Complexity.”

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3 months

Academic jobs pay terribly, but don't panic, you have no chance of getting one

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4 months

please don't email me back so quickly. Give me a moment to enjoy ticking something off my to-do list

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3 months

Every academic needs friends who have no idea what you research and don't care.

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7 months

PhDs reviving under appreciated arguments from the 1970s

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3 months

Academic flirting is asking someone a question that reveals you read their article

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5 months

Academics after picking a font, writing a sentence, reading the sentence, and deleting the sentence

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4 months

Please give a warm welcome to our panellists, guy who wrote his presentation on the plane, guy who goes over time, guy who goes dramatically over time, and well-prepared PhD student allocated the 4 remaining minutes

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Neil Renic

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4 months

Two kinds of academic feedback:

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Neil Renic

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6 months

You in September: “let’s finish these projects no later than the end of November, so we can all enjoy a restful December” You in late November:

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"Feel like the article's almost done!"

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1 year

Handing off a draft to a co-author

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3 months

Me: “becoming a doctor was a huge accomplishment and I shouldn’t feel insecure” Deutsche Bahn:

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4 months

Doing a PhD is a strange experience, because every non-academic thinks you're an overachiever while you live in fear of being exposed as a wastrel and fraud

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1 month

my editor, delicately: "what exactly did you mean here?" me, sobbing: "I don’t know"

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2 months

Academics are funny because they want to be taken seriously but they're wearing a little backpack

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2 months

Reviewer 1: this could be two papers Reviewer 2: this should be no papers

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Neil Renic

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28 days

social scientists rise up

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Neil Renic

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2 years

The overabundance of PhDs among Marvel characters really highlights the length academics will go to avoid writing.

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Neil Renic

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1 year

lecturers adding fresh memes to their teaching slides

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4 months

1970s professors: "and a final, brief thanks to my loving wife, who came up with the idea, did the research, wrote and edited the book, secured a publisher, and raised our children."

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Undergrad: "I'm going to fundamentally redefine my discipline" Masters: "I'm going to meaningfully advance the debate" PhD: "I'm going to turn this thesis into an interesting book" Post-PhD: "I'm going to finish this sentence if it kills me"

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3 months

Working on an article for two years only to be called "et al."

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4 months

Academics will get on a 9 hour flight to talk for 15 minutes on a climate emergency panel

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3 months

Universities that require three letters of recommendation for a job should have to provide evidence of three happy members of the department

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1 year

Academics undaunted by the news that being unverified will mean that no one reads your tweets. We’ve been training for this moment our entire careers by writing articles that no one reads.

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Academics: "try the 'feedback sandwich' - a positive comment, followed by constructive feedback, followed by another positive comment." German academic: "now that we've covered the serious problems with your work, let's move on to the truly severe."

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Neil Renic

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2 years

eduroam is the perfect metaphor for academia – a globe spanning wonder of connectedness that’s almost impossible to permanently join.

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1 month

"Endnote is better! 😡" "No, Mendeley is better! 😡" "No, Zotero is better! 😡" manual referencers:

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Neil Renic

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2 months

(bene gesserit voice) THAT IS BEYOND THE SCOPE OF THIS PAPER

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1 year

When students don't mention your comedy in the teaching evaluations

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6 months

The eternal academic question: is this badly written or am I too stupid to understand the argument?

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6 months

Writing Editing

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6 months

📁 Final version - I feel nothing 📁 3rd draft - powered by spite 📁 2nd draft - this has to be it 📁 1st draft - that was rough 📁 article idea - this is BRILLIANT

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2 months

Lecturers: “I’ve got some great comedic references in store for you this semester, I assume you’re all familiar with The Simpsons between 1992 and 1998?” The students:

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Neil Renic

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3 months

Scholars from the global north citing other scholars from the global north when writing about the global south

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24 days

Academia is either: - Do you have capacity in the next 40 minutes to review this book? OR - Apologies for the late response but the past decade has been hectic, still keen to chat?

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3 months

Academia is just the endless completion of little tasks in order to read and write. You think you've completed all your little tasks and can now read and write and BOOM, more little tasks. Forever.

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11 months

Universities: “Try to incorporate the student feedback” The student feedback: “the lecturer needs to talk in more and less detail about the topic . There were too many readings - more were needed. We liked the relaxed approach but would welcome a more formal approach.”

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2 months

PhDs: “I can’t wait to finish this thesis and become a proper academic!” The academic job market:

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9 months

Arriving in Germany and receiving their traditional words of greeting: "we only accept cash."

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Academics: “any idea when the review might be done?” The Journal:

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3 months

Family when academics start explaining their research

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Academics, nobody will remember: - Your fancy title - Your salary - How many hours you worked - How cited you were - How stressed you were People will remember: - That one time your expertise came in handy at the pub quiz

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4 months

7:00-18:00: “I have no new ideas for an article” 2:00:

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3 months

Academics: "I have an amazing idea for a new article" The two-year old article that needs one afternoon of edits to be ready to submit:

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6 months

Student: I'd love to take your class next semester. Can you send me the syllabus? Me: Absolutely! It will be ready 45 minutes before the start of the first class.

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10 months

The Oxford Handbook of People Who Completely Forgot They Had Agreed to Contribute.

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The media: Professors are indoctrinating their students!! Professors: please read these four articles, or just the first if you're pressed for time...or these notes I uploaded summarizing the articles. hello?

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3 months

The academic urge to spend half a day on a footnote no one reads and 95 seconds on an abstract everyone reads

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Finishing a two hour lecture

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6 months

Academic success is 2% intelligence, 98% typing two sentences without getting distracted

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“This article “I argue” argues”

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3 months

Submitting your first draft

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2 months

How it started: I will publish five articles this year How it's going: I have forgotten how to read

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21 days

Academics to students: “carefully structure your research” Academics to themselves: “these are my 56 browser windows and 900 tabs, organised according to my neurosis”

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Universities: “we hope you had a relaxing holiday period and are ready for an exciting and productive year ahead” Academics: