AcademicKindness

To congratulate our student, Lorraine Fields, on her first PhD publication we made her a little something 🎉☕️🥳 #kickinggoals #dontwaittocelebrate @UOW @UoWnursing @TraceyMoroney @PhDForum @AcademicKindnes @AcademicChatter #PhD @SDGoals #SDGs #supervisor

@PonderosaMstrys submissions from postdoctoral researchers and independent scholars are very much welcome!

A lovely initiative for folks in #AcademicTwitter world to ponder kindness a bit, with the potential for a professional copy editing prize! Neat. Eligibility is faculty/grad students, (staff not included 🙄). Postdocs aren't explicitly listed but I'm assuming are Ok

Contest Announcement: What is Academic Kindness? The Create Kindness Initiative and Academic Kindness on Tumblr host the first ever “What is Academic Kindness contest" winners receive certificate and 5 hrs of free professional editing... tmblr.co/Zlvpxp2ld5sk9

Amazing PhD (now postdoc) supervisor and mentor - My PhD supervisor (now postdoc supervisor) has been a... tmblr.co/Zlvpxp2f789Ri

warmly welcomed to a new city - I have just left a job at a university in one city to become an... tmblr.co/Zlvpxp2cCC24j

feeling human for a moment - when i was trying to decide where to be while writing up my dissertation (in... tmblr.co/Zlvpxp2c4BzHp

@jennywahwah @sheilmcn @suewatling @leohavemann not the same people so thanks for the wonderful links!

@sheilmcn @suewatling @leohavemann And there is if course @AcademicKindnes ...which might be the same people! Xx

@blanchard_kate @AcademicBatgirl @AcerbicAcademic You're a fantastic teacher +++ a mentor to other teachers. you've got this. be kind to yourself

@blanchard_kate @AcademicBatgirl @AcerbicAcademic oh no! that has to hurt but everyone has days like that. don't ask for absolution! your students are burned out and you are too. It is okay to be human. spend a bit of time assessing what went wrong. if you feel safe, tell them you're bummed class didn't go as planned and rebuild

Post-surgery support - Last week I had surgery, and my brother (who I care for) also had surgery. I had a... tmblr.co/Zlvpxp2Xft6uJ

Too Many reference letter requests? - I’m an international student who’s studying in a doctoral program in... tmblr.co/Zlvpxp2VvcxLi

A Personal Grant - As a pre-tenure professor in a research institution, I am feeling the pressure to... tmblr.co/Zlvpxp2Vtrb67

Do you have a good memory of someone who salvaged a horrid semester? Share it and bring hope to others on academickindness.tumblr.com

Remember: what we do to help the most vulnerable in our profession will shape our legacies and the future of the field. Practice kindness!