Chaotic Academia

This is #ChaoticAcademia according to ‘Aesthetics Wiki’ - but it’s also that academia is a shit show sometimes 😇 🔥

How it all started: "A research university that primarily awards master's degrees and PhDs, JNU saw the number of seats offered to students wishing to enroll in a master's or a doctoral program plummet by 84%, from 1234 to 194 in one year. Furthermore, admissions committees

Chaos & other stories

The 'novelty' of my study while the manuscript spends 12 months in the peer review cycle

My job is just… Funding applications.

Please upload.. - CV - cover letter - diversity statement - strategy statement - 6 reference letters - elementary school transcripts - a self-portrait - the Great American Novel - your grand theory of everything Don’t worry, we don’t read any of it.

This senior professor thinks that a ban on sexualised behaviour between students and staff "would be more or less a ban on life as we know it." A piece written with deep nostalgia for a time when he used to sleep with his students. timeshighereducation.com/depth/should-u…

‘Eat hearty soups’ ah yes of course the key to every brooding dark academic. Eat watery thin broths for Chaotic Academia vibes instead

The bar was low but holy fuck

Do not stand at my desk and weep, I am not there — got sacked last week. #UCU #ucuRising

Ouch

Academia: "practice self-care" Me: "rests" Academia: "no, not like that"

How come this article, with fieldwork conducted in Colombia, has no Colombian authors, not even authors affiliated with Colombian institutions?

Me: ok time to run more samples to replicate my data My data:

It could be worse.

Chaotic academia should be messy desks and unhinged academics staying up at all hours chasing a project for the love of it. Not 50-100% paycuts for a marking boycott !!!!!

When my supervisor asks me a basic question

🚨A MESSAGE FROM STUDENTS TO STUDENTS This is why university staff are boycotting marking & assessments Higher education is rigged against students & staff, but by standing with UCU, you can change it Tell your vice-chancellor: ucu.org.uk/email-your-VC #ucuRISING

M O R E

writinge ys a scam ynvented by writinge to sell more writinge

dark academia has gone too far