Emily Yossarian (she/her)

Enjoyable misreading moment, thinking we have secured a Vibing (read ‘Visiting’) Fellow at the OU.

Image of couple saying 'let's buy a house' labelled 'My parents in their 30s' above another of a haggard face labelled 'Me in my 30s' saying 'All my stipend was spent to buy coffee that allowed me to stay up writing...'

The joint winner of our first Meme Your Research competition is Meng-Chin from STEM. Buy her a coffee next time you see her.

@riobanerjee.bsky.social

Hand poised above a big blue button labelled 'Apply button'. Text reads '4th year, any academic position exists'.

Ready to welcome Monday in with our inaugural Meme Your Research winners? Here's @gandhar018.bsky.social's!

@riobanerjee.bsky.social

I was wondering if there was an ‘uncanny’ factor (apt for your research) and you’ve expressed it perfectly

I love this. Do you have any theories for why we’re drawn to such cases? Failed ambition, resonance of past industry/community, nosiness?

Derelict pub interior with graffiti

This sounds like an adventure! I went to look at a derelict pub off the A505 this time last year (b/c it was rumoured to be pulled down) and the experience was surreal.

Image from the film 50 Days of Summer of the male and female characters looking at each other in a record store, repeated vertically. in the upper image, the male character says 'I love MK' and the female character says 'Me too'. In the lower image, the man has a series of Mariokart images on him, the woman has images of Milton Keynes: the concrete cows, a roundabout and the OU headquarters at Walton Hall.

Are you an Open University PGR with an idea for a meme on your research, the doctoral journey or Milton Keynes life?

Enter #MemeYourResearch by 10 December for kudos and prizes.

Full instructions in the PGR Community Team: teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19...

@riobanerjee.bsky.social

My modest contribution to #BakeYourResearch. A Nietzsche Eternal Recurrence cake in the shape of an hourglass with jelly babies in the sprinkle sand. And I’d do it again.

Forest scene with autumn colours

A man, woman and child stand in front of a sign for Rushmere Parkrun

Highly recommend Rushmere Parkrun!

If we can source the cubes 👍

🙌

Black and white cat on top of scratch post tower

Black and white cat on top of scratch post tower

Lotster made it to the highest platform

How better to spend an hour than explaining Nietzsche’s challenging views with a moustache cake as a prop? Brilliant to celebrate Open University research with the Postgraduate Researcher community at #BakeYourResearch.

Love swimming in the Great Ouse! chng.it/bLM97JX9cc

Beautiful installation - Museum of the Moon at Hexham Abbey.