What feels heavy today may become your strength tomorrow…the Academic Balancing Act🤣

#AcademicLife #ProfessorLife #ResearcherLife #PhDLife
#GradStudentLife #MentorshipMatters #HigherEdLife #FacultyLife #PublishOrPerish
#AcademicHumor #WorkLifeBalance #UniversityProfessor #AcademicJourney

Jay Rubin’s _Making Sense of Japanese_. Recommended!

#academichumor abounds in Jay Rubin’s _Making Sense of Japanese_. Very amusing joke in the Preface. Best one so far in the discussion of wa/ga. I should have read this decades ago. 45 years in Japan and still discovering things I get wrong.

Final glossary entry defining “taxis” (1) meaning in ancient commentaries on Homer (2) “what narratologists used before Uber.” Liverly 2019: 256.

#academicHumor Enjoyed an unexpected joke in the last glossary entry in _Narratology_ (2019) by classicist Genevieve Liveley, a very lucid account of tangled history of narrative theory. Need to work through more tomes in my #tsundoku collection of #narratology - moments of light relief appreciated!

Pure Math: The Weapon We Refuse To Use

Pure Math: The Weapon We Refuse To Use

#Mathematics #Puremath #Batman #Academichumor #Appliedmath

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The Triangle Inventor Who Broke Mathematics

The Triangle Inventor Who Broke Mathematics

#Mathematics #Fieldsmedal #Satire #Academichumor #Mathematicalproofs

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Accurate? 🧐

#academichumor

OK. This one got an amused snort... #AcademicChatter #AcademicHumor

An Accurate Organizational Chart of Your University Our 20th most-read article of 2025. - - -In accordance with our informal tradition of updating documents every thirty years, whether they need it ...

Enjoy this again from one of the "untenured faculty members and staff holding the institution together."

(Sobs at markout of the office of diversity, equity, and inclusion) #AcademicChatter
#AcademicHumor

Four-panel comic set outdoors in winter. Two adults wearing coats, scarves, and gloves stand outside holding cups of coffee and talking. Panel 1: One character says, “I’m telling you, he keeps a list of people he likes and dislikes…” Panel 2: The other character responds, “He’s got elves slaving away all year doing menial tasks for little or no pay…” Panel 3: The first character continues, “He always wears the same vest and he only shows up once a year.” Panel 4: The second character reacts with surprise and says, “Santa Claus is a professor!!” The first character replies, “Ho, Ho, Ho? It’s the null hypothesis!” The joke humorously compares Santa Claus to an academic, using traits associated with faculty work and research culture.

Adjunct professor by day.
Dissertation writer by night.
This is what academia will do to you in the final stretch — even Santa isn’t safe.
#AcademicHumor #DissertationLife #AdjunctLife

Systematic review of publication bias in studies on publication bias Publication bias is a well known phenomenon in clinical literature,1 2 in which positive results have a better chance of being published, are published earlier, and are published in journals with high...

Publication bias is bad, sure.
But has anyone studied publication bias in studies on publication bias?
(They have. There isn’t.)
doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

Next up: publication bias in studies on studies on studies of publication bias.

#AcademicHumor #metascience #nerdhumor

A post showing a humorous office door policy note. Transcribed Text: A new office neighbour has a very sensible open door policy . Dear visitor, In order to protect my concentration and sanity I have decided to implement a door policy: Door open: Very welcome to knock and come in, yes I would love to have a chat! Door closed: Please do not knock at my door or come in unless you have urgent business.* I am extremely easily distracted and I will talk to you until the end of time instead of writing my dissertation. Never: come in without knocking. *List of things that are urgent business: the building or someone is on fire you're bringing me coffee revolution there is a dog

I would totally adopt this policy if I had an office... #AcademicHumor

Academia career ladder:
PhD → Postdoc → Asst Prof → Assoc Prof → Prof
= 20+ years to finally afford fancy ramen 🍜
#PhDLife #AcademicHumor
Article here 👉 https://curiositybloom.com/phd-in-biology-careers/

a picture of a sealed box and a clock set to 1:30. "The silent office hour: I'm in my box on the clock. Does it help?"

I wrote a blog post about office hours, the most silent time of the day. Enjoy!

silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

#AcademicChatter #Faculty #FacultyLife #OfficeHours #Academia #AcademicHumor

I'm A Little Late To The Party Here Sorry

I'm A Little Late To The Party Here Sorry

#Math #Engineering #Sine #Trigonometry #Academichumor

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Social Media Post from Kaitlyn Rouillard, PhD (@kaitrouillar): Something they don't tell you about academia is that you'll be 30 years old and still wearing a backpack everywhere you go.

Granted, I'm middle aged, and I'd get carded if my Grey's weren't showing, but it tracks for me.
#AcademicHumor

In a lot of instances, I'd rather hear the sax solo... #AcademicHumor

Semester’s starting at @cmc.edu — and my office door is finally decorated.

Course info ✅
Research opportunities ✅
I-O psych & stats memes ✅

Hoping this draws students in… and not scares them off 😅

#IOPsych #OrganizationalBehavior #FacultyLife #AcademicHumor

Les hashtags suggérés par Claude :

#AcademicWrestling #PhilosophyFight #SociologyVsEconomics #AcademicHumor #TheoryMemes #Marx #Bourdieu #NietzscheMemes #Socrates #AcademicTwitter #Satire #FrenchHumor #CriticalThinking #PhilosophyMemes #Substack

How To Properly End A Proof

How To Properly End A Proof

#Math #Proofs #Samurai #Seppuku #Academichumor

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Scientists mourn Tom Lehrer — nerdiest of singer-songwriters The mathematician’s memorable satires are beloved by generations of researchers.

#TomLehrer #InMemoriam #Tribute #ScienceAndMusic #NerdCulture #MathHumor #STEMLegend #ScientificSatire #AcademicHumor #STEMCommunity #EduTainment #GeekIcon

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Physics Gets The Last Laugh

Physics Gets The Last Laugh

#Physics #Chemistry #Sciencerivalry #Academichumor #Stem

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Social media post with a dark gray background. At the top is a statement, "Some of us have seen more Reviewer 2s than others...." Below is a social media card with rounded corners from "Shit Academics Say". The main text reads, "We’re all just works in progress hoping for acceptance with minor revisions."

We need our community (even our reviewer twos) and #AcademicHumor now more than ever...

Conference dress code 👖

#academichumor

Proof By Future: The Time Traveler's Guide To Academic Citations

Proof By Future: The Time Traveler's Guide To Academic Citations

#Academia #Research #Citations #Publishing #Academichumor

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Mathematicians vs Physicists: The Great Translation Battle

Mathematicians vs Physicists: The Great Translation Battle

#Green'stheorem #Mathvsphysics #Calculus #Vectorcalculus #Academichumor

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The Absolute Value Of Laughter

The Absolute Value Of Laughter

#Math #Absolutevalue #Notation #Academichumor #Overthinking

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Social Media Post from PhD Genie: Describe the PhD journey in just one word.

Granted, I'm an MLS, not a Ph.D., but I've been around Academia long enough for this to elicit a snort.

And I'll take any humor I can get in these times. #AcademicHumor

Tower Of Hanoi: Where Childhood Toys Meet Existential Mathematical Dread

Tower Of Hanoi: Where Childhood Toys Meet Existential Mathematical Dread

#Science #Academichumor #Math #Computerscience #Mathematicalproof

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#AcademicChatter #AcademicHumor

The Ultimate PhD Defense Strategy

The Ultimate PhD Defense Strategy

#Science #Academichumor #Academia #Research #Thesis

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