Back to work today after a nice and relaxing holiday. First step is to try and clear my more than 200 new emails 🥲

Happy 2026 everyone! 🎉

Book reading success 😎📚🎉 #books #reading #BookSky #BookClub

Nothing is more adorable than my two siberian huskies curled up sound asleep and gently snoring 😴🐾

As an academic, receiving emails like this really makes my day: I write with great admiration for your work, particularly a paper you delivered with your students on decolonization, which I found deeply compelling. I hope you know how much your work means to rising scholars like myself! #AcademicSky

Christmas cookie baking 🎄🍪 #christmas #FamilyTime #FamilyTradition

Officially on leave until 2026! 🤩🎉 Time to relax and spend time with family and friends. No academic thinking involved! #AcademicSky #holidays

Beautiful gift from a student 🤩

Another big celebration moment for 2025! 🎉🎉 Thanks to the students who nominated me for the MGA Supervisor of the Year! It is an honour to help guide you through your PhDs to becoming independent scholars!

Today, 15 years ago, I submitted my PhD thesis. What a great day! 🤩

Just uploaded my presentation for the 2026 international society for autoethnography and narrative symposium. Check it out ⤵️

When you have to get your new driver's licence and the photo isn't terrible 😎🎉

Looking forward to our session with @drlpretorius.bsky.social on the use of AI in research at @dundee.ac.uk

Started watching Man in the Inside S2 for the entertainment, stayed for the relevance to academia.

If you missed my keynote at the AI4HE conference last week, you can now watch the recording 🎉 AI literacy masterclass for higher education ⤵️

Today, I have the great joy of spending most of the day doing nothing of consequence. Just relaxing, watching some TV, and enjoying my time with my little wolves 😍 🐾

Presenting two sessions at a conference today and giving the keynote tomorrow 🤩 Busy end to the research year for me! #AcademicSky

Today’s episode of “Academic Gatekeeping”: my paper was sent back because the paragraphs had 6pt spacing between them. Apparently the biggest threat to quality scholarship is… paragraph gaps. #AcademicSky

Such a powerful story 🤩 Highly recommended! #BookSky Check out this book: The Lion Women of Tehran 👏🏻👏🏻

Big celebration moment! 🎉✨ Today I was honoured with the Excellence in Research Supervision Award, plus Commendations for Research Innovation & Impact (for my AI literacy work) and Equity & Inclusion (for my academic language and literacy work). Thanks everyone - this means the world! 🌟

Had a great time sharing my recent work incorporating GenAI into my research methods classrooms at today's AI in Practice workshop. Lots of really good discussions 🤩

Put up some Christmas lights to decorate my new house. So pretty 😍

That's some really solid targeted advertising IKEA 👏🏻💡#iykyk #strangerthings

One of the many reasons I preprint my papers before peer review. You have a record and timeline of your work in case a reviewer ever does anything like this. 🫣

THIS! If you don't know your Ontology from your Methodology, and you just want to get on with writing your dissertation.

Our article has been officially published! 🎉 What a great first day back from leave! #AcademicSky #ScienceSky If you can't access the full paper, the free preprint is available in the thread below.

Abstracts are due today! We've already received several really good ones, looking forward to receiving many more!

Officially moved into my new house 🎉 Still lots of boxes to unpack, but it already feels like home 🤩

I'm moving into my new house this week. Very proud of my planning skills - managed to pack everything without a rush! 💪🏻🎉

Just got a peer review request for a paper. It isn't due until middle February 🤔 #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

Oh hi 👋🏻 #dogs

The great joy of turning on your out of office reply and going on leave 🎉

Call for abstracts for a forthcoming edited book "The Researcher’s Compass: Choosing Your Paradigm, Finding Your Voice". Explain your research paradigm and how it shaped your research design, practice, and academic identity. Abstracts due 10 November. More details below. #ScienceSky #AcademicSky

Check out my new video: What is ethical research? Principles, practices and why it matters #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

That awesome moment when someone emails you out of the blue just to tell you they really liked your research article 🤩 #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

Some days I get a treat on my walk in to teach…

My teaching will be featured as a case study in Monash's AI in Practice professional learning hub 🎉 #TeacherSky #AcademicSky #ScienceSky Check it out ⤵️

Check out my new video: Creating visual evidence with generative AI #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

Great news to end the week - paper accepted!🤩 This is the paper where we discuss how ChatGPT can be incorporated into qualitative data analysis. So happy to hear it will be published in a very fancy journal soon! Pre-print linked below. #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

Check out my new video: Interpretivist Research vs Interpretivism: What’s the Difference? youtu.be/u-xjXbscyjM

Today, I had the great joy of spending almost the whole day immersed in powerful autoethnographic stories. Such vulnerable and deeply transformative stories of becoming🌱📚 This is why I love what I do. This is the privilege of a research career! #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

Israel and Hamas agree to Gaza peace proposal 🎉🕊️

A reminder that you have one month left to submit your abstract for our new handbook on research paradigms. Share your experience and help other researchers navigate the complexity of how philosophy shapes research practice. Read more below. #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

Dear predatory conference, if you want to be more convincing, at least pick a topic I have some vague knowledge of before sending me an invitation... I can confirm that I have no idea what to say about wave equations in cybersecurity 🤨 #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Dear predatory conference, I was never going to go to your conference anyway. But pro tip: if you're trying to be enticing, maybe don't host your "conference" in the US. Have you seen the news lately? #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

Time to pause your doomscrolling... I give you Sasha, one of my Siberian Huskies, snug as a bug curled up on the couch 😍🐾 #dogs #huskies

​Call for abstracts - write a chapter for our new practical handbook about research paradigms! Abstracts due 10 November 2025 and full chapters by 30 March 2026. Share your experiences using your research paradigm to help others! More details below. #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

The problem isn't autism. It's fear and hatred of autism. The problem isn't trans people. It's fear and hatred of trans people. The problem isn't immigration. It's fear and hatred of immigrants.

Officially submitted my application for promotion to Senior Lecturer - all 81 pages! 😱🤯 #Academia #AcademicLife #AcademicSky