So not mad about a revise and resubmit request lol they are 100% right and were very nice about the fact that the writing was all over the place

I spent like 12 hours line editing and cut 4000 words… and still have like 5000 too many…. It’s time to go back to chucking paragraphs :(

I answered the last three comments and now they’re 79k words…

Tomorrow I’m printing out my six analysis chapters and finding a way to make them go from 78k words to 70k… totally doable I’m sure

I know it’s a good problem to have but sometimes seeing my supervisors in every acknowledgement section, cited everywhere, on every back cover, etc makes me feel like I’m in the panopticon

When the hatred for ai makes ai think you care about it and want it to converge with the media… at least it hallucinated me as already a Dr?

I’ve been rereading childhood fav books and it’s been a delightful way of turning my brain off from the world/phd, ✨almost✨ as delightful as seeing them dotted throughout my other StoryGraph logs of PhD related books

@ndhumanities.bsky.social might we consider a discord or group chat for members to get more community/support — also any (book?) suggestions for being an nd teacher, recognising/supporting students as nd with or without diagnoses, useful self disclosure w students, etc ?

Teaching observation went very well even though I got no sleep and didn’t finish writing the material until about 2am…. Why would I ever learn the errors of my ways if procrastination never fails me?

Today Im thinking about a paper on: What does it mean for our theorisations of fandom if a huge portion of the fan activity in a community based around ai generated artwork? (This is about acotar/Maas-verse)

Currently trying to turn my analysis chapters into math formulas so their purpose and structure makes sense to me, if anyone was wondering how end of PhD is going…. I have not taken a math class since 2019 and I have not done well in one since 2014….

An article that I like the content of but know the writing was rushed on is with reviewer two rn…. 🫣

Review of Feminist Fandom finally out online!! Was so pleased to have been asked last year ☺️, and the tldr of the review is that yes 100% you should read the book it’s bril doi.org/10.1080/1468...

Made some chicken stock from a Costco rotisserie chicken carcass, call me Nara Smith

I don’t think I’ll ever stop being equal parts surprised, delighted, and infuriated (at myself) when the reading I’ve been putting off for months is, in fact, very helpful

The new Harry album is how I imagine adderall feels to people who don’t have adhd (/positive)

AO3 being down is recirculating some of the garbage takes about “what do they do with all that money… kind of sus…..” and it’s making me want to rip my hair out (aka do research and yell into the void of other academics who will go exactlyyyyy)

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

I’m starting Sex and the City and I know half the point of the show was the clothes but my god the clothes

My student just came up to me after class to ask if I’m academia famous and now I’m worried I’m academia famous in a bad way but don’t know about it

Just saw someone on twitter dont donate to AO3 they’re run by bad people who allow csam material, and then someone in their replies said yes we should be supporting Wikipedia and the Internet Archive! And op had liked it. And I think people might be stupid?

Two plans I have for assessments someday: 1: extra, low % ass. where students are marked on how well they apply feedback from A1 2: essays include a short oral exam, dissuading AI use or making it easier to tell (when they can’t remember any concepts) Idk how/when, but I think it’d fix everything

Constant question while marking: is it my university that’s failed students on basic writing skills or to what extent is it a national/international problem… Surely it can’t all be Covid fallout? Even with everything being underfunded… it’s basic grammar, basic punctuation, basic citing…

How am I meant to mark papers under these conditions (waiting to see if I got Harry Styles one night only in Manchester tickets)

I initially panicked when HS4 was announced bc I am too busy for this (and I still am) but now that the first single is out I think it’s actually going to revive me and get me through the next six months

I’ve semi accidentally amassed a collection of adhd-panic students and I love them but they also make me want to email all my former professors to thank them for their service lol

Wait Harry’s House came out in 2022 right when I started my PhD and Kiss All The Time is coming out 2026 at the very end of my PhD that’s kind of cunty for me (and also Harry that’s been so long)

Harry Styles announced his album and in doing so put more things on my PhD edits to do list 🥲

Listen I generally don’t love celebs knowing about fic things but this is the only Heated Rivalry image that’s made me at all interested in watching the show

I hate that hideous fucking ai coke ad so much it’s ruining my Christmas more than being sick

Sick and half dead but finally submitted to the TWC music issue woooo, now just an analysis chapter to finish before the new year 🙃

I made it thru 99% of term and international travel without getting sick, and then 2 days before break a student coughed through a supervision meeting saying “I don’t think I’m infectious, no one in my flat has gotten sick”, and now I’m dying :(

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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

This entire weekend

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

This quote is rich and verbatim confirms that Iger and Disney literally don’t see artists as creatives or creators.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

lol remember when we thought Disney’s litigious nature was gonna maybe possibly hopefully save us from AI even a tiny bit?

There’s a dog up for adoption from the rescue I got my dog from, and she looks the same as my dog with the same silly personality but she’s half the size, and my dog would love a friend oh my god I want her so bad but I cannot have a second dog yet

Realising Grey’s Anatomy did a “keep a brain dead woman alive as an incubator” subplot all the way back in 2005, except in the show it’s a white woman and her family is the one asking to keep her on life support, to everyone’s horror, and hospital bills go completely unmentioned…

Can someone write/has anyone written something on Cameo, celebs, the powerless elite, etc…. It’s a baffling subindustry that I want to read about but don’t want to write

Last year I taught first year ideology content and 3rd year gossip and morality content with Kendrick/Drake beef and the halftime show, and it was great loved it went so well and I was planning on using it again this year… but now the 50 Cent Diddy documentary is out and I’m… considering…

If there’s one thing about me it’s that I love stuff and I especially love lining stuff up

Writing about a fangirl wave incoming….. (inspected and signed off by Esther)

All my modules this week and next week are focused on gender and representation, and after that they’re all basically about ideology and morality — I love it when things like up (aka that I’ve designed it that way) very much teaching from my happy place until the end of term 🥰🥰🥰

Cambridge dictionary's word of the year is parasocial which gives me an excuse to promote this episode where I explain why I think it's a silly word that obscures more than it reveals and significantly fails to capture the messiness of modern audience/celebrity interactions.

Creator discussing the shift that happens as a video goes viral— first commenters addressing her (you said) & expecting her to read, then talking ABOUT her (she said) & leaving comments for other people… Depersonalisation of creators? Feels like an interesting place for the parasocial lit to engage?