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The Journal of BS

@AcademicTitles

'Fake titles for scholarly articles prove that God isn't dead.' ~ Nietzsche, 1898 (probably) // a @mattmorain production

 in the footnotes somewhere
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Vagina Museum@vagina_museum2 Feb 2023
"Vaginas need to be researched much more than they are!" [another finger on the monkey paw curls] academic.oup.com/icb/article…
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🤬The 8th Annual Tucker Awards recognize excellence in swearing during 2022 stronglang.wordpress.com/202… by @bgzimmer via @stronglang
The 8th Annual Tucker Awards for Excellence in Swearing

The 8th Annual Tucker Awards for Excellence in Swearing

With another year in the books, it’s time once again here on Strong Language for our annual salute to excellent swearing. As time marches on, we’ve had the opportunity to anoint sweary …

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Just learned about @TBQuarterly, "the literary magazine for the Taco Bell Arts and Letters," and I am *delighted.*
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@incunabula5 Nov 2022
'Christ fucking shit merde!' Language preferences for swearing among maximally proficient multilinguals. Sociolinguistic Studies, 4 (3), 595-614. researchgate.net/publication…
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD@jacasiegel4 Jan 2022
Academia: To get a job in this field, you must publish 100 articles and attend 50 conferences per year. Work 27 hours per day. Academia: Also, everyone is going to be kind of mean to you. Academia: Also, there are no jobs. Academia: Why are young people leaving academia????
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Everyone else who thought they had a clever title for their dissertation, step aside: tiktok.com/@lady_of_the_merc…
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Oh she's on Twitter too! @WriterBowyer with the trilingual diss title: 'Askar to Æscas': The Ash as a Symbol of Life and Death in Old English and Norse Literature
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Joe Bartolotta@jbartolotta14 Jan 2021
I hope everyone will enjoy my forthcoming article, "When the CEO is a tater on Twitter: Anthropomorphic Yammering in business communication."
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Heads up, all you oh-my-god-I-just-want-it-to-be-over dissertators.
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Mar Hicks@histoftech20 May 2020
Lesser-Known Privileges of Academic Rank: Computer Science PhD: You may wear a T-Shirt to formal events. Mathematics PhD: You must wear a T-Shirt to formal events. Geology PhD: You get one gem heist. mcsweeneys.net/articles/less…
Lesser-Known Privileges of Academic Rank

Lesser-Known Privileges of Academic Rank

“Physics PhD: Friends must pretend it is endearing when you explain why their favorite movies are inaccurate.” 5/30/24

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Clive Thompson
@pomeranian9919 May 2020
So apparently a) otters like to juggle pebbles, and b) after carefully studying the behavior, c) a bunch of scientists are like lol we have no clue why they're doing this, FURTHER STUDY IS REQUIRED: royalsocietypublishing.org/d… The title on the paper here is 💯
The drivers and functions of rock juggling in otters

The drivers and functions of rock juggling in otters

Abstract. Object play refers to the seemingly non-functional manipulation of inanimate items when in a relaxed state. In juveniles, object play may help de

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What's the best advice you got (or give!) for finishing your dissertation?
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@pomeranian9921 Jan 2020
A list of animal utterances, from the academic paper "What do animals say?" bit.ly/36c5hdR
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"Serf and TERF: What Feudal Peasantry Can Teach Us About Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism"
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Brilliant.
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Can anyone point me to any thoughtful, unproblematic, these-people-are-still-people-and-not-some-curious-subjects-of-inquiry research on the rhetorics of panhandling? I'm also interested in sociolinguistic choices during interactions.
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