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Writer’s Regrets
The moment you re-read an article, two months after submission: Fact: no matter how genius it appears at the time, a period of absence will always reveal a bunch of missed opportunities.
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Post-PhD Life: The Darkened Road
Taking a break from the frivolous, the following article is sobering, saddening and addresses a dimension of academic life that few discuss enough: An academic jumped off scaffolding to his death when...
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Pilfered with joy: The Game of Tenure
Because PhD Comics never fail to raise spirits: Also, a social science version of this ingenious database over at Brandeis is much-needed: the Paper Rejection Repository: Nobody likes to receive a...
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The Re-re-re-revision Letter
Though this has been doing the rounds for a while, it remains pure, unadulterated joy for anyone who has run the gauntlet of reviewers: Sample Cover Letter for Journal Manuscript Resubmissions by Roy...
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60 seconds of air-punches
My research project has just been awarded funding. I’m playing it cool. And then my office door shuts and this happens:
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Anthropology on Film
The fusion of two of my favourite things, photography and anthropology, have come together at the Saab Medical Library in Beirut, with an archive of images taken on anthropological field trips in...
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Guns, Girls and the Great Kate
In the beginning, there was Kate. Before Colvin, Ugrešić, Mernissi and Drakulić, there was Kate, in her flak jacket dodging bullets since before I was born. After an archaeology-obsessed childhood, my...
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Rivendell-on-Sea
This week marks my third month as an honorary Wassenaarian and though pictures have been taken, they flop at doing the Institute, and its surroundings, justice. Verbal accounts are either fantastical...
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Research proposals: vision vs. reality
Yes, this. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed as long at an online satire as I am now. So true😀
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