Academia Obscura The hidden silly side of academia

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  1. This is the last academic conference that I will ever go to
  2. The Fourth Annual Academics with Cats Awards 2017 - Winners!
  3. 13 Great Gifts for Academics
  4. The Fourth Annual Academics with Cats Awards
  5. Academia Obscura book - out now!
  6. 404 - Buffalo not found
  7. 52 Books You Might Not Like
  8. Oops!
  9. The Story Behind a Moving Academic Acknowledgement
  10. You Must Be Very Intelligent - The PhD Delusion
  11. Doodling for Academics
  12. This Study is Subject to Certain Limitations: Overly Honest Academic Caveats
  13. These Awesome Science March Signs Prove Scientists have a Sense of Humour
  14. How ‘broken’ is academia, and how can we fix it?
  15. 6 Examples of Whimsical Acronyms in Scientific Papers (SEXWASP)
  16. Academics with Cats Awards 2016 - The Shortlist
  17. The Third Annual Academics with Cats Awards 2016 - Winners!
  18. The Third Annual Academics with Cats Awards!
  19. 6 Phrases that Should be Banned
  20. On Commonplace Books
  21. Sample Cover Letter for Journal Manuscript Resubmissions
  22. Shit I learned during my PhD
  23. How to: Science
  24. 25 PhD Feels All Doctoral Students Have
  25. Campus Chaos as Pokemon Go Goes Viral
  26. 5 Out of this World Star Wars Papers
  27. Academics with Cats Awards 2015 - WINNERS!
  28. 11 Terrible Video Game Screenshots that Perfectly Capture Academic Life
  29. The Second Annual Academics with Cats Awards!
  30. Still. Not. Significant.
  31. A New Academic Year Begins... Bring on the Ig Nobels!
  32. 12 Things I Learned About Academia from Google Suggestions
  33. 10 Quite Useful Tools for Academics
  34. 11 Essential Hashtags for Academics
  35. What PhD Life is Really Like
  36. The Workaholic and Academia: in defense of #AcaDowntime
  37. Male, Mad and Muddleheaded! The portrayal of academics in kids books
  38. The Portrayal of Academics in Kids Books - a chat with Melissa Terras
  39. 7 Academic Struggles Predicted by Late 19th and Early 20th Century Autobiographies
  40. The Blooper Reel
  41. Academia: Survival of the Bitterest?
  42. Academics with BEER!
  43. Academic Nursery Rhymes
  44. Is This the Worst Academic Journal Ever?
  45. Medieval Marginalia, Reimagined by Modern Academics
  46. Fun and Laughter in the Lab
  47. Why does it always rain on me? Academics forecast their day
  48. Academic Easter Eggs
  49. Cars on Campus Rooftops and R2D2 Observatories: 6 awesome college pranks
  50. The PhD Path Less Travelled: share your story!
  51. 11 things I learned about academia by analysing 14 million RateMyProfessor reviews 
  52. An Academic Guide to Love & Romance - Happy Valentine's Day!
  53. Academics with Cats Awards: Cats with Computers
  54. Academics with Cats Awards: the results are in!
  55. 10 Brilliantly Banal Books to Bore Your Bookshelf
  56. A Day in the Life of an Academic (with cats)
  57. Merry Christmas and an Academic New Year
  58. Academic Cats (storify)
  59. Food, Glorious Food
  60. The First Annual Academics In Hats Awards
  61. This Post is Intentionally Left Blank
  62. Toilet Humour
  63. Trick or Treat?
  64. 10 Comic Chemicals, presented by Chemistry Cat
  65. I’ll Put the Kettle On: the academic's guide to making the perfect cuppa
  66. Beards in Academia, Part II: More Popular than Ever? Beards and Masculinity in History
  67. Proof that academia is teeming with humour, wit… and general oddness
  68. Every Type of Email College Faculty Send to Anyone
  69. Beards in Academia
  70. Food, Glorious Food!
  71. Top 10 hashtags for academics
  72. 10 Offbeat University Buildings
  73. Finish that PhD in 12 Simple Steps!
  74. 5 More Ultra Modern University Buildings
  75. 5 Super Specific Academic Journals
  76. Bored or High? #3: Panda death
  77. Footnotes
  78. Penguins
  79. Top 10 Honest Job Ads
  80. Monday Morning Meme (4)
  81. Top 8 #AlternateScienceMetrics
  82. Bored or High? #1: string theory
  83. Bored or High? #2: walking on water
  84. Monday Morning Meme
  85. Amazing Acknowledgements in Academic Papers
  86. Coming soon!
  87. Monday Morning Meme (3)
  88. Co-authoring: Now with 60% more croquet!
  89. Monday Morning Meme (2)
  90. Who's a clever boy? Animals in academia
  91. The Last Writes: posthumous publishing
  92. Monday Morning Meme (1)