Being an #immigrant academic is harder than what people think. I have to be on top of my game while juggling the complex immigration process and making sure that my family abroad and at home are being taken care of.
Currently keeping me aural company while I work (I woke up, couldn't go back to sleep and decided to dive back into the blasted article), Noveller's Fantastic Planet (2015)
#CovidCautious community, I’m tabling at an academic conference next month to spread awareness of both the Public Health Pledge (@phpledge) and #COVID19 precautions as paths toward inclusivity, and I’m trying to think of what would make this table both useful and appealing to passersby. Does anyone have suggestions on what else I can do, in terms of signage, giveaways, activities, etc.?
There are always unexpected delights to spending time at a different university: ideas, mental space, new people & places. In Cagliari 🇮🇹 , I have been lucky enough to find a home two years running with two companionable tortoises wandering around and living on the large terrace. Watching them munch after a day of teaching has been an unexpected, meditative delight. They are so ungainly & awkward, to my limited human eyes. Long may they wander this earth! #tortoise#academicLife#pets
👨🎓 We wish Paulo Alexandre Alves the best of luck as he defends his doctoral thesis on the episcopate in the Portuguese Constitutional Monarchy tomorrow, 13 March.
I’m #lucky enough to #work in #academia for 15 years now, with a permanent position since 2016. My job is nothing less than my #passion.
Still, today, after one week of #holidays, I’m NOT eager to go back to work. I know many people also feel the same after holidays, because their job is somehow painful. For the very first time to me, I’m like them.
I’m still extremely lucky to be in a group with talented young #researchers, for whom I want the best and do everything I can.
Researchers of Mastodon, what do you all do to re-equilibrate after a big paper submission? My partner says the way I look after submitting my manuscript makes her think it must be like postpartum... 😂 #academiclife#postdoclife
This is your periodic reminder that social media is a very narrow view of life.
What spawned this reminder: while I continue to do and talk about cool and very photogenic things (I work with animals after all, see photo...), this academic year has been a wild ride in my personal life. I’ve had to switch from 6th gear to 3rd to make sure I’m doing the things I’m doing well, rather than trying everything but not finishing anything. 1/5
If you write me an email out of the blue, without any explanation or context, and assuming that I already know what you are talking about, I have news for you: I have no clue what you are talking about. #AcademicLife
The music of Neko Case. Was listening to Middle Cyclone on the commute home from work.
Made some inroads into the revamping of the lit review for this article I am revising. 😮💨
Lovely Iced Latte from Family Mart and I also enjoyed the croissant, having decided I just wanted a light lunch. (this also means the packed lunch is going to be dinner)
The music of Big Thief and Boygenius. Also, Kim Gordon is truly the GOAT.
Thinking about #DS9 -- I'm really hooked on this rewatch!
A yummy lunchbox with my ayam masak lemak cili api (after such challenges inc. having to cook it twice!), rice, sambal cencalok and bendi/kacang panjang masak belacan.
🆕 Congratulations to Joana Dias Pereira and Rui Henriques, who were awarded the 2023 António Sérgio Cooperation and Solidarity Prize, in the Lusophone Studies and Research Category, for their book on the history of mutualism in former Portuguese colonies. 🎊
I rejoined Codex Writer's Group and didn't realise how much I'd missed about being a Codexian
I can't get over the offer to contribute to a potential special issue at one of my top 5 bucket list journals. I feel a bit weird saying this because I know it might all just fall flat; I've been disappointed before. But I'm hoping for the best. It was a good reminder of why I'm in academia, so I will be content with that.
The work is never actually done. It is just time to stop.
I wish you time to unplug and unwind, to spend time with whatever people, animals or activities are important to you, and to celebrate whatever your flavour of holiday is (including none).
I'll be spending time with family and hope to snap more photos of unsuspecting sheep.
✨ The Board of Directors and the Science Management Team of the Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and the University of Évora wish you Happy Holidays and a year 2024 full of History. ✨
Autoreply set and alarm clock turned off. I'm on annual leave now until 8th January with no work to do at all. Besides finish writing a grant proposal, reviewing a grant, working on a couple of manuscripts and assembling the pygmy hedgehog genome... #AcademicLife