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So it\u2019s the end of another year already\u2026 that one went fast didn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

In July 2025, my blog will be 15 years old. Does this mean I am now a bratty teenager instead of a menopausal woman?! I feel there\u2019s life in the old girl yet, so I\u2019ll still fire up the blog monthly, never fear.<\/p>\n

As is tradition, the end of year post should contain some reflections on the year and promises for the year ahead.\u00a0In that spirit, here\u2019s a\u00a0reader survey.\u00a0<\/a>I\u2019d really appreciate your response \u2013 it should be short.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s always my aim to make my posts useful. Now the comments are off it can be hard to know what resonates with you. I\u2019m really keen to hear what you want more and less of in terms of topics. I reviewed my posts for the year and realised most of them are AI focussed \u2013 this is your chance to tell me you are sick of that topic (or not!).<\/p>\n

Overall it\u2019s been a better year for me, despite certain challenges. I\u2019ve noticed that many countries are experiencing Higher Ed \u2018shrinkage\u2019 \u2013 I hope it\u2019s not affecting you as well. Like the rest of the sector, the Australian National University, where I work, is currently experiencing financial difficulties and has announced redundancies. My team at work has shrunk, which makes work life harder. But I have committed to finding the joy, which means that I will always make time for writing<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve formalised a business partnership with Dr Jason Downs, based around our podcast\u00a0\u2018On The Reg\u2019<\/a>. On The Reg Team provides training on all things writing and productivity. Jason is doing the lion\u2019s share of the work of course, as I continue to be full time at ANU. Luckily, ANU has a generous outside work policy, so I can still do some workshops. If you are interested, you can find our (pretty terrible)\u00a0On The Reg Team website here.<\/a><\/p>\n

I was thrilled to be invited by\u00a0Writing Partners<\/a>, the wonderful people behind\u00a0Shut up and Write!<\/a>, to give the keynote address at the first Shut up and Write! symposium at Cambridge University in November this year. Thanks to\u00a0Aaron and Malaika<\/a>, and to\u00a0Tyler from ThinkLab<\/a>\u00a0who made it happen.<\/p>\n

Extra special thanks and a bit shout out to Rennie Saunders, the guy who started it all in San Francisco in the early 2000s. He\u2019s just a great guy and someone I am proud and happy to now call my friend, here\u2019s proof <\/p>\n

Rennie invented something special. I did my first ever Shut up and Write! with my friend and fellow blogger,\u00a0Dr Jonathan O\u2019Donnell from the Research Whisperer<\/a>\u00a0and wrote about it\u00a0here<\/a>. This blog post is one of the most visited on this site, and I know it inspired many other groups to follow. I wrote a book chapter about\u00a0Shut up and Write<\/a>\u00a0and went on to adapt it for the\u00a0ANU Bootcamp Program<\/a>. The Shut up and Write! principle has had such a positive impact on my career, in so many ways. Writing the symposium keynote made me reflect on what makes it so effective \u2013\u00a0you can read my script here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve not tried it and keen to have a go, you don\u2019t have to start your own group. There might be an existing Shut up and Write! group near you which has a meeting schedule and a venue. Writing Parters have started\u00a0providing help to find others on their website, here.<\/a>\u00a0Check it out!<\/p>\n

Deep thank you to everyone who expressed interest in my neurodivergence in the PhD research! I\u2019m pleased to report we\u2019ve had over\u00a01400 responses to the survey we launched in June<\/a>, many of them from neurodivergent folks (it\u2019s open to the end of the year, if you want to participate). My statistician colleagues tell me there\u2019s enough responses to the survey to give us sufficient \u2018power\u2019 to create some statistical models. We\u2019re seeing interesting things in these models and a couple of papers are being prepared. I will be sending these to the mailing list when they are in draft form (the mailing list sign up is\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0if you are interested).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also pleased to report that Katherine Firth and I have signed up to do the second edition of\u00a0\u2018How to Fix your Academic Writing Trouble\u2019<\/a>\u00a0with Open University press. We\u2019ll be incorporating advice on using AI \/ Large Language models in your writing practice. I\u2019m excited about this project \u2013 one rarely gets a chance to improve on a published book. If you\u2019re interested in updates on release of this book, you can\u00a0join our mailing list for the book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, social media.<\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n

A lot of people look to me for advice on this, and I haven\u2019t had much to offer in the last two years. I even gave up teaching it altogether. As I noted in my post on the\u00a0Enshittification of Academic Social media<\/a>, these platforms are no longer built for sharing and the algorithms decide what you see, making it all a bit pointless for both networking and sharing. The trolling can make it more of a place of despair for many academics, not connection.<\/p>\n

I got off Twitter (I refuse to call it X) in July last year. I wish more academics would just leave \u2013 we give Musk more power by giving him our eyeballs.<\/p>\n

I have been actively searching for a replacement to Twitter ever since Musk walked in with his stupid kitchen sink. Mastodon has promise, but every time I post I get mansplained \u2013 I got sick of it. In desperation, I invested a bit of time in Linkedin, but that will never be a place of joy. I hung out a lot on Threads over the last year, but it\u2019s ultimately been disappointing. The algorithm encourages passive consumption, not connection.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve switched to BlueSky last week and it definitely shows promise. If you want to talk to me in real time, that\u2019s the best place for now \u2013 as usual, you can find me there as\u00a0@thesiswhisperer.bsky.social.<\/a>\u00a0.. until, of course, the enshittification catches up with us again!<\/p>\n

Thanks for considering my\u00a0reader survey<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and I will see you back here in January<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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