Controversial way rich parents are helping their kids? How cute…They think this is just rich kids in NYC? *snorts* It’s everywhere. It’s all walks of life. Don’t kid yourself, it’s not just kids from the Upper East Side with parents who are hedge fund managers that can buy their kids homework. Essay mills are prolific. Ghost writers…
So I keep getting these emails in my inbox: Requests to register for paid peer review… Does anybody else see the slippery slide that this puts us on? There are already enough fundamental problems with peer review. From my own personal experience I’ve seen editors who ignore reviews and publish fundamentally flawed papers because the authors…
Just in time for election ranting! Honestly though, I’ve had a bit of a break from blogging for the last 6 months. While I’ve had a lot to say, much of it wasn’t appropriate for public consumption. Suffice to say work is one giant clusterfuck. Anyway…Now on to my election commentary! Turnbull’s election announcement? This…
So David Leyonhjelm from the Australian Liberal Democrats went off on a giant rant fest about childless people being forced to financially support those who make the choice to procreate. And as politically incorrect as it might be to admit, I don’t actually disagree with much of what he says. It was a brilliant speech! Some…
Obviously at this point we don’t know who is responsible for the attacks in Paris, but there’s already a lot of blame going around that it was (Muslim) Syrian refugees (see: Twitter). I am not trying to apportion blame to anyone here, just musing out loud. I know that these refugees were by and large…
Yes, a rhetorical question. I’m at home marking exams, with the tv on, watching the live coverage of the latest terrorist attacks in Paris. Seriously, what the actual fuck is wrong with people? Religion. I don’t know whether to just rage at the hopelessness of humanity, or whether to just kill myself so that I…
There’s been two very poignant articles show up in my social media feeds in the last week – both relating to food allergies and intolerances. In case you don’t know – I’m allergic to dairy for which I have to carry an epipen, and I have a gluten intolerance (medically diagnosed) that triggers IBS. The…
I know I’ve been quiet. It’s just that it seems to be a case of Murphy’s Law or something. Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Not only has the ongoing saga of sexism and harassment been continuing unabated, now everything else seems to be compounding that issue. I have a project collaborator threatening me, and…
I loved my iPhone. Truly. My trusty little 4S was unquestionably the best phone I’ve ever owned. Until last week. Apple ruined that for me. And this time it was something I wasn’t prepared to just forgive and forget. I now own a Samsung Galaxy. With the release of iOS 9.0, I was excited. It…
So, I was happy that Malcolm Turnbull won the party room ballot to kick Tony Abbott out of the PM’s job. Fantastic – it was kind of hard to find anyone worse than Abbott. But now come the disappointments… Turnbull today has named his new cabinet. Unsurprisingly, the ministries of importance to me are education,…
Imma just going to leave this here. lol Australia, your new Prime Minister elect #auspol #libspill pic.twitter.com/77PJ9mma1M — The Age (@theage) September 14, 2015
There’s no denying what Trump said about Megyn Kelly was inappropriate, but the hypocrisy of the Republicans is once again glaringly evident. “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes…blood coming out of her…wherever.” Trump’s comments, while offensive, aren’t even in the same ballpark as Republicans trying to control women’s lives by…
This is why I’ve been offline for a while. I’m genuinely open suggestions here… I’m not writing this to be facetious, I write this in all seriousness. How do senior female academics deal with it? As a woman working in geological research in academia, it’s not uncommon to face the scenario where I’m the only female in the room. It’s…
I’ve been missing for a while, all will be explained shortly in another blog entry. For now, I just want to comment on the Bronwyn Bishop choppergate scandal. What she did was wrong. It’s inappropriate to use taxpayer funds for personal travel. And as far as I’m concerned, attending party fundraisers is personal, not part…
I have a friend who has a large family. She’s got 7 kids, and is a single stay-at-home mother. Be that as it may, the fact remains that 3 of her school aged children are on the autism spectrum and have varying levels of learning difficulties as a result. One of her sons is quite…
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