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2026

Humans happened: Why better teaching is not enoughoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
Permission to improve: How we began to change a physics teaching programoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2026
On Being Human, and Having a Cognitive Exoskeletonoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2026

2025

Some quick advice for starting Ph.D. studentsoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2025

2024

The Thermodynamics of Contract Cheatingoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2024
Full throttle, wheels spinning but going nowhereoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2024
“Fabergé eggs & Vintage jeans – Viewing ‘career’ through the lens of coercive control”original ↗
12 Jul 2024
UNSW’s ‘Clayton’s’ Student Misconduct Appeals Processoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2024

2023

Christmas Presents & View to 2024original ↗
23 Dec 2023
Workloads #3 — The Role for Academic Leadershiporiginal ↗
6 Dec 2023
Workloads #2 — How hard does Adam really work?original ↗
26 Nov 2023
Workloads #1 — Reforming our Departmental Workload Schemeoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2023
Lost in a blizzard of NITsoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2023
Choose Academic Freedom…original ↗
26 Jul 2023
ChatGPT gets an A (for Anything but Average)…original ↗
12 May 2023

2021

Three Terms Pt II — What should Attila do?original ↗
10 Nov 2021
Focus your anger and… demand better in your own space.original ↗
7 Nov 2021
When is three terms really three terms?original ↗
20 Jun 2021
WAM Booster Courses: Magic or Myth?original ↗
25 Apr 2021
Death by summative over-assessment — When are students supposed to learn?original ↗
21 Apr 2021

2020

Markissism — Have grade point averages made higher education completely lose the plot?original ↗
20 Dec 2020
The ‘mental game’ of exams.original ↗
13 Aug 2020
Game of Gowns — The spoils of #ponzidemiaoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2020
Working from home: How to get sh*t done.original ↗
19 Apr 2020
The real merit in emeriti…original ↗
8 Mar 2020
Workloads — Academia’s less spoken of equity issueoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2020
Accountabilityoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2020
Zen and the Art of Academic Mind Maintenanceoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2020

2019

Scientific Societies — The standard you walk past is the standard you accept… start demanding better.original ↗
6 Aug 2019

2018

Dealing with Referees at journalsoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2018

2017

The Changing Conference Culture Club.original ↗
1 Dec 2017
How to organise a conference that makes science a better place…original ↗
16 Oct 2017
Bunged pipelines, professorial pensions and academic exit strategiesoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2017
The looming extinction of the Australian postdoc & other scientific labour force nightmares…original ↗
23 Feb 2017

2016

Why it’s imperative for EMCRs to reframe ‘merit’ & ‘opportunity’: Parting thoughts on #SciPath16original ↗
27 Sept 2016
Physchosis: How academia destroys your mental health.original ↗
6 Apr 2016
The Well-done Westie’s guide to being an awesome undergradoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2016

2015

Demographics of Destruction — A bonus analysisoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2015
Fixing ARC Discovery Projectsoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2015
We’ve gotta stop worshipping workaholics…original ↗
14 Jul 2015
Why water + E.Coli = superfluid is too good to be true (or the importance of fact checking for science writers)original ↗
11 Jul 2015
Can we fix academia by disentangling the two core businesses of research and teaching?original ↗
9 Jul 2015
12 guidelines for surviving science…original ↗
2 Jan 2015

2014

Ponzidemia and the academic arms race… Some musings from a burn-out victimoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2014
Philanthropists: If you can’t show us the money, show us some love…original ↗
30 May 2014
Fixing the science research $$ holeoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2014
The Responsible Researcher Reinforcement Indexoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2014
The Conference Dinner Creep Attackoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2014
Thoughts on Future Fellowships from someone who just finished oneoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2014