How To Become an Academic Mum Without Going Nuts
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How To Become an Academic Mum Without Going Nuts
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THE book project to be followed by all aspiring (future) academic mums. Funny to read and easy to hold in one hand while breastfeeding, based on studies and rooted in experience.

Edited and mostly written (to be) by @thesismum.bsky.social.
I wrote a bit in German: about #IND2024, #nursing in Germany, Florence Nightingale, Marie Simon/Marja Simonowa, deaconesses and why the good #Samaritan is role model and nuisance at the same time. The constant feeling that one needs to be better might be applicable to #academicmums as well.
May 12, 2024 at 11:36 AM
2.300 words in 1 day (Alas, not for the book, but for a good cause - #LaTdH at @eulemagazin.de) and I hereby declare myself the slowest writer ever. How do those of you, who make a living by writing, manage? Also, I had to assist in the removal of two ticks from the cat's neck. #academiccatowner
May 9, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Who was complaining about #workload and missing #worklifebalance? Who just accepted an invitation to #review a 26 pages paper to help an editor/colleague in distress? Who will never be able to finish her own #publication projects? - The winner will be allowed to poke me (gently) with a pen.
May 4, 2024 at 7:28 PM
After 11 hours of teaching today, it is
• a cold coke
• gnocchi with cheese and a green salad and
• "The Birth of the Clinic" by Michel Foucault (1963).
I need ages for them, but find these sociological fundamental books, but find them very relaxing (and inspiring).
What is your #afterwork book?
April 9, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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If you're interested in this topic (and understand German), we can also recommend listening to @hannesbajohr.de discuss AI and literature on the De Gruyter podcast, WAGNIS WISSEN.

🎧 Find it on Spotify, YouTube, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKH4...
Kann KI auch Literatur? Hannes Bajohr zum Verhältnis von künstlicher Intelligenz und Literatur
Hat das ein Mensch geschrieben - oder war eine Künstliche Intelligenz am Werk? Seit dem Durchbruch von ChatGPT lässt sich das oft nicht mehr so einfach fests...
www.youtube.com
April 9, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Prove me wrong, but one of the most exhausting aspects of being a #commuting #academicmum is the permanent state of in-between in #packing and always having parts of your wardrobe not where you are needing it. *going to pack for the umpteenth time in 2024*
March 24, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Latest cartoon: What did we learn from Covid?
March 23, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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This is a witch hunt targeted primarily at scholars of color who study race.
Chris Rufo now going after Christina Cross for "plagiarism" - his go-to example is *descriptions of data that are similar.* There are only so many ways you can describe data!
March 20, 2024 at 2:54 PM
sinusitis, the = time of annoying illness (usually during #winterterm or at the beginning of #springterm, when you feel lousy and finally have the time 🙄 to mark all those exams and prepare lectures instead of staying in bed, drinking tea and taking care of oneself.
March 21, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Hi out there! This blossoming #bookproject about How to Become an #academicmum is now also on #Instagram: www.instagram.com/withoutgoing...
March 17, 2024 at 7:32 PM
The advantage of being a commuting #academicmum: a) I can eat as much "Yuk!" stuff (Fish! Leek!) as I want, and b) start my Sunday with a breakfast in bed without someone jumping on it. Apart from that I miss them dearly. And I have started a chapter about #wholesomefood for academic mums.
March 17, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Taken from real life: mourning period for the #academicmum, the = time after losing a beloved person, when you care for your family and colleagues advise you to "take time" and you work nights and weekends to get exams marked + lectures prepared, which got left behind while you necessarily focused.
March 9, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Semester breaks are usually the only times when academic mums are able to go on vacation with their family - tricky when semester break and school holidays don't run at the same time. Where are you the academic/calendric year? How do you balance family & job at university?
February 20, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Being an Academic Mum might also mean: Being a Commuting Academic Mum, because your dream job often is not where the family lives and moving isn't always an option.
January 21, 2024 at 8:43 AM
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"While there is no vaccine for invasive Group A streptococcus, Naus urged parents to at least get their kids vaccinated against influenza and COVID-19.

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Get kids up-to-date on vaccinations, watch for signs of invasive Strep A: doctors
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January 21, 2024 at 1:15 AM
Today, I met with another woman scholar, @sabrinakirschner.bsky.social, at café Tanteleuk in Dresden. My cake was powdered with rose-gold cake glitter dust. As academic life is far more prosaic than glittery and sweet, we should all have a big slice. Have a nice week.
January 14, 2024 at 7:08 PM
When you are a commuting academic mum [Very typical for academic dads, but a penny for every time I got: "Isn't it hard for the kids? How does hubby cope?"] and stuck because of a train drivers' strike and can't see your kids anyway, it is reading & writing time in the office.
January 13, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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Found the typo. "Familiae" fits though: What I am reading in the book, are the everyday struggles and demands of academic mums all over the world. I hope that our book will become part of your village to raise your child(ren) and an academic career.
January 5, 2024 at 7:48 AM
It is research phase and @thesismum.bsky.social is reading the testimonies by female scholars in: "Parenting & Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career" by Rachel Hile Bassett (Vanderbilt University Press 2005). Sounds all too familiae. Are you an academic mum? Keep updated here!
January 5, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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We start the new year with exciting news for early-career researchers: The deadline for submissions to the Fishman Award has been extended to February 15, 2024. Submit for a chance to get published, win €1000 and a €150 book voucher.

More information: cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/fishmanaward
January 4, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Follow all news about the newest book project by the amazing PhD mums @drcuytman.bsky.social, @drnomyn.bsky.social and @thesismum.bsky.social - mums, lecturers, academic coven and willing to tell the next generation about their experiences. Because: It takes a village to build an academic career.
January 4, 2024 at 11:13 AM