I wore my academic robes to Halloween last year. It got a lot of laughs, and a couple of understanding nods ... :-)

I had a good friend in high school who was convinced that his English teacher was not really reading the essays being graded. He inserted the words 'cat eight Egypt' in the middle of a sentence, out of context, to test his theory. It's still a source of amusement for our cohort to this day!

I find this really interesting. My own legal research training was pre-Google Scholar. I use Google Scholar a lot, but I also wouldn't have a problem adapting if it disappeared. All the old ways are still there! And I find I continue using them concurrently with Google Scholar right now anyway.

I once had an administrator acknowledge to me that many people who their university would like to have apply for awards don't, because they are too busy doing the good work that would justify their applying for an award!

This is (more or less) the story of the Samurai Pizza Cats! Which I was excited to be able to work in as the theme of a conference paper I presented earlier this year ...

And that's how it's done done done!

Our @monash-iticl.bsky.social feed recently (cheekily) pointed out that despite AI integration, you still can't add comment boxes to footnotes in Word. A reply correctly observed you can attach comments to the footnote marker. But for the reason you give here, very often that's still not useful!

I can report that 'Golden' is now a staple of our before school and before bed-time routine. It's a start!

Unfortunately (for them), my family has had to put up with me talking about it all weekend ... !

Food for the mind? ...

Sometimes I feel like my best academic artistry is in my words ... :-)

Final tally: one out of three projects with pop culture framing made it out into the world in its original form. I'll take that as a great result! (And in the two other cases, of course, it was still fantastic to get my research out there!)

I've recently been marking a batch of papers with extremely few students have lodged generative AI declarations, yet very many papers have particular similarities that are suggestive of generative AI use. To students: know the rules, and declare when you need to!

It does take a little longer - unless I'm making my porridge very incorrectly!! ;-)

That said, I've been surprised by the regularity with which I have cited papers in some of the key festschrifts in my field! Some contributions can be really great, from time to time!!

I feel like the many exceptionally great law review editors out there often don't get the recognition they very much deserve! I've been on the receiving end of really great editorial assistance on a good number of occasions too. Really love this post!

I just realised that I'll happily eat what I'm given because complaining is too scary, but at the same time I'll also happily cite and disagree with someone else's scholarship. I'm now not sure what this means ...