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Inger has A Lot Going On At The Moment - and has the tshirt to prove it. Jason's been Getting Things Done, even if his fridge broke. Things have been better in OTR land, but an episode was finally recorded!
There's a lot of chat in this one because the mail bag was, as usual, excellent.
In the work problems segment Inger plugs the new book she's written with Pat Thomson, Helen Kara and Aimee Grant... While the title is boring and the cover is ugly, she thinks the book is actually great.
Rebecca sent us in a two minute tip and it's great! You'll have to listen to the end to hear it.
Things we mentioned:
Inger's Taylor Swift coded tshirt
OTRT home page (to see our new logo)
QPR conference (we're having a booth!)
The new book "Managing your research project"
Indyx App (Inger's wardrobe organisation app)
Inger's expensive boots
And her expensive leather jacket comes from Leatheron
Inger's eBay page
First edition of How To Fix your Academic Writing Trouble (2nd edition out November this year)
Hazel for the Mac
Example of a patched in ChatGPT image on Inger's Instagram
The Boring Conference
Sneeze Count paper
Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com>
- Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer.
- See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com
- Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address)
- We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break).
- Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com.
- If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site - Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!
We're on YouTube! Watch this episode here
Vote on Jason's wardrobe edit here
(If you want to see Jason's beard, Inger's Pinterest boards and the AI video Inger made to demonstrate Jason's fashion style, jump over there and have a look!)
In this episode we discuss Inger's fascination with fashion youtube influencers and what we can learn for planning out the academic / researcher / enterprenerd year.
Things we mentioned
Inger uses the MiGoals journal in addition to a regular Bullet Journal
Working 9 to 5 not a way to make an academic living (Inger's most downloaded academic paper)
Blog post: Thesis Prison
Book: Tiny Experiments
Nest Labs article on Note Takers
App: Obsidian and how to back up Obsidian using GitHub
Gazman (for the style challenged young man who needs to update their wardrobe for work)
Alison Bornstein Internet Personality
SUK workwear
Inger's Pinterest Boards
Claudia Winkelman
Jason's wardrobe edit questionnaire
Book: Wear it Well by Alison Bornstein
Narelle Lemon
Book: Objective Secure
Book: Measure what matters
Book: Building a second brain
Kane Murdoch Blog
Shout out to Erin from
Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com>
- Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer.
- See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com
- Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address)
- We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break).
- Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com.
- If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site - Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!
Hey! Jason will be in the UK in Late April. If you'd like to chat to him about the trip and possibly having him visit you, email us on enquiries@ontheregteam.com
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The banter section of this episode is lost to history because Jason forgot to hit record! After a short intro by Inger, the team go straight into the mail bag. Let's face it, this is the good stuff anyway - who needs Tinny and puppy news?
In our work problems segment, we discuss the appearance of ChatGPT as a referrer to the Thesis Whisperer blog and what it might mean for researcher visibility. How does an LLM decide on what is an 'authoritative source' on the internet? Is this a new form of 'research impact' and what should researchers do about it, if anything?
This episode also ends abruptly when Inger gets a phone call - the next episode will be much more polished, we promise!
Things we mentioned:
Tiago Forte's PARA book
Blooms Taxonomy
Amazing Marvin app
Click up app
Be visible or vanish book
The Enshittification of Academic Social Media
Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com>
- Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer.
- See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com
- Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address)
- We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break).
- Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com.
- If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site - Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!
Welcome to the first Youtube video version of the pod!
Watch it here
Sorry for the sound quality for the first 10 minutes - promise it gets better when we remembered to turn the mics on! The filming/recording took ages, through many interruptions, and bad technical decisions... so much effort in fact, that we are not sure if we will do it again. Let us know if you like it and we might persist!
In this episode we talk about Boredom at work. Inger reads Jason in on the literature and floats her theory that the PhD is an exercise in training boredom tolerance.
Things we mentioned:
Thesis Whisperer post about boredom in PhD study
Savers - the thrifting superstore
An academic affair - new romance book set in Australian Academia by Jodie McAllister
The Dopamine Brain (book)
Enshittification (book)
One Battle After Another
Tron: Ares
Soul by Pixar
Scispace AI
Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com>
- Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer.
- See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com
- Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address)
- We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break).
- Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com.
- If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site - Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!
Jason has been living his best life, travelling NZ (where he did not touch boiling mud, as much as he was tempted to) and having excuses to eat pepper steak pies. Meanwhile Inger has been having a shit time at work and waiting for her puppy to arrive.
After a confession during the mailbag segment, we hear all about Jason's star keynote at the ASPIRE conference, which led to... well, a bit of a rant on Inger's part at least. You get the picture!
Things we mentioned:
ANU Vice Chancellor resigns
Jason and Ginger Cat
Blossom - puppy mum to be
Rich Academic / Poor Academic
Little National Hotel Newcastle
Perplexity AI
Slides: How to think about AI in the workplace
AI as thinking partner framework
AI as verifier framework
AI as Information Processor Framework
How I used Claude as a ready-to-hand technology to help me build a Structured Dialogic Thinking Bot
Inger's structured dialogic inquiry bot (free to use)
Black Hawk Down
Free Time by Jenny Blake
The EMyth
Breakneck - China's quest to build the future
AI as normal technology
Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com>
- Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer.
- See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com
- Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address)
- We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break).
- Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com.
- If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site
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