What's a nightmare blunt rotation without a nightmare blunt? Truly, a gap in the market

Students may have become soft nowadays, but I'll teach them the strong programme 💪
Their weak minds will soon comprehend causality, impartiality, symmetry and reflexivity

*slams binder on desk* "I bet all you snowflakes think knowledge is justified true belief. Well I don't care how many of you I offend today! Prepare to be mad! Imagine Smith and Jones have both applied for a job and Jones believes that.."

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

My landlord has been encouraging me and my fellow immigrant housemates to properly integrate into Belgian society, which is working pretty well so far. For example, I have become a member of the local tenants association to learn about our rights and address his blatantly illegal house rules

How is “viewpoint diversity” not just affirmative action for people with bad ideas

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

me: i wonder what we’d be capable of without all these high tech distractions

some guy in like 1066: try and knock me off a horse with this here pole

I'd say the combination of both, i.e. the book he wrote about murdering her

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Thinkpiece: are we going through an epistemic vibecession?

fanning the flames of absolute bullshit

My place in Belgium does not have a kettle, so I just microwaved some water for tea. What has become of me?

Ok but have you considered: please don't?

Within the microcosm of Cofnas' lack of charisma and expertise, systemic unoriginality, etc. we have all the features of the macrocosm: they claim uniqueness and specialness, but are functionally fungible; unique only in the specific expression of their own particular moral and intellectual vices

Excellent write-up of the most recent Cofnas bullshit here in Ghent. If you want to stay up to date on the current developments, you should give @ptrbck.bsky.social a follow!

Bland university hallway with words written on the wall in grey lettering: another, purpose, personal, anything

"we've got few inspirational words for the university hallway already, we need another"

"eh, just put anything"

Just heard someone say "the early 2020s" and I think I took psychic damage. What do you mean were more than halfway through the decade?? This does not feel right

We should bring weird little hats back

Ok *now* it’s philosophy’s time to shine

The energy I want to bring to friendships is that of an elderly lady at the charity shop encouraging you to get that sparkly sequin dress

I am standing in front of St John's College, Cambridge, dressed in black trousers, a black blouse and a patterned green blazer. The weather is beautiful, I am exhausted, and very, very happy

I made it!!! The viva went really well! 🥳🥳🥳

Thank you, Ismael!

Thanks, I really hope so

cool thanks that really helps put things in perspective!

Ok crisis averted my friend did a tarot reading for my viva and apparently, things will go okay. The cards have thematically appropriate illustrations of actual fungi species, so they seem pretty trustworthy

The night before the viva is an excellent time to realise I've made several embarrassing formatting mistakes and accidentally deleted an entire paragraph in the introduction of my thesis. Cool cool

Oh if only some friend or family member had ever made a joke to alert me of this issue. How could I have known??

My worst work is always the piece I finished about 4 months ago, when it's in the sweet spot of being neither new enough to feel exciting, nor old enough to be surprisingly good in hindsight. A truly excruciating read