A wonderful piece ! Thankyou!

A *lot* has happened since #AcademicDiary was published. But I still cherish a great deal of your book's insights 😊

Academic Diary - Les Back Les Back has chronicled three decades of his academic career, turning his sharp and often satirical eye to the everyday aspects of life on campus and the larger forces that are reshaping it.

First published in 2016, and read by me since then on a regular basis, I feel it's time for @academicdiary.bsky.social important #AcademicDiary again

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Recently I've been delving into some books and I'd like to recommend one by Darin Stephanov, "Ruler Visibility and Popular Belonging in the Ottoman Empire, 1808–1908"
One of the few works that inspired me a lot in terms of writing/planning and use of sources.
#academicdiary #nocontexthistory

White on Red cover of 'Academic Diary Or Why Higher Education Still Matters' by Les Back

Letter to a new student 1. Listen but don't be silent 2. Care about your grades but don't make them your only goal 3. Read and buy books 4. Don't try and do it all the night before 5. Don't be just a consumer 6. Follow your interests (Les Back, pp 17-24)

Season's Greetings from #PACEspace {JM}

Wishing you all 🕊️, rest, good health, and space to think.

Signing off until January 2025 with some words of hope and wisdom from #AcademicDiary on why #HigherEducation still matters.

#AcWri #DoctoralLiteracies #DoctoralEducation #ResearchWriting #OpenAccess

On the academic agenda today: student feedback meetings; BSECS exec meeting + report on EDI survey; lecture prep for my lecture on Swift tomorrow; working on Samuel Johnson’s definition of ‘queer’ for chp am writing. What’s everyone else up to? #AcademicDiary

What sociologists learn from music: identity, music-making, and the sociological imagination

"sociologists learn [...] to understand society through their engagement with music. [...] For sociologists, involvement in music making is also an incitement to get off campus and encounter an alternative world of value and values." by Les Back #AcademicDiary

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