The Journal of BS

'Fake titles for scholarly articles prove that God isn't dead.' ~ Nietzsche, 1898 (probably) // a @mattmorain production

[Vagina Museum @vagina_museum]

"Vaginas need to be researched much more than they are!"
[another finger on the monkey paw curls] https://t.co/NTa3rTztWl

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

@stronglang @bgzimmer 🤬The 8th Annual Tucker Awards recognize excellence in swearing during 2022
https://t.co/UhPRMLwksX
by @bgzimmer via @stronglang

[The Journal of BS @AcademicTitles]

Just learned about @TBQuarterly, "the literary magazine for the Taco Bell Arts and Letters," and I am *delighted.*

[Incunabula @incunabula]

'Christ fucking shit merde!' Language preferences for swearing among maximally proficient multilinguals.

Sociolinguistic Studies, 4 (3), 595-614.
https://t.co/y08RWnz2d4

[Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel]

Academia: To get a job in this field, you must publish 100 articles and attend 50 conferences per year. Work 27 hours per day.
Academia: Also, everyone is going to be kind of mean to you.
Academia: Also, there are no jobs.
Academia: Why are young people leaving academia????

[The Journal of BS @AcademicTitles]

Oh she's on Twitter too! @WriterBowyer with the trilingual diss title: 'Askar to Æscas': The Ash as a Symbol of Life and Death in Old English and Norse Literature

[The Journal of BS @AcademicTitles]

Everyone else who thought they had a clever title for their dissertation, step aside: https://t.co/mxPMpYBgJS

[Joe Bartolotta @jbartolotta]

I hope everyone will enjoy my forthcoming article, "When the CEO is a tater on Twitter: Anthropomorphic Yammering in business communication."

[The Journal of BS @AcademicTitles]

Heads up, all you oh-my-god-I-just-want-it-to-be-over dissertators.

[Clive Thompson @pomeranian99]

So apparently a) otters like to juggle pebbles, and b) after carefully studying the behavior, c) a bunch of scientists are like lol we have no clue why they're doing this, FURTHER STUDY IS REQUIRED: https://t.co/8eB3YX9v7Y

The title on the paper here is 💯

[The Journal of BS @AcademicTitles]

What's the best advice you got (or give!) for finishing your dissertation?

[Clive Thompson @pomeranian99]

A list of animal utterances, from the academic paper "What do animals say?" https://t.co/608TkbIPD4

[The Journal of BS @AcademicTitles]

"Serf and TERF: What Feudal Peasantry Can Teach Us About Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism"

[The Journal of BS @AcademicTitles]

Brilliant.

[The Journal of BS @AcademicTitles]

Can anyone point me to any thoughtful, unproblematic, these-people-are-still-people-and-not-some-curious-subjects-of-inquiry research on the rhetorics of panhandling? I'm also interested in sociolinguistic choices during interactions.