Stephen Tatlow

Poking the sounds that make the pictures more interesting. Disagreeing with the stuff that's written down, because isn't that why people write things down?

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I'm now preparing for my viva. Tell me the worst advice you received.

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There are two things left to resolve in the text of my thesis, and a few things to check in my bibliography. And then... I'm done? That's it? I'm submitting? What?

I think this is happening, my friends, maybe even today.

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Perpetually baffled by the students that turn up after skipping piano class for twenty weeks and expect me to somehow prepare them for their exam.

Their exam is tomorrow.

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19!

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@juliannegrasso In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, none of my students do enough of either.

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University reposted an advert for a job I applied for. I have not yet received any updates to my application. Presumably I have been rejected? It is tempting to send exactly the same application in for the reposted job, just to see whether I get an actual rejection this time....

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The average word in my thesis has 5.6 characters.

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In the ballpark of 61 comments left to resolve, and a lot of those are just me needing to add a final high-res version of my figures...

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I thought about doing an ambiguous number countdown, but that felt a little like Facebook in the early 2010s, so here's a non-ambiguous one: 199 unresolved comments left in my thesis. That's less than one per page!

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I swear that every sentence I delete from my thesis turns into a whole new paragraph somewhere else.

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@juliannegrasso New esport: we all compete to send the fewest number of emails whilst also fulfilling all of our contractual obligations.

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@stefanxgc If your neighbours are complaining, it's because they aren't used to it yet. Pick a time when they're sure to be around - 2am, for example - and do it every night for a month. They'll come to love it!

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@stefanxgc Have you tried shouting really, really loudly?

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Has @Stagecoach_East really got rid of the £3.50 return from Trumpington P&R to Cambridge Rail Station? Bus driver was insistent that it was the £4.50 day tickets only from hereon out.

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Today I read my thesis and thought it was great. Now I am internally freaking out over what is clearly a lapse in my critical reading and academic editing skills.

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The irony of them claiming that teachers are paid too well to strike whilst linking to their own webpages promising more money, better pay rises, and improved working conditions seems to be lost on them.

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UK Gov responding to strikes: "Teachers will see pay rises of 5 to 8.9%, with new teachers receiving the highest uplift. This will take teacher starting salaries to £28K, which is significant progress towards this government’s 2019 manifesto commitment of a £30K starting salary."

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UK Gov trying to recruit teachers makes this their first point: "The starting salary for a newly qualified teacher is at least £28,000 and this is set to rise to £30,000...Most teachers in the first few years of their career will receive pay rises of up to 15.9% this year."