Obja Borah Hazarika

Passing through

[peeleraja @peeleraja]

Friendly reminder that the United Nations seems to exist only so that rich kids of IB schools can play Model UN

[Ann Morgan @A_B_Morgan]

Diburgarh University International Literature Festival 2026 https://t.co/jVwWNUKiP4

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Set up pointless meetings months in advance then cancel on the day to give your colleagues a dopamine hit

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

You: “if it’s not too much trouble, could you please, possibly, email me a pdf of your article, so long as it’s no bother…”

Me: “I will mail, fax, email, and hand deliver you a copy, and read it to you over the phone”

[Tom Silver @tomssilver]

Academic relaxation ladder:

Undergrad: relaxes from homework by doing extracurriculars
PhD student: relaxes from research by doing homework
Professor: relaxes from admin by doing research

[Lavanya Mohan @lavsmohan]

Djokovic has basically gone from being a tennis bad boy to becoming the last source of millennial hope. If Djokovic is still playing tennis maybe you and I still have a chance.

[Saib Bilaval @SaibBilaval]

Conference orgs: we invite you to High Tea

Partha: existence of a high tea implies the existence of a low tea

Dipesh: milk tea is a western construct

Sai Deepak: -too afraid to anger the public-

Spivak: fbdvsg

Homi: ghshpk

Kaviraj/Nandy: we should make this an edited volume

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Low confidence = please don’t read my draft; it’s terrible

High confidence = please read my draft; it’s terrible

[໊ @meishato]

my anxiety has a loophole that if somebody else is equally or more uncomfortable i develop the sudden ability to DO THE THING. i can’t go and ask for more ketchup for myself but if my friend wants more ketchup i’m out of my seat in a second

[𝐵𝑎𝑏𝑦 𝐾 @misskerrington]

i really cannot be friends with picky eaters because it somehow always correlates to bigger problems and character flaws

[Aishy @imayesha_n]

please use "okay" or "okie" instead of "ok" because okay is happy, okie is cute and ok is scary, mean and evil

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

i do not endorse calling stem fields the inhumanities because this is the sort of language that would make stem people cry if they knew how to read

[Maya @kali_denali_]

After your MA you'd get an urge to start a PhD, it's very important that you get a job instead

[Lior Pachter @lpachter]

Academic flexes that I dislike: 1/🧵

[Libriscent @libriscent]

A person usually hates you for 1 of 4 reasons:
1 They want to be you,
2 They hate themselves,
3)They see you as a threat
4) They "hate the way other's Love you".

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Adding citations of people who might review the paper

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

When you moan about admin, you’re channeling ancient wisdom