Neil Renic
@NC_Renic
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Working on the changing character of war, the ethics of killing, and emerging military technologies.
Joined January 2016
đ¨ Thrilled to announce that my latest article, with the amazing @svpercy, has been published with @IAJournal_CH. Drawing on historical cases, we explore the role of timing in the legal regulation of battlefield weapons and practices.
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Europeans: âI am holidaying. Your emails will be forwarded nowhere to be read by no one. Good dayâ. Americans:
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you want me to attend a work meeting? the thing that killed Julius Caesar?.
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they're calling it a PhD.
reading for pleasure implies the existence of reading for pain.
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Congratulations on your completion of a PhD at our university - you are now a valued member of our academic family. Your email and library access will terminate in 11 minutes.
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Getting a PhD:. Cons:.- anxiety inducing.- poor work-life balance.- brutal job market.- low pay. Pros:.- When your amazon package is delivered you can say, "ah, just what the doctor ordered!".
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Junior scholars: "I feel awkward citing myself" . Senior scholars: "as I cleverly argued (1988; 1991), admirably reiterated (1993; 1995; 1996); and handsomely concluded (2001; 2004; 2007). ".
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The left wing impulse to read books and think.
i've noticed a weird aversion to using AI on the left. not sure if it's a climate or an IP thing or what, but it seems like a massive self-own to deduct yourself 30+ points of IQ because you don't like the tech.
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Apologies for the late response, instead of spending three minutes answering your email I ignored it and felt anxious for two weeks.
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I apologise for the delayed response to your email, I have enormous personal flaws that I refuse to work on.
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Iâm researching! = downloading PDFs . Iâm writing! = googling synonyms.
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Explaining to your friends in manual labour that the emails beat the hell out of you today
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We invite applicants from all socioeconomic backgrounds for this unpaid internship in the most expensive city in the world.
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1) This paper looks potentially relevant to my research.2) Oh, it actually considers my exact question.3) These arguments also look familiar.4) . 5) Shit.
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The good news: once you get a PhD, friends and family will refer to you as doctor. The bad news: They will only do it sarcastically after you get basic trivia wrong.
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Me: "I'd like to copy and paste from this pdf please". Adobe Acrobat: "no worries, I took the liberty of stacking each word on top of each other in a vertical column, adding mysterious symbols, and removing every instance of the letter 't'".
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Write every day for 1 hour. If you miss a writing day add 1 hour to the next. Itâs incredible! Tomorrow Iâm writing for 7 years.
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âmaybe Iâll do some writing between christmas and new yearâ. Between christmas and new year:
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People who went to Oxford will be like, âthis cold weather reminds me of Oxford, where I attended the University of Oxford, as a member of the University of Oxfordâ.
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Academia isnât about fame, or money, or approval. Itâs about downloading as many pdfs as you can before you die.
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Academia is held together by caffeine, free labour, and the two people who nod encouragingly during presentations.
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When your meeting runs over and someone has booked the room
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ICC charges against a democratic leader set a dangerous precedent that the law applies equally to everyone.
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For a small fee, I will nod enthusiastically during your presentation and shake my head sadly during your rivals.
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This is a U.S. Civil War veteran posing in front of a fighter jet in 1955
What are the craziest two people/things to coexist at the same time in history?.
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Starting your most incoherent sentence with "put simply" to deflect blame onto the reader.
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Hey girl, are you eduroam, because weâre completely failing to connect.
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babe, are you ok, you've barely touched your 112 google tabs.
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Cinema peaked in the 2009 movie âKnowingâ, when Nicholas Cage flashed an MIT badge that simply read âAcademic.â
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The men with the strongest opinions about women and PhDs have had zero contact with either.
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I love research because it combines my two favorite things: sitting and anxiety.
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Do a PhD and free yourself of such concerns.
25-30 is such a weird age group. You have to excel in your career, find a life partner, stay healthy and save money.
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When your students advance from having no memory of 9/11 to having no memory of the Global Financial Crisis
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GPT-5 confirmed to confidently try to complete 11 tasks simultaneously then email you 6 months later explaining itâs had a mental breakdown
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112 years ago today, Franz Kafka captured the academic experience
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*someone has cited your work* đ. "As they idiotically and unattractively argue. " đ.
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Refusing to delete a crap paragraph because it took so long to research
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By the age of 40, you should have accumulated over 1 million unread pdfs.
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âGod created war so that Americans would learn geographyâ - Mark Twain
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Trying to connect to eduroam.
If you're 25+ and unmarried, the fuck are you doing?.
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I'm sorry to inform you that you've read enough to start writing.
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Reviewer 1: Interesting analysis. Reviewer 3: Solid work. Reviewer 2:
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Solidarity with Virginia Woolf and her summer writing goals
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Student assistant: "I am truly sorry for disturbing your busy and important work day. Attached is the document you requested. If there is anything else you need please do not hesitate to reach out. Kindest regards from your humble servant.". Prof: "thamks" - sent from IPhone.
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Pre-PhD: I'm not that clever. Post-PhD: I have a sophisticated grasp of precisely how stupid I am in multiple fields.
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If you donât feel stupid doing research youâre not researching hard enough.
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Weâd love to hire you but that position is currently filled by a professor who hates students, refuses to teach, and hasnât published this century.
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There is nothing you cannot achieve 12 hours before an immovable deadline.
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Academics to students: "Be sure to substantiate your claims with credible, verifiable sources". Academics to readers:
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8:00-14:00: panic about basic presentation.14:00-14:20: simple presentation.14:20-18:00: recover from basic presentation.
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Carefully saving the deleted section in a new document, just in case I need the worst paragraph ever written for future work.
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âI have no ideaâ.âď¸ . âThat is beyond the scope of this paperâ.âď¸ âď¸ âď¸ âď¸ âď¸.
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âAI is coming for your jobâ Iâd like to see AI drink 11 coffees, have an anxiety attack, and respond to a work email 6 weeks late.
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Academic conferences should replace the lanyard with individualised vests listing our anxieties.
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The golden rule of academic etiquette: . If the public speaker makes direct eye contact with you, you respond with an enthusiastic nod of encouragement.
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They'll never be a more devastating read than kids imagining what it's like to be 40
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Students: "I wanted to email an academic to compliment their article, but I'm not sure it's appropriate". Academics receiving praise of any type in any form at any time:
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Academics who work and publish in their non-native language are superheroes. I actually canât imagine how difficult that must be.
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American academic conferences:. 8:15-10:00: Panel A.10:30-12:15: Panel B.13:45-15:30: Panel C.16:00-17:45: Panel D. European academic conferences:
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Me, a very serious scholar, having to sing the alphabet song every time I add a source to my reference list.
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âIâm not a regular lecturer; Iâm a cool lecturer,â you tell yourself, as you reference another tv show cancelled before your students were born.
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Editor: âplease check the proofs carefully as this is the last opportunity to correct errors before publicationâ. Academics: âyeah, looks sweet đ¤â
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To stay sane, you need:. - A group of non-work friends where work is never discussed. - A group of work friends where salacious gossip from work is constantly discussed.
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. to be clear, when I said I'm open to feedback on my draft I meant that you could give me a nice compliment.
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Professors in 2024 deciding which memes from 2004 to include in their slides
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