Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Wishing for a joyous Chinese New Year 2025! May the Year of the Snake bring you immense happiness, prosperity, and countless opportunities.

Feeling lost or off-track? Reignite your passions with a vision board! Join me this Sunday for a workshop from 9 am to 12 pm CET (1:30 pm to 4:30 pm IST / 4 pm to 7 pm SGT). Discover clarity and direction for the year ahead. Enroll now: https://buff.ly/3W5Zbsr. #VisionBoard #IntentionalLiving

What will you do to embrace "new year, new you"? Discover your purpose and manifest change. Join our vision board workshop for reflection and self-discovery. Align actions with intentions to gain clarity. Invest in yourself this Sunday, 9-12 CET. Sign up here: https://buff.ly/3W5Zbsr #VisionBoard

Vision Board Workshop, 12 Jan, 9am-12pm CET.

Start the year by uncovering your true desires and creating a visual guide and reminder for a fulfilling year. Participants called it “therapeutic, uplifting,” and a “revelation.” Join me for this once-a-year journey to clarity and purpose.

Sign up now!

Vision Board Workshop, 12 Jan, 9am-12pm CET.

Start the year by uncovering your true desires and creating a visual guide and reminder for a fulfilling year. Participants called it “therapeutic, uplifting,” and a “revelation.” Join me for this once-a-year journey to clarity and purpose.

Sign up now!

Together in life and work, 22 years and counting!

Assoc Prof Julien Cayla and I are running a 6-week workshop to teach you how to write a paper for top tier business journals - marketing, management, IS, accounting.

For doctoral students and ECRs. Starts 16 January. Online. Limited spots. Enrol.

November is #AcWriMo! #Academics! Join me for a FREE program to help you boost your word count this month. 3x weekly Zoom-Room writing collective, a platform to track your word count, a template to help you reflect on your writing, newsletters and more! mehtatext.com/coursesandworkshops #edusky #phd

also, not exactly nanowrimo and not exactly acwrimo, but like, book writing month - get the book proposal written and the chapter on clarity.

The most valued thing in #academia? A safe, non-judgemental space to explore your ideas, away from the hyper-critical eyes of peers, colleagues and co-authors. Can your editor support you in your #writing AND thinking? Read how I do it: mehtatext.com/blog/difficu... #AcWri #academicwriting

Prof Doug Hesse spoke this morning about #Academicwriting and #ChatGPT. The main takeaway: give students specific research-oriented subjects for writing assignments + get them to work WITH #AI, while documenting it ALL. As for writing #grants: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Have you used AI yet?

I love Microsoft Word. A look at how it has changed our world, subtly.

We all knew it all along - governments and banker-wankers are all in it together. Nothing changes.
Cap on bankers' bonuses to be scrapped www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines... #greed #financialcrisis #banking

Nope, not the same at all. I talk about revising as moving the furniture & editing as decorating with books/knickknacks. You can't/shouldn't decorate if you don't have the furniture where you want/need it. #AcademicSky #AcWri

When will my students (doctoral and faculty) stop being scared to write in plain English? When they see established names in their field writing in plain English. #Academics, please, if you write for an audience of more than 3, then perhaps more than 3 will read it. #courage #AcWri #academicwriting

Living up to my non reputation as a good post colonial subject, I’ve been listening to a fantastic podcast called Empire by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand.
Listen and weep.

#AcWri #AcademicWriting #Edibuddies #Amediting - i'm here, i'm excited, and i think there should be one universal style guide. because let's stop wasting our life on formatting. i'll die on this hill.