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The banter section of this episode is lost to history because Jason forgot to hit record! After a short intro by Inger, the team go straight into the mail bag. Let's face it, this is the good stuff anyway - who needs Tinny and puppy news?

In our work problems segment, we discuss the appearance of ChatGPT as a referrer to the Thesis Whisperer blog and what it might mean for researcher visibility. How does an LLM decide on what is an 'authoritative source' on the internet? Is this a new form of 'research impact' and what should researchers do about it, if anything?

This episode also ends abruptly when Inger gets a phone call - the next episode will be much more polished, we promise!

Things we mentioned:

• Tiago Forte's PARA book
• Blooms Taxonomy
• Amazing Marvin app
• Click up app
• Be visible or vanish book
• The Enshittification of Academic Social Media

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Welcome to the first Youtube video version of the pod!

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Sorry for the sound quality for the first 10 minutes - promise it gets better when we remembered to turn the mics on! The filming/recording took ages, through many interruptions, and bad technical decisions... so much effort in fact, that we are not sure if we will do it again. Let us know if you like it and we might persist!

In this episode we talk about Boredom at work. Inger reads Jason in on the literature and floats her theory that the PhD is an exercise in training boredom tolerance.

Things we mentioned:

• Thesis Whisperer post about boredom in PhD study
• Savers - the thrifting superstore
• An academic affair - new romance book set in Australian Academia by Jodie McAllister
• The Dopamine Brain (book)
• Enshittification (book)
• One Battle After Another
• Tron: Ares
• Soul by Pixar
• Scispace AI

Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on

- Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer.

- See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com

- Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address)

- We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break).

- Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com.

- If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

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Jason has been living his best life, travelling NZ (where he did not touch boiling mud, as much as he was tempted to) and having excuses to eat pepper steak pies. Meanwhile Inger has been having a shit time at work and waiting for her puppy to arrive.

After a confession during the mailbag segment, we hear all about Jason's star keynote at the ASPIRE conference, which led to... well, a bit of a rant on Inger's part at least. You get the picture!

Things we mentioned:

• ANU Vice Chancellor resigns
• Jason and Ginger Cat
• Blossom - puppy mum to be
• Rich Academic / Poor Academic
• Little National Hotel Newcastle
• Perplexity AI
• Slides: How to think about AI in the workplace
• AI as thinking partner framework
• AI as verifier framework
• AI as Information Processor Framework
• How I used Claude as a ready-to-hand technology to help me build a Structured Dialogic Thinking Bot
• Inger's structured dialogic inquiry bot (free to use)
• Black Hawk Down
• Free Time by Jenny Blake
• The EMyth
• Breakneck - China's quest to build the future
• AI as normal technology

Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on

- Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer.

- See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com

- Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address)

- We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break).

- Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com.

- If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site