Buzz·Posted on 12 Aug 201623 Tweets That Will Make Academics Laugh Harder Than They ShouldAcademia is lonely and difficult and thankless, but – no, there is no but.by Tom ChiversBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Shit Academics Say @AcademicsSay I'm not procrastinating. I'm facilitating the democratized disruption of hegemonic academic narratives via social media. #seriousacademic 02:55 PM - 05 Aug 2016 Reply Retweet Favorite 2. Dave Steele @hullodave Psychology joke fact: people are prone to overestimate how funny their jokes about the Dunning-Kruger Effect are. 01:12 PM - 11 Aug 2016 Reply Retweet Favorite 3. Eve de Balzac @balzac2014 Spent ages looking for this quotation by Flaubert. Turns out it's from Dawson's Creek #shitacademicssay #funnywomen 11:24 AM - 05 Aug 2016 Reply Retweet Favorite 4. Academia Obscura @AcademiaObscura Academia is… 10:45 AM - 24 Nov 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite 5. Shit Academics Say @AcademicsSay social scientists on Twitter like 01:16 AM - 29 Jul 2016 Reply Retweet Favorite 6. Drunk Grad Student @DrunkGrad I'd say this is about right. 10:43 PM - 20 Mar 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite 7. Academia Obscura @AcademiaObscura How it feels to be a first year PhD student. 08:30 AM - 29 Jun 2016 Reply Retweet Favorite 8. Grad Girl Problems @gradgirlprobs Revise and resubmit #lifeinacademia #academicproblems 02:15 AM - 07 Jul 2016 Reply Retweet Favorite 9. Ethicist For Hire @ethicistforhire When you enter grad school. When you leave grad school... #GameofThrones 11:39 PM - 27 Jun 2016 Reply Retweet Favorite 10. ibid @ibid78 "Your résume says you spent 4 years in England. What were you doing?" *flashback to me trying to find the actual Hogwarts* "Grad school." 03:34 AM - 18 Nov 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite 11. Dustin Lang @dstndstn "Congratulate [colleague] on a 3-year work anniversary as a postdoc." Oh LinkedIn, you do not understand how academia works 07:15 PM - 17 Dec 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite 12. Shit Academics Say @AcademicsSay Meanwhile on Facebook... 02:18 AM - 01 Nov 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite 13. ratbag protégé @poemsaredumb exclusive new pictures of me writing my thesis 02:04 AM - 06 Jul 2016 Reply Retweet Favorite 14. Katherine McDonald @Katherine_McDon Acknowledgements strike again. 07:28 AM - 03 Feb 2016 Reply Retweet Favorite 15. Jamie Woodham @jwoodham People are always impressed to hear that I graduated from Harvard at 16, but you can do anything you set your mind to if you just lie. 02:17 AM - 03 Jan 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite 16. Matthew Hankins @mc_hankins - Article please - Abstract? - No, article - HTML? - No, PDF - Weird PDF? - No, PDF - PDF in browser? - No, PDF - Download PDF? - Yes - OK 08:37 AM - 16 Feb 2016 Reply Retweet Favorite 17. Lauren SheDevil @DameSavage77 Paparazzi shot of me submitting my thesis just moments ago. #PhD #PhDChat #ItsOver 10:44 AM - 01 May 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite 18. PHD Comics @PHDcomics An Honest Academic Rejection Letter https://t.co/SK9nLXYm7U 08:22 PM - 14 Jul 2016 Reply Retweet Favorite 19. Haley Twist @haleyntwist I wonder what it will be like when I'm no longer a grad student and it's no longer acceptable to eat Skittles for dinner in the library. 10:26 PM - 02 Dec 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite 20. Academic Pain @AcademicPain Inbox Zero #highered 12:12 AM - 11 Aug 2016 Reply Retweet Favorite 21. ShitMyReviewersSay @YourPaperSucks “I am afraid this manuscript may contribute not so much towards the field’s advancement as much as toward its eventual demise.” 07:20 PM - 13 Nov 2014 Reply Retweet Favorite 22. Ethicist For Hire @ethicistforhire History of Philosophy: Ancient: "What?" Medieval: "Is?" Modern: "This?" Today: "Shit?" 11:09 AM - 10 Aug 2016 Reply Retweet Favorite 23. Drunk Grad Student @DrunkGrad When your advisor asks how you're doing 06:40 PM - 12 Jul 2016 Reply Retweet Favorite