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Inger has A Lot Going On At The Moment - and has the tshirt to prove it. Jason's been Getting Things Done, even if his fridge broke. Things have been better in OTR land, but an episode was finally recorded!

There's a lot of chat in this one because the mail bag was, as usual, excellent.

In the work problems segment Inger plugs the new book she's written with Pat Thomson, Helen Kara and Aimee Grant... While the title is boring and the cover is ugly, she thinks the book is actually great.

Rebecca sent us in a two minute tip and it's great! You'll have to listen to the end to hear it.

Things we mentioned:

• Inger's Taylor Swift coded tshirt
• OTRT home page (to see our new logo)
• QPR conference (we're having a booth!)
• The new book "Managing your research project"
• Indyx App (Inger's wardrobe organisation app)
• Inger's expensive boots
• And her expensive leather jacket comes from Leatheron
• Inger's eBay page
• First edition of How To Fix your Academic Writing Trouble (2nd edition out November this year)
• Hazel for the Mac
• Example of a patched in ChatGPT image on Inger's Instagram
• The Boring Conference
• Sneeze Count paper

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- 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).

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Vote on Jason's wardrobe edit here

(If you want to see Jason's beard, Inger's Pinterest boards and the AI video Inger made to demonstrate Jason's fashion style, jump over there and have a look!)

In this episode we discuss Inger's fascination with fashion youtube influencers and what we can learn for planning out the academic / researcher / enterprenerd year.

Things we mentioned

• Inger uses the MiGoals journal in addition to a regular Bullet Journal
• Working 9 to 5 not a way to make an academic living (Inger's most downloaded academic paper)
• Blog post: Thesis Prison
• Book: Tiny Experiments
• Nest Labs article on Note Takers
• App: Obsidian and how to back up Obsidian using GitHub
• Gazman (for the style challenged young man who needs to update their wardrobe for work)
• Alison Bornstein Internet Personality
• SUK workwear
• Inger's Pinterest Boards
• Claudia Winkelman
• Jason's wardrobe edit questionnaire
• Book: Wear it Well by Alison Bornstein
• Narelle Lemon
• Book: Objective Secure
• Book: Measure what matters
• Book: Building a second brain
• Kane Murdoch Blog
• Shout out to Erin from

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

Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us!

Hey! Jason will be in the UK in Late April. If you'd like to chat to him about the trip and possibly having him visit you, email us on enquiries@ontheregteam.com

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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

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