• The Pain Sponge (or how to be a less crap academic manager)

  • Aug 29 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
  • Podcast

The Pain Sponge (or how to be a less crap academic manager)

  • Summary

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

    Jason is living his best life, free of Latrobe - but Inger has immediately put him to work! On The Reg Team, their new consulting company, is struggling to life through multiple stages of paperwork. More to come...

    The team talk about various doings, including Doen's Jnr's laundry skills, Inger's campaign to get a Puppy and getting caught up in the Blue Screen of Death global IT meltdown!

    There's a full mailbag with some side dashes of Claude before the team embark on the central question: how can you be a less crap manager in academia? God knows, we need them - we have many Thoughts.

    Reading hasn't been high on the agenda, but there's still a two minute tip or two at the end!

    Stuff we mentioned:
    Inger's blog post on how AI is saving her 12 hours a week
    Alison Hardy's podcast
    @thehulry on Threads
    Open AI is Testing Its Powers of Persuasion - Wired Magazine

    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

    - 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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