Tseen Khoo

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Researcher developer at #DeakinRDA | 1/2 of @TheRealRW | Critical university studies, research culture, academic identities | Creator #SadChairsOfAcademia and #TiredBagsOfMelbourne | tseenster.com ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5447-061X

Screenshot bluesky update by Mikko Jimenez that says: "Publish or perish" is an insult to my ability to multitask.

Black seal seen from above, with what looks like a shaved head except for a tuft of hair on the top. Text above it says "Average haircut of the kid on the bus watching TikToks without headphones."

Wooden chair carved so that it looks like there’s a jacket slung over the back.

Interior of Jounal Cafe, dark wood, soft lighting.

Quiet morning suburban street, a few cars parked along the kerb, grey cloudy day.

Two stacked pancakes on a white plate, dripping with golden syrup, cut into segments, fork in the background.

Bus shelter with a full side poster of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein being put up by a worker in a fluoro vest. Title on the image reads "Put this photo everywhere for Trump's UK visit".

Red paper bag from Q. Ribs on someone’s lap on a Metro Melbourne train.

Grey skies above a deserted suburban street. Power pole in front of weird split tree.

@pengzell: “Being an academic means saying ‘I’d love to collaborate!’ and then vanishing into the ether for 14 months “

This split image meme is of a fully armoured knight carrying a large sword (top) with an arrow piercing the most vulnerable part of the visor (bottom) conveys the rapid shift from appearing as if we’re prepared for critique to being injured immediately by a piercing comment from Reviewer 2.

Close-up of slice of cheesecake, studded with berries.

Green fingerless gloves on a lightly curled fist, with layered clothing sleeves on show - red jumper, black outer coat.

Fantastic panel about Indigenous graduate research / researchers. Sadie Heckenberg at the lectern, wearing a bright green dress.

White text on black background: "American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers, according to internal documents, contracts, and communications 404 Media obtained via public records requests."

Close up of postal AEC voting pamphlet and return envelope, purple and white design.

Ceramic turtle pot, high-sided, earthy colours.

Jen Martin, wearing headphones and a black zip-up jacket, presenting her seminar about communicating research.

Online panel about genAI and preparing professionals for a future workforce.

Screenshot of an online panel - facilitator (Marnie Hughes-Warrington) on the left and panel of four on the right (Troy Tobin, Rising Sun Pictures; Odile Shepherd, Wotton Kearney; Jane Adams, CBA; Amina Crooks, Accenture).

Screenshot of this text by Mark Carrigan: "Let’s return to Pasquale’s invocation of professionals doing their jobs ‘better’ as a result of engagement with automated systems. Is it doing your job better if you publish more journal articles as a result of your use of generative AI? Even if many academics would answer ‘no’ to this question, we still act as if this is what we believe. Productivity stands as a proxy for our institutional worth."

Cute plush yellow snake with Chinese New Year accessories

Two white shipping containers outside the Arts Centre, one with black lettering saying “FLIGHT” and the other “SEANCE “.

Screenshot of a slide titled "Who are your peeps? A resource for doctoral students to explore their support networks"

Website banner for the "Doing doctoral research at a distance" project, listing the research team (Katrina McChesney, Jamie Burford, Liezel Frick, and Tseen Khoo)

Mini pavlova with a cream and fresh fruit topping, on a deep green plate.

Lychee jelly ring topped with berries, on a circular blue plate.

Text excerpt from the linked article that reads: "So not only did Musk, as he was flaming out at University of Pretoria, know that he needed to be in America to become filthy rich, he also knew he’d have to find a way to get to America while hiding from anyone he met there that he (like most if not all of his family, going back generations) had vile, horrifically regressive white-supremacist views on race, government, and business.

To obscure this, Musk concocted a frankly obscene story about choosing to leave his home country for North America because he was anti-apartheid. In fact, he was (and is) a white supremacist, which meant at the time he left South Africa not so much that he"

2 women smiling each other across a table, one is more elderly. Text across the image says: "Being carers costs owmen more than $500,000 over a lifetime, leaving them with less in retirement than men".

Shortbread biscuit box cover featuring seasonal shapes for Christmas - Santa, tree, star, bell.

Hand holding a glass of soft drink that is coloured a neon yellow-green. Drink is backlit by torchlight.

Sign on public transport saying "It's the right thing to do. Take up one seat not two." Image is of a commuter taking up a whole seat.

Bright yellow giant rubber ducky in Sydney Harbour.

From photographer Eva Rinaldi: "One of the quirky highlights of Sydney Festival 2013 will be Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's Rubber Duck.

The Rubber Duck - made of a PVC material similar to jumping castles - was constructed in New Zealand by a company that specialises in sewing stadium rooftops and large sails."

Close up of black t-shirt that says "Acrimonious" across a big orange splash.

Three tall ppl plastic cups full of icy, milky drinks, in a restaurant.

Caption on image: “Getting ready now to vacate the Merewether Building in prep for big move to new Social Sciences building. Leaving behind the rather spooky and never-to-be-sat-in chair of Prof RN Spann, Chair of Public Administration 1954-81.”

University of Sydney, Australia. From Twitter’s @allanmcconnell4 (via @anika_gauja).

Actual #SadChairsOfAcademia is a brown leather armchair with a seat almost denuded of leather and scraps peeling to the floor. Background of old-fashioned wooden cupboards and a random sink.

Yellow-backed chair with awkwardly bent front leg, leaning against a wall.

Brown and white border collie looking at the camera, lying down.

Coconut flavoured coated peanuts in a cute hexagonal floral dish.