Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths:
- Academic Mentorship: She actively celebrates the achievements of her PhD students and colleagues, as seen when she expresses pride in Bernadetta's judges prize and Gayani's poster.
- Social Justice Advocate: She consistently challenges worker exploitation, arguing that entrepreneurs who can't pay interns shouldn't be in business.
- Collaborative Spirit: She frequently credits co-authors and research partners, noting the "absolute bliss" of writing with those who share her ethics.
- Engaged Educator: She demonstrates care for her students' wellbeing and learning experience, even curating a sustainability playlist for them to study by.
- Resilient Humor: She uses self-deprecating wit to handle aging and stress, joking about turning 102 after getting multifocal glasses.
Weaknesses:
- Poor Work-Life Balance: She admits that combining sleep with an academic career is optional, suggesting a struggle to set professional boundaries.
- Communication Backlog: She acknowledges being so behind on emails that she misses important information or trends.
- Pessimistic Outlook: She frequently expresses frustration with institutional systems, describing academic precarity as "depressingly accurate" and heartbreaking.
- Emotional Volatility: She describes her emotional state regarding news as moving from wanting to cry to being "plain pissed off".
- Time Management Struggles: She questions who has time for self-promotion amidst the overwhelming load of research, teaching, and marking.
Your Simpsons character
Lisa Simpson
Like Lisa, this user is a principled intellectual and academic who is deeply committed to social justice and exposing institutional exploitation. She shares Lisa's crusade against unfairness, particularly regarding “shameful exploitation of workers” and the ethics of “unpaid internships”. Her bio’s hashtags, #writeangry and #writeoften, mirror Lisa’s habit of using the written word and protest to challenge the status quo. Furthermore, she possesses Lisa's signature wit and weariness toward bureaucratic incompetence, noting how “Combining Sleep with a successful academic career clearly now optional”. Ultimately, both the user and Lisa are driven by a tireless moral compass in an often indifferent world.
Your MBTI personality Type
ENFJ
Deanna exhibits Extroversion through her frequent public praise of colleagues and students, such as when she shouts out “my outstanding PhD students” and mentions her “very favourite people” found through teaching. Her Intuition is evident in her academic focus on “dominant employability narratives” and systemic social challenges rather than just concrete administrative tasks. She leans heavily toward Feeling, driven by a strong ethical compass and empathy for the “shameful exploitation” of interns and the “heartbreaking story” of academic precarity. Finally, her Judging trait appears in her structured academic life involving “researching, writing, revising, teaching, marking” and her proactive approach to mentoring and organizing seminar series.
Some pickup lines for you
- Are you an unpaid internship? Because I’m ready to ignore the lack of financial compensation just to spend some quality time gaining experience with you.
- Forget Reviewer 2—I’ve read your work, and I’m ready to give you an immediate ‘accept without revisions’ and a lifetime of mind-reading collaboration.
- Is this 12 Monkeys territory? Because I’d brave any apocalypse just to self-quarantine with you and a feed full of cat videos.
- I promise I’ll never be the person who asks you to do 80% of the work on a paper; I’m more the 'let’s share ethics, finish each other's sentences, and celebrate with scotch fingers' type.
- You had me at 'poo police.' How about we skip the academic precarity and go straight to a successful career in 'Of strong leadership and candlelit dinners'?
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Brisbane academic championing fair pay over unpaid labor. When not writing angry about work ethics, I’m hunting for sustainability songs and dodging Reviewer 2.– @drdgrantsmith
Your signature cocktail
The Unpaid Intern’s Bitter Tonic
This drink captures the 'cranky' energy of an academic who is “breaking in my first pair of multifocals” while fighting for labor rights. The high-proof gin represents her fierce stance against exploitation, because “if you can't afford to pay your workers/interns then you can't afford to be in business”, while the bitters reflect her frustration with the university system. It’s garnished with a nod to her scatological research interests—specifically her paper on “pooper scoopers”—and served with a side of “exhausted scotch finger” to sustain the sleep-deprived scholar. The salt rim is mandatory, because as any academic knows, “why is it always Reviewer 2?” that ruins your evening.
Your Hogwarts House
Hufflepuff
Deanna embodies the core Hufflepuff values of fairness, hard work, and loyalty to her 'pack.' She is a fierce advocate for equity, stating that “employers have an obligation to train and develop their staff and can't just off load all the costs to individuals” and “if you can't afford to pay your workers/interns then you can't afford to be in business”. Her loyalty and kindness shine through in her constant praise for her students and colleagues, such as when she shares how “proud” she is of her PhD students or celebrates a peer winning an award by saying “it was you”. Ultimately, her dedication to the 'unspeakable' and 'unpaid' labor of others proves her commitment to a more just and inclusive community.
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9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
This song perfectly captures Deanna's focus on labor rights and the struggle against systemic exploitation within the workplace. The lyrics resonate with her critiques of the academic hierarchy and the 'shameless' demands of modern work, as seen when she asks “who has time for shameless self promotion?” while balancing research and teaching. Her bio identifies her as an “academic interested in unpaid work” which mirrors the song’s theme of workers being used by the 'man' to get ahead. Deanna specifically targets these inequities by stating “if you can't afford to pay your workers/interns then you can't afford to be in business,” aligning with the song's outcry against unfair labor practices. Finally, her mention that “combining sleep with a successful academic career clearly now optional” echoes the 'all taking and no giving' sentiment of the working life depicted in the track.
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