your academic FYP 16th January, 2025

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Hey Scholar, here's what we have for you this week:

• Funded PhD opportunities, post-doc positions and job openings 🇳🇱 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 🌏;

• The most passive aggressive response to reviewer 2 ever published (no, seriously);

• Develop your research topic in 3 steps;

• Ace your PhD interview with a free webinar;

  and much more.

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NEWS

👀Dr Popular 

Literally no one knows this, but journal impact factors (JIFs) were originally designed to help librarians estimate how many people read a particular journal regularly in the pre-digital era (a piece by The Tatler is in the works).

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