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I am moving to a new country in Europe (I dont speak the language at all) with a post-doc job in a few weeks, and my insides are knotting up!
I totally get you DanB and I wish I had some tips to offer,but am feeling (a) scared (b) guilty for feeling scared for I got a job after all,and have no business complainin...
Sorry Wal am frightfully late, CONGRATULATIONS DOCTOR!! (up)
Have not been logging on - as (a) got a job so have been interviewing and (b) submitting in 4 weeks so stretched thin :( Sooooooo happy and encouraged to hear your news. Am off to a European country with a post-doc soon after submission, so will miss everything here.
I wonder what the pre-viva moments must feel like. Even thinking about it knots up my insides.
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I wouldn't know how to get around this.
I quote the first paragraph of my thesis - *my thesis has a single word title btw, just one word, and 3 words of a sub title* :-) As per below
Warfare: From animals to aliens
OPENING PARA
In this thesis, I ask, in what ways our knowledge about the battle of mammals, emergent from many decades of empirical research with animal warfare, is useful in understanding warfare amongst aliens. Throughout this thesis I use warfare as the sum total of active, engaged, involved, sometimes critical and resistant tasks performed in fighting with the opposition, irrespective of the directionality of warfare (i.e. one way, interactive etc.) I use warfare to indicate a set of tasks enmeshed within social histories and practices of animals and aliens and shaped to a considerable extent by the provisions of the battlefield itself. Throughout this thesis, I use the word warfare to connect animals and aliens and extend animal warfare theory into the age of aliens, without positioning a gulf between animals and aliens. What is of interest to me is how far the conceptual framework accumulated around the notion of uni-directional animal war activity is instructive and constructive in the context of multi-directional, alien-generated, interactive warfare. I carry these concepts into a project with aliens from Venus but the subjects of interrogation are the concepts themselves. "
END of first para
of course, I do not work with aliens etc...
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