1. Spinpact
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spinpact - the art of talking up the relevance of your results
— Matthew Greenall (@mngreenall)
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2. Muke
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'Muke': physical reaction to management repeatedly announcing that are the future.
— Plashing Vole (@PlashingVole)
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3. Grimpact
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Here's my word : "grimpact" n. Unforeseen negative consequences flowing from publicly funded research
— Matthew Weait (@ProfWetpaint)
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4. Shitation
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'Shitation': noun, an unfavourable citation. 'Well the impact factor's good, but it's mostly just shitations'
— O. (@LazarGillard)
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?5. Refuseless
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How about REFuseless to describe all those 2* papers that didn't make it into the REF
— Neil Cross (@TheOtherDrX)
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6. Uninkastic
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Uninkastic (from Anankastic): Related to the obsessive-compulsive desire of university managers to control academics’ lives.
— Ricardo Grau-Crespo (@rgraucrespo)
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7. Chancelling
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Chancelling (pocketing large sums for doing little more than proclaiming how indispensable you are)
— keith flett (@kmflett)
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?8. Thesaurophaile
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Thesaurophile: A student that replaces every 7th word of an essay with a synonym to avoid Turnitin detection
— Neil Cross (@TheOtherDrX)
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9. Lecher Theatre
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Lecher theatre - where students go to admire good looking staff more than their ideas?
— Steve Kirk (@stiivkirk)
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10. Fabstract
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Fabstract (an abstract that makes a paper sound amazing, even when it's terrible)
— Cyberpsychology (@Cyberpsychologi)
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11. Puniversity
Puniversity - an institution not appearing in the global rankings
— Trevor Holmes (@TrevHolmes)
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Read next: "Roget-ing" - or the art of creating absurd phrases (like "sinister buttocks")