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Inger and Jason talk about work, but you know - not in a boring way. Practical, implementable productivity hacks to help you live a more balanced life. Find us at ontheregteam.com

  1. 8 FEB

    Planning for 2026, fashion influencer style!

    Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! We're on YouTube! Watch this episode here Vote on Jason's wardrobe edit here (If you want to see Jason's beard, Inger's Pinterest boards and the AI video Inger made to demonstrate Jason's fashion style, jump over there and have a look!) In this episode we discuss Inger's fascination with fashion youtube influencers and what we can learn for planning out the academic / researcher / enterprenerd year. Things we mentioned Inger uses the MiGoals journal in addition to a regular Bullet JournalWorking 9 to 5 not a way to make an academic living (Inger's most downloaded academic paper)Blog post: Thesis PrisonBook: Tiny ExperimentsNest Labs article on Note TakersApp: Obsidian  and how to back up Obsidian using GitHubGazman (for the style challenged young man who needs to update their wardrobe for work)Alison Bornstein Internet PersonalitySUK workwearInger's Pinterest BoardsClaudia WinkelmanJason's wardrobe edit questionnaireBook: Wear it Well by Alison BornsteinNarelle LemonBook: Objective SecureBook: Measure what mattersBook: Building a second brainKane Murdoch BlogShout out to Erin from Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

    1h 59m

  2. 22 JAN

    AI SEO - how does ChatGPT talk about you behind your back?

    Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Hey! Jason will be in the UK in Late April. If you'd like to chat to him about the trip and possibly having him visit you, email us on enquiries@ontheregteam.com Watch this episode on YouTube The banter section of this episode is lost to history because Jason forgot to hit record! After a short intro by Inger, the team go straight into the mail bag. Let's face it, this is the good stuff anyway - who needs Tinny and puppy news? In our work problems segment, we discuss the appearance of ChatGPT as a referrer to the Thesis Whisperer blog and what it might mean for researcher visibility. How does an LLM decide on what is an 'authoritative source' on the internet? Is this a new form of 'research impact' and what should researchers do about it, if anything? This episode also ends abruptly when Inger gets a phone call - the next episode will be much more polished, we promise! Things we mentioned: Tiago Forte's PARA bookBlooms TaxonomyAmazing Marvin appClick up appBe visible or vanish bookThe Enshittification of Academic Social Media Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

    1h 12m

  3. 30/11/2025

    Is boredom your academic superpower?

    Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Welcome to the first Youtube video version of the pod!  Watch it here Sorry for the sound quality for the first 10 minutes - promise it gets better when we remembered to turn the mics on! The filming/recording took ages, through many interruptions, and bad technical decisions... so much effort in fact, that we are not sure if we will do it again. Let us know if you like it and we might persist! In this episode we talk about Boredom at work. Inger reads Jason in on the literature and floats her theory that the PhD is an exercise in training boredom tolerance. Things we mentioned: Thesis Whisperer post about boredom in PhD studySavers - the thrifting superstoreAn academic affair - new romance book set in Australian Academia by Jodie McAllisterThe Dopamine Brain (book)Enshittification (book)One Battle After AnotherTron: AresSoul by PixarScispace AI Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

    1h 37m

  4. 21/09/2025

    If AI is the hammer, do we have the right nails?

    Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Jason has been living his best life, travelling NZ (where he did not touch boiling mud, as much as he was tempted to) and having excuses to eat pepper steak pies. Meanwhile Inger has been having a shit time at work and waiting for her puppy to arrive. After a confession during the mailbag segment, we hear all about Jason's star keynote at the ASPIRE conference, which led to... well, a bit of a rant on Inger's part at least. You get the picture! Things we mentioned: ANU Vice Chancellor resignsJason and Ginger CatBlossom - puppy mum to beRich Academic / Poor AcademicLittle National Hotel NewcastlePerplexity AISlides: How to think about AI in the workplaceAI as thinking partner frameworkAI as verifier frameworkAI as Information Processor FrameworkHow I used Claude as a ready-to-hand technology to help me build a Structured Dialogic Thinking BotInger's structured dialogic inquiry bot (free to use)Black Hawk DownFree Time by Jenny BlakeThe EMythBreakneck - China's quest to build the futureAI as normal technologyGot thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

    2h 7m

  5. 17/08/2025

    Analogue Productivity - is this book b******t?

    Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Inger is in town, so Jason took her to a pod casting studio as a treat for episode 80 (can you believe it?!). The sound is very nice on this one folks, but This is a Studio in Prahran can take ALL the credit. There's a fair bit in the mailbag, leading to discussions about the book Inger wrote with Narelle (and Claude) Rich Academic / Poor Academic and a little bit of Text Expander and Omnifocus talk (because naturally). In our work problems segment we talk about Analogue Productivity by Curtis Hale and ask "is this book b******t?". We conclude it isn't, but Inger tells Jason he doesn't have to read it.  Stay tuned for more about what we are reading and two two minute tips (for a change). We were on the clock for this episode, but maybe it's a good think because it's pretty tight and chock full of productivity goodness!  Links to stuff In Bed with the Right (podcast)Soak bath house BrisbaneOmnishow episode 144Lynne's post on BASB for teachingHow to: Power AutomateOld ep: trusting the meat computerMonsters: a fan's dilemma by Clare DedererThink Again by Adam GrantHard Fork Podcast and MechanizeTiny Experiments bookOTR linkedin PageGot thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

    1h 17m

  6. 19/07/2025

    Tiny Experiments (and larger rants)

    Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! In the depths of Canberra winter, no one can hear you scream about AI... except for Jason, who had to hear ALL of Inger's feelings.  Come for the promise of a 'Is this Book B******t?' style review of 'Tiny Experiments' by Jason, stay for the Big Rant about how Inger's anti-AI academic friends now think she is a Republican... it's a lot. Things we mention: Pop Canberra (for the stickers)Fated Mates romance podcast stickersIndigenous Knowledge Systems LabOmniFocusOn The Reg Mind Sweep BotGetting Things Done (book)Ben Kraal's OTR episode with IngerHow to Make Notes and Write (book)Literary Theory for Robots (book)The Utopia of Rules (book)Evelyn Frost books Analogue Productivity (book)Rethinking Repair (paper)On the reg Structured Dialogical Inquiry BotTiny Experiments (book)Listen Later (app)On The Reg on Linkedin Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

    1h 45m

  7. 29/06/2025

    Ai powered research workflows: Inger finally realises her dream to become a cyborg

    Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! This one's a bit overdue folks - that's Inger's fault, don't blame Jason!  After a long catch up, where we bemoan the state of the higher education sector, and a very full mailbag, we talk about AI powered research workflows.  Inger talks Jason through her new AI enabled process for doing literature reviews, analysis and writing research papers. The crew muse on the shift in working practices how you might take advantage (or not) in your own work.  The team are looking at a teaching slide deck as they talk, which Inger stupidly altered, so you can't read along... (doh!). But you can see the final version of it, as delivered, here. The pre-print version of the paper about AI that Inger wrote can be retrieved here. Things we mentioned: Reading like a MongrelText expander for academics (ebook)Bullet Journal (BuJo)SpeechifyThe art of procrastination (book)Microsoft power automateMigoals journals Mind on Paper (book)Cabells Analytics (for finding journals)ConsensusElicitSemantic ScholarMaxQDA TailwindThe importance of being intereresting (blog post)Cognition in the Wild (book)Patter blog (Home of the Queen: Pat Thomson)Johnny Saldana's coding manualTiny Experiments (book)Amphetamine (app) Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

    1h 54m

  8. 13/05/2025

    What does it take to be an entreprenerd?

    Can't be bothered with email or speak pipe? Text us! Jason lost the annual Downs family hosted hot cross bun competition, but Inger's political team comprehensively won the federal election, so we figure we came out even.  There's a bulging mail bag with lots of interesting questions from listeners - some of which we could even answer. Then we chat about the first ten months of our business 'On The Reg Team'. What lessons has Jason learned about being an entreprenerd?   loyalty wont save your Higher Ed job... so how do you start your own thing (even if it's just a lifeboat for now). Clearly we had a lot to say because Inger's AirPods gave up before the end! (Inger snippity doo dah'd over half an hour... Sadly, you don't get to hear about Jason painting his boat) Things we mentioned: The first hot cross bun episode (where Jason accidentally bought secular buns)Guardian episode on Australia's obsession with sexy (!?) hot cross bun varietiesJason's pictures of the HCB off and trophy#DemocracySausage price list on InstagramInger's pictures of her election day work for PocockList of reading for nurses going into academia (thanks Sally-Anne Wherry!)Timing app and Co-Typist + our TextExpander bookMaxQDA tailwind AI assistant and ConsensusGoblin toolsDo the work by Steven PressfieldInger's enshittification postXero and Paris FinancialGot thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on - Leave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. - See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com - Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address) - We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break). - Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. - If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site

    2h 5m
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Inger and Jason talk about work, but you know - not in a boring way. Practical, implementable productivity hacks to help you live a more balanced life. Find us at ontheregteam.com

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  • Channel
    Thesis Whisperer
  • Creator
    Thesiswhisperer
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    82
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    © 2026 On the reg
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