1. Spinpact

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spinpact - the art of talking up the relevance of your results

¡ª Matthew Greenall (@mngreenall)

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2. Muke

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'Muke': physical reaction to management repeatedly announcing that are the future.

¡ª 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

¡ª 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'

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¡ª 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

¡ª 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.

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¡ª 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)

¡ª 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

¡ª 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?

¡ª 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)

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¡ª Cyberpsychology (@Cyberpsychologi)

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11. Puniversity

Puniversity - an institution not appearing in the global rankings

¡ª Trevor Holmes (@TrevHolmes)

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