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What makes anime fans in the UK different? Turns out it's got a lot to do with colonialism

Fan Studies, Bath Spa University

Anime in the UK: The History, Cultural Context, and Evolution of UK Anime Fandom

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Sometimes, strange people write weird words down that eventually make sense, despite being weird; this is kind of sciencey, and these women get it.

English, University of Toronto

In Any Event, We Know We’re Knowing Now: Moore, Barnes, and Stein as Critical Points in Modernist Reality

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It's pretty embarrassing to play a videogame by yelling at it

Human-Computer Interaction, University of Melbourne

Voice Interaction Game Design and Gameplay (Link)

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Figuring out where, how much, and what type of precipitation will fall over a mountain is complicated, so yay job security?

Atmospheric Science, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Exploring the Microphysical and Environmental Controls on Orographic Precipitation in an Atmospheric River Environment 

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The planet is on fucking fire: here's another thesis about climate change

Environmental Studies, University of Victoria

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Curiosity is great, except when it's not.

Philosophy, Emory University “Careful Curiosity: Curiosity as an Epistemic and Ethical Virtue”

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like conjugating verbs, but worse

Linguistics, University of Chicago

Person marking in Washo as Agreement and clitic movement

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Jane Austen Cares About 1) Money 2) Women 3) Yeah

English, Seattle University 

Smith’s Spinners, Austen’s Spinsters: National Economics in Jane Austen’s Emma

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I'm pretty sure this werewolf can Get It

Literature and Cultural Studies, Western Sydney University, Australia 

Mills and Fur: Feminism and Femininity in the Supernatural Romance

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How to teach English good and not argue about it

Master of Education, The College of Idaho

Collectively Meeting the Needs of High School English Learners

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We can actually see nanoparticles cooling.

Physics, University of Lyon, France

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If you need to choose between IOTA and IOTA Flash channels as a micropayment system for vehicle platooning - Neither is ready.

Computer Science, Brunswick, Germany

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I collected all my data then realized I didn't record the variables needed for the one thing I promised to do in the title of my thesis.

Environmental Science, Yale University

UAV deployment for fine-scale CO2 estimation in a mid-size city

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Trying to define a field no one has defined and that has no sources.

Principles of Conservation, University College London

“Technical Art History as a Bridge Between Conservation and Art History: Methodology, Development and Assessment”

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Over thousands of years, sometimes there were more bushfires than now. Sometimes there weren't

Earth science, James Cook University

Fire and Environmental Change in Northern Australian Savannas during the Holocene

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There were lots of Evelinas published in the last 240 years, and they all looked pretty different.

Information Studies/McGill University

Evelina: A Life-Story of a Book, Told by Its Paratext.

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Does a hypothetical particle exist in a very narrow region of parameter space? I don't know, we actually didn't collect enough data.

Physics, Stanford University

Searching for Long-Lived Dark Photons with the Heavy Photon Search Experiment

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