The 'acknowledgments' in papers are interesting
Academic papers often contain 'acknowledgments' to express gratitude to collaborators, mentors, etc., but some papers contain humorous acknowledgments. The Australian National University College of Science has picked out 'unexpected acknowledgments' from a huge number of dissertations.
The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgments | ANU College of Science
Tabitha Calvin , a science writer at the Australian National University's College of Science, started reading only the acknowledgements of dissertations from the faculty for no particular reason. As a result, she discovered that many of the acknowledgements were original. She picked out some 'unexpected acknowledgements' and published them on the faculty's official website. Some of the acknowledgements published are as follows:
Acknowledgements are my favorite part of an essay.
The acknowledgments are my favorite part of all my thesis.
Nian Jiang (2016). Growth and characterization of GaAs/AlGaAs core-shell nanowires for optoelectronic device applications
This part of the paper is the one I wanted to write the most.
This part of the thesis is the one that I was most looking forward to write.
Jorin Diemer (2022). A mathematical model of ion homeostasis in the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum
Writing a thesis is a tedious, excruciating, and demotivating task.
The production of a dissertation is a formidable, arduous and demoralizing task.
Mahyar Bokaeeyan (2020). Analytical and approximate methods in rogue wave theory
In the acknowledgments of others, over-embellishment and hyperbole seem to be the norm, as I would have done had I possessed the skill to do so.
When looking at the acknowledgments of others, I have found it is common practice for scholars to reserve their purplest prose and most overblown sentiment for their acknowledgments. If I had the skills, I would do so myself.
Martin Worthy (2013). A history of fire and sediment transport in the Cotter River catchment, southeastern Australia
Tom, there are very few professors who can honestly say they were nearly killed by a student. Thank you for everything.
Tom, few supervisors can say that their students have nearly killed them and mean it literally. Thanks for everything.
Iain McConnell (2008). Substrate interactions in the Photosystem II water oxidising complex
Thanks also go to the several astronomers who left desserts in their fridges for years (they didn't go to waste).
I would also like to thank the various astronomers who forgot to collect their desserts from the fridge over the years (they were not wasted).
Roberto Soria (1999). Accretion processes in black-hole binaries
I'm grateful to my friends around Stromlo who are big fans of hotpot and KFC.
Shout out to my friends on and off Stromlo, for their patrician taste in hot pot and KFC.
Jane Lin (2022). Galactic Archeology: the Milky Way in the context of large scale surveys
According to Calvin, creative acknowledgments began to appear in papers around the 1990s. Until the 1980s, acknowledgments included a phrase that is rarely seen today, 'thanks to the typist,' but most were formal, including thanks to supervisors and research collaborators.
The end.
I'm done.
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