Dear AoIR community, I wanted to remind you that submissions for the AoIR Doctoral Colloquium are closing on *Tuesday 15 June*, and to remind you to submit if you'd like to join us. This event provides PhD students working in internet research with the opportunity to workshop on research projects, to address methodological and theoretical challenges, and to exchange informal advice on juggling the multiple pressures associated with job searching, publishing, and finishing the dissertation during an ongoing global crisis. As AoIR is to be held online this year, the Doctoral Colloquium will involve Discord chats before the Colloquium, two video chat sessions, a social hour in GatherTown on Friday 8 October, and an ongoing chat space set up in GatherTown. Because there are many time zones involved, the organising committee will be assigning mentees based on a combination of research interests and time zone compatibility. Participation in the Colloquium will mean a commitment to: a) Reading the research statements from the three to four people in your group; b) Attending two 90 minute video chat sessions on Friday 8 October. The Discord and GatherTown chats are optional. This is to recognise that scholars at all levels are still coping with the ongoing global pandemic and may have limited time and energy, but fostering meaningful connections between PhD students and senior scholars remains important to the future of AoIR. As always, we have excellent mentors in place and we are always looking for more! If you are interested in mentoring for the AoIR2021 Doctoral Colloquium please email AoIRDCchair@aoir.org. To apply for a place at the colloquium, please provide: a) A two-page summary of your research. This should provide a context for the research, describe the methods used, the progress to date, and primary concerns and issues that you’d like to discuss with others; b) A brief statement indicating why you want to participate in the doctoral colloquium and what you hope to get out of it. Submissions for the colloquium should be uploaded via our submission website here: https://www.conftool.org/aoir2021/ Submissions are due 15 June 2021. If you have any questions, please do get in touch AoIRDCchair@aoir.org and please do circulate this message throughout your networks. We look forward to your submissions. All the best, Emily -- Dr Emily van der Nagel Lecturer in Social Media Communications and Media Studies School of Media, Film and Journalism Monash University @emvdn