Desk rejections ≠ bad manuscript. Academic journals have habitus—their own style, tone, & preferences. A desk reject often means your paper isn’t the right fit, not that it lacks merit. Don’t lose ❤️. The same piece might ⛵️ through elsewhere. Reread the comments & try again. #AcademicBluesky

NEW Journal Article: “#Podcasting as Open Access: A Review and Discussion of Potential Impact on Scholarly Communication and Promotion” www.infodocket.com/2025/05/16/j... #oa #openaccess #scholcomm #libraries #podcasts

FINALLY back on BlueSky after a crapstorm in a teacup for the past few months. How y’all doing?

Every time I go on leave (annual or sick), I set up an auto-responder with an out of office message. Every time, without fail; someone will begin interacting with it, thinking I am instantly replying to their emails with the same message over and over again. This has been happening FOR THREE YEARS.

Sex is great, but have you ever signed an authorship agreement after a paper has been accepted for publication? #AcademicSky #PhDSky

Anyone know when @bsky.app will get an iPad app? Asking for a friend and that friend is me.

It's so important to share this map with students. The arising conversations are powerful #Indigenous #history #AcademicSky #teaching #Australia

Is it me, or has PhD/ECR funding in the social sciences completely dried up in the past 12 months? #phdsky #academicsky

Political Science Complete database is the perfect way to get full text, peer reviewed articles on current events & political topics with a worldwide focus. Get started for free with your library card: bit.ly/4gWflMq #LibSky #Library #AcademicSky #Politics

Anyone in Australia know if there is funding to attend this? #phdsky

Anyone who says #racism is not an issue in #Australia welcome to chat with me. In the last 72 hours I have been called the n-word for wearing a uniform that had Indigenous art on it, and overheard someone arguing with airport staff about how skin colour should determine boarding priority.

About to begin teaching for the year. At the airport waiting for my flight. Hats off to the person who checked into their flight as “Amanda Hugginkiss” and waited until they got paged to show up. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

o, we don’t have #InternationalStudent caps anymore. Just a number of visas that will be processed quickly. Ministerial Direction 111 is now in effect: immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/news-media/a... #highered #md111

After 12 months, ethics hell became inescapable. So, new topic it is. #PhDSky

Finally, @altmetric.com will be including BlueSky in its measurement. This pleases me immensely.

“We can no longer rely on ‘doing it for the children’ to keep teachers in the profession”. Ellen Larsen dropping truth bombs at #AARE2024 #AARE24

Wayne Sawyer for education minister #AARE2024 #AARE24

This is gold! Maybe we can get a BlueSkyRoasting going for #AARE2024?

Super curious - what do the symbols on our tags mean? #AARE2024

Bishop speaks about the importance of teachers understanding their own ontologies - imagine if we did that at the start of the year with each other in staff rooms instead of all the usual PD #AARE2024

Finally got my act together and organised my BlueSky into lists. Now that I’m at #AARE2024 - who is missing from my Educational Researchers list? bsky.app/profile/did:...

Stoked to be attending the Australian Association for Studies of #Religion conference in Canberra today. #AASR #AcademicSky

This is how to do peer review: be constructive, specific & KIND. Today's feedback shows the way while previous submission felt like target practice. We've normalized academic cruelty & it needs to stop. #AcademicSky 🧵1/4

Yesterday Jason Claire announced a new commission to oversee #Australian #Academic & #University pay. I was also contacted by a former employer 8 years after I left saying that they had underpaid me and want to make amends. Coincidence? #AcademicSky

Is it me, or is Microsoft CoPilot getting less intelligent by the update?

Has anyone created a starter pack for Social Science researchers? #academicsky

On the hunt for some book recommendations #AcademicSky #PhDSky - something in the realm of productivity/tech or UDL. Grateful for any suggestions you may have!🙏

Academia’s motto: 'Take your time to think deeply'—but also publish four papers, write three grant proposals, and reply to every email by Tuesday. #academicsky

I’ve been travelling for the past two weeks for work. Routines are important to me, and travel is always disruptive to them. My first step each morning is to wake up, grab a brush and put on a little makeup. Then, check my emails for the latest #AcademicSky shake-up. 🧵

When I was a faculty head, I was asked "what can you do with a history degree?" Well, I've spent a year finding out - and the results are now published in the GILE Journal of Skills Development. I analysed 27 Australian history programmes & mapped them against our skills frameworks. #AcademicSky 🧵

So, BlueSky has taken off again. Kind of like a party moving from the First Lady’s residence to a more open and less hostile space…

So, I’m quiet here because I’m struggling with bouncing between multiple platforms. Anyone recommend an app that isn’t Hootsuite that I can use across Bsky/Mastodon/Threads?

Today’s piece of external validation: being invited to give a guest talk. Problem: it’s for one hour. 2nd problem: it’s at a Shut Up and Write session. That is scheduled to go for… one hour. I think I need to explain the concept of Shut Up and Write sessions to someone. #phdsky #academicsky

THEM: Nobody wants to work anymore. THE WORK

Picard management tip: Work should be useful, stimulating, and challenging, not wasteful, tedious, nor impossible.

Fairly certain I have now found my #academic Twitter replacement here on Bluesky. Although I still don’t think the algorithm will be any kinder to my posts, but ho-hum. Still glad to be here.