​Call for abstracts - write a chapter for our new practical handbook about research paradigms! Abstracts due 10 November 2025 and full chapters by 30 March 2026. Share your experiences using your research paradigm to help others! More details below. #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

The problem isn't autism. It's fear and hatred of autism. The problem isn't trans people. It's fear and hatred of trans people. The problem isn't immigration. It's fear and hatred of immigrants.

Officially submitted my application for promotion to Senior Lecturer - all 81 pages! 😱🤯 #Academia #AcademicLife #AcademicSky

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

Cuddles please 🐾

Just got a scam email from an address at obviouslyfakedomain dot com 🙈 At least try to make your scam email look legit people... Fail 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

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Shout-out to colleagues who generously share their expertise and actively amplify the work of others. Academic culture is stronger when we lift each other up. #AcademicSky #HigherEd #AcademicMentoring #AcademicKindness

"Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD: A Survival Guide" has been out for 3 years. I don't do "proud" very often, but I am proud of the people I've helped through writing it. Thank you to everyone who's supported me with it and convinced me that writing it was a good idea.

Beautiful gifts from various students at graduation today 🤩

A book about #GenAI in higher ed. My chapter included GenAI images. The publisher removed them. So, I published them anyway. This is my story of resistance. It’s a rebellion & roadmap for creative scholars pushing against academic gatekeeping. See what was meant to be unseen. #BeWayward #AcademicSky

🤯 Had to come up with 10 people who could assess my promotion application, but they couldn't be anyone I've ever collaborated with or really even know. It's a bit like being told to throw a dinner party, except you’re not allowed to invite anyone you know, even if they just borrowed your stapler. 🫠

Reading challenge complete! 🎉📚 "130 days left" lol #Books #Reading #BookSky

Academic publishing can be a hot mess of mixed emotions patthomson.net/2025/08/21/i...

There is a difference between interpretivist research and interpretivism as a paradigm. All qualitative research is interpretivist. Interpretivism is an understanding of reality, knowledge, and the role of the researcher. They are not interchangeable. - End of rant (for now) #AcademicSky

Tough time for many at ANU. At around midday yesterday staff received a university-wide email. The language was ambiguous and could be read to say all forced redundancies would stop. I received many messages from people being forced out. Were they now safe?

PSA to PhD supervisors: Your job is to support your candidates to become independent scholars, not to crush their spirits. Please be kind.

Powerful article by Ahmed Kamal Junina: ‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focused as an academic in Gaza #AcademicSky

More good news for today - our paper has finally been officially published! This project was a real labour of love, and it feels so rewarding to finally see it in print. Huge thanks to my amazing co-authors and everyone who supported us along the way 🙌 Free to read 🎉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ih...

After nine months as an advanced online publication, our paper is finally available in an actual journal volume. Yay! This means new free eprints 🤩 #AcademicSky #research www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QFX5E...

So, I've been toying with a rhetorical scale for parsing media/government response to protest of various kinds: Concern for self (normative) = legitimate, reasonable Concern for others (incl. non-human) = hysterical, immature, misguided Concern for self (non-norm.) = dangerous, subversive

Are you, might you become, or do you know a transnational scholar from the Global South? Or do you work with one or more? If so, this insightful, creatively written book will be of interest. It's part of the series I co-edit with @patthomson.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Insider-Guid...

Couldn't see out of one eye, so I went to the optometrist... Turns out it was a literal eye migraine from looking at the computer too much these last few weeks... 🙈🫠 #AcademicLife

Got this beautiful paper cut-out of pandas from a student last week. 🤩

Sometimes #AcademicAdmin is just too time consuming... Me lunchtime: “I’ll start adding my conference presentations to my university profile.” Me later: “Why is it dark outside?!” ✅ 56 conference presentations now live on my public profile. ☕ Coffee consumption: classified. #AcademicSky

Family portrait 🥰 Thanks Leonardo AI 🤩🙏🏼

Come and listen about my two recent papers in this podcast 😎 #research #AI #academia #AcademicSky #ScienceSky You can read the full papers for free below ⤵️ doi.org/10.37074/jal... doi.org/10.1016/j.ih... open.spotify.com/episode/7acw...

Special shout-out to the lady who told me she’s staying in her house that is too big for her because otherwise “people like me” could buy it 😈

I bought a house! 🏠 I actually did it! 😱🥳

This week was intense 🫣 Amid the chaos, I remembered a message from a former student that simply read: Don’t let the Muggles get you down! 🧙🏼‍♀️ ✨ A whimsical reminder of the magic we can create when we are compassionate educators, colleagues, & mentors. What words have lifted you when things got tough?

Our framework for the ethical use of GenAI in research has been formally published!! Visual framework shown below to share 🙂 You can read more about it in our blog post, which includes the link to the full paper (open access - link in thread). #AcademicSky #ScienceSky #Research #GenAI

I've just discovered that I have 3 publications in the top 1% most cited research in my field, with 16 publications in the top 10%. 🥳🥳🥳 #UnexpectedSuccess #Metrics #Academia #AcademicSky

🤩 "Thank you for submitting your manuscript to The Internet and Higher Education [...] your manuscript has been accepted for publication."  🎉 This paper has been a passion project for all involved. Great to see it accepted in such a prestigious & high-impact journal! Congrats everyone! #AcademicSky

Today, we were asked to choose a song we’d play as our entrance music when beginning a lecture. I picked Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas because 1) #SPNFamily & 2) this line: "And if I claim to be a wise man, well, it surely means that I don't know". What song would you pick as your academic anthem?

Just have to say, the first two episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was perfection! 👏🏻🖖🏻 #StarTrek #SciFi

Happy to announce I was awarded one of the HERDSA 2025 research grants. My project will investigate how PhD students' wellbeing, academic identity, and belonging are shaped, particularly through the hidden rules and practices of academia. #research #grant #success

If you squint really carefully, you can see me in the background 😎 Great keynote on the last day of #HERDSA2025

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Check out our full #HERDSA2025 presentation, now available on YouTube 🎉 youtu.be/o9Uq6x5ITZY

At a conference this week, two people came up to me to say hi. They were so excited and felt they just "had to say hi" because they love my research and YouTube channel. One even said they were "totally fangirling". Tell your academic heroes you like their work everyone - it really made my day!

Hard working professionals attending #HERDSA2025

Lovely to be able to attend CRADLE PhD student Anastasia Umarova's presentation at #HERDSA2025 on students' feedback experiences across contexts and time.

Missed our #HERDSA2025 talk about our AI literacy framework? The framework has five components: Foundational, Conceptual, Social, Ethical, and Socio-Emotional Awareness. #AI #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Missed our presentation at #HERDSA2025? Here's a quick recap! Prestige in academia often means fluency in writing in a particular English style. This isn’t just about grammar or vocabulary. It’s about whose knowledge counts, whose voice is deemed legitimate, and how power circulates. #AcademicSky

How are pseudonyms used in your research? We have found that giving participants the space to choose their own pseudonyms provides moments of empowerment, giving them agency over how they are represented. Join the roundtable discussion below ⤵️ #HERDSA2025 #AcademicSky #ResearchPractice

We need to create assessment and learning experiences which equip students to participate ethically and actively in a society where GenAI is ubiquitous. #HERDSA2025 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #GenAI

Sometimes, you just need your emotional support dinosaurs #husky #selfcare

A reminder our call for abstracts closes Monday! Are you exploring how generative AI is transforming research? Have you developed innovative approaches, ethical insights, or practical applications regarding AI in research? If so, share it in our open-access book! #AcademicSky #AI #GenAI #ScienceSky

Can't make it to the HERDSA conference and want to know about the research we will be presenting? You can read our blog post! Check it out! 🙂 #HERDSA2025 #GenAI #AcademicSky #ScienceSky #Decolonise #Academia www.lynettepretorius.com/the_scholars...