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Peter Tennant
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This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions. It does not. It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed. 🧵 1/
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LSE Impact Blog
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👀ICYMI: "Through the oral histories, we capture aspects of the experience of research that might be difficult to access in other ways." ✍️
@angecass.bsky.social
& Paul Merchant
#ResearchMethods
#Sustainability
#AcademicSKy
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What oral histories can teach us about effective environmental research - LSE Impact
What can oral histories tell us about the tacit knowledge required for successful collaborative environmental and sustainability research.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/02/18/what-oral-histories-can-teach-us-about-effective-environmental-research/
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Julia M. Rohrer
3 days ago
There seem to be a whole (older) cohort of eminent social psychologists who essentially do not understand the concept of sampling error, and I wonder to what extent that lack of understanding was an adaptive trait for a career.
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Daniel Lakens
3 days ago
198 effect sizes in ego depletion resesrch showed an effect size of d=0.62. Preregistered large replications (including some by original authors) yielded an effect size of 0. No one has been able to offer any other explanation for this huge research waste than massive p-hacking.
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Michael Tremmel
4 days ago
Higher Ed is not about job training! STEM has long benefitted from this rhetoric but we are all threatened by this concept. The University is meant to be broad and forward thinking, not something that follows the trends of the market which are inherently short-sighted and lacking imagination.
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Dani Beck, PhD
3 days ago
Peer review is not there for you to tell experts in the field how you'd prefer the style of the paper to be, or what method or analysis you have a clear bias for. Your job is to check for correctness, spot errors or gaps, protect the integrity of the scientific method, not piss on others.
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Erik Nook 🏳️🌈
8 days ago
Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...
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Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology
Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology provide a several-week-long visit to our department for early-career faculty. The program focuses on early-career scholars who would benefit from interactions ...
https://psych.princeton.edu/diversity/microsabbaticals-princeton-psychology
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LSE Impact Blog
7 days ago
👀ICYMI: "despite the emphasis on impact, its meaning remains abstract for non-specialist audiences."
#Impact
#SciComm
#PublicEngagement
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Good impact narratives must connect to our everyday lives - LSE Impact
Research impact is often communicated in abstract and bureaucratic language. To be meaningful it needs to connect to peoples' everyday lives.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/02/12/good-impact-narratives-must-connect-to-our-everyday-lives/
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Dr Abeba Birhane
9 days ago
I appeared as an expert witness before the Joint Committee on AI at the Houses of Oireachtas (parliament of Ireland) to discuss "AI: truth and democracy" this morning. You can read my opening statement here:
www.oireachtas.ie/en/publicati...
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LSE Impact Blog
11 days ago
🗣️"The sector has become a hybrid institution caught between public expectations and market imperatives, governed by leaders rewarded for financial agility, rather than intellectual integrity."
#AcademicSky
#HigherEducation
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Why are UK universities failing? - LSE Impact
The HE sector in the UK faces the prospect of a university going into administration. How have universities fallen so low and is change possible?
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/01/19/why-are-uk-universities-failing/
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Malte Elson
13 days ago
New paper, on a worrying trend in meta-science: the practice of anonymising datasets on, e.g., published articles. We argue that this is at odds with norms established in research synthesis, explore arguments for anonymisation, provide counterpoints, and demonstrate implications and epistemic costs.
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Julia M. Rohrer
16 days ago
A variation: Scientists who claim they’re “not interested in causality” because they assume the term only applies to deterministic, law-like relationships that are unrealistic in their field. Instead, they’re interested in how “X drives Y”, the effects of X, the “extent to which X matters for Y”>
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Marco Bocchio
15 days ago
🧠 We’ve widened the entry criteria for our MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at Durham:
www.durham.ac.uk/study/course...
We now welcome students from a broad range of backgrounds—Psychology, Biology, Engineering, Physics and more as Neuroscience thrives on diverse perspectives
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https://www.durham.ac.uk/study/courses/cognitive-neuroscience-c8k109/
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Dr Cody Porter
15 days ago
Insights from the Perspectives on Scientific Error (#PSE8) conference 🧵 Day 1: what a thought provoking morning. Replication remains one of the cornerstones of scientific progress, yet replication studies are still notoriously difficult to publish. Many never make it into print at all.
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Rebecca Sear
16 days ago
“By demanding that economics education should be more pluralist ethically conscientious, historically aware & oriented towards the real world, Rethinking Economics exposed the staggering deficiency in how economists are educated & induced significant changes in economics teaching around the world”
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Rethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taught
Born of student disquiet after the 2008 crash, the group says it is reshaping economists’ education
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/10/rethinking-economics-student-academic-organisation-changing-education
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Rebecca Brückmann
16 days ago
Dear Blueskies, question: could you recommend a recent-ish, peer reviewed study on implicit/unconscious bias in faculty hiring? I know the classics, but I am wondering what new(ish) research is out there that could be used in a workshop setting. Thank you very much!
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AI Now Institute
16 days ago
We just dropped the next 4 essays in Reframing Impact: AI Summit 2026, our new series with Aapti Institute and
@themaybe.org
– this time with Nikhil Dey,
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
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@audreyt.org
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Peter Tennant
17 days ago
The UK *is* losing a generation of scientists. I know lots of brilliant people who have left their jobs / the country because of the limited jobs & funding. Once lost, they cannot ever be replaced. The UK government is overseeing the death of UK academic science, and it doesn't seem to care.
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Peter Tennant
17 days ago
I'm on the edge of the "R Statistics Community" in what looks like an
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gathering on causal inference with
@lizstuart.bsky.social
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@jeremylabrecque.bsky.social
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@jlrohmann.bsky.social
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@idiaz.bsky.social
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@mattpfox.bsky.social
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@miguelhernan.org
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LSE Press
17 days ago
"Studying for an apprenticeship breaks down siloes and widens the perspective to a broader marketplace of ideas and ways of working."
@elinorpotts.bsky.social
writes on the value of apprenticeships in book publishing for
@thebookseller.com
✅ Read more here:
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Apprenticeships in book publishing matter more than ever
Publishing needs to ditch old assumptions and embrace the power of apprenticeships, says writer and communications leader Elinor Potts
https://www.thebookseller.com/comment/apprenticeships-in-book-publishing-matter-more-than-ever
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National Humanities Center
20 days ago
We’re thrilled to continue our partnership with
@howard.edu
's College of Arts & Sciences for “Connecting Research and Learning Across Disciplines,” an institute for faculty that will be held August 3–7, 2026, on Howard’s historic campus. Registration closes on 4/30/26. Please share.
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Connecting Research and Learning Across Disciplines | National Humanities Center
By combining the analytical rigor and critical thinking skills developed within the sciences and the humanities, we can address complex societal challenges.
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/education-programs/institutes/connecting-research-and-learning-across-disciplines/
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Dr Abeba Birhane
about 1 month ago
are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me apply here:
aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...
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Dr Cody Porter
20 days ago
Getting ready for the Perspectives on Scientific Error (PSE8) conference, taking place next week!
@mzloteanu.bsky.social
@mattansb.msbstats.info
www.linkedin.com/posts/cody-n...
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#scientificerror #methodology #statistics #investigativeinterviewing #liedetection #researchmethods | Dr Cody Porter
Our poster is almost ready for the Perspectives on Scientific Error (PSE8) conference, taking place next week! The poster focuses on why negative binomial regression models are important for research...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cody-n-porter_scientificerror-methodology-statistics-activity-7425530636305702912-PcfP?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAABtaNlEBskEFL1JjcP3AyL7LUhRjK8S6GBM&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link
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Dr Ruth Vilayil
25 days ago
A keeper moment from
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Michael Harker
29 days ago
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
I have created an easy, simple to use and FREE tool [in Excel!] to help make grading and feedback processes quicker and more painless. I've so far managed to disseminate it to 5 universities in the UK and France. I am very happy to share this FREE tool with colleagues.
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Kira Meyer
about 1 month ago
Looking for papers on the magnitute of the impact that mitigating the impacts of the
#anthropocene
has on landscapes and
#landscape
changes. Any suggestions?
#envhum
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LSE Impact Blog
about 1 month ago
✍️"It has undoubtedly been triggered by the financial difficulty that UK higher education finds itself in, but it is also indicative of unresolved issues in academic publishing."
#AcademicSky
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Why are universities ending their Elsevier open access agreements? - LSE Impact
Peter Barr explains why academic libraries are making these decisions and what it says about the wider academic publishing sector in the UK.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/02/03/why-are-universities-ending-the-elsevier-open-access-agreements/
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Times Higher Education (THE)
about 1 month ago
Scientists are perceived less positively in the UK since the pandemic amid greater uncertainty over researchers’ integrity and intentions, according to the latest results of a long-running poll
https://ow.ly/q0MI50XZGSW
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Anita Williams
about 2 months ago
I don't know about you, but Bluesky is one of the main ways I come across new papers outside of actively searching for them. This year I want to do a thread about an interesting
#AMR
paper I've read, one per month. Let's see if I can keep to this goal.
#academicchatter
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Victoria Addis
about 1 month ago
An incredibly helpful bank of resources for anyone looking to write a book proposal (bookmarked for future reference). Thank you for your generosity
@eve.gd
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Andrea Kaston Tange
about 2 months ago
There are a couple of 19c studies starter pack lists that might help!
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Victoria Addis
about 2 months ago
The prospect of returning to research after over a decade is daunting. Not sure how often I will be posting but I will be haunting the Victorian and modernist niches of academic bluesky for inspiration and community - any recommendations for accounts to follow gratefully received!
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Elisabeth M
about 2 months ago
Academic paywalls are really getting me down. I'm a working anthropologist, but my employers (college and tribe) are not universities, and so the research I'm able to do is severely limited.
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Daniel I. Avila-Ortega
about 2 months ago
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(I hope this is still a thing). I am looking for a 2025 article, in fact two of them, about new indices of evolutionary history of species. What I need are the species-to-pecies branches in years or something alike.
#biology
#conservation
#evolution
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Denis Wirtz
2 months ago
Download our large database of funding opportunities for early-career faculty and researchers Download it here:
research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
433 funding opportunities.
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Andrew Kniss
2 months ago
accidentally deleted 17 years of research data this morning luckily it was stored on a server with plenty of redundant backup, so we got last night's backup restored. But my anxiety level was a little elevated for a couple hours in between those two events...
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Ian Hutchins
2 months ago
Can scientists get a fair shake publishing solid work in specialty journals? Definitely if article metrics were used; many such papers are revealed to be as influential as papers from high tier journals 1/4
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#AcademicChatter
#NIH
#NSF
#OpenScience
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Most researchers would receive more recognition if assessed by article-level metrics than by journal-level metrics
Are authors fairly judged by assessment of the prestige of the journals in which their work is published? This study compares article level metrics with journal level metrics, finding that the vast ma...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003532
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Daniel Bellingradt
2 months ago
Today, a week before the Christmas break, been asked to review a big project, and the deadline is the first week of January. Stop this nonsense.
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Dr Jes Hooper
2 months ago
It's that time again. I'm seeking UK based
#postdoc
opportunities. I'm a multispecies ethnographer specialising in wildlife trade, distant multispecies linkages and loss in the Anthropocene. Mostly known as the civet lady. Please share 🙏
@ehrh.bsky.social
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Peter Suber
3 months ago
Surprise: "Researchers believe their institution values publication in highly cited journals more than any real-world impact their work might have."
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
#AcadSky
#AcademicSky
#Assessment
#ScientificPublishing
#SocialScience
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Social Scientists: Policy Impact Undervalued by Universities
Researchers believe their institution values publication in highly cited journals more than any real-world impact their work might have, a new Sage survey finds.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/12/12/social-scientists-policy-impact-undervalued-universities
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Natalia Sampaio
3 months ago
Just accidentally transferred a blot backwards - very important samples ran from the gel into the buffer rather than onto the membrane, lost forever 🥲 Experimental science keeping me humble all these years later 🧪 Anyone else wanna share their year’s best
#sciencefail
?
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Tom Stafford
3 months ago
I salute the honesty and courage of these authors, and I am sure we all share a collective shiver from knowing that we all could easily make (and maybe have made) similar analysis mistakes in our own work
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Dr. Natalie Papini
3 months ago
Listen, I know the peer review process is painfully broken. I just didn't realize the extent of brokenness. This paper has been under review for ~5 months. Any advice? Before anyone comes for me: Im not complaining without being part of the solution. I easily reviewed 20+ papers this past year.
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LSE Impact Blog
3 months ago
💥New: Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore? ✍️Adam Arian
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#AcWri
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Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore? - Impact of Social Sciences
A key criteria for academic publications is that they make a novel contribution to their field. However, as Adam Arian argues the wide interpretation of novelty applied by editors and reviewers has le...
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/11/28/do-novel-contributions-to-research-mean-anything-anymore/
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Natasha Aley
3 months ago
My first post on here pretty much sums up what it's like to be a working Mum. Chicken pox has destroyed our week and now waiting for number 2 to inevitably get it 🫠
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Dr Abeba Birhane
3 months ago
more than anything, this should remind you how bad generative has ruined the information ecosystem
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Dr Abeba Birhane
3 months ago
can’t fucking catch a breath make it stop
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Dr Celia Antoniou
3 months ago
🎉 Happy
#LinguisticsDay
! 🎉 CLiE, LAGB, BAAL & Cambridge UP are launching the
#WhyLinguistics
competition! 📹 Make a 1-min video on: 1️⃣ What linguistics is 2️⃣ Why it matters Prizes: £100 (BAAL), £100 (LAGB), £50 CUP voucher 🗓 Deadline 01.02.2026 📩
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