AI update for my summer online course: More than 50% of the class are on the list to be reported for AI use. 80% have at least 1 initial serious flag of AI use before review. (No detectors, just strategic assignment design & in-depth reviews) Are online courses dead? @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Please share! For Disability Pride Month, we are seeking neurodivergent academic faculty, instructors, & researchers at all levels to participate in a brief anonymous survey about their work experiences, coping strategies, & well-being. For info, go to: salisbury.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Why are instrumental variable regressions so underutilized in psychology? @academic-chatter.bsky.social @causalinference.bsky.social

Today I spoke to a student w. a green card who was worried about that documentary had "political content" because of what's happened to student activists at Columbia etc. The subject? Life in a particular Jersey City neighbourhood. Chilling effect is real 😩 @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky

Just experienced the unique joy of having someone's discussion of my own research completely change my understanding of it #academicChatter

@academic-chatter.bsky.social when doing peer review, do you validate every reference used by the authors?

Reminder: The Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Vienna #ViCAS is offering one-year senior and early career fellowships for deep, undisturbed research. Deadline Sept 1st. Apply here: vicas.univie.ac.at @univie.ac.at

Hello #AcademicSky! How do you keep track of your tasks & projects? Any brilliant (free?) software/websites/programs I should know about? Trying to organize #research, #projects, #publications, #tasks, #e-mail (etc, etc) in one place . . . @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academics 🗣💬 #HigherEd

After procrastinating on this for months, here I go with my first post on this app. I finally received my confirmation today - I'm officially Dr Banerjee. 😬 So much gratitude for everyone who saw me through this, thank you for everything. @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Open access book by @ulrike-felt.bsky.social now available for download: "Academic Times: Contesting the Chronopolitics of Research" #STS #ECRchat link.springer.com/book/10.1007... "Shows how temporal regimes impact scholars and scholarship, limiting innovative and inclusive research"

@academic-chatter.bsky.social I'm curious to know whether any #HigherEd institutions have 'baked in' #SocialMedia #outreach in the collective agreements or in performance appraisal forms/templates (and not only as this relates to speech and academic freedom, but also in terms of #OpenResearch). TIA!

Just gave workshop in which we discussed use of AI for writing research grants. Two people advocated for outsourcing proposal development to an external company (of which they know) that uses AI only to write grants FOR academic researchers. Thoughts?? Thx!

Hi everyone, anyone aware of universities accepting researchers to do PhDs by publications (retrospective)? @academic-chatter.bsky.social

#academicchatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social Do any fellow college professors have any insight on what might be going on? Or is this just bias toward a short, woman professor? Any advice if so?

Two characteristics that I found are strong predictors in the long term career successes of trainees: curiosity - following up on interesting observations & wondering “why?” courage - willingness to take risks, follow their own path & accept uncertainty #AcademicChatter

A question for #AcademicChatter - are there any examples of universities that operate as worker co-ops? Either historical or current examples, or university-adjacent institutions?

#NTUDoctoral snapshots - I feel after these two days that the future is in good hands. I listened to research today on everything from early Alzheimer’s diagnosis for adults with Down syndrome to understanding the behaviour of specific proteins associated with forms of cancer. #AcademicChatter

I have a new piece coming out with @chronicle.com on the problem of pregnancy in academia. a sneak peek: “an academic I spoke with told me a prof looked at his pregnant advisee & sneered, ‘once could be construed as an accident. it now looks like you’re doing this on purpose’”

📭 I get that journals are overloaded, truly. But is it common to get a desk reject after 5.5 months? ❌ No review, no prior communication, just a sudden “outside the scope”. Curious how others see this – is this within the realm of normal these days? @academic-chatter.bsky.social #publishingrealities

If any educators have knowledge of legal defense funds for students who’ve had their visas revoked, please share & I will keep sharing. This is inflicting unnecessary trauma on these students, their peers, & the faculty + staff that have to sit back & watch it happen. #academicsky #academicchatter

Hey Folks @academic-chatter.bsky.social I am looking for someone who might be able to serve as a mentor for one of my students. Bonus points for BIPOC & ADHD. If this might be you DM me.

The problem with working on big high-risk projects is they don't always end in the glorious impactful work. If they're truly 'high risk', they often just end in failure. Or else requiring huge effort to save. I'm painfully learning this lesson after seeing a few of my 'flagship' projects crash. 🧵

Since the amount of academics that follow me has grown - a reminder that I’m available to peer-review, guest lecture or for writing opportunities I’m an Associate Editor for 2 journals, have reviewing experience & expertise in animal behaviour/physiology, & wildlife diseases 🦇🌎🧪 #AcademicChatter

I left grad school with zero savings and no financial plan. If I could do it again, I’d focus on budgeting, side hustles, and student loan debt. Here’s what I wish I knew about money back then: buff.ly/JxIfU0d #PhDLife #PersonalFinance #GradSchool #AcademicChatter

UK Universities on BlueSky If you’re member of a UK university that’s on BlueSky but not listed below, then please let me know and I’ll add them to this list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

🧪Why does Wiley not offer the possibility to chose Bluesky for sharing publications with the community? 🤔 A lot of us moved to Bluesky and do not want to share their work on X any more…🧪 #Academicsky #MedSky #ChemSky @academic-chatter.bsky.social

@gorillapsych.bsky.social are offering micro grants in #languages and #linguistics ! An excellent platform for field experiments. A while ago I built a pilot perception experiment to elicit judgements from participants who are illiterate in the L1. Worked really well. gorilla.sc/grants/langu...

I am working on a "How (not) to present data" lecture for undergraduate policy students. Please share your best examples of excellent & deplorable data slides, charts, tables etc. Thanks in advance! @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Hey #Academicsky Did you see today's editorial in the NYTimes? #academicchatter

What do you enjoy most about working in #academia? Wrong answers only! #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

"PLOS will not compromise on issues of scientific rigor and editorial integrity." From a PLOS post about recent Executive Orders. I'm an editor for PLOSOne and very glad to see this family of journals not comply with anti-scientific political diktats. #AcademicChatter #StandUpForScience

I'm doing a fair amount of interdisciplinary research at the moment. One of the recurring issues is that it is hard to tell if an article in another discipline is suss. I've been burned before. Any strategies people find helpful? #academicchatter

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social! 📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025 📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va... 🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

🙌Very excited to share our new support network for mental health and/or addiction research academics with lived experience. We have called it LENS (Lived Experience Network for Scholars). Read more and sign up on Eventbrite for our 1st online meeting in May: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lived-expe...

Just read this comment on Reddit by a layperson trying to explain the high cost of academic books (pic): 🤯 We must work harder to dispel these misconceptions!! Academics are generally not paid to produce scholarly literature. @academic-chatter.bsky.social

I will post this again, cause it is important more than ever: #Inclusion,#diversity& #equality have also become integral in academia.It has deeply impacted my life.I have felt (still feel) the weight of not fitting in & feeling misunderstood @academic-chatter.bsky.social #AcademicChatter #DEI 🧵(1/6)

www.nature.com/articles/d41... All these are good initiatives, but let's not forget they can quickly become subject to Goodhart's law "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

@academic-chatter.bsky.social hey folks! Lovely to find you all here! I am running a session for PhD students next week and I’d love to show them why you are on this platform as an academic. #AcademicChatter #HE

Scary thought: are university staff (academic and other categories) public sector employees in the US? (They are in Ireland) Could this crazy purge start on the universities next? What about school teachers? @academic-chatter.bsky.social

I recently wrote a blog sharing my reflections from a NASA open science training we (@DUTC) held at Johns Hopkins University (@jhuartssciences.bsky.social). Researchers from diverse disciplines joined the training.

We all know science is a disaster. That means we have two choices: 1. Whine and complain. 2. Imagine and implement the solutions we imagine. There is no third option. #OpenScience @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Put your hand up if you've ever seen a succinct and understandable explanation of 'ontology, 'epistemology', & 'axiology', INCLUDING contextual usage in simplified ways. If yes, where? #AcademicChatter #PhDsky

This is entirely anecdotal, but has anyone else found it a lot more difficult to find academic literature about queer and trans research recently? I've definitely noticed a difference on the typical search engines I use like Google scholar and Jstor. @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Do you use federal statistics? Please share your feedback regardless of whether you are a federal statistics novice or a seasoned power user. We welcome examples of how you use federal statistics, suggestions to improve both the data & user experience, & more. gmu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I'm placing one metaphorical foot before the other #writing up my #PhD #thesis at UCL IOE about assessment of multimodal text in HE. I've also 1 accepted article 1 book chapter neither are included in the thesis #AcademicSky @ioe.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social

hii #AcademicSky & #AcademicChatter … any advice for an incoming (F25) phd student? i have some time rn to read/think/be confused/ask questions before i start (usa based) and would like to make use of it. thanks!

Today I spent 13 hours editing my factual book (multilingual families); hyperfocus may be a superpower but also a problem for the aging body as I have hardly moved. I’ve just put a gym weights session, walking, and yoga in the diary for tomorrow! #writersofbluesky @academic-chatter.bsky.social