There are a couple of 19c studies starter pack lists that might help!

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!

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. #academicchatter

#AcademicChatter (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

Download our large database of funding opportunities for early-career faculty and researchers Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... 433 funding opportunities.

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...

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 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #NIH #NSF #OpenScience journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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. #academicchatter

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 @academic-chatter.bsky.social

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 @academic-chatter.bsky.social

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? @academic-chatter.bsky.social

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 #academicchatter

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.

💥New: Do “novel contributions” to research mean anything anymore? ✍️Adam Arian #AcademicSky #AcWri #ResearchMethods

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 🫠 @academic-chatter.bsky.social #WIASN

more than anything, this should remind you how bad generative has ruined the information ecosystem

can’t fucking catch a breath make it stop

🎉 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 📩 [email protected]

I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform! www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...

Publication plug! A while back, wrote this chapter (that, dare I say, I am quite proud of) on political parties and democracy building for a wonderful book edited by @democracytalk.bsky.social & Dinesha Samararatne, bringing together understudied case studies for a rare, comparative intervention.

Wow. This whole messy thing: @academic-chatter.bsky.social #AcademicFreedom #HumanRights www.theguardian.com/education/20...

"The collapse of the institutions where young people learn to make and critique art stands to greatly benefit companies like OpenAI, which, in the absence of human artists and critics, can both make the stuff and tell us it’s good." lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

I have become my former supervisor. Late to all meetings, distractable, perpetually annoyed by bureaucracy. Hopefully half as creative?? 😶‍🌫️ #AcademicChatter

Consider yourself an academic? But where is your hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, the spotted suit and checked tights, like this fella from 1773 - called: the Academic Mac - is wearing? #academicchatter

After graduating in Germany a few years ago, I applied to various Ivy League PhD programs. Spent much time & money on all those required texts, certificates, fees, the GRE etc. And now barely a week goes by when I'm not absolutely relieved that none of it worked out. Times change. #academicchatter

Hello Bluesky! I’m José Ángel, a PhD student in Life Sciences at CICESE, Mexico. My research focuses on #microplastic pollution in top marine predators and its ecological implications. I’m here to share #research, connect with fellow scientists, and discuss marine conservation. 🌎🐾 #AcademicChatter

How to find the papers you need to read — and avoid the ones you don’t. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AcademicChatter

Rethinking #PhD supervision: creative, person-centred and decolonising approaches can transform outcomes for diverse researchers: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/reima... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky

🗃️ From May: Google Scholar launched in November 2004 with the goal of making it easier to access scientific knowledge. But did it live up to this aim or simply create new problems? #GoogleScholar #AcademicChatter

My academic #ShadowCV includes, * unsuccessfully applying for way too many permanent jobs, * working at 5 universities, and nowhere tenure-tracks were available, or installed after me, or for others only, * too much time spent on trains working the laptop, * never had a contract longer then 3 years

A friend's applying for a postdoc which expects an extensive publication record. I've seen grad students who focus on publishing over developing their diss & the 1st thing that goes out the window is quality. Why do we glorify & celebrate "productivity" over quality? @academic-chatter.bsky.social

From our ongoing book and research into the origins of the DEI backlash 👉Dogmatic approach to DEI ↪️ reactive resentment 🟰shutting the door in your face 👉Appreciative inquiry to DEI ↪️ opportunity to understand 🟰rolling out the welcome mat @academic-chatter.bsky.social #science 🧪

Sometimes being a supervisor, project leader, mentor, or professor can feel quite lonely. I miss my PhD and postdoc days — it was the sense of community, the great interactions, and the feeling of belonging to a family that kept me sane in academia @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicChatter

I found out last week I didn't get a large grant I applied for in April (large to me, in any case). What's the first thing fellow academics do when they have a grant rejected (and the second, third etc.!) #AcademicChatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social

I wish I had time to read this article 😉 "With thousands of papers being published everyday, it can be a task working out which matter". Conclusion: "No single method will solve the challenge of staying on top of the literature" @academic-chatter.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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?