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Prof Chris Jackson
4 days ago
Wow. This whole messy thing:
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#AcademicFreedom
#HumanRights
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/03/uk-university-halted-human-rights-research-after-pressure-from-china
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Jodi McAlister
6 days ago
"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."
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Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/literature-is-not-a-vibe-on-chatgpt-and-the-humanities
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Karen Campbell 🇨🇦
9 days ago
I have become my former supervisor. Late to all meetings, distractable, perpetually annoyed by bureaucracy. Hopefully half as creative?? 😶🌫️
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Daniel Bellingradt
9 days ago
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?
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Johannes Nagel
8 days ago
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.
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José Ángel Ortega
23 days ago
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. 🌎🐾
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José Ángel Ortega
23 days ago
How to find the papers you need to read — and avoid the ones you don’t.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How to find the papers you need to read — and avoid the ones you don’t
With thousands of papers being published everyday, it can be a task working out which matter. Here are some tips to help you decide.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02867-2?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nature&linkId=17031116
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Times Higher Education (THE)
22 days ago
Rethinking
#PhD
supervision: creative, person-centred and decolonising approaches can transform outcomes for diverse researchers:
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/reima...
#Academia
#HigherEd
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicSky
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Reimagining PhD supervision through allyship, creativity and decolonising practice
How a creative, person-centred and decolonising approach to PhD supervision can transform outcomes for postgraduate researchers from diverse and non-traditional backgrounds
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/reimagining-phd-supervision-through-allyship-creativity-and-decolonising-practice
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LSE Impact Blog
about 1 month ago
🗃️ 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
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How Google Scholar transformed research - Impact of Social Sciences
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? Kyriakos Drivas shows that…
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/05/15/how-google-scholar-transformed-research/
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Daniel Bellingradt
25 days ago
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
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Celine Camps
about 1 month ago
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?
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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan
about 1 month ago
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
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#science
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Suayb Üstün
25 days ago
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
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Katie Alcock
24 days ago
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.!)
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Claes de Vreese
about 1 month ago
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"
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How to find the papers you need to read — and avoid the ones you don’t
With thousands of papers being published everyday, it can be a task working out which matter. Here are some tips to help you decide.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02867-2?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nature&linkId=17031116
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L 🏳️🌈
4 months ago
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?
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Noah Bressman, PhD
4 months ago
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_...
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Glen Spiteri
3 months ago
Why are instrumental variable regressions so underutilized in psychology?
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Jennifer Musial (she/her)
3 months ago
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 😩
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Ethan Landes
4 months ago
Just experienced the unique joy of having someone's discussion of my own research completely change my understanding of it
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Matt Farmer PhD, RN
4 months ago
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when doing peer review, do you validate every reference used by the authors?
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Lynn Chiu
4 months ago
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
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Dr. Hannah M. King
5 months ago
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 . . .
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#academics
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#HigherEd
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Mouli Banerjee
6 months ago
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.
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Lynn Chiu
6 months ago
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"
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Academic Times
This open access book profoundly shapes the contours of academic life and knowledge production in contemporary universities.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-4609-8
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6 months ago
@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!
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BCCHR ResDev (DM)
6 months ago
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!
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Omar Ammar
6 months ago
Hi everyone, anyone aware of universities accepting researchers to do PhDs by publications (retrospective)?
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L 🏳️🌈
6 months ago
#academicchatter
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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?
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Dr. M. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D.
7 months ago
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
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Ben Lockwood, PhD
7 months ago
A question for
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- are there any examples of universities that operate as worker co-ops? Either historical or current examples, or university-adjacent institutions?
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Dr Sherran Clarence (SFHEA)
7 months ago
#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.
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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her)
7 months ago
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’”
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Corinna Peil
7 months ago
📭 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?
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#publishingrealities
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Carley
7 months ago
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
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Dr Penny Harvey
7 months ago
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.
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Peter Tennant
8 months ago
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. 🧵
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Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩🔬
8 months ago
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 🦇🌎🧪
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Matt Kmiecik
8 months ago
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
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Finances in gradschool
A thought experiment in time travel
https://buff.ly/JxIfU0d
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Mark Rubin
8 months ago
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:...
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Andrea Sinz 🧪
8 months ago
🧪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
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Jonathan Kasstan
8 months ago
@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...
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Gorilla Research Grants - Language & Linguistics
Gorilla Grant for online language and linguistics research
https://gorilla.sc/grants/language-linguistics?utm_source=activecampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gorilla-grants&utm_content=payg-user&vgo_ee=%2BqR73b9wDAgnkfGaX2hL15lEDHfpcWwfnWl7EwC%2FXjNk3Sdx%2BsocHi6xgA%3D%3D%3AL7OnhnwymGegoPITKuNIBBOHLUxkZL29
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Mary Feeney
8 months ago
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!
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Bird + Camera
8 months ago
Hey
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Did you see today's editorial in the NYTimes?
#academicchatter
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Opinion | The Authoritarian Endgame on Higher Education (Gift Article)
This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/opinion/trump-research-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.mkoT.x1RPK61424PM&smid=url-share
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Peter Tennant
8 months ago
What do you enjoy most about working in
#academia
? Wrong answers only!
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Hisham Zerriffi
8 months ago
"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
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PLOS statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity - The Official PLOS Blog
Since its founding over twenty five years ago PLOS has been dedicated to advancing open science, ensuring that knowledge is accessible to…
https://theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos-statement-on-recent-us-executive-orders-and-scientific-integrity/
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Ethan Landes
8 months ago
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?
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Nicole Kapelle
8 months ago
🚨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
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Ruth Naughton-Doe
8 months ago
🙌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...
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Lived Experience Network for Scholars (LENS) Online Meet-up
An support and information network for academic mental health and addiction researchers with lived experience
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lived-experience-network-for-scholars-lens-online-meet-up-tickets-1272505190279?aff=oddtdtcreator
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