Research Whisperer @therealrw.bsky.social and all round good egg @jod999.bsky.social has started a Wikipedia page on #researchculture . Read more and find out how to contribute at researchwhisperer.org/2025/12/09/r...

We're running a very short survey to explore why academics are increasingly turning to GenAI to do things that they know/feel they should probably be doing themselves (e.g. write peer reviews, draft papers, data analysis etc.) - please share (or fill in!): redcap.helix.monash.edu/surveys/?s=L...

#AcWriMo might be over but the academia / writing / research memes continue. A familiar vibe for many of us, I imagine... #academicsky #academicchatter #PhDchat #resdev #highered

Help! Sign & share the petition to save the State Library of Victoria from rolling crises, gallery closures, harassment/jettisoning of staff & new cuts to destroy services for children & adults. c.org/Hj9G9WSg2f. (Or change.org, search Save The State Library of Victoria.) #StateLibrary #librarians

Researchers who may be interested in Australian Bureau of Statistics reports: The 2026 Census topics and data release plan is now published on the ABS website. Full info here: www.abs.gov.au/statistics/r... #AcademicSky

"A practical blueprint for legal and ethical AI research" (from @lseimpactblog.bsky.social) - is this possible? blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #ResearchAndAI #ResearchEthics

Here's a report from Jenny Sinclair @jsresearchpro.bsky.social on the low success rate for DECRAs this week, driven by high demand and low Government funding for early career researchers in Australia. [Free article in @resprofnews.bsky.social]

This banger from the academia / writing / research meme stash definitely has wider applicability but I do really like using it for coaching, mentoring, and workshop activities when we talk about the importance of saying 'no' to things as researchers. #academicchatter #academicsky #PhDchat

"Most research development models assume that time, energy, and executive functioning are equally distributed across scholars. They aren’t." - @kprmendoza.bsky.social #academicsky #neurodivergence #ECRchat #resdev researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/18/c...

Better together, indeed! Learn how @researchorgs.bsky.social and @orcid.org's systems interact and complement each other enhancing data quality and adding valuable trust markers to researchers’ records. buff.ly/daQAyWQ

Happy World Linguistics Day, @superlinguo.bsky.social and @gretchenmcc.bsky.social! Lauren and Gretchen are the masterminds behind @lingthusiasm.bsky.social, a must-follow podcast if you want to sound clever at dinner parties. 🧐

Australian and Aotearoa NZ academics: Ever railed against the exploitative publishers in the research sector? Some good news about your work being freely Open Access and actions you can take right now! researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l... #academicsky #acwri

Recent post on the blog: Help! I’m an Early Career Researcher and genAI doesn’t know who I am "Discovering that my work was being inaccurately represented by genAI was frustrating and concerning." - Tess Shirefley researchwhisperer.org/2025/05/20/h... #AcademicSky

A good day to post this from @therealrw.bsky.social, written by the fab @geraldroche.bsky.social. All power to researchers' rejoinder arms over the next couple of weeks. Writing an ARC DECRA rejoinder: An unofficial step-by-step guide researchwhisperer.org/2022/04/28/w... #AcademicSky

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

#10minutesfromhome Beautiful blossoms this afternoon

Reposting. Because it's another day but the same gaping maw

New set of NEH grant program cancellations: DHAG Fellowships Open Book Program Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities

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More important now than ever, everywhere. #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Academia

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

Among those who reported experiencing harassment, women were affected almost twice as much as men by non-sexual forms of personal harassment. theconversation.com/two-in-five-...

📢FUND DON’T FREEZE!📢 Join researchers and academics in DC on February 19th at 12 PM to stand up for research, education, and jobs! Federal attacks on science and academia put all of our futures at risk - let’s show them we won’t back down! RSVP Here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Whoa … this is getting real! Thanks, @mikejennions.bsky.social for putting this together. I'm blushing! 😊

🔎 Trust is key in research—but how do we build it? This #WatchItWednesday, learn how trust markers in ORCID records verify & strengthen researcher identities. 🎥 Watch now: https://shorturl.at/MFhPL #LoveDataWeek #ResearchIntegrity #ORCIDonDemand #LoveData25

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"This is a tale of a journal with a very weak data policy and what happens when a critical reader tests the limits of that policy." - Phil Davis, on the @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social blog, 17 January 2025. #DataManipulation scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/01/17/d...

Presenting at the conference "...I felt no need to downplay the status of [our centre] and had no questions over the legitimacy of our occupancy of that room at that time." - Emily Henderson, Conference Inference blog, January 2025. conferenceinference.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/d...

💡 Have an idea to improve research culture & practice? 🧪 📝 Submit your proposal to the Responsible Research in Action Unconference (Sep. 22-24, Berlin) ⌚ Due Feb 9th 🙌 If selected, your fees & travel will be covered ➕ a motivated team will help make it happen! 💪 rr-in-action2025.org/info-for-app...

Big thanks to @brkeogh.bsky.social for this resource - and make sure you check out the whole thread. 🔥 #AcademicSky #PhDsky #HigherEd

Loving being at Deakin's Waterfront campus for Shut Up and Write. So beautiful. Come and join us at Waterfront Pantry every Thursday, 9:30 - 11:30 am. #SUaW #DeakinWaterfront #AcademicWriting #ECRChat

🔥 🔥 60 German-speaking universities, science and research institutions have announced their decision to discontinue activities on X. (My alma mater among them! 👏 ) They stated their need to communicate in a fact-oriented, transparent and democratic environment, /2 idw-online.de/de/news845538

Our last post for 2024 may have gotten lost in the end-of-year frenzy so here it is again! How to avoid post-dissertation doldrums (by Noelle Stern): researchwhisperer.org/2024/12/16/h... #AcademicSky #PhDsky

I can’t remember who said it to me, but the problem with winning a research grant…can be winning a research grant…

Those of us that work in HE, and especially University libraries, have a duty to learn how to contribute to @wikipedia.bsky.social and support our communities to do so! Wikimedia and universities: contributing to the global commons in the Age of Disinformation: doi.org/10.1629/uksg...

Happy New Year! (my cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social)

I’m making a comeback by explaining why I stopped blogging patthomson.net/2025/01/01/p...

Big thanks to @brkeogh.bsky.social for this resource - and make sure you check out the whole thread. 🔥 #AcademicSky #PhDsky #HigherEd

@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social Re-upping this excellent piece on complexity, values, research, medicine and humanity. Thank you Trish 🙏🏼 Hope you’ve had a good Xmas! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Not sure of the original source of this, but the depiction with the final domino set to crush the pusher is devastatingly accurate.

Happy 2 days after Boxing Day! [Meme found on Fb SAS] #AcademicSky #PhDsky

Picard management tip: Take your leisure time seriously. A relaxed captain is a sane captain.

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

@thesiswhisperer.bsky.social, ABC National covered 'Win Friends' today. Made the point that it's not actually about friendship. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

And we're out of here, leaving all the work zombies behind! Have a good one, folks. Stay safe, recharge if you can. 💚 https://buff.ly/4fwWCGR | @redpenblackpen.bsky.social

Please don't send me an invitation to review a manuscript on 17 Dec with the review due 14 days later on 31 Dec.... #academicsky #manuscriptreview #wellbeing #selfcare

All I want for Christmas is don’t email me.

Good talking to @cenmag.bsky.social and @kvasquez.bsky.social about neurodivergence in STEM. Great article. My callout is to neurotypical folks to learn more so they can provide supports to students. #ActuallyAutistic cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

"Do it because you can" - a post in the #AdventCalendarOfRage series! "I tried to let this particular white-hot rage die down. But it won’t. So, hopefully, here’s a constructive post built from the foundations of my infuriation." https://buff.ly/30vBg9b #AcademicSky #PhDsky #HigherEd

Designing your remote or hybrid postdoctoral fellowship (by Catrine Demers and Andrea MacLeod) "The global COVID-19 pandemic has provided an opportunity to explore alternative options, such as remote or hybrid postdoctoral fellowships." https://buff.ly/2PjfLWo #AcademicSky #PhDsky #postdoc