👀ICYMI: "public writing adds a certain texture to a scholar’s profile. It shows an ability to communicate beyond disciplinary boundaries, to enter conversations that move through society rather than only through journals." #AcWri #AcademicSky

👀ICYMI: "public writing adds a certain texture to a scholar’s profile. It shows an ability to communicate beyond disciplinary boundaries, to enter conversations that move through society rather than only through journals." #AcWri #AcademicSky

🗣️"Ultimately, I’m not sure it matters whether it’s the connections themselves, or the appearance of them, which leads academics to remain committed to a social media platform." #AcademicSky

💥New | Three red flags for “evidenced-based” EdTech ✍️ Natalia Kucirkova #EdTech #AcademicSky #Education @ioe.bsky.social

🗣️"The secularization debate is not going away anytime soon. Our study does not prove that one side is objective while the other is biased. But it does suggest that researchers should pay closer attention to the preconceptions they bring to their work." @valeriarainero.bsky.social #SocialScience

💥New post | For open research to work, research institutions and publishers need to collaborate ✍️ Heidi Ormstad, @rnls.bsky.social & @roeggen.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #OpenResearch #ResearchIntegrity

🗣️"The secularization debate is not going away anytime soon. Our study does not prove that one side is objective while the other is biased. But it does suggest that researchers should pay closer attention to the preconceptions they bring to their work." @valeriarainero.bsky.social #SocialScience

We should focus less on research impact and more on research value, a paradigm that genuinely nurtures research for societal benefit. Ruth O’Connor, Sejul Malde, Wendy Russell and Maya Haviland for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

💥New post | For open research to work, research institutions and publishers need to collaborate ✍️ Heidi Ormstad, @rnls.bsky.social & @roeggen.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #OpenResearch #ResearchIntegrity

🗣️"The academic ‘transfer market’ is increasingly internationalized: according to a recent Eurodoc survey, nearly 75 percent of researchers have worked in at least two countries for a period of three months or more." #AcademicSky #ECRchat

💥New post | Predatory university rankings jeopardise the value of Webometrics ✍️ Vladimir Moskovkin #UniversityRankings #PredatoryRankings #Webometrics

Even more reason to move towards a wider range of trust signals for research outputs instead of relying solely on things like peer review blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... Another Op-ed on this coming soon!

💥New post | Predatory university rankings jeopardise the value of Webometrics ✍️ Vladimir Moskovkin #UniversityRankings #PredatoryRankings #Webometrics

⚗️🔭 How do we spark new scientific discoveries? Why do some breakthroughs seem accidental? The new book 'The Engine of Scientific Discovery' by CPNSS Research Associate Alexander Krauss is for anyone who wants to understand how we make discoveries. ➡ Link to the book: doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

👀ICYMI: "For some datasets, we estimate that the amount of mass-manufactured research now outnumbers legitimate research by ten to one" @aidybarnett.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #OpenData #ResearchIntegrity

💥New | US social media is getting smaller, angrier, and more Republican ✍️ @pettertornberg.com #SocialMedia #AcademicSky #Polarization

👀ICYMI: "For some datasets, we estimate that the amount of mass-manufactured research now outnumbers legitimate research by ten to one" @aidybarnett.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #OpenData #ResearchIntegrity

💥New | US social media is getting smaller, angrier, and more Republican ✍️ @pettertornberg.com #SocialMedia #AcademicSky #Polarization

👀ICYMI: "selective resistance overlooks deeper problems that are far more significant than the contested issues." #UniversityRankings #HigherEducation

💥New | We should focus less on research impact and more on research value ✍️ Ruth O’Connor, Sejul Malde, Wendy Russell and Maya Haviland #AcademicSky #ResearchEvaluation #ResearchImpact

👀ICYMI: "selective resistance overlooks deeper problems that are far more significant than the contested issues." #UniversityRankings #HigherEducation

💥New | We should focus less on research impact and more on research value ✍️ Ruth O’Connor, Sejul Malde, Wendy Russell and Maya Haviland #AcademicSky #ResearchEvaluation #ResearchImpact

💥New | Public writing has become a benchmark of the PhD journey ✍️ Disha #PhDchat #AcWri #ECRchat

Would love to see an end to the narrative that says you have to be prepared to leave your loved ones/ support network and move countries every year or two, or you aren't sufficiently committed to the vocation. No regrets about giving up on academia.

🗣️"Ultimately, I’m not sure it matters whether it’s the connections themselves, or the appearance of them, which leads academics to remain committed to a social media platform." #AcademicSky

🗣️"The academic ‘transfer market’ is increasingly internationalized: according to a recent Eurodoc survey, nearly 75 percent of researchers have worked in at least two countries for a period of three months or more." #AcademicSky #ECRchat

💥New | Public writing has become a benchmark of the PhD journey ✍️ Disha #PhDchat #AcWri #ECRchat

Jürgen Habermas made the case for a supranational democracy in Europe formed by a transfer of competences from states to the European level. But is such a transfer of power possible (or desirable) in today's Europe? ✍ @simonglend.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

👀ICYMI: "Even if technologies are successfully commercialised and integrated into one sector, it does not mean that they will be hugely disruptive to the labour market across the board." #AiJobs #AiEfficiency #Disruption @lsephilosophy.bsky.social @lsedatascience.bsky.social

👀ICYMI: "Even if technologies are successfully commercialised and integrated into one sector, it does not mean that they will be hugely disruptive to the labour market across the board." #AiJobs #AiEfficiency #Disruption @lsephilosophy.bsky.social @lsedatascience.bsky.social

I’m not happy. Woke up at 4:30 this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep, and now the LSE Impact Blog tells me that I can look forward to an early death. 😐

👀ICYMI: "adults who regularly sleep fewer than six hours face a 20 % higher risk of premature death compared with those who get seven or eight hours." ✍️ @jcosta-font.bsky.social #PublicHealth #Sleep

💥New | Social scientists bring their faith into research – And it shows up in their results ✍️ @valeriarainero.bsky.social, Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx #SocialScience #Faith #AcademicSky

👀ICYMI: "adults who regularly sleep fewer than six hours face a 20 % higher risk of premature death compared with those who get seven or eight hours." ✍️ @jcosta-font.bsky.social #PublicHealth #Sleep

💥New | Social scientists bring their faith into research – And it shows up in their results ✍️ @valeriarainero.bsky.social, Jörg Stolz and Ruud Luijkx #SocialScience #Faith #AcademicSky

🗣️"universities are major stewards of research communication that is addressed to national and regional audiences, publishing scholarship in the languages where it is produced and applied." #UniversityPresses #AcademicPublishing

💥New | Research integrity is locked into an arms race with agentic AI slop ✍️ @aidybarnett.bsky.social & Matt Spick #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchSlop #AcademicPublishing

🗣️"universities are major stewards of research communication that is addressed to national and regional audiences, publishing scholarship in the languages where it is produced and applied." #UniversityPresses #AcademicPublishing

💥New | Research integrity is locked into an arms race with agentic AI slop ✍️ @aidybarnett.bsky.social & Matt Spick #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchSlop #AcademicPublishing

💥New | Even on their own terms university rankings have failed in India ✍️ Muthu Madhan #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #UniversityRankings

👀ICYMI: "Neurodiversity is not something that some people have; it is a characteristic of human populations. When that distinction is lost, methods, outputs & impacts become uncoupled from the paradigm’s inclusive aims." #Neurodiversity #REF2029 @rosalie-warnock.bsky.social @kbrickell.bsky.social

💥New | Even on their own terms university rankings have failed in India ✍️ Muthu Madhan #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #UniversityRankings

🗣️"Rather, than lose the proverbial forest through the trees, researchers can ask more important questions, such as: why is a review needed, and where does it aim to take a field?" #AcWri #LitReviews

🗣️"Considering the fragility of online content, this infrastructural gap poses a risk of significant information loss." #ScholComm #AcademicBlogging

Will AI replace coders… Drawing on the history of frontier technologies and a series of interviews with coders under threat of AI replacement, Kate Vredenburgh and Lauren Wong set out what we should be asking about how AI is changing work. — @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

The only blog post that I wrote and still sometimes want to share is lost. I once managed to find it on the internet archive, but never took down the details. And now I can't remember enough details to search for it.

🗣️"Considering the fragility of online content, this infrastructural gap poses a risk of significant information loss." #ScholComm #AcademicBlogging

🗣️"Most misinformation strategies treat the problem as one of incorrect knowledge. But if the underlying issue is divergent structures of appearance, then content-level interventions are bound to fail" #Misinformation

London Open Science & Scholarship Festival spotlight✨ 'Open Access Books: Rights, Ownership and Control'📚 Hear @eve.gd, @alittleroad.bsky.social and @aileenfyfe.bsky.social discuss how authors can maintain control of their work. 🗓️20.04, 1-2pm 📍Online 🔗https://buff.ly/UYsG1Z6 #LDNOpenFest26

🗣️"Rather, than lose the proverbial forest through the trees, researchers can ask more important questions, such as: why is a review needed, and where does it aim to take a field?" #AcWri #LitReviews