Are you ready for a reading challenge? This is my favourite so far www.the52book.club/april-2026-m... Thanks to @the52bookclub.bsky.social I am scouring my to-be-read pile.

#LoveLD - love #Take5 - the latest: #Take5 #147: Stories of hope: Reimagining education - the book - the case studies - and what happened next: aldinhe.ac.uk/take-5-147-s...

Inspired by @therealrw.bsky.social I wrote a post on GenAI and epistemic erasure theslowacademic.com/2026/02/11/e... I would love to hear your thoughts.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. ❤️ Australian literature (I was the only student in the class!) ❤️ Women in the ancient world ❤️ Formal logic ❤️ Shakespeare ❤️ Feminism and literature

I continue my monthly slow reading with Steve Tu's Attuning to Absence in the Posthuman University theslowacademic.com/2026/01/24/s...

A4 #LTHEchat Reflecting on my values, achievements, and dreasm for the future. Talking with colleagues, union staff, mentors, psychologist (we have an Employee Assistance Program), a coach (in my first early career redundancy experience). In time, identifying lessons I have learnt.

A3 #LTHEchat Connecting with union colleagues was a lifesaver in terms of wellbeing. Formal meetings on understanding the enterprise agreement, change process and responding to proposals. Informal meetings to emote, feel connected and discuss options for the future.

A2 #LTHEChat It is hard, emotional work. By the third time round, I knew I would feel sick, struggle to sleep and be emotional. With others reporting to me, I wanted to support them through the experience. My entire job became managing the change and uncertainty.

David Hopkins, logged in near Leicester, and the author of the post for tonight's #LTHEChat - 'Redundancy, Resilience, and Finding What’s Next' lthechat.com/2026/01/12/l...

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

PSA: @readingsbooks.bsky.social is offering a 10% discount for recent books of authors who have chosen to withdraw from the 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week: www.readings.com.au/collections/...

Eighteen months ago, I started a slow reading project about slow academia: read one article or chapter a month and blog about it. Here are my posts: theslowacademic.com?s=slow+reading including the latest: What's for dinner? And what does your answer mean for academia?

I'm sharing some of my favouriter books of 2025. I'd love to hear what you enjoyed. Year's end highlights and a giveaway theslowacademic.com/2026/01/03/y...

Is 'read more fiction' one of your new year's resolutions? Here are some books I enjoyed in 2025. All from Australia and New Zealand, mostly speculative and literary fiction and all underrated in my opinion. I am giving away copies of two or three on my blog: theslowacademic.com/2026/01/03/y...

Announcing our Slow Academia Special Issue theslowacademic.com/2025/06/07/a... Open access www.peterlang.com/journal/27/7-1

I feel like "generous scholarship" is the best compliment anyone can give me regarding my work. That is what I strive for! And it is definitely what I see and hugely appreciate in @agnesbosanquet.bsky.social & colleagues' MOOC, too!

Generous scholarship at its best! mirjamglessmer.com/2025/02/21/r... from @mirjamglessmer.bsky.social

I'm celebrating recent publications thanks to the power of co-authorship, regular collaborative writing sessions, aligning research with work priorities, and opportunities to publish short articles theslowacademic.com/2025/02/20/r...

We have eight principles for scholarly reflective practice for learning and teaching. What are they? Our open access paper www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @agnesbosanquet.bsky.social @herdjournal.bsky.social #reflection

Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC starts 17th February. Join us! Free and open to all canvas.instructure.com/enroll/EJM6JY Look at this incredible map of MOOC participants since 2018. Find out more: theslowacademic.com/contemporary...

The Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC was awarded the inaugural 2024 CAULLT/HERDSA Award for Outstanding Leadership in Research and Development in Higher Education. If you missed out on this MOOC enrol for Semester 1 2025 here: canvas.instructure.com/enroll/EJM6JY

With my co-lead on the Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC, @agnesbosanquet.bsky.social, we have written about how we have used distributed leadership and peer review to enhance the MOOC. Free prints here www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DSEH8... @herdjournal.bsky.social

Critical books about the state of #HigherEd, no. 23: 'We see the neoliberal university as, in many ways, a paranoid, defensive institution that has lost ‘the capacity to distribute hope’ to many of its staff and students.' (Kenway/Boden/Fahey in Thornton (2014): 266)

#MeToo and Higher Education: Call for papers Denise Cuthbert's LinkedIn post introducing @herdjournal.bsky.social's #CFP for a special issue on the impact of awareness of sexual misconduct within #HigherEd and #universities. Please share www.linkedin.com/posts/denise...

Thank you for prompting my final slow reading for 2024 @katebowles.bsky.social @francesbell.bsky.social @lornamcampbell.bsky.social and co-authors and quilters. Love your work! theslowacademic.com/2024/12/24/s...

A blog post about Slowing Down lornamcampbell.org/women-in-tec... #femedtech #He4Good HT @sokate.bsky.social @francesbell.bsky.social @drloumycroft.bsky.social @catherinecronin.bsky.social @czernie.bsky.social and Helen Beetham.

Posts by @agnesbosanquet.bsky.social are always thoughtful and worth reading. This one, from late Nov, is no exception: "Acknowledging the ‘I’ who researches and disseminates research in particular ways. This is embodied work, is what this says." https://buff.ly/3OS9X1m #AcademicSky #PhDsky #AcWri

The physicality of academic work seems like a little-talked-about topic. I can't write for 8 hours, I can't prepare lectures non-stop, intellectual work is physically taxing on my body. Yes, even doing reviews is mentally and physically taxing.

How is your year ending? I took the time to jot down some ordinary happenings theslowacademic.com/2024/12/11/e... Mine has been a year of farewells and new beginnings, awards and failures, gatherings and celebrations galore. It is ending on a happy note.

Last week, in a panel discussion, I mentioned an approach to pedagogy that’s been in my mind for a while … so here’s The (very simple) Pedagogy of Letting Go lydiaarnold.net/2024/11/24/t...

Career advancement policies ‘used for wage theft’. Australian academics required to ‘act up’ for years before being paid for it, analysis finds. #WageTheft www.timeshighereducation.com/news/career-...

Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching, an award-winning teaching development MOOC freely available to all, is open for Semester 1, 2025. Created by over 40 higher education experts! Enrol now: canvas.instructure.com/enroll/EJM6JY to start Feb 17th.

One of my all-time favourites from the #SadChairsOfAcademia archive! (Tumblr: sadchairsofacademia.tumblr.com ) #AcademicSky #PhDsky #Academia

Teaching research skills? Make it fun and impactful with How to Fail Your Research Degree! This game helps students navigate the chaos of academic research in a safe-to-fail environment. Watch the video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmAc... howtofailyourresearchdegree.com #ResearchSkills #HigherEd #GBL

Truly tragic beauty. Heriot-Watt (Edinburgh) campus woods. Submitted by Insta's @thedeadsocialscientist #SadChairsOfAcademia #academicsky #phdsky sadchairsofacademia.tumblr.com/post/7347561...

What are you daily goals? I have the same ones every day: join an interesting conversation, eat something good, spend time outdoors, and enjoy reading. I call them infinite goals: theslowacademic.com/2024/05/15/i... This is what time outdoors looked like for me yesterday:

Introduce yourself with One book 📚 — Chouette by Claire Oshetsky One movie 🎥 — Children of Men One album 💿 — Nadine Shah's Kitchen Sink One TV show 📺 — Creamerie One game 🎮 — Klask (table-top air hockey)

Hello all! I was on academic Twitter for years and have missed that community. Thanks to @wadekelly.com for prompting me to dive into BlueSky to find you again. Keen to have the interactions that don't fit the earnest backslapping of LinkedIn.