Such a fab day with @emilynordmann.bsky.social and her wonderful colleagues at Glasgow Uni. Talked about my favourite things - #scholarship and #disability #inclusion and had some fascinating conversations. Thanks everyone!! 🥰

⭐⭐⭐⭐ I read this and enjoyed it and then I read a review that said it's designed to be read twice (it's 47 pages) and it's true and was even better the second time. #BookSky

Glad to be able to share new preprint on how to make supervising dissertation projects more open and efficient with secondary data, open data, and evidence synthesis with Ashley Robertson, @amcreaven.bsky.social, Elayne Ahern, and @katebutton.bsky.social 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... #AcademicSky

Did I get obsessed with the Munro #TidyTuesday and go on a @walkhighlands.co.uk deep dive (gratefully with their consent)? Yes. Did I have to migrate my website from Hugo to Quarto to make interactive plots work? Yes. Was it worth it? Yes. Code & more at www.emilynordmann.com/post/2025-08...

Agree. I dislike how people use an overflowing inbox as an excuse to avoid responding to reasonable work requests. A lot of work is still conducted over email.

“James, another signatory, said “the only thing that makes the information we learn from university any different from what we can gather online by ourselves is the in-person lectures performed by actual professors in our fields of study”.”

We don’t just scroll—we learn while scrolling. This “incidental learning” can shape what we know, believe, and even how we act. Sometimes useful, sometimes risky (hello, misinformation). What have you learned incidentally lately? #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

So…there’s, like, a whole area of motivation research about how motivation doesn’t necessarily need to come from interest (e.g., productive, autonomous extrinsic motivation, how to productively regulate one’s motivation, etc.). It’s not a new thing, either. selfdeterminationtheory.org/theory/

For the umpteenth time and for the umpteenth reason, handwriting is better than typing. #EduSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm no Cassandra, but I've been exploring this alternative to GS if the Sentient AI Overlords pull the plug on GS. It's this and it is, currently, terrible: openalex.org

A new afex update is now on CRAN. it's mostly a maintenance update dealing with a bug in pbkrtest and preparing for the next major releases of ggplot2 and lme4.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ First Murakami novel, he is a bit weird isn't he. I thought it was excellent but also it took me longer to read than it should given the length so it gets docked a star for not compelling me to read. #BookSky

Amazing Tidy Tuesday for the venn diagram of data nerds and baggers - check out the hashtag #tidytuesday for more graphical munro magic. Cc @walkhighlands.co.uk

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ridiculous but fun. Should have been 100 pages shorter as usual. #BookSky

⛰️Ben Cruachan & Stob Daimh (#57-58). I was worried about these to point of budgeting time for a panic attack, but like much of life the thought of it was worse than actually doing it. There's a slabby bit that was described in some reports in such a way that it sounded scary but was entirely fine..

Always impressive to read an educational RCT and I'm immediately interested in anything that frames lecture attendance through a lens of self-regulation rather than punitive attendance policies or removing recordings. #AcademicSky bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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I am very glad I discovered Diablo after I got promoted because I looked up and I had been playing for 4 hours this morning. She is a barbarian berersker because of course she is.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful. Written in 2019 but has an extra kick reading about automation in the age of AI. #BookSky

At the last UK election I went back-and-forth about whether to vote Labour, I didn't want to risk waking up to a Tory government knowing I'd contributed. But I couldn't stomach the warning signs on LGBTQ rights and voted SNP and the only good thing is knowing I am not responsible for this hellscape.

Planned a munro today but my wife woke up a bit run down but I was in the "I need to see mountains again Gandalf" zone, so with wifely blessing (I didn't just abandon her), I took myself up a couple of Corbetts, The Brack and Cnoc Còinnich. An almost scramble ascent in places and then pathless bits.

As a life-long obsessive Offspring fan, this was not news but god I living for all the Offspring lyric puns in this thread.

Very taken by this on supporting education-focused academics through lens of self-determination theory. I've seen 1st-hand the impact giving people some degree autonomy over their workload can have, even if they can't change total, having some say in what it involves is very powerful #AcademicSky

the enshittification of education is underway restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This was a reread and I enjoyed it a lot more on the 2nd round. I think it's one of those that benefits from reading a review before you go into it. Also, completely batshit. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-... #BookSky

my reactionary take is that while academic centralization generally sucks, what also sucks is grown-ass adults pretending they are above clicking a few buttons and feeling OK about asking their colleagues to do their busywork for them

one academic view i hold is that declared helplessness surrounding administrative tasks is both rude and non-credible

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Have read none of this other books (I know) I suspect there are layers to this that have passed me by but regardless, this is a wonderful short book on running and Getting Better By Just Keeping Going #BookSky

Glad to see @cos.io coming out with a statement about this after an influx of suspicious preprints hit PsyArXiv at the start of July. Many more have appeared since the first one I spotted. I Automated checks can only go so far & documenting all of them is a lot of work. #OpenScience

We're at a wedding and it's going well. @kathleencronie.bsky.social

If a journal's InstToAuthors said it accepted "original" research, would you assume that (1) this meant a new study/experiment no one had conducted before? Or (2) 1 and replications because that replication has not been conducted before and is, therefore, original. 2/3

Science/research chums. I am working on a project about replication and am very keen on your feedback. 1/3

Just read this on the lack of digital skills, which isn't new but reinforces experience in the classroom & should be a further nail in the coffin to idea that students are "digital natives" means anything other than they have probably grown up near connected devices. futuredotnow.uk/lack-of-digi...

Hello I am a gay millenial.

Fixed that for you, @nature.com

I am pleased to report that for the Nth year in a row, I did not check my emails whilst I was on leave for three weeks, and the world did not end. I do wish that my brain would return to full speed sometime soon though💀

I am very angry. I'm angry that the most left wing choice of government we have is the most anti-lgbt government since Thatcher. I'm angry at Wes Streeting for killing trans people. I'm angry at Bridget Phillipson for reintroducing Section 28.

To lean even further into stereotype, for my birthday @kathleencronie.bsky.social got me fancy new boots to climb all the mountains of my 40s 😍⛰️

🎓📢 Call for Papers: Assessment & Feedback Symposium 2025 Share your work on progressive & inclusive assessment in HE. 📅 4 Nov 2025 | 🌐 Virtual 📝 Submit by: 2 Sept 2025 Full details + submission form here: bit.ly/450Jarw #HigherEd #Assessment #Feedback

I have farmed. Nordmann for scale.

We know it’s a busy time of year, so we’re giving you a bit more breathing room. The deadline for the ALTC25 call for proposals has been extended by a week. You now have until Sunday, 20 July to get your submissions in for consideration for the event. buff.ly/jkOX5zR #altc #ALTC25

Very taken by this from @carlhendrick.substack.com both from an #AcademicSky AI summary ennui perspective and also as someone who is spending as much of their annual leave as possible reading as a restorative activity. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-humili...

tiffany they were gay

#MorningReads In Western countries, gay people are often more accepted than trans people—a pattern shaped by white, gender-conforming gay rights movements. But globally, this isn’t always the case: in many non-Western countries, trans people face less bias than gay people. #LGBTQ #TransRights

I’ve gone from ‘this version of Labour wouldn’t have repealed Section 28’ to ‘this version of Labour would have enthusiastically introduced Section 28’

We have issued a statement with @ima-maths.bsky.social & @londmathsoc.bsky.social on our growing concerns over university assessment integrity - especially with the rise of AI We urge universities to support a full range of assessment methods, including in-person exams

My Profmageddon /40th bday life-is-for-living tour continues - to balance out the partying today we climbed a mountain Mount Korab, the highest peak in Albania and North Macedonia at 2764m achieving my entirely normal goal of being the highest I've ever been, the oldest I've ever been.

We know it’s a busy time of year, so we’re giving you a bit more breathing room! The deadline for the ALTC25 call for proposals has been extended by a week. You now have until Sunday, 20 July to get your submissions in for consideration for the event. #ALTC25 #altc Learn more: buff.ly/dfpzC5t

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's not subtle but it is fun and I would like to shoot electricity please #BookSky