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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 9h

I really love teaching first year Greek history. That is all.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 9h

I'll be on a panel debating "rogue" AI on RTE Prime Time tonight, 9:30pm stay tuned

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Qualitative capture - being able to capture, describe, + communicate the (social, cultural, organisational, relational, geographical, etc.) context of the research. Its essential for communicating all research but is at best underdeveloped, at worst ignored by #researchers and in methods training.

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Rona J Strawbridge @rjstrawbridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reflecting on "just because we can, doesn't mean we should"

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"China’s intelligence service used a front company to pay grants to British universities and steal crucial research about technology projects, MI5 said on Wednesday in a rare public espionage warning." #HigherEd #edusky #university www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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MI5 issues spy alert to UK universities over Chinese front company stealing research

Security service says academics should stop taking grants from and working with firm backed by China’s intelligence service

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What’s an underrated skill in research that you wish more people talked about?

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Stevienna de Saille @acababble.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Negotiation. Not just for research access, but for everything to do with running interdisciplinary projects in a way that creates transdisciplinary knowledge and enduring, ENJOYABLE partnerships between people whose epistemological orientation and disciplinary training may be very different.

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Jaishri Srinivasan @jaishrijuice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Consultant-bro self-marketing for the job market. Not everyone can do it well.

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Relationship building. With colleagues. With partners. There is a LOT of informal communication and activity that goes into building relationships that are crucial to research.

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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 30/09/2026

"Looks like it is patentable and profitable" is the latest definition of "best" according the the current New Zealand government. IMHO, that's the way to kill a public research system.

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Michael Furman @profboeotia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Understanding that not everything you do needs to be earth-shattering or paradigm shifting. Good research happens in small steps that may seem obvious or boring to you, but are in fact solid, presentable research that moves your career and agenda forward.

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KP_z @fromktoz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Designing a good web survey. Not just writing good items (which is very important!), but actually using the available features to set your survey up in a way that is good for the respondent and limits the ways people can give you bad data.

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Pauline Barmby @pbarmby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I once heard the suggestion that everyone who’s taught for a long time should also be learning something completely new, to remind them of what it’s like to be a beginner.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 30/09/2026

Making a call on when a project is probably publishable versus when a project probably needs more data.

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What’s an underrated skill in research that you wish more people talked about?

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The advisory group on mathematics and artificial intelligence, of which I am a member, has just published a set of recommendations concerning the responsible release of mathematical results generated by AI companies using internal models. 1/3 agmai.org/general-sep29/

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Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics September 29, 2026 Back to main page Download PDF At present, some frontier AI labs are testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models …

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Honestly, teaching someone something they don't know yet without making them feel stupid for not knowing it is a real skill. Not everyone recognises this skill. Bravo Dan!

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The history of a field isn't just a nice bit of context around the science. It helps explain why we know what we know, which questions got asked, and sometimes which questions didn't. The Cold War example is a brilliant illustration of that. Great thread.

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Florian Naudet @floriannaudet.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

"Evidence-based solutions are needed to help improve reproducibility in research. This Consensus View presents a consensus-based list of core reproducibility items for research that has been developed by a multidisciplinary group interested in research, open science, and reproducibility...

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think this is the problem with trying to find the "best" research in the first place. There are loads of different things we might value in a piece of research, and they don’t necessarily point in the same direction. Why do we assume they can be reduced to one ranking?

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Am instinctively skeptical of any attempt to reduce the intellectual effort and creativity of science to a single number. Doubly wary here because the methods and results are not yet published. www.science.org/content/arti... 1/2

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How novel is that research paper? Competition to quantify concept crowns winner

The automated tool could be used to help journals vet submissions

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes, this is exactly what worries me about metrics. Something can be useful for measuring research without necessarily being something we should incentivise people to maximise. Once it becomes a target, people start playing to it.

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We talk a lot about reproducibility, but I keep coming back to the incentives around research. If you’re rewarded for getting new results out quickly, where’s the incentive to spend time making sure someone else can actually reproduce them? Worth a read. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Reproducibility in biomedical research - Nature Medicine

Reproducibility is a foundational principle of trustworthy science, but reproducible research practices are not consistently implemented. This Review summarizes the current landscape including efforts...

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 29/09/2026

Feels like this is getting closer and closer in the UK as well. And as @animalarchaeology.com so correctly pointed out, this only happens when university leadership participates in the reframing of universities as job-factories rather than places of education and learning.

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If financial survival becomes the main concern, it’s going to affect what gets taught, what gets researched, and what risks universities are prepared to take. Universities are supposed to think long-term. That’s pretty difficult when you’re constantly worrying about next year’s finances.

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A student just told me, "I like your teaching style. You don't make people feel stupid." It sounds corny, but that principle a huge part of my classroom philosophy. Yes, we must maintain academic rigor, but if students are intimidated, they will not contribute, and no good can come from that. (1/2)

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026

It's me, the mythical STEM PhD who not only took history classes but got a whole history degree! Studying history is arguably one of the most important things STEM students can do. Science isn't done in a vacuum, and students should investigate the people, places, and events that shape it.

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just read an article about someone who published 200 papers last year, with the help of generative AI. Nevermind the qualms I have about the use of ARTIFICIAL intelligence to generate academic knowledge; that likely means that thousands of hours went into finding reviewers/reviewing that work.

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you use AI to do your research, you really cannot complain when reviewers use AI to review your papers, imo. The processes you use to expedite your workflow create more work for the rest of us, who are under the same constraints to maximize our own output. Plus, peer review is invisible labor.

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pleased to see I've gained a few more followers through my inclusion in a Bluesky starter pack, 'Scientists Who Write Science Books.' For my followers, check out this list & find your favorite scientist authors who you might not have known are here! go.bsky.app/2LmKSDN

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Victoria Addis @victoriaaddis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This week’s PhD Diary is about why I’m trying to write from the very beginning of my PhD using low-stakes, exploratory notes to think through my research, develop ideas, and rebuild my academic writing muscles after ten years away from university. @academic-chatter.bsky.social

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Writing as Research: How I Use Exploratory Notes - PhD Notes #7

Using low-stakes writing to think through my ideas

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My department is looking to hire 3 new faculty members! Please share widely. Assistant Professor - Cognitive: apply.interfolio.com/193975 Assistant Professor - Social Psychology: apply.interfolio.com/193979 Associate/Full Professor - Mental Health: apply.interfolio.com/193984

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

2023: 8,039 proposals 2024: 10,360 proposals 2025: 17,066 proposals 2026: 21,627 proposals Something's gotta give

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Lucien Heurtier @lucienheurtier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Excellent article about the crisis faced by physics research in the UK: Brian Cox: "I have no idea who mandated this shift or why they think it’s a good idea, but from my perspective it’s a disaster. I urge the new Burnham government to step in..." 🧪🔭 www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

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Brian Cox: Physics in Britain is facing a crisis

The celebrity physicist has joined officials in condemning the UK’s decision to withdraw £45 million in funding from the Large Hadron Collider

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Victoria Addis @victoriaaddis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two weeks of close reading and only 76 pages into Middlemarch. Is this too slow? Or is learning when slowness is still doing useful work part of becoming a researcher? My latest PhD Diary #phdlife @academic-chatter.bsky.social substack.com/@victoriaadd...

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Close Reading, Slow progress - PhD Diaries #6

The pleasure - and panic - of slow reading

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵

Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.

Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.

Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.

Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The programme I run - the MSc in Contemporary History - will be axed, amongst so many others. We've also been told our undergrad courses will need to have a minimum of 20 students over a 3 year period. The bonfire of the universities has truly come for Edinburgh.

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@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We seem to be moving inexorably towards the unthinkable - the total closure of a university… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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University of Brighton considers closing Falmer campus by 2030

The campus houses the university's library, sports and health complex, and two halls of residence.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

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Redmond O'Connell @redmondoconnell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We're hiring! Applications are invited for a 3-year postdoc position in the labs of Prof Mark Cunningham and @connelllab.bsky.social at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience as part of the MAP-IT project investigating the use of OPM-MEG to improve localisation of glioma-associated epilepsy

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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In a sufficiently large academic institution, there will be enough people who are dicks in slightly different ways, so that ultimately everyone else does nothing else with their time except attend training courses.

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Martin Modrák @modrakm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I will be looking for a PhD student in Bayesian statistics (in collaboration with Paul Bürkner), located in Prague. Forward to students if you have somebody who could be interested. www.martinmodrak.cz/grammo-call/

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Grammo - Let's Research Bayes!

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 15/09/2026

If I were to count up how much of my own time I have spent as a precariously employed academic writing grant applications and paid myself minimum wage I could fund my research for a fair while. And all of that is time I didn’t spent doing actual research too. It’s so depressing being precarious.

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