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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 13h

One of the things I worry about is how easily we confuse the production of research outputs with actual intellectual progress. More papers, more results, more publications. But what have we actually learned?

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 13h

There's something deeply depressing about a world-leading scientific facility having to scramble for funding to keep doing the very thing that made it world-leading. We shouldn't have to choose between preserving the history of science and funding the science itself.

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 13h

Academics must resist LinkedIn’s enshittification "The platform now feels transactional and hollow, overrun by humblebrags, hyper-personal confessions, self-congratulatory reflections and engagement bait." www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/acad...

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Academics must resist LinkedIn’s enshittification

The platform that once promised meaningful professional exchange has become performance theatre. We must do better, says Sorin Krammer

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

1/2 🎇 Good news! 🎇 The kind people at Behavioral and Brain Science have made the new collection on "Conscious AI and biological naturalism" #OpenAccess for a limited time: target article, all 50 commentaries, & my response. Go to the link and click 'save pdf': doi.org/10.1017/S014.... Do share!

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 09/10/2026

A story that these numbers don't tell, however, is the generations of classicists and ancient historians who are being really severely let down and blocked from career advancement. My job should have been a freshy PhD's first job, and I should be a senior lecturer somewhere. But...

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

we have a policy for the use of genAI at the @aial.ie. we reflect on values key to scientific integrity, such as replicability, and err on the side of not using it blogpost: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... pdf: zenodo.org/records/2322...

A flowchart that guides reflective thinking around generative AI in the context of research. It highlights key, interconnected values underpinning scientific integrity, alongside practical and wider socio-political considerations when deciding whether to use generative AI for research.

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Gorilla Experiment Builder @gorillapsych.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Does male insecurity increase Ferrari sales? Do memes work for government communication? Will an AI ever replace a police interrogator? 🦍's CEO @evershedjo.bsky.social joined Phill Agnew on the #NudgePodcast to put these + 3 more psych myths to the test. 🎧Tune in: bit.ly/4hkUqX0

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Victoria Addis @victoriaaddis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What happens when a supposedly flexible part-time PhD meets an inflexible teaching timetable? I’m already learning that doing doctoral research isn’t quite the same as *feeling* like a doctoral researcher. @academic-chatter.bsky.social

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Teaching Vs the PhD - PhD Diaries #8

When a part-time PhD meets an inflexible teaching timetable

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 01/10/2026

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

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

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

Maybe we’ve been asking researchers to be more reproducible when we should be asking whether we’ve built a research system that actually makes reproducibility possible.

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

There’s also a huge amount of invisible labour in making research reproducible..cleaning data, documenting methods, sharing code, checking other people’s work. None of it makes for a particularly exciting headline, but it’s what makes the research usable.

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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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