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Dr. Echo Rivera @echorivera.com · 23/07/2026

Neurodivergent and self-employed? There's a FREE summit you don't want to miss 👇 You'll get real biz strategies from other neurodivergent biz owners. No toxic productivity language, here. No hustle-harder energy. Learn more 👇 #neurodivergent neurodiverseentrepreneursummit.com/echo

A mostly text graphic about the neurodiverse entrepreneur summit. It says "A free 4-day online event to help you stop borrowing someone else's business plan and start building a business that actually fits your brain, July 27 to 30"

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Dr. Echo Rivera @echorivera.com · 23/02/2026

If slide design takes too long, this is for you 👀 (I have good news) The vast majority who want to make better slides share a common concern: That it's going to take forever. First, I won't lie: Slide design CAN take forever. BUT.... #AcademicSky youtube.com/shorts/KkqLq...

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If slide design takes too long, this is for you 👀 (I might have good news)

YouTube video by More than PowerPoint by Dr. Echo Rivera

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Dr. Tolulope (Tolu) Noah @drtolunoah.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

A reader wrote a blog post about my book, Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality! It includes mention of @echorivera.com, @karencosta.bsky.social, & the Tea for Teaching podcast (@johnkane.bsky.social & @cyberthread.bsky.social). (Link in comments) #HigherEd #FacDev #EdDev #EduSky

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 09/05/2025

🆕 Research suggests a conference poster format that outperforms BOTH the "journal article on a wall" and #betterposter formats. The “Complete assertion headings” poster format! 🤔 Yeah, they should have workshopped the name a little more. 1/2

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Making statements with section headings on your conference poster

A new paper by Wolfe and colleagues (in press) provide a new suggestion for improving your poster. Do not use generic section headings like...

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 30/04/2025

Admin and EdTech folks: Stop suggesting that teachers use AI for teaching and grading and start giving teachers space and tools to actually help do our jobs.

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Dr. Echo Rivera @echorivera.com · 22/04/2025

Step 1 towards making more engaging presentations is to use more photos. But...you need to make sure you format them so they don't look weird. That's where cropping comes in. I put together a (hopefully) fun video about this to help. #EduSky www.echorivera.com/blog/crop-it...

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Crop it like it’s hot 🔥 4 ways to crop photos in PowerPoint — Echo Rivera

The first step towards creating more engaging presentations is to use more visuals. However, you want to make sure that you format those pictures correctly…which means you need to crop it like its hot...

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readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

People I respect tremendously are saying really nice things about my co-edited forthcoming book! press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Of Many Minds

Neurodiversity and Mental Health Among University Faculty and Staff

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Dr. Echo Rivera @echorivera.com · 15/04/2025

I just released a new YouTube video (my first in years!) 🙌 My way of coping with all this chaos is to create things. I already have the next video ready, so that will be posted soon! If you want to clean up your presentation slides, here are the first steps 👇 #AcademicSky youtu.be/UEYnf_qncxo

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Presentation Spring Cleaning | Fix your PowerPoint, Canva, etc slides | Slide Makeovers

YouTube video by More than PowerPoint

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

When people Google your name, can they find what you want them to know about you? #AcademicSky You deserve a digital footprint that shares your research, teaching, and what you value as an academic (if you want one). Find resources to help you on The Social Academic theacademicdesigner.com/blog/

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The Social Academic – The Academic Designer

The Social Academic is an advice blog for academia. Jennifer van Alstyne talks about websites and social media for faculty and researchers, and interviews.

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Joey D'Antoni @joeydantoni.com · 24/03/2025

AI images in your presentations are not worth burning the planet. Also, they aren't good.

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Jennifer Polk @fromphdtolife.com · 12/02/2025

I've started offering short private program tours to give faculty members, postdocs, and other PhDs ready to leave academia more info about my PhD Career Clarity Program and how (or not!) it will help them land their next meaningful job. If you're on my list, you got info about that earlier today!

A promotional image for a **private tour of the PhD Career Clarity Program** with Jen. The image features a smiling woman with long brown hair and glasses, wearing a sleeveless gray top, speaking into a microphone. Behind her is a bookshelf filled with books. The right side of the image has a teal background with white bold text that reads, **"Private Tour with Jen"** and **"Learn about the PhD Career Clarity Program."** The rounded corners on the image frame give it a polished and approachable design.

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Academic and professional writing doesn’t have to be dull. Helen Kara’s new book Writing Creatively for Work or Study shows you how to use creative writing techniques for this purpose. Now available for pre-order

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Manchester University Press - Writing creatively for work or study

Writing creatively for work or study - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Writing creatively for work or study by Helen Kara

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 31/01/2025

So. You’re realizing federal funding for your research is not as stable as you thought. Let’s talk crowdfunding. 🧵

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a man in a superhero costume is standing in a hallway next to a chair .

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Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

My free workshop on Feb 5 will give my best tips for surviving the peer review process for scholarly books. There are important differences from the journal peer review process that all aspiring book authors need to understand. Register at Courses.manuscriptworks.com (recording provided)

Surviving peer review. Free workshop. Learn practical tips for a successful peer review process at scholarly book publishers from Laura Portwood-Stacer, author of The Book Proposal Book and Make Your Manuscript Work

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Thomas J. Tobin @thomasjtobin.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Doing a book club in 2025? Webster & I are reading *The Present Professor* by @liznorell.bsky.social & *Learning Student Names* by @michellemillerphd.bsky.social: new releases from @ou.edu Press. www.oupress.com/teaching-eng... Save 40% with code 18HLDY24, too. Got a book idea? Let's connect!

Tom Tobin sits on the couch, reading *The Present Professor* by Liz Norell, while his orange cat Webster sits on his leg, appearing to read *Learning Student Names* by Michelle Miller.

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Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I shared in my newsletter that I'm giving away several of my handknitted items to raise funds for TransLifeline and other orgs that support LGBTQ+ youth. I'll be matching all donations and raffling off items to those who give. Get all the details here: newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/giveaway

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Giveaway for a good cause

Support LGBTQ+ youth and win a handknitted item

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

One thing that all professors have in common in that we weren't trained for our jobs. Now that I've been doing this for a few decades, I'm starting an occasional series called Professor School. It's not advice, just bunch of ideas and information to make things easier. 🧪

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Professor School: Writing recommendation letters

Because we were never trained for this job

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Dr. Echo Rivera @echorivera.com · 08/12/2024

I’m looking for people who also enjoy talking about or learning about slide design & creating nice presentations 🙌✨ I spend almost all day every day hanging out in PowerPoint or other creative apps & would love to connect/share ideas! #AcademicSky #SciComm #AcademicChatter

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Alt: a penguin wearing a pink hat is looking out of a window with the words checking in behind it

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 07/12/2024

If you’re writing a 20 skeet explainer thread about your newest paper, copy it and make a blog post about it, too. An explainer has value being just the first few days of publication. Blogs create a more stable archive of those explainers that grows in value over time. #AcademicChatter

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2024

On my semi-urgent to-do list: update my personal website! Because it's really embarrassing to realise how out of date it is when someone reads it out loud as a means of introducing you before a talk/workshop... 🙈 #AcademicChatter

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I did a search for that figure about Elon's proposed cuts because I'm particularly worried about NIH and headstart and haven't found the sources for that figure. I even did a reverse search of the figure, but everything I found with the graph was from that person's posts. Here's what I did find.

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Congratulations to all of you out there who: - submitted grad apps! 🎉 - submitted fellowship apps! 🎉 - submitted letters of rec! 🎉 - submitted your grants! 🎉 - submitted your paper! 🎉 Just making it through the process is a triumph. I complain about failures- but we must celebrate the wins too. ❤️

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Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This fascinating study would explain why people “vote against their own economic interests”. One thing I keep hearing is that ppl who voted R in this (and other recent) US election(s) will come to regret it when their SS, medicare, other state assistance goes away. 1/

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Dr. Echo Rivera @echorivera.com · 05/12/2024

Hey #AcademicSky I have not yet seen a compelling example where AI was helpful or more efficient for any part of the presentation process. ❌ Not the script, ❌ Not the design, ❌ Not even for custom images It seems more trouble than it’s worth & the outcome seems goofy. What’s your experience?

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Dr. Echo Rivera @echorivera.com · 05/12/2024

Phewww I am exhausted. This week was packed with helping clients on their research/evaluation communication projects & presentations ☺️ It was fun spending the week helping people take dense, text-heavy info/data & turning it into visual, digestible chunks.

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Dr. Echo Rivera @echorivera.com · 05/12/2024

Hey do you dread working on presentations? Why do you think that is? What’s going on? #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

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Dave Davies @davedavies.dev · 02/12/2024

Day 1/25: Need accessible color combinations that actually look good? This fantastic colour generator by @erikdkennedy.bsky.social helps you create beautiful, WCAG-compliant colour pairs in seconds! Try it here: www.learnui.design/tools/access...

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The Accessible Color Generator

Create accessible color pairings using your brand colors.

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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 05/12/2024

They have found yet another way to ensure that people go bankrupt or die instead of receiving lifesaving medical care.

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Dr. Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Here’s the full publication I did with Claire and Sam et al that was transformed into the frontiers for young minds article quoted below! #SciComm #AcademicSky 🧪🐡 j-stem.net/index.php/js...

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A comic-based conservation lesson plan diversifies middle school student conceptions of scientists | Journal of Research in STEM Education

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 02/12/2024

Calling freelance illustrators who have been paid for work: pls take a few mins to answer an anon 7-question (multiple choice) survey re: how you found paying work? illustrator-promo.paperform.co Researching for my #SCBWI wkshop at #scbwiNY25 + will share aggregate results publicly. Thank you!

An illustrated promotional image for a survey targeting freelance illustrators. At the top is a cartoon-style drawing of a person with curly black hair, holding a brush and a pencil against a yellow background. Below, bold text reads: "Are you a freelance illustrator who has been paid for your work?" The text is underlined in purple. Smaller text explains: "Please answer my 7-question (multiple choice) survey? You can opt to stay anonymous. Aggregate results will be shared, to help fellow illustrators." A QR code and URL (illustrator-promo.paperform.co/) are included at the bottom right, with handwritten purple text reading "Thank you!" and a small purple heart nearby.

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Dr. Echo Rivera @echorivera.com · 02/12/2024

Hey just FYI: If you are showing a graph on a presentation slide, don’t use vertical or diagonal text. Horizontal text ✅ Vertical text ❌ Diagonal text ❌ Your audience shouldn’t be tilting their heads to read your slides. #AcademicSky

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Dr. Echo Rivera @echorivera.com · 02/12/2024

I’m working with a client on slides & they’ve written out their plans for visuals. Eg “add illustration of people doing X” And finally I realized 💡 THAT’S why people are tempted to use AI to generate visuals. They fundamentally misunderstand what visuals even work for slides. #AcademicSky

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itati santamaria de Collins @itativcs.latinsky.app · 02/12/2024

“Nature based solutions” when you used how much power and water to generate the AI image used on the cover? Be serious.

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I saw someone share a couple of tips for links that have made a huge difference to me so I'm sharing them for you. 1) once the link card is added you can delete the URL to free up characters in the post 2) You can use hyperlinks in posts and only the char count of the text counts

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Helen Bowes-Catton (she/her) @hbowescatton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Such a really useful explainer of intersectionality theory!

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Dr. Echo Rivera @echorivera.com · 02/12/2024

Boosting so more people see that you can activate subtitles when presenting a PowerPoint. It may work even better now, but it did pretty well when I tested it out using a few academic words a little while back www.echorivera.com/blog/demo-pp... #AcademicSky

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How to add live subtitles to PowerPoint (and a test of how accurate it is for researchers and scientists) — Echo Rivera

Presentation trainer, Dr. Echo Rivera, explains how to add live subtitles to PowerPoint (and tests how accurate it is for researchers and scientists) >>

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

While this infographic in @jama.com is useful for patients, it's a disgrace that healthcare costs & drug pricing in the US are so high that this is even necessary. This doesn't even factor in prior authorizations. Health access is a basic human right. This includes access to meds. #MedSky

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 30/11/2024

Suggestion for graduate programs: The graduate program should be responsible for ensuring that committee meetings happen regularly. They should not happen at the whim of faculty, nor should it be up to students to organize them. #AcademicChatter

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Please follow my list of Indigenous scientists! I accidentally deleted my first starter park -- but recreated it with even more names. Who else needs to be added? go.bsky.app/9LhnuCY

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Dr. Echo Rivera @echorivera.com · 30/11/2024

@colemanlab.bsky.social hello 👋 can I perhaps be added to your researcher culture starter pack? I’m trying to improve the academic culture by encouraging more creativity and enjoyment in the research communication process (and also talk about better work/life balance in academia)

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Dr. Echo Rivera @echorivera.com · 30/11/2024

A big regret of my time in grad school is that I convinced myself I was a burden to my committee/mentors, and I asked to meet way less than I should have. I struggled alone unnecessarily. Schedule the meeting 🙏 #AcademicSky

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 29/11/2024

This is the start of holiday shopping season 🎁 for many! if you have a someone who goes to academic conferences in your life, may I suggest the Better Posters book? Buy direct from the publisher pelagicpublishing.com/products/bet... or from a local bookstore bookshop.org/books/better...

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Better Posters

Better posters mean better research. Distilling over a decade of experience from the popular Better Posters blog, Zen Faulkes will help you create a clear and informative conference poster that delive...

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