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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Enter our contest for academics! The form for the Best Personal Academic Websites Contest is open for entries. Will you enter to win an award? ✨ You're invited 💌 There are awards in multiple categories🏆 #AcademicSky #ScienceSky Here's the form for you 🔖🔗 theacademicdesigner.com/2026/best-pe...

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Best Personal Academic Websites Contest 2026

Entries for the 4th Best Personal Academic Websites Contest are open through October 11, 2026. CONTEST LINKS Entry Form Official Contest Rules Contest Rubric Download Flyer Thank you for helping us sh...

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Already got a personal academic website? 🎊 Enter our 4th annual contest celebrating the best websites of professors, researchers, scientists, grad students, research groups, and independent scholars 🏆 The form to enter to win an award is quick to fill out 😄 theacademicdesigner.com/2026/best-pe...

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Entries for the 4th Best Personal Academic Websites Contest open on June 11, 2026 and close on October 11, 2026. CONTEST LINKS Official Contest Rules Entry Form Contest Rubric Download Flyer Thank you...

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Then, I'll create a quick plan for a book website. She's got an edited collection in the works. Since we want to highlight the contributors, a separate, focused book website feels aligned 📚 This will be fun. I love VIP Days 😄

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's an Online Presence VIP Day for my professor client 🎉 1st up: her Instagram. What to do, how to do it, and what will be most helpful for her using Instagram for her goals. The professor's had a profile she never used. Now, she's ready to be intentional with her Instagram ✨️

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

33 resources to help academics with their personal portfolio website project #AcademicSky #ScienceSky Is a website on your to-do list this semester? Yay, I'm excited for you. I hope you find these articles and interviews helpful. Best wishes for your website! theacademicdesigner.com/category/web...

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Personal Academic Websites – The Academic Designer

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You'll also find interviews with academics about their own website and online presence journey 🔖https://theacademicdesigner.com/category/websites-for-academics/

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Personal Academic Websites – The Academic Designer

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you're thinking about doing it yourself for your academic website, this replay of our FAQ livestream may be helpful for you! It's with my co-hosts for the Best Personal Academic Websites Contest, which is open for entries until October 11, 2026 ✨ theacademicdesigner.com/2025/persona...

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Personal Websites for Academics and Scientists Livestream

Tips and advice about websites for academics from 3 experts who want to help you make your own website. A livestream for faculty, researchers, and grad students. The 2026 Contest is open for entries! ...

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's a website design day for my PhD student client. Her parents bought her domain name for her years ago. I'm delighted to help her design this website space for her future. It's never too early or too late to be intentional about how you show up online. You don't have to work with me for this.

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

- Visiting an art museum ahead of filming for our next episode for Art With Bob Pincus on YouTube 🎨 - Online Presence VIP Day for an academic leader's Instagram and a planning a website for her forthcoming edited collection 📚 - Weekend wine tasting with my in-laws, not a project but still love 🍷🫶

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A busy week supporting projects I love 😄 - Just recorded, podcast episode with Dr. Patrick Manser about his academic portfolio website made with @owlstown.com 🎙 - Final revisions for a dean's website redesign. We're nearing launch! 🚀 - Academic website design day for a PhD student tomorrow, yay! 🎉

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Enter the 2026 Best Personal Academic Websites Contest to win an award. Open until 11 October. Let's celebrate the work professors, researchers, grad students, and research groups put into their website. The entry form is quick to fill out #AcademicSky #ScienceSky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Enter the Best Personal Academic Websites Contest 2026

Hi there, This is the entry form for the 2026 Best Personal Academic Websites Contest. These professional development awards are brought to you by The Social Academic with contest hosts, Jennifer van...

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

About the episode 🎙🎧 A poet-turned-academic-website-designer shares how poetry, 1-on-1 connection, and trusting her own direction led her out of academia’s constraints and into helping academics tell their story online. jennifervanalstyne.com/in-the-media...

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I loved guesting on this episode of the Academic Misfits Podcast. Thank you to Luna Muñoz, PhD for hosting our fun conversation 😄 @lunamunoz.bsky.social #AcademicSky Link to episode next: A Poet Works Wonders — Websites for Academics With Jennifer Van Alstyne ⬇️🧵

Luna Muñoz and Jennifer van Alstyne in the virtual studio for the Academic Misfits Podcast.

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Best Personal Academic Websites Contest celebrates the hard work faculty, researchers, grad students, and independent scholars put into creating space online. Got a website? The entry form is quick to fill out. Enter to win an award for your website 🎉🏆 theacademicdesigner.com/2026/best-pe...

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do you have a personal academic website? The entry form for our 2026 Websites Contest is easy to fill out. I hope you'll enter to win an award! -Faculty -Professors -Researchers -Scientists -Postdocs -Grad students -Independent scholars -Research labs/groups theacademicdesigner.com/2026/best-pe...

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's a website design day, yay. Today I'm enhancing a faculty client's website to add her new blog. She's creating new space for her non-academic writing. We spent some time together getting intentional about the broader audience for her website. Now it's time for website design. Focus mode on 😄

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Best Personal Academic Websites Contest is for: Faculty Professors Researchers Scientists Postdocs Grad students Independent researchers Research labs Research groups #AcademicSky #ScienceSky We’d love to see your website entry in the 2026 contest ✨️🫶🏆 theacademicdesigner.com/2026/best-pe...

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#ScholarSunday on a Saturday is just as full o’ public scholarly goodness as always! Check it out for yourself, & if you see this & are able, please share widely to get all this great work out there, thanks! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A cute video we recorded at a UCSD library talk recently. This is art critic, Bob Pincus and his friend, artist, DeLoss McGraw 😄 #Art #AcademicSky youtube.com/shorts/QJL4O...

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Self-awareness is key to understanding approaches to social media and online presence. -Ways academics show up online -How to craft your bios -Academic websites Thank you @sarah-bunin-benor.bsky.social & Professor Mira Sucharov for having me on Peer Review! theacademicdesigner.com/2026/develop...

Jennifer van Alstyne, a woman in an orange sweater stands smiling in an office with her computer and wall art. Text for this podcast graphic reads: Developing Online Presence, Episode 22, Jennifer van Alstyne, Peer Review.

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

At the art museum today checking out an exhibition before our next video filming day 😄

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Here it is, my 285th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It's officially been a year since we published our 1st video on Art With Bob Pincus on YouTube. We're already planning out art exhibitions and museums to feature through early 2027. Our family channel has been so fun to dream up and make happen ✨️🎉 Check us out youtube.com/@artwithbobp...

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Our new cat tower came in the mail 📬 I literally could not stop myself from building it right away 😄 🐈🐈‍⬛️

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Erika won an award for her website in the Best Personal Academic Websites Contest last year. The 2026 has contest has just opened for entries ✨️ #AcademicSky #ScienceSky Enter to win an award for your academic website or research lab website 🏆 theacademicdesigner.com/2026/best-pe...

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Thinking about a personal scientist website? Dr. Erika Iveth Cedillo-González shares her website journey. “My mission with that website was that people can see that are different kinds of scientists with different stories, that all we can be successful in research.” www.youtube.com/live/0q8ZPsl...

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Personal Scientist Website with Erika Iveth Cedillo-González, PhD

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Have a personal academic website?? Enter to win an award in our contest. We'd love to celebrate your website too. The 4th annual Best Personal Academic Websites Contest is open for entries 😄🏆🎉 #AcademicSky #ScienceSky theacademicdesigner.com/2026/best-pe...

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Graduate student journeys aren't all alike. For Hira Javed, getting her PhD comes after years of professional experience. This interview is about Hira's journey and how she designed her website to share her research and professional portfolio too #AcademicSky theacademicdesigner.com/2026/phd-stu...

PhD Student Website That Shares Her Professional Journey with Hira Javid, an episode on The Social Academic Podcast. This graphic has a photo of Hira and a mockup of Hira's website on desktop (her homepage), tablet (Research page), and mobile screens (Work experience page). Text reads 'PhD Student Website' and 'website award winner'.

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The Best Personal Academic Websites Contest is open for entries! This is our 4th contest celebrating websites of -Faculty -Professors -Researchers -Scientists -Postdocs -Grad students -Independent researcher -Research labs + groups #AcademicSky #ScienceSky theacademicdesigner.com/2026/best-pe...

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Contest Hosts -Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social -Brittany Trinh of the Beyond Your Science Podcast -Ian Li, creator of @owlstown.com Check out winners from our past contests (2025, 2023, 2022) on The Social Academic Blog. Thank you! 🌟 theacademicdesigner.com/category/con...

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Contest – The Academic Designer

Announcements, winners, and resources for the Best Personal Academic Websites Contest. The 4th annual contest, hosted by Jennifer van Alstyne, Brittany Trinh, and Ian Li, will reopen in June 2026.

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

There will be awards in multiple categories. Here’s what you get if you win an award -A line on your CV ✍️ -A digital badge for your LinkedIn profile and website 💡 -Be featured as a top academic website in the winner’s announcement and on social media 🎉 -Bragging rights 😎

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This is our 4th contest celebrating faculty, researchers, and graduate students who make space online. Whether you have a personal website or a research lab website, we'd love to see you in the mix for this year's contest. We want to recognize the hard work you’ve put into your academic website! 😄

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Entries for the Best Personal Academic Websites Contest 2026 open this week (Thursday, June 11). I can't wait! 🥳 Who is this contest for? 🏆 -Faculty -Professors -Researchers -Scientists -Postdocs -Grad students -Independent researchers -Research labs and groups A thread 🧵 #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It’s June, & with it comes my 279th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

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Tiffany Green @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I had such a fun time chatting with @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social ! If you have mentees going on the academic job market (or are going on the job market yourself) I tell it all (including my strategy for Q and A that will help finalists stand out from the crowd).

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

On this fraught, frustrating, profoundly American holiday weekend, here’s my 277th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely please, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Are you on the academic job market? 🤔 Dr. Tiffany L. Green shares the art of scientific storytelling to help you communicate your research with clarity, impact, and confidence in your job talk ✨ Season 8, Episode 9 of The Social Academic Podcast #AcademicSky theacademicdesigner.com/2026/the-art...

Dr. Tiffany L. Green is a black woman professor wearing a beautiful deep pink blazer. She's smiling and she stands outside with her arms lightly crossed. This is a graphic for an episode of The Social Academic Podcast featuring Dr. Green about Academic Job Talks.

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Questions answered in this episode - How early should you start preparing? - What is an academic job talk? - What are the mistakes faculty tend to make in their job talks? - What can scientific storytelling do for your job talk? Thank you!! @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Unsure what to include on your personal academic website? Here's a list of 35 page ideas for you to consider when creating your website. I hope it helps you think about what feels right for you. It's OK if your website is different from what other people do 💯 theacademicdesigner.com/2025/35-page...

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35 Page Ideas for Your Academic Personal Website

I hope the page ideas help you plan your personal academic website so it feels more like you. 35 ideas for what to share on your professor website.

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

It's a Website VIP Day for an Associate Professor client 😄 My focus mode has been on today for this website design project 💡💻

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Wow it's been a while since I posted. How are you? I'm back to share that the Best Personal Academic Websites Contest 2026 will open mid-June! 😄🏆🎉

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

If you're open to chatting about working together, I promise to help you in the right direction for you (even if it isn't working with me). Schedule your no pressure Zoom call on this online calendar higheredpr.as.me/meet-with-je... Thank you! Best wishes for your website project, Dr. Ramírez 😄

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Hi Dr. Ramírez, how are you? I'm happy to support you with your website design if you'd find it helpful. Here's ways we could work together theacademicdesigner.com/services/web... And free resources for you about websites on The Social Academic blog theacademicdesigner.com/category/web...

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Thank you for the tag, Aidy! I appreciate you 😄

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