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John McNutt

@johngmcnutt.bsky.social
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Recovering academic (Emeritus Full Professor--taught public policy and social work). I do research and work to make the world a better place. Data enthusiast. #Tech4Good #CivicTech #PublicinterestTechnology #Data4Good #AI4Good #Data

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Recognising universities’ quieter impact on society goes beyond publications. It requires people who capture evidence and narratives across education, student development, innovation and entrepreneurship and ecosystem development as well as research: ow.ly/FqEP50ZHLaL #Highered #Academicsky
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Exhortation does not achieve impact – it requires system design
Recognising universities’ quieter impact on society goes beyond publications. It requires people who capture evidence and narratives across education, student development, innovation and entrepreneurship and ecosystem development as well as research
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Scholarship ‘risks drifting away from excellence-based peer review and towards serving insider interests’ when cliques dominate, warns study. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #highered #peerreview #academicsky ow.ly/Ef4650ZI9wC
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Is open research a virtue that early career researchers can’t afford? Here’s how to make open practices work for you from your very first project – without adding hours to your week: ow.ly/cSZw50ZFHzy #Highered #Academicsky
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Open research won’t slow your career down – it’s the smartest way to build it
Is open research a virtue that early career researchers can’t afford? Here’s how to make open practices work for you from your very first project – without adding hours to your week
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
💥New | Universities rarely use research evidence in their decision-making, so why do they expect anyone else to? ✍️ @gemmaderrick.bsky.social Amy Devenney and Lizzie Ville #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #EvidenceBasedPolicy
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Universities rarely use research evidence in their decision-making, so why do they expect anyone else to? - LSE Impact
Despite universities’ important role as evidence-producing organisations, they rarely draw upon research evidence for internal decision making, why?
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 18/08/2026
🎓 What 1,097 students actually do with AI Across two Swedish universities, students said they mostly use generative AI for information retrieval and text polishing, sometimes as a stand in tutor. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #AI #highered 🧪
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Exploring student use of generative AI in higher education: A dual-institutional study - Education and Information Technologies
Although a growing body of research has examined students’ attitudes toward generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in higher education, few studies have compared perceptions across contrasting ins...
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Teams that integrate clinical insight and academic enquiry result in better academic outputs, increased researcher well-being and a sense of community and shared ownership: ow.ly/qy8C50ZzL9e #Highered Academicsky
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Why the ‘lone wolf’ principal investigator no longer works in modern academia
Teams that integrate clinical insight and academic enquiry result in better academic outputs, increased researcher well-being and a sense of community and shared ownership
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
University policy and students’ practical use of AI are running in different directions. Higher education needs a collaborative approach, focused on human capability, write Doug Specht and Gunter Saunders: ow.ly/GSmz50ZsnKa #Highered #Academicsky
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
How to make AI-supported #co-creation work while ensuring empathy remains at the heart of the process: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus… #GenAI #HigherEd #AcademicSky
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How GenAI can amplify co-creation in higher education
How to make AI-supported co-creation work while ensuring empathy remains at the heart of the process
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mikenietzel.bsky.social @mikenietzel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
$85 million budget deficit to bring layoffs at Temple University. #AcademicSky #HigherEd www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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Facing $85 Million Deficit, Temple President Says Layoffs Are “Inevitable”
Facing a deficit that may each $85 million, Temple University President John Fry has said a reduction in force is "inevitable" if the university is to close the gap.
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HERC Jobs - Higher Education Recruitment Consortium @hercjobs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Whether in teaching, administration, or student support, careers in higher ed allow you to remain grounded in service while pursuing meaningful, purpose-driven work. buff.ly/Ou8918D #hercjobs #highereducation #highered
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Still in Service: Moving from Government to Higher Ed Careers - Higher Education Jobs - Higher Education Recruitment Consortium
Careers in higher ed allow former government workers to remain grounded in service while pursuing meaningful, purpose-driven work.
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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"What’s the point of a university education? What are our universities for? ... It is a real disappointment that university managers behave as if the answers can only be found in a spreadsheet." #HIgherEd #UKHE www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-...
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The bonfire of the humanities
150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
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Paul Sacco @socialworkteacher.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Some resistance happening to Admin cuts to Grad Plus loans. #academicsky www.chronicle.com/liveblog/her...
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Sharp Limits on Graduate Loans Are Temporarily Blocked
Affinity housing oriented toward one group will face fresh government scrutiny, the Department of Housing and Urban Development said.
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Research that crosses disciplines strengthens networks, diversifies expertise and moves thinking beyond inherited boundaries, but effective interdisciplinarity takes time, curiosity and willingness to tackle cultural and structural obstacles: ow.ly/YKs550ZaoT0 #ECRchat #AcademicChatter
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Interdisciplinary research cultures are inclusive, not competitive
Research that crosses disciplines strengthens networks, diversifies expertise and moves thinking beyond inherited boundaries, but effective interdisciplinarity takes time, curiosity and willingness to tackle cultural and structural obstacles
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Georgetown CEW @georgetowncew.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
While we might expect a lack of economic opportunity in rural areas to be driving those areas’ lower labor-force participation rates, equal shares of urban and rural Americans say they are not in the labor force because they cannot find work. bit.ly/3SJZIxI #EconSky #AcademicSky
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Small Towns, Big Opportunities: Many Workers in Rural Areas Have Good Jobs, but These Areas Need Greater Investment in Education, Training, and Career Counseling - CEW Georgetown
Despite stereotypes of being left behind, rural America offers good jobs, particularly in blue-collar fields.
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
💥Is the scientific literature a database or a library? ✍️ Willem Halffman and Serge Horbach #ScholComm #Libraries #AcademicSky
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Is the scientific literature a database or a library? - LSE Impact
How do two conflicting visions of the scientific literature as either a library or a database shape attitudes shape key issues in scholarly communication?
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
📆 MONDAY FEB 23 📆 I’ll be in conversation with Paul “DJ Spooky” Miller and my coauthor @jesgilbert.bsky.social about our book “The Secret Life of Data." Online and free, hosted by @isoclive.bsky.social. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-... #books #academia #data #AI
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Book Talk: Aram Sinnreich & Jesse Gilbert, with Paul Miller (DJ Spooky)
Join us for an insightful converation with Aram Sinnreich, Jesse Gilbert, and DJ Spooky as they dive into the world of data and technology.
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Mimi Mihailescu @kagegirl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Deportation has entered its TikTok era. Policy becomes spectacle. Enforcement becomes content. Local populism doesn’t travel. Spectacle does. 👇 Read my new piece in @ecprtheloop.bsky.social theloop.ecpr.eu/transatlanti... #TikTok #Propaganda #ICE #deportation #academicsky
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Transatlantic TikTok propaganda and the end of localised populism
TikTok deportation propaganda is fast becoming the new border wall. States, platforms and algorithms are fusing into a single machine. This, says Mimi Mihăilescu is turning deportation into bingeable ...
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Educators teaching first-year writing should use their influence to help ensure students arrive on campus with the skills universities expect, writes Daniel M. Gross: ow.ly/3LIQ50YcbOI #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Colleges, not the College Board, determine university-level writing
Educators who teach first-year writing courses need to use their leverage to ensure students arrive on campus with skills that match expectations, writes Daniel M. Gross
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 07/02/2026
A Nature Careers feature explores data sonification, which turns data into sound, and how it helps researchers to build connections and communicate their science to a broader audience. #Academicsky 🧪
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Don’t talk science, play science: translate your data into music to improve its reach
Data sonification helps researchers to build connections and communicate their science to a broader audience.
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Science Careers @sciencecareers.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
"I have come to appreciate that success isn’t solely a matter of high-impact papers or the steep climb up the academic ladder. For me, it now means tracing my own path, one that is sustainable and isn’t defined by what others expect of me." #AcademicChatter bit.ly/3LOcuvI
An illustration depicting a person overwhelmed by a flurry of papers while walking on a large clock, with the title "How chasing a high-impact publication nearly broke me" displayed at the top.
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
"One disturbing explanation for Epstein’s support of science comes from his interest in genetic determinism. This idea, which dates to the eugenics era..Epstein had ambitions of founding a 'baby ranch' to raise children of women he impregnated" #AcademicSky www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
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Why did Jeffrey Epstein cultivate famous scientists?
The Epstein files revive questions of whether the disgraced financier sought to merely cultivate famous scientists, or to shape science itself
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Anna Clemens, PhD @annaclemens.com · 08/02/2026
Not confident that you'll be able to write for high-impact journals? Feel that your domain is niche and your colleagues are only publishing in specific, medium-impact journals? My top tips on shooting for a high-impact journal: rpst.page.link/ZnMh #ScienceSky #Academia #Postdoc
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How to Publish in High-Impact Journals
Nature, Science, Cell, Advanced Materials… — publishing in high-impact journals is difficult but not impossible. Here what the impact factor means, what high impact research is and how to write high-impact research papers that get accepted in top-tier journals.
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Middle Manager Mom ☕️ @coachkatjack.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Academic writing reality check? ##HigherEd #AcademicSky #research #PhDchat #EdChat
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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 08/02/2026
Have you already explored our report 'From publications to policy: the impact of research towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals'? Here, Ritu Dhand and Nicola Jones introduce the report and what it set out to achieve: spklr.io/63328Du6mQ #SDGs #AcademicPublishing
Graphic: 'From publications to policy'. Text: 'The impact of research towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals'. Thin line art shows a globe, briefcase, paper airplane, open book, whale, fish, and a bird holding a branch.
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Iñaki Gárate @igarate.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Three more UK universities have confirmed they are not taking subscriptions to Elsevier journals, with one Russell Group institution hitting out at the “financially unsustainable” terms of the nationally agreed deal. #OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #TransformativeAgreements
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U.K. Universities Decline New Elsevier Deal
Sheffield, Lancaster and Surrey join Essex, Kent and Sussex in walking away from a proposed three-year deal with world’s largest academic publisher.
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INSPIRING ERA @inspiringera.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
📣 New publication highlights the role of societal impact in #ResearchAssessment 📄 The @coarassessment.bsky.social has released a new #WhitePaper calling for societal impact to become a core criterion in research assessment, alongside #AcademicExcellence. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4bAL3Qw #ERA #CoARA
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/01/2026
Copyright policy should empower everyone—not just giant corporations. Let’s rethink copyright to truly promote innovation, opportunity, and creativity. eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Copyright Kills Competition
Copyright owners increasingly claim more draconian copyright law and policy will fight back against big tech companies. In reality, copyright gives the most powerful companies even more control over
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Amy Sample Ward @amysampleward.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If you are a techie and not sure what to say, tech is a huge enabler for the violence you are witnessing and you can speak to that. Here's a calling tool that connects you w/ lawmakers and has a script to follow: fftf.link/ICEfunding Making change requires all of us trying from the angles we can.
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No Funding for ICE Surveillance Tech!
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The Verge @theverge.com · 23/01/2026
Now that the TikTok deal is done, we've lifted a few articles out of the paywall for today in an effort to see how we got here. First, here's @laurenfeiner.bsky.social on the TikTok ban that kind of wasn't.
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Even the lawmakers behind the TikTok ban have no idea what’s going on
TikTok was supposed to be banned from the US 10 months ago.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/01/2026
A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...
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Choosing the VPN That's Right for You
VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network.” When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the web) appears to originate from the VPN itself, rather than your internet service provider (ISP). This masks your IP address, which can be an...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20/01/2026
"If you give your data to any third party, you are inevitably giving up some control over it and people should be extremely cautious about doing that when it's their personal health information," EFF’s Corynne McSherry told @darkreading.bsky.social. www.darkreading.com/remote-work...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 19/01/2026
Though age verification mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful censorship and surveillance regimes that put everyone—adults and young people alike—at risk. Don’t believe it? Learn more here: EFF.org/Age
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Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 18/01/2026
Want to know how companies are guessing your age? Read all about it in our guide to age assurance technology. eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, and every day many
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/01/2026
BREAM: Is the FBI investigating the ICE agent who shot Renee Good? BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/01/2026
NEW: The Trump administration is directing USDA employees to investigate foreign scientists who collaborate with the agency on research papers for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” By @lisalsong.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social
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Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With
The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sen...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/01/2026
Federal investigators are looking into Renee Good’s possible activist connections, raising worries of a broader effort to tamp down on protest as the White House looks to deflect blame away from the ICE agent who shot and killed her last week in Minneapolis.
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FBI’s ICE Shooting Inquiry Examines Renee Good’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups
Former department officials warned that such a broad inquiry raised the specter that forms of political protests could be criminalized.
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Vote Contestation at the United Nations Human Rights Council The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) features a high share of contested votes on resolutions compared to the General Assembly. Scholars have identified various human rights issues that experience contestation #sociology link
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mhoos12.bsky.social @mhoos12.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
There's a reason Republicans don't allow federal gun violence research. They'd too clearly see the blood on their hands.
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Andrew Kniss @wyoweeds.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
accidentally deleted 17 years of research data this morning luckily it was stored on a server with plenty of redundant backup, so we got last night's backup restored. But my anxiety level was a little elevated for a couple hours in between those two events...
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a man in a green shirt is sitting on a couch eating out of a brown bag
Alt: a man in a green shirt sitting on a couch breathing repeatedly and rapidly into a brown paper bag
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Cool stuff: there is evidence of both top-down (i.e., goal-oriented) attention and bottom-up (i.e., reactive) attention systems, matching systems of cognitive control. And they interact: goals affect attention and attention affects goals.#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1177/0963...
Screenshot of article published in "Current Directions in Psychological Science" journal titled "Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory."
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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
#HigherEd journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Content providers, distance learning, and the neoliberal university: Degrading resistance to the “most humiliating job in academic career” - Fernando Vianna, Egon B Calderari, Francis K Meneghetti, Se...
In a context where higher education is permeated by neoliberal practices and ideas, distance learning emerges as the most prominent model, reshaping relations b...
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Opinion: Without exemptions for commercial as well as academic data mining, the government’s AI for Science Strategy will fall flat, says Benjamin White #academicsky #AI www.timeshighereducation.com/opinio…
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Thiard News@F4F @newsen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Innovative Research Reveals Pathways to Enhanced Patient Care and Outcomes in Hematology #USA #Orlando #Hematology #Research #Patient_Care
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Innovative Research Reveals Pathways to Enhanced Patient Care and Outcomes in Hematology
New studies presented at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting explore innovative strategies for improving patient care in hematological disorders.
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
When the editor-in-chief asks you to review your own paper. #AcademicChatter
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University of Leicester @uniofleicester.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
#CitizenWrites | COP30 Why COP30 exposed deep divides in global climate politics. Professor Heiko Balzter explains. Blog 👉 citizen.le.ac.uk/blog/cop30-a-polar… #ResearchCitizens #ResearchHotTopics #CitizensOfChange
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Simon Waldman @simon-on-energy.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
In case you had any doubt that peer review doesn't work in pay-to-publish journals, including those with a Nature badge.... #academicSky pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/28/n...
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Nature’s latest AI-generated paper — with medical frymblal and Factor Fexcectorn
Nature’s open-access sideline Nature Scientific Reports is the “we’ve got Nature at home” of scientific publishing. It appears to run any garbage for a mere $2,690 processing charge. A snip, I’m su…
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David Hawkins @khnashi.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Why do we have colleges “striking deals” with a presidential administration? This is not the way a healthy #democracy functions www.highereddive.com/news/trackin... #highered
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Tracking the Trump administration’s deals with colleges
Cornell University agreed to pay $60 million in exchange for the federal government’s restoration of over $250 million in research grants.
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Dr Aisling Tierney @irishashyt.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Has anyone been playing with the new Google Scholar Labs AI drop? 👀 blog.google/outreach-ini... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #highereducation #research #university #academia
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We’re introducing Google Scholar Labs to answer your research questions.
Today, we are introducing Google Scholar Labs, a new feature that explores how generative AI can transform the process of answering detailed scholarly research questions…
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 17/11/2025
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
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As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
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