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A doctoral student recently came with a weird question: their supervisor told them that "examiners would be reassured" by seeing many connections on LinkedIn.
I have many ethical issues with the framing and with LinkedIn itself (despite having an account there), but I'd love to know from experienced scholars (maybe examiners themselves): how and why would examiners be concerned with my LinkedIn account?@academicchatter @phdstudents #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi
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A doctoral student recently came with a weird question: their supervisor told them that "examiners would be reassured" by seeing many connections on LinkedIn.
I have many ethical issues with the framing and with LinkedIn itself (despite having an account there), but I'd love to know from experienced scholars (maybe examiners themselves): how and why would examiners be concerned with my LinkedIn account?@academicchatter @phdstudents #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi
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Our new paper in Conservation Biology introduces #EcoKnowGames, a transdisciplinary project using digital games to bridge the gap between human behaviour and ecological modeling. 🎮🌿
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70308
Thanks to the authors: @bradduthie, Isabel Jones, Daksha Patel, and Nils Bunnefeld
#ConservationBiology #SeriousGames #DigitalHumanities #OpenScience #Ecology #AcademicFedi #FediScience #SciComm #Gamification #Sustainability #Biodiversity #TechForGood
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Our new paper in Conservation Biology introduces #EcoKnowGames, a transdisciplinary project using digital games to bridge the gap between human behaviour and ecological modeling. 🎮🌿
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70308
Thanks to the authors: @bradduthie, Isabel Jones, Daksha Patel, and Nils Bunnefeld
#ConservationBiology #SeriousGames #DigitalHumanities #OpenScience #Ecology #AcademicFedi #FediScience #SciComm #Gamification #Sustainability #Biodiversity #TechForGood
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RE: https://indieweb.social/@tg/116273984980325701
Great advice not only for devs but for early career scientists.
"That means that you can take risks. You can ignore the prior art. You can push further and discover what your tastes are and how you might make better software, and differently shaped software. Use those new powers to build the future, not to another piece of the past."
Too many find a niche early on where they can publish lots of papers and get grants and then never leave or stray too far.
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RE: https://indieweb.social/@tg/116273984980325701
Great advice not only for devs but for early career scientists.
"That means that you can take risks. You can ignore the prior art. You can push further and discover what your tastes are and how you might make better software, and differently shaped software. Use those new powers to build the future, not to another piece of the past."
Too many find a niche early on where they can publish lots of papers and get grants and then never leave or stray too far.
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Hey #AcademicFedi I need your opinion on something 🙏
I was recently asked to review on a platform I did not know: https://www.qeios.com
Anyone knows about it? It did not seem too fishy at a glance but their economic model and who is behind it is not entirely clear to me so I'm a bit wary of potential link with people with an agenda (almost got bitten before).
So I'm not sure I want to encourage people to use that can of platform instead of, say, @PeerCommunityIn until I know more about them and the guarantees that all the content will not be lost five years from now...All opinions, feedbacks, or boosts are welcome 🙂
#academia #academicChatter #ESR #helpESR #askESR #review #journal #publication #scientificPublication #scientificPublishers
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Hey #AcademicFedi I need your opinion on something 🙏
I was recently asked to review on a platform I did not know: https://www.qeios.com
Anyone knows about it? It did not seem too fishy at a glance but their economic model and who is behind it is not entirely clear to me so I'm a bit wary of potential link with people with an agenda (almost got bitten before).
So I'm not sure I want to encourage people to use that can of platform instead of, say, @PeerCommunityIn until I know more about them and the guarantees that all the content will not be lost five years from now...All opinions, feedbacks, or boosts are welcome 🙂
#academia #academicChatter #ESR #helpESR #askESR #review #journal #publication #scientificPublication #scientificPublishers
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Phew, managed to read through the proofs of an article today. Was a bit tight, only had 15 mins of working time left. It always tends to take longer than expected.
#proofs #publishing #AcademicChatter #AcademicFedi #manuscript #science #research
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Phew, managed to read through the proofs of an article today. Was a bit tight, only had 15 mins of working time left. It always tends to take longer than expected.
#proofs #publishing #AcademicChatter #AcademicFedi #manuscript #science #research
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Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00347-9
Researchers can deploy the cheap and transparent model on their own computer system.Read full paper here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10072-4
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Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00347-9
Researchers can deploy the cheap and transparent model on their own computer system.Read full paper here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10072-4
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From a recent post looking for PhD theses databases across Europe, I got lots of boosts (thanks) but only returns from very few European countries. So I wonder : how many active scientists (lets say having published one peer-reviewed paper in the last five years) are on mastodon from the different EU countries ?
Pools only have 10 choices, so more countries are in the next post 🙂
please boost mainly on servers with a science theme
And if I have missed any hashtags that are followed by many scientists, please add
#AcademicChatter #academic #academics #AcademicFedi #EUscience #EUresearch
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From a recent post looking for PhD theses databases across Europe, I got lots of boosts (thanks) but only returns from very few European countries. So I wonder : how many active scientists (lets say having published one peer-reviewed paper in the last five years) are on mastodon from the different EU countries ?
Pools only have 10 choices, so more countries are in the next post 🙂
please boost mainly on servers with a science theme
And if I have missed any hashtags that are followed by many scientists, please add
#AcademicChatter #academic #academics #AcademicFedi #EUscience #EUresearch
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/115849070993758165
I find appalling that West universities are so silent about this, and many still cooperating with Israeli universities, while schools of arts and humanities like the one I'm doing my PhD fill their mouth of "class struggle, decoloniality and [insert your favourite academic leftwing jargon].
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/115849070993758165
I find appalling that West universities are so silent about this, and many still cooperating with Israeli universities, while schools of arts and humanities like the one I'm doing my PhD fill their mouth of "class struggle, decoloniality and [insert your favourite academic leftwing jargon].
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Quick question for the #AcademicFedi: I was recently reminded that I have a #ResearchGate account that I haven't updated in such a long time that I was still supposed to be doing a postdoc in Germany...
So I try to log in, discover that it's using my old German address, switch to the backup address, log in, update the affiliation, and then think "wait, but why am I keeping this"?So I ask you: is there any good reason why I should not delete this account?
Opinion or boosts welcome 😉
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Quick question for the #AcademicFedi: I was recently reminded that I have a #ResearchGate account that I haven't updated in such a long time that I was still supposed to be doing a postdoc in Germany...
So I try to log in, discover that it's using my old German address, switch to the backup address, log in, update the affiliation, and then think "wait, but why am I keeping this"?So I ask you: is there any good reason why I should not delete this account?
Opinion or boosts welcome 😉
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Remember the academic dogma: decolonisation, politics, systemic analysis...all are for an intellectual entertainment to produce papers, not to be applied in real life.
#HE #HigherEd #university #surveillance #war #palestine #academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi
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Remember the academic dogma: decolonisation, politics, systemic analysis...all are for an intellectual entertainment to produce papers, not to be applied in real life.
#HE #HigherEd #university #surveillance #war #palestine #academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi
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Hey academic Fedi,
I'm regularly thinking that it would be useful to have a tool that helps me find articles that cite a paper to contradict (or at least "contrast") its result.It seems that scite [1] does this but they requires a pretty steep subscription given that I'm not sure how reliable their tool is and that they also advertise a chatbot...
[1]: https://scite.ai
Does anyone know of something similar, or a workaround to achieve something similar using standard scientific search engines?
If you don't know, boosts are also appreciated to help the person who might know see this post 😉
#academicChatter #academia #scientificPublication #citations #research #academicMastodon #AcademicFedi #AcademicFediverse
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Hey academic Fedi,
I'm regularly thinking that it would be useful to have a tool that helps me find articles that cite a paper to contradict (or at least "contrast") its result.It seems that scite [1] does this but they requires a pretty steep subscription given that I'm not sure how reliable their tool is and that they also advertise a chatbot...
[1]: https://scite.ai
Does anyone know of something similar, or a workaround to achieve something similar using standard scientific search engines?
If you don't know, boosts are also appreciated to help the person who might know see this post 😉
#academicChatter #academia #scientificPublication #citations #research #academicMastodon #AcademicFedi #AcademicFediverse
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Hello #Fediverse @academicchatter
I need your help for a privacy-focused local-host (run offline from my computer) transcription software.I am (luckily?) collecting more interviews than I planned and transcribing manually is becoming a giant task, so it would really be helpful to have an automatic assistance.
Any suggestions?
#academia #research #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #transcription #software #privacy #localhost #interviews #OralHistory #help #tips
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Hello #Fediverse @academicchatter
I need your help for a privacy-focused local-host (run offline from my computer) transcription software.I am (luckily?) collecting more interviews than I planned and transcribing manually is becoming a giant task, so it would really be helpful to have an automatic assistance.
Any suggestions?
#academia #research #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #transcription #software #privacy #localhost #interviews #OralHistory #help #tips
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I'm looking for fellow #scholars , departments or groups from #UniversityOfWarwick
#academicFedi, can you do your magic and help me to find them?
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I'm looking for fellow #scholars , departments or groups from #UniversityOfWarwick
#academicFedi, can you do your magic and help me to find them?
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And a related question: Do you know of any #UK universities/departments/research centres that have an active presence on the #fediverse?
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And a related question: Do you know of any #UK universities/departments/research centres that have an active presence on the #fediverse?
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Which #mastodon instance would you recommend to host the institutional account for an interdisciplinary academic department in the UK?
scholar.social would be great, but it's not admitting more users. Other alternatives I've considered: https://sciences.social/ (although not all of us are social scientists), https://h-net.social (not all of us from humanities) or https://datasci.social (not all of us are data scientists)
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Which #mastodon instance would you recommend to host the institutional account for an interdisciplinary academic department in the UK?
scholar.social would be great, but it's not admitting more users. Other alternatives I've considered: https://sciences.social/ (although not all of us are social scientists), https://h-net.social (not all of us from humanities) or https://datasci.social (not all of us are data scientists)
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Another grant for supporting Palestinian students, this time by the University of Oxford:
@academicchatter @academics @phdstudents @PGResearchHub
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Another grant for supporting Palestinian students, this time by the University of Oxford:
@academicchatter @academics @phdstudents @PGResearchHub
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The University of Bologna as an open grant application for students in Gaza:
@academicchatter @phdstudents @academia
#AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #Scholar #Gaza #Palestine #HigherEducation -
The University of Bologna as an open grant application for students in Gaza:
@academicchatter @phdstudents @academia
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I'm enjoying the new #Zotero interface! #TeamZotero
Follow and support @zotero #FLOSS #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi -
I'm enjoying the new #Zotero interface! #TeamZotero
Follow and support @zotero #FLOSS #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi -
Just me and my sad office plant against the world.
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Now, a different university I worked got very crossed for an illustration of comic-style characters for a recruitment flyer, as they worried about (mis)representation and that they illustration could be offensive (though I had large discussion with the investigators and it was shown to some representative of the community for feedback).
Now in the case of my graphic ethnography, I think an comic-style document is nice
--->@academicchatter @phdstudents
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Now, a different university I worked got very crossed for an illustration of comic-style characters for a recruitment flyer, as they worried about (mis)representation and that they illustration could be offensive (though I had large discussion with the investigators and it was shown to some representative of the community for feedback).
Now in the case of my graphic ethnography, I think an comic-style document is nice
--->@academicchatter @phdstudents
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***ADVICE REQUEST***
ok, #Illustrators and #Researchers that work with children, I need your advice.
I am preparing some research material for an ethnographic project with children and young people. To make the participant information sheet more accessible, I though of it as an illustrated little booklet for children and/or a comic for teenagers.
Here is my problem:--->
@academicchatter @phdstudents #AcademicMastondon #AcademicFedi
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***ADVICE REQUEST***
ok, #Illustrators and #Researchers that work with children, I need your advice.
I am preparing some research material for an ethnographic project with children and young people. To make the participant information sheet more accessible, I though of it as an illustrated little booklet for children and/or a comic for teenagers.
Here is my problem:--->
@academicchatter @phdstudents #AcademicMastondon #AcademicFedi
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Gaither and Sommers were on it!
"Trump’s false confidence in the essentialized either/or nature of identity leads him to believe that once he knows what you are, he’ll also know how you’ll think and act.
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Acknowledging the existence of multiracial identities completely scrambles this perspective and upsets the stereotypes that Trump holds close to his heart." -
Have to say, the new ASA Career Center is exponentially better than the previous job bank system. No login required to search, nice interface that rivals other job sites, and email alerts that take you straight to the job ad.
Kudos to whoever got this done!
https://careercenter.asanet.org/
#Sociology #AcademicFedi #AcademicChatter #AcademicJobs #AcademicJobMarket #ASA #ASAsociology #PhDChat #GradChat
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"The real deficit that workers from lower social-class origins suffer in school is not intellectual but cultural: They know less than those from higher class origins about what the pathways to education are and how to make the most of them. Evidence from elite colleges indicates that cultural capital matters more than financial capital in predicting which students will succeed."
https://hbr.org/2021/01/the-forgotten-dimension-of-diversity
@academicchatter
#academia #AcademicFedi #AcademicMastodon #class -
Today, I'll be presenting a second paper at #ASEEannual. This paper summarizes lessons shared through The Grainger College of Engineering Lab & Design Community of Practice over the past three years. We hope it will help other instructors teaching undergraduate engineering laboratory courses. Stop by the @asee_nee Technical Session at 1:30 pm in E144 to learn more. If you can't make it check out the details here: https://go.engineering.illinois.edu/CoP24Paper
#academicmastodon #AcademicFedi #academicChatter #Laboratory #Teaching #higherEd #STEM #engineering #engineeringEducation #engEd #Teams #teachingassistant #inclusiveTeaching #undergraduate
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Ever wondered what bracketing paradoxes are all about? Who hasn't! Check out this 5-minute summary to get the gist without breaking a sweat:
🔗https://vimeo.com/957225662
#AcademicFedi #linguistics #Researchpaper