#academicwriting — Public Fediverse posts

"In retrospect, these strategies were a form of authorial self-preservation."

Autoethnography of the rhetorical and emotional dimensions of writing about study limitations:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470161251363704

The paper draws on 8 manuscripts, 17 drafts, 22 #PeerReview by the author, journal entries, and email exchanges.

Interesting reflections & it illustrates the challenges and questions, especially if one has not written many manuscripts, yet.

#AcademicChatter #AcademicWriting #NightshiftEditor #ECRs

Great @EASE seminar yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjYWGlatYZQ

Really good content also for authors, PIs, #PeerReview -ers & people who consider #RCT methodology for future work.

The discussion was lively and covered some advanced topics.

One key moment:
the broader landscape of registrations, and within that the specific trial requirements, is often not covered well in the literature and such talks - for more, check in at 6:24min

#Registration #PreRegistration #RCT #NightshiftEditor #AcademicWriting

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#CallForPapers #AcademicPublishing #InterdisciplinaryResearch #ResearchOpportunity #HumanitiesResearch #SocialSciences #CriticalTheory #AcademicWriting

Working on a scientific paper and need to quickly insert a citation?

If you’ve used #JabRef before, you might know the “push to application” feature. Now, JabRef supports cite-as-you-write (CAYW)! (Also known as “cite while you write”)

In #TeXstudio, press c three times to open the citation dialog—no plugin needed.

🛠 Setup guide:
👉 https://blog.jabref.org/2025/07/25/cayw-endpoint/

Big thanks to @phlp for implementing this!

#AcademicWriting #BibTeX #TexLaTeX #CitationTools #GSoC2025 #OpenScience #ResearchSoftware

Recommendations for conduct and write-up of observational studies from my #NightshiftEditor threads got some attention on #LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7229141904678887424/

The five suggested papers in brief:

1) STROBE
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040297

2) Confounder selection
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6447501/

3) DAG tutorial
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8821727/

4) Table 2 Fallacy
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/177/4/292/147738?login=false

5) Prediction vs causation
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/49/6/2074/5831974?login=false

#AcademicWriting #Epidemiology #StudyDesign