When "peer review" is more like "pee review". #academicchatter
November 8, 2026 at 6:47 PM
When "peer review" is more like "pee review". #academicchatter
it is a sad #academicchatter today. solidarity for all you neglected, overseen and underemployed scholars out there.
November 4, 2026 at 1:19 PM
it is a sad #academicchatter today. solidarity for all you neglected, overseen and underemployed scholars out there.
#academicchatter The bench is now a window seat and a bookrest, for the now
November 5, 2026 at 3:36 PM
#academicchatter The bench is now a window seat and a bookrest, for the now
November 5, 2026 at 10:32 AM
#academicchatter The bench is now a window seat and a bookrest, for the now
Just spotted this, looks like a free clone of #biorender: https://silicodraw.com/
Source code: https://github.com/Alex-D-C/SiliCoDraw
#biology #academicchatter
Source code: https://github.com/Alex-D-C/SiliCoDraw
#biology #academicchatter
SiliCoDraw — draw scientific figures in your browser
Free online editor for pathway diagrams, graphical abstracts, posters and charts. No install, no account.
silicodraw.com
November 6, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Just spotted this, looks like a free clone of #biorender: https://silicodraw.com/
Source code: https://github.com/Alex-D-C/SiliCoDraw
#biology #academicchatter
Source code: https://github.com/Alex-D-C/SiliCoDraw
#biology #academicchatter
Jane is putting the final polishing touches to her literature review. But every time she polishes one bit, she finds another bit that needs to be polished. Jane should stop polishing and submit the chapter. #PhDchat #PhDforum #AcademicChatter
November 5, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Jane is putting the final polishing touches to her literature review. But every time she polishes one bit, she finds another bit that needs to be polished. Jane should stop polishing and submit the chapter. #PhDchat #PhDforum #AcademicChatter
I don't mean to throw shade, but y'all need that book.
W'all need that book.
Helen Sword's Stylish Academic writing, reviewed.
https://buttondown.com/hypernoetic/archive/book-review-stylish-academic-writing-sword-2012/
#books #bookreviews #academicwriting #academicchatter #phdlife
W'all need that book.
Helen Sword's Stylish Academic writing, reviewed.
https://buttondown.com/hypernoetic/archive/book-review-stylish-academic-writing-sword-2012/
#books #bookreviews #academicwriting #academicchatter #phdlife
November 7, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I don't mean to throw shade, but y'all need that book.
W'all need that book.
Helen Sword's Stylish Academic writing, reviewed.
https://buttondown.com/hypernoetic/archive/book-review-stylish-academic-writing-sword-2012/
#books #bookreviews #academicwriting #academicchatter #phdlife
W'all need that book.
Helen Sword's Stylish Academic writing, reviewed.
https://buttondown.com/hypernoetic/archive/book-review-stylish-academic-writing-sword-2012/
#books #bookreviews #academicwriting #academicchatter #phdlife
Three skills that are very hard to teach but I have found differentiate excellent graduate trainees & ECRs from others:
1) The ability to prioritize tasks & deadlines
2) The ability to multitask & parallel process
3) The ability to take accountability
#AcademicChatter
1) The ability to prioritize tasks & deadlines
2) The ability to multitask & parallel process
3) The ability to take accountability
#AcademicChatter
November 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Three skills that are very hard to teach but I have found differentiate excellent graduate trainees & ECRs from others:
1) The ability to prioritize tasks & deadlines
2) The ability to multitask & parallel process
3) The ability to take accountability
#AcademicChatter
1) The ability to prioritize tasks & deadlines
2) The ability to multitask & parallel process
3) The ability to take accountability
#AcademicChatter
📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - Noura Erakat on how the Board of Peace represents a new model of governance that aims to circumvent international law, democratic accountability and self-determination:
The Board of Peace - a model for a new world order? w/ Noura Erakat | Politics Theory Other
In a recent long read for the Boston Review, Noura Erakat argued that the Board of Peace represents a new model of governance that aims to c
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November 5, 2026 at 10:34 AM
November 5, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Register for the 11/17 @defendresearch.bsky.social webinar to hear from former NIH staffers about the future of #science we can build to prevent this kind of loss: www.defendresearch.org/events/webin... #ScholComm #Research #DefendResearch #AcademicChatter
November 8, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Register for the 11/17 @defendresearch.bsky.social webinar to hear from former NIH staffers about the future of #science we can build to prevent this kind of loss: www.defendresearch.org/events/webin... #ScholComm #Research #DefendResearch #AcademicChatter
Day 108: My proposal is a butter-knife +1 against the grant-beast; my agenda, a cursed lute strung with my nerves, awaiting one divine pluck before I snap into minor-key prophecy 😩 #AcademicChatter #canihazcareer
November 7, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Day 108: My proposal is a butter-knife +1 against the grant-beast; my agenda, a cursed lute strung with my nerves, awaiting one divine pluck before I snap into minor-key prophecy 😩 #AcademicChatter #canihazcareer
📋 Help with a short 5–7 min university study on ethical decisions in medical emergencies.
Participate here:
https://noharm.sc.hpi.de/
Your answers are anonymous (GDPR-compliant). 18+ only. #University #MedicalEthics #AcademicChatter #Ethics #Academia #Research
Participate here:
https://noharm.sc.hpi.de/
Your answers are anonymous (GDPR-compliant). 18+ only. #University #MedicalEthics #AcademicChatter #Ethics #Academia #Research
November 8, 2026 at 7:00 AM
📋 Help with a short 5–7 min university study on ethical decisions in medical emergencies.
Participate here:
https://noharm.sc.hpi.de/
Your answers are anonymous (GDPR-compliant). 18+ only. #University #MedicalEthics #AcademicChatter #Ethics #Academia #Research
Participate here:
https://noharm.sc.hpi.de/
Your answers are anonymous (GDPR-compliant). 18+ only. #University #MedicalEthics #AcademicChatter #Ethics #Academia #Research
Day 107: I keep refreshing my grant portal like a cursed situationship, just waiting for NIH to admit we were meant to trauma-bond over indirect costs. 😩 #AcademicChatter #canihazcareer
November 6, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Day 107: I keep refreshing my grant portal like a cursed situationship, just waiting for NIH to admit we were meant to trauma-bond over indirect costs. 😩 #AcademicChatter #canihazcareer
An LLM cannot do peer review because it is NOT A PEER.
This can be called screening or assessment or something else... but an ABSOLUTELY should not be called peer review.
#AcademicChatter
This can be called screening or assessment or something else... but an ABSOLUTELY should not be called peer review.
#AcademicChatter
November 2, 2026 at 5:13 PM
An LLM cannot do peer review because it is NOT A PEER.
This can be called screening or assessment or something else... but an ABSOLUTELY should not be called peer review.
#AcademicChatter
This can be called screening or assessment or something else... but an ABSOLUTELY should not be called peer review.
#AcademicChatter
I think I pissed off university IT by telling them their email sounds like bad phishing.
But seriously, calling #syncthing malware while having it in their own stack was just too weird. Especially a week after a university-wide cybersecurity incident.
#postdoclife #academicchatter #phdlife
But seriously, calling #syncthing malware while having it in their own stack was just too weird. Especially a week after a university-wide cybersecurity incident.
#postdoclife #academicchatter #phdlife
November 6, 2026 at 9:40 AM
I think I pissed off university IT by telling them their email sounds like bad phishing.
But seriously, calling #syncthing malware while having it in their own stack was just too weird. Especially a week after a university-wide cybersecurity incident.
#postdoclife #academicchatter #phdlife
But seriously, calling #syncthing malware while having it in their own stack was just too weird. Especially a week after a university-wide cybersecurity incident.
#postdoclife #academicchatter #phdlife
3 new university jobs on UniJobs today 🎓
Top subjects: Business & Management
Including Product - Supply Chain Internship, Roehampton University; Product - Food Internship, Roehampton University
unijobs.ac/jobs
#AcademicJobs #UKHE #HigherEd #AcademicChatter
Top subjects: Business & Management
Including Product - Supply Chain Internship, Roehampton University; Product - Food Internship, Roehampton University
unijobs.ac/jobs
#AcademicJobs #UKHE #HigherEd #AcademicChatter
3 new university jobs on UniJobs today
Top subjects: Business & Management
www.unijobs.ac
November 8, 2026 at 9:23 AM
3 new university jobs on UniJobs today 🎓
Top subjects: Business & Management
Including Product - Supply Chain Internship, Roehampton University; Product - Food Internship, Roehampton University
unijobs.ac/jobs
#AcademicJobs #UKHE #HigherEd #AcademicChatter
Top subjects: Business & Management
Including Product - Supply Chain Internship, Roehampton University; Product - Food Internship, Roehampton University
unijobs.ac/jobs
#AcademicJobs #UKHE #HigherEd #AcademicChatter
Dear Grad Students,
If you’re using #AI for doing your assignments & writing papers - the only person you’re fooling is yourself.
At some point a potential employer will ask for your thoughts & ideas IRL and Claude won’t be there to help.
#AcademicChatter
If you’re using #AI for doing your assignments & writing papers - the only person you’re fooling is yourself.
At some point a potential employer will ask for your thoughts & ideas IRL and Claude won’t be there to help.
#AcademicChatter
November 2, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Dear Grad Students,
If you’re using #AI for doing your assignments & writing papers - the only person you’re fooling is yourself.
At some point a potential employer will ask for your thoughts & ideas IRL and Claude won’t be there to help.
#AcademicChatter
If you’re using #AI for doing your assignments & writing papers - the only person you’re fooling is yourself.
At some point a potential employer will ask for your thoughts & ideas IRL and Claude won’t be there to help.
#AcademicChatter
Day 105: I await the grant, becoming a monastery bell made of overdue invoices; each inbox without salvation enlightens me as I politely ring myself into financial nonexistence. 😩 #AcademicChatter #canihazcareer
November 4, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Day 105: I await the grant, becoming a monastery bell made of overdue invoices; each inbox without salvation enlightens me as I politely ring myself into financial nonexistence. 😩 #AcademicChatter #canihazcareer
I have gotten my first 'Reviewer 2' feedback, and now I understand @HadasWeiss 's Kill Bill level of trauma-grounded revenge.
November 7, 2026 at 7:46 AM
I have gotten my first 'Reviewer 2' feedback, and now I understand @HadasWeiss 's Kill Bill level of trauma-grounded revenge.
#IvoryVeteran: you survived university abuse.
🪜🎓📜🍎♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem
🪜🎓📜🍎♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem
November 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
#IvoryVeteran: you survived university abuse.
🪜🎓📜🍎♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem
🪜🎓📜🍎♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem
#academicchatter "Leonard Welsted", just a scrap of paper and a very old pin
November 5, 2026 at 10:25 AM
#academicchatter "Leonard Welsted", just a scrap of paper and a very old pin
Day 106: I am treating the grant portal as a dying star I must worship until it funds my cooling array or collapses my remaining personality into tenure-shaped debris. 😩 #AcademicChatter #canihazcareer
November 5, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Day 106: I am treating the grant portal as a dying star I must worship until it funds my cooling array or collapses my remaining personality into tenure-shaped debris. 😩 #AcademicChatter #canihazcareer
#Unis and #profs create the competition by demanding #publications and third-party funding for permanent positions. Then they complain about the #ERC ’s 5% success rate. #CobraEffect: you created this imbalance. Don’t blame the ERC for being overwhelmed. #academicchatter @erc.europa.eu #ichbinhanna
November 5, 2026 at 9:13 PM
#Unis and #profs create the competition by demanding #publications and third-party funding for permanent positions. Then they complain about the #ERC ’s 5% success rate. #CobraEffect: you created this imbalance. Don’t blame the ERC for being overwhelmed. #academicchatter @erc.europa.eu #ichbinhanna
EMBO Press and their journals seem to be on the sciencemastodon dot com server, but that seems to have disappeared. Where did they go?
#academicchatter
#academicchatter
November 7, 2026 at 6:32 AM
EMBO Press and their journals seem to be on the sciencemastodon dot com server, but that seems to have disappeared. Where did they go?
#academicchatter
#academicchatter