Academic conferences are exhausting: fell asleep around 11 at night yesterday, fully woke up at noon today.
(Was still 100% worth it.)

Academic conferences are exhausting: fell asleep around 11 at night yesterday, fully woke up at noon today.
(Was still 100% worth it.)
Great tool by @rstockm to estimate the reach of accounts and posts in the fediverse: https://rstockm.github.io/fediwings/
This could be especially useful for academic institutions to improve their presence here.
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🔬 Voting for Democracy? Testing Political-Cultural Constraints on Democratic Backsliding
👤 Claassen, 2026
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🔗 https://www.scilove.app/article/10.1093/poq/nfag066
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Teaching Matters - in 5 min on the link below
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📗How to manage your promotion
📕Are term-time holidays all that problematic?
📘Reform: ‘There will be consequences for schools not singing anthem’
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On the agenda for Teaching Matters, Sunday 10am, this week:
📗How to manage your promotion
📕Are term-time holidays all that problematic?
📘Reform: ‘There will be consequences for schools not singing anthem’
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Level up your know-how with Teaching Matters - Sunday 10am
📗How to manage your promotion
📕Are term-time holidays all that problematic?
📘Reform: ‘There will be consequences for schools not singing anthem’
#EdTech #AcademicChatter #HigherEd #Pedagogy #PodcastCommunity
📋 Help with a short 5–7 min university study on ethical decisions in medical emergencies.
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Teaching Matters - Sunday 10am - your guide to:
📗How to manage your promotion
📕Term-time holidays, are they problematic?
📘Reform orders: ‘There will be consequences for schools not singing anthem’
#EdTech #AcademicChatter #HigherEd #Pedagogy #PodcastCommunity
Inside this week's Teaching Matters - Sunday 10am
📗How to manage your promotion
📕Are term-time holidays all that problematic?
📘Reform: ‘There will be consequences for schools not singing anthem’
#EdTech #AcademicChatter #HigherEd #Pedagogy #PodcastCommunity #EducationMatters
Day 52: Waiting for grant news / clouds of cotton candy sigh / hope drips, then turns stale I’m still sucking on the cotton‑candy promise of a grant, now melted into the bitter aftertaste of a forgotten birthday — hope turning into a quiet, sugary sigh. ⏳ #AcademicChatter #canihazcareer
📋 We’re running a short academic survey on ethical decisions in medical emergencies (5–7 min).
Participate here:
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RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/117253989521964040
"But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight."
Happy to report that the paper I’m currently reviewing is crappy completely without the use of ChatGPT #academicChatter
Day 51: Waiting on this grant feels like rehearsing my villain redemption arc—tuba‑blasted rejection emails, evil‑laugh practice… then I catch myself humming the loser’s march and wonder if the role’s stuck. ⏳ #AcademicChatter #canihazcareer
📋 Short 5–7 min academic survey about ethical decisions in medical emergencies.
Participate here:
https://noharm.sc.hpi.de/
Your answers are anonymous (GDPR-compliant). 18+ only. #Science #EmergencyMedicine #MedicalEthics #Academia #AcademicChatter #Survey #Ethics #Research
When you hope for your students to ask for an extension cause you're running behind and they have the audacity to send you the assignment a day earlier...
(these are very good students and I love working with them, but seriously!)
Somewhere out there is someone who went through exactly what you did. 💞 The anonymous survey at buff.ly/3Qn8xeQ helps us find the pattern — and each other.
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4/4
Finally, look at the synthesis.
Does the conclusion reflect both methods fairly, or does one end up doing most of the interpretive work?
What do you find hardest about reviewing mixed-methods research?
Day 50: I await the Crown’s kraken—its tentacles spray gold hope then drag me into brine, each suck a swing between gleeful loot and weary barnacles. ⏳ #AcademicChatter #canihazcareer