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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 2d

With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

* yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis

Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research - Impact of Social Sciences

Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating research-based knowledge. Helen Kara & Petra Boynton argue, from the outside these claims are hollow.

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Bethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social · 6h

‘We all need someone’: the hairdressers tackling stigma of mental health issues in west Africa

In Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Togo, where therapy services are almost absent, some stylists are being trained to listen, comfort and guide

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Vic Clarke (she/her, they/them) @vicclarke.bsky.social · 3d

New open access paper by me and @ginnybraun.bsky.social - Exploring U.K. University Students’ Social Perceptions of Dating and Physical Disability Using Story Completion. There are extensive Supplementary Materials which we hope are useful for teaching reflexive TA: awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...

APA PsycNet

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Vic Clarke (she/her, they/them) @vicclarke.bsky.social · 3d

Melissa McCallum's important research using qualitative surveys, interviews, focus groups & reflexive thematic analysis (supervised by me) -
Exploring Black Women's Experiences in Psychotherapeutic Training and Practice in the UK - Counselling and Psychotherapy Research share.google/QAahdyVCLjtV...

Exploring Black Women's Experiences in Psychotherapeutic Training and Practice in the UK

Background Discussions around racial disparities and injustice have gained increasing prominence in psychotherapy and counselling research. However, research in this area has been criticised for its.....

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 4d

👀 ICYMI: "While 92% of undergraduate students are using Generative AI, only 36% said they had been offered support by their university"

#AcademicSky #HigherEducation

A new academic year has begun, but UK universities are still struggling to respond to AI - Impact of Social Sciences

Mark Carrigan argues university staff are still struggling to develop coherent, contextual and disciplinary responses to AI’s impact on teaching and learning.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

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Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

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Bethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social · 6d

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured

Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today

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Bethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social · 8d

Stunning!

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Asrat @asratag.bsky.social · 9d

Ignore the matching feet and beak. Ignore the larger than life pose. Nothing extra ordinary there, anyone can do it. But the splash of dazzling velvet across the face ... that is what makes you a fashion icon.
African Pygmy Kingfisher
📍Bahirdar, Ethiopia
🪶 #nature #fashion #colors

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Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre @quahrc.bsky.social · 8d

Messy, emotional, and necessary: PhD student and research assistant Jo Law reflects on ethical #QualitativeResearch with marginalised groups in this month's #ResearchImpact blog:

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Jo Law on Messy, Emotional and Necessary Ethical Research with Marginalised Populations | QUAHRC

Jo Law is a qualitative research assistant at the Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre at King’s College London, working on the qualitative component of the EDEN project, which examines the use ...

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Bethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social · 8d

"Conducting research with marginalised populations is inevitably messy. It involves compromises, contradictions, and continuous negotiation between competing demands. As participants let me into their lives on the promise that their voices would be heard, the responsibility was profound."

Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre @quahrc.bsky.social · 8d

Messy, emotional, and necessary: PhD student and research assistant Jo Law reflects on ethical #QualitativeResearch with marginalised groups in this month's #ResearchImpact blog:

www.quahrc.co.uk/podcasts-blo...

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Jo Law on Messy, Emotional and Necessary Ethical Research with Marginalised Populations | QUAHRC

Jo Law is a qualitative research assistant at the Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre at King’s College London, working on the qualitative component of the EDEN project, which examines the use ...

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Bethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social · 11d

This!

Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 13d

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 42:
The thesaurus is not your friend. You don’t need new words to make your writing more interesting; you need more interesting things to say using the words you already have.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 15d

Long Covid has now overtaken Asthma in the US, as a cause of chronic health disease in children. There is currently no cure. Yet no action is being taken and Violet Affleck is very much on point.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 14d

This is an essay, a reading list and a poem on why I think Pan-Africanism, Afrofuturism and Decolonisation can be insightful tools for realising visions of flourishing future worlds for all.
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Pan-Africanism, Afrofuturism and Decolonisation: A reading list

Knowledge will be the first frontier of our freedom.

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Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre @quahrc.bsky.social · 15d

Unequal pressures: new #qualitative work from the QUAHRC team explores how young people from different backgrounds had very different #Covid experiences, and why this is still relevant to widening inequality

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Unequal pressures: how disadvantage shaped young people's education…

School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just disrupt learning, they revealed and intensified deep inequalities that continue to shape young people’s lives today. While some children…

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 18d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · 27d

How do researchers study experiences that are "too shattering to put into words"? MAshNup method uses art-making, metaphor analysis, and narrative techniques to help participants explore difficult experiences in ethical, sensitive ways.

Read the article here: doi.org/10.1332/3050...

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 25d

Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students

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Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students

Highly educated Kenyans working for essay mills ghostwrite academic work that students pass off as their own

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 20d

I have always hated the way smart speakers and chatbots mimic amicability and draw people in to talking to them as if there is a person there.

Great to read a scholarly exploration, using dear old Gigerenzer and Grice to set out the problem 🌟

LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 20d

💥New: ChatGPT doesn’t think like a human, so why does it speak like one?

✍️George Gaskell (@lsemethodology.bsky.social)

#ChatGPT #Ethics #ConversationAnalysis

ChatGPT doesn’t think like a human, so why does it speak like one? - Impact of Social Sciences

Large language models like ChatGPT adopt aspects of human speech to give the impression of human intelligence. George Gaskell highlights the limits of ChatGPT’s conversational ethics, common sense and...

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Bethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social · 20d

"In 2019, Iceland made headlines as one of the first countries to implement a four-day workweek...Nearly six years later, the results are clear: this bold move has proven to be a game-changer, not just for the workforce, but for society as a whole."

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Iceland Embraced a 4-Day Workweek in 2019 – Now, Nearly Six Years On, All Gen Z Forecasts Have Materialized

In 2019, Iceland made headlines as one of the first countries to implement a four-day workweek, not by passing a blanket law, but through agreements

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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · Aug 18

Are you, might you become, or do you know a transnational scholar from the Global South? Or do you work with one or more? If so, this insightful, creatively written book will be of interest. It's part of the series I co-edit with @patthomson.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Insider-Guid...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Sep 6

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

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Asrat @asratag.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's #Flyday folks!
Ruspoli's Turaco in flight.
Borena, Ethiopia
🪶 #birds

A turaco in flight displaying it's fiery red outer feathers

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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · Sep 3

Call for chapters: Ethical Review in Practice, edited by Lucy Pickering and me. Do you have a particularly good, bad, or mixed experience with a research #ethics approval body that you would like to share? If so this call may be of interest: helenkara.com/writing/ethi... please share widely!

Ethical Review in Practice

Call for Chapter Proposals Working title: Ethical Review in Practice Editors: Lucy Pickering and Helen Kara Research ethics approval is a key part of the process for many researchers. The small but…

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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’m so pleased to share that the launch issue of the Journal of Creative Research Methods (JCRM) is now live! 🎉

👉 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Huge thanks to my wonderful Co-Editors in Chief Su-Ming Khoo, Harriet Shortt & Sophie Woodward.

#CreativeMethods #JCRM

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