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Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social · 1d

Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.

Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!

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UTS Governance Project Survey: A Staff-Led Collaborative Project

The UTS Governance Project is an independent, staff-led initiative to strengthen transparency, accountability and participation in how our university is run. Inspired by the ANU Governance Project, ...

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · 4d

It helps to understand the difference and relationship between research results and claims patthomson.net/2025/10/04/r...

results vs claims

Research results are not the same as research claims. This is one of those distinctions that sounds simple but can trip researchers up. But understanding the difference can be really helpful. …

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · 11d

Dealing with a toxic review? Write a Dear Reviewer letter… patthomson.net/2025/09/27/d...

Dear Reviewer

Every academic writer knows the sting of a harsh review. Every one. Including me. We’ve all had them. The review that is scathing, brutal and toxic. The immediate impulse is often to fire bac…

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 12d

Today's post delves a bit into the history of #sociology, memories of Erving #Goffman, and his use of #metaphor as method makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/26/e...

Erving Goffman: Memories, method and metaphors

If you do sociology or, indeed, any social science whatsoever, you’ll come across the work of Erving Goffman. I have done too but never engaged with it as much as I should have done. This was…

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 17d

For weekend readers, some reflections on community engagement with #AI and #ELSI makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/19/p...

Participation at the core: AI, ELSI and community engagement

Alondra Nelson, a sociologist, STS scholar and expert on AI policy and ethics, recently published a letter in Science proposing that artificial intelligence (AI) should adopt the Ethical, Legal, an…

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · 17d

Some pointers to writing a series of papers from the same project patthomson.net/2025/09/21/w...

Writing multiple articles from one set of data

So you’ve got this mountain of “stuff” that keeps revealing new secrets every time you look at it. Or maybe you’re doing a PhD by publication and panicking about how to sort out the art…

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Toby Greany @tobygreany.bsky.social · 22d

We launched our UK Survey report from the #esrc Sustainable School Leadership research project today.

Big important findings on leaders' work (& workloads), well-being, career journeys & plans, professional learning, views on school contexts/ cultures & more!

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Sustainable School Leadership: Comparing Approaches to the Training, Supply and Retention of Senior School Leaders Across the UK - The University of Nottingham

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · 23d

Claude does satire. Who knew! @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social

Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 23d

Claude, "We all know among Sauron's many evils was that he ran Mordor using an Excel spreadsheet with multiple tabs. Show me the spreadsheet"

It made 12 tabs "so bureaucratically complex that even the Eye of Sauron would need reading glasses to review it." Some very funny stuff. Creative, even.

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · 26d

If you’re a doctoral researcher
You need to understand and practice criticality patthomson.net/2025/09/12/w...

what is criticality?

This is a post for all the people just starting their doctoral programmes. And for those supporting them. Criticality in scholarship is the practice of approaching all knowledge claims, including y…

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Sep 5

A whimsy. Writing with the support of patthomson.net/2025/09/04/e...

emotional support objects

my favourite BIG mug, made by Robyn Cove Academic writing can be a pretty solitary pastime. Lonely even. There’s nobody to talk to in those moments when you just can’t seem to think your way throug…

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Aug 30

Use little windows of time to progress your academic writing patthomson.net/2025/08/30/f...

Five steps towards writing in fragments

The myth of ideal academic writing time persists. We all long to be in a quiet office, surrounded by books, with hours of uninterrupted time to craft elegant arguments. But the reality is very diff…

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Aug 22

Academic publishing can be a hot mess of mixed emotions patthomson.net/2025/08/21/i...

I’ve just been published and I feel…

When Dr. Sarah’s first peer-reviewed article appeared in the Journal of Sustainability and Urban Policy, her social media announcements said: “Delighted to share my latest research on ur…

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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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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Aug 15

I’m secretly plotting a campus novel

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the cabinet of unrealised ideas

Ever thought about writing a campus novel? I often play with plots but never get around to the writing. And I get stuck on endings, just as I do when I write an academic paper! I recently dipped in…

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Aug 8

Why are conference nerves to be taken seriously? patthomson.net/2025/08/08/c...

conference jitters

You know that feeling, right? It’s two days before your big conference presentation and you’re lying in bed at 3am, staring at the ceiling wondering if anyone will turn up. And if they …

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Jul 30

Latest post on writer voice and identity complete with exercises patthomson.net/2025/07/30/w...

writer identity and voice

Still reading. This month it’s Schmit, John S (2022)The sociolinguistics of written identity, Constructing a self. Cham, Switzerland: PalgraveMacmillan. Schmit is a writing and linguistics professo…

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · Jul 26

For weekend readers, my first Making Science Public post on my own blog site, reflecting on the current state of and challenges to science communication #scicomm - feel free to press 'subscribe'! makingsciencepublic.com/2025/07/25/m...

Making Science Public in a chaotic world

As you know, I am now gradually moving from my old ‘Making Science Public’ blog home at the University of Nottingham to my new personal blog home here. This wasn’t easy and lots of people supported…

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Jul 18

Ive come home and immediately lapsed back into the vernacular …

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Jul 16

Please see the report I’ve talked about in the post, it’s really not that simple any more.

Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Jul 16

What to do about predatory journals and conferences? patthomson.net/2025/07/16/o...

on predatory academic journals and conferences

I’m often asked about predatory journals. So I recently went on a hunt for something other than lists and found a 2022 report on predatory journals and conferences from the InterAcademy Partnership…

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · Jul 14

Since I'm blathering about (my own) scientific writing this morning, I'm reminded to remind you that I made a starter pack of folks who post about the history, practice, and craft of scientific writing: go.bsky.app/TwZVnjU

You can get some good advice from folks on this list!

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Jul 10

Build your academic writing repertoire fifty strategies at a time patthomson.net/2025/07/10/5...

50 ways to get your writing going

A couple of times a year I write about strategies for getting going with your writing. But I’ve made a big list this time, just for a change. Fifty things to do to help yourself with your wri…

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Jul 3

A musing on the great unread… patthomson.net/2025/07/03/a...

About the unread

Most academic writers are regular readers. There is of course a strong connection between reading and writing. Reading and writing feed each other. But I’m not focused on the connection right now. …

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Anita Holford @anitaholford.bsky.social · Jun 28

Fascinating & useful article 'What if we think of the arts as knowledge rich' by @patthomson.bsky.social on Cultural Learning Alliance website.

Useful for anyone working in #artseducation.

How do we translate into practical framing/messaging?

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Jun 25

Some academic writing advice is not good for everyone patthomson.net/2025/06/25/i...

Is writing every day good advice?

The most common piece of writing advice given to doctoral researchers is “write every day” or some variation thereof. This advice appears consistently across academic writing …

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