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Arthur Frederick Thompson, known as Pat Thompson, and A. F. Thompson, was an academic historian specialising in 19th-century British politics… more

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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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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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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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by Brigitte Nerlich — Reposted by: Pat Thomson, Lesley A. Hall, Jack Stilgoe , and 1 more

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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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by Brigitte Nerlich — Reposted by: Pat Thomson

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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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by Pat Thomson

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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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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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Claude does satire. Who knew! @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social
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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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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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by Pat Thomson — Reposted by: Brigitte Nerlich

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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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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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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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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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by Helen Kara — Reposted by: Pat Thomson

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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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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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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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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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by Brigitte Nerlich — Reposted by: Pat Thomson, Brigitte Nerlich

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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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New blogpost: gobbledegook papers as canaries in the coalmine- and more bad news for MDPI
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Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine: another embarrassing paper for MDPI
Many publishers are getting nervous about infiltration by paper mills, who can torpedo a journal's reputation when they succeed in publis...
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Could I have a copy of this please @patthomson.bsky.social
I'm on a panel event soon at Kettle's Yard Cambridge on the importance of the Arts in Schools, and it would be great to understand what the research says.
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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · Feb 11
@sairskay.bsky.social I’d like to send you a copy of our arts rich primary school research project not sure how?

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❗️Authors and illustrators: have your books been used to train AI? Today the Atlantic published a search tool allowing authors to search for their books in the LibGen dataset, which has been used to train Meta's AI system.

Search here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Ive come home and immediately lapsed back into the vernacular …
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Please see the report I’ve talked about in the post, it’s really not that simple any more.

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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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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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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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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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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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Oh no. More cost cutting? Hope you can move it all to a new place. I’ve always paid for my own Wordpress site. Easy to use and I get to decide.
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Deciding to write a paper or a book chapter? Knowing the differences and similarities is helpful patthomson.net/2025/06/18/c...
chapter and article – what’s the difference?
So what’s the difference between writing a chapter about your empirical research for an edited collection as opposed to a journal article? This is a question I do get asked, so here is an answer.  …
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