REDS Conference 2027 - Call for Abstracts! Free, open, online conference on researcher development.
Theme: ‘A whole ecosystem approach to developing researchers’
12-6pm 20th Jan and 8-1 on 21st Jan 2027
Abstract submission deadline 5pm 31st Jul 2026
redsconference.co.uk/2026/06/01/c...
Big thanks to @jacksonwryan.com for writing this thoughtful, reflective piece on how #preprint servers are balancing principles of integrity and inclusion in moderation practices.
Research led by @nataschachtena.bsky.social
Story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#openscience #scholcomm
Who gets left behind in Australia’s Open Access strategy?
researchwhisperer.org/2026/05/05/a...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #AcWri
Maybe the “world first” social media ban was not a great idea to start with?? Regulate big tech, not young people 🤷🏻♀️ theconversation.com/social-media...
Hoping against hope that the metric tide is turning, for all the reasons that @peterwoelert.bsky.social outlines in this article.
#AcademicSky #AcWri #AcademicPublishing
This project by photographer Michael Wolf is so good: 'Bastard chairs'
worksthatwork.com/1/bastard-ch...
FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.
Now launched! Get onto it, you good things. Let's all turn back the metric tide.
#AcademicSky
Happy year of the fire horse
[Mark Rothko, Red on Red, 1969]
The ensloppification of academic publishing is a threat to many existing processes and norms. Just the time sunk into policing for genAI-written / referenced papers by editors and reviewers makes me headasplodey.