Mastodawn

Something I learned late in my academic life and since trying to implement in most of my teaching: When you do science, you actively have to revisit all your documentation regularly and think of ways to paint a bigger picture of your findings.
When you just document, your viewpoint is sort of chronological or even biographical.
Explaining a new finding in the order you found the puzzle pieces leading to that discovery, usually is not the best way to explain or write about it.
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Dr. Or M. Bialik Sep 12, 2025

Every time my first paper (now over 13 years old and a bit niche) is cited, still feels weird and amazing to me.

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Björn Brembs Apr 24, 2025

A propos of nothing in particular 😇 a rough estimate of the size of the papermill problem in the scientific literature:

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2024/02/how-reliable-is-the-scholarly-literature/

(from last year)

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Michael Piotrowski Sep 21, 2024

Overpromising doesn’t make your project more attractive to reviewers. Quite the contrary.

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Michael Piotrowski Sep 21, 2024

I don’t get it (well, I think I do, but you know what I mean) why so many #DigitalHumanities project proposals try to be all things to all people: it’s a critical edition, but it also studies several historical research questions, and it’s a corpus, and it develops new NLP tools, and has a new intuitive user interface, and it uses AI, and it will fight misinformation, and it goes on and on. All of this in three or four years, with part-time staff. I’m not even exaggerating.

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Oli Mould Aug 1, 2024

If you don't put down which city the book was published in your reference list - in this day and age of digitisation and global knowledge production - is it *really* a proper citation?

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Chelsea (she/her)Sep 26, 2023

#AcadmicChatter #academicmastodon anyone recommend anywhere that would accept article submissions from an early career postgrad researcher?

Daniel Hocking May 30, 2023

Thank you to everyone who has ever supplied alternative recommended reviewers when declining a manuscript review. It is immensely helpful!

Sincerely,
- tired, desperate associate editor

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SeaFury ALT Apr 5, 2023

Architecture presentations today. A stressful day for some students… I don’t mark students down for not presenting well. But students who present well I mark up. I wonder if that’s fair? #ActuallyAutistic #PublicSpeaking #AcadmicChatter #Introverts