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Nicholas Mamo Aug 12, 2023

✍️ New: The big list of academic #writing resources

A list of books, blogs and tools to hone your scientific writing. I've tried to cover the basics of academic writing, deeper dives on style and even data #visualization.

#datascience #science #academia #AcWri

@academicchatter

📖 Read the post here: https://nicholasmamo.github.io/posts/big-list-academic-writing-resources/

The big list of academic writing resources

This blog post will be updated regularly. Academic writing is a craft. Like all crafts, it requires practice, but it can also be learned. Unfortunately, resources to learn academic writing are somewhat scattered. In this blog post, I lost some of my suggested resources, including books and blogs, tools to help you write better, and other resources to improve your visualizations. Accompanying this post is The Big List of Academic Writing Tips.

Nicholas Mamo Aug 11, 2023

✍️ The big list of #academic writing tips

29 tips to improve scientific #writing: choosing the narrative, using the correct grammar and developing your own style.

(Reposting because this post took an ungodly amount of time to write, and years of self-study and practice.)

#academia #science @academicchatter
@academicsunite

📖 Read the post:
https://nicholasmamo.github.io/posts/big-list-academic-writing-tips/

The big list of academic writing tips

This blog post will be updated regularly. When I started my PhD, I hated writing academically. I love writing, and I have freelanced as a writer for years, but I hated writing academically. I hated the process and I hated the end-product. It is a common feeling, but I decided to study scientific writing and, more specifically, how to lend my character to it while staying within the norms. This blog post contains tricks that I learned to take control of the story, the grammar and the form of academic writing.

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Nicholas Mamo Aug 7, 2023

I do not believe #ArtificialIntelligence will take over architecture, like many other industries, for two reasons.

First, because we need the human element. Consider the header image, a building imagined by #technology. The project's financial constraints and the available craftsmanship limit what we can do, but the #AI is blind to it.

Second, if we sacrificed creativity for profit margins, why would AI-generated mimicry of creativity change our minds?

Nicholas Mamo Aug 6, 2023

✍️ New blog post: 29 tips on stylish academic #writing, split into the story, the grammar and the form. Includes practical examples and tips on narrative visualizations.

https://nicholasmamo.github.io/posts/big-list-academic-writing-tips/

@academicchatter

#academia #science #AcWri

The big list of academic writing tips

This blog post will be updated regularly. When I started my PhD, I hated writing academically. I love writing, and I have freelanced as a writer for years, but I hated writing academically. I hated the process and I hated the end-product. It is a common feeling, but I decided to study scientific writing and, more specifically, how to lend my character to it while staying within the norms. This blog post contains tricks that I learned to take control of the story, the grammar and the form of academic writing.

Nicholas Mamo Jul 30, 2023

29 tips and 2.4k words later, my big list of academic #writing tips is almost finished ✍️ 😁 #AcWri #academia #science

Nicholas Mamo Jul 28, 2023

The great thing about finishing my PhD is having the mental energy to write about whatever I feel like 😌

#academia #science #AcWri @academicchatter

Nicholas Mamo Jul 3, 2023

✍️ A requiem for #Twitter: what #science has lost

With limits on tweet reads (!), Twitter users are now feeling the pinch that #research has been feeling since Musk raised API prices.

I've written a blog post on what losing access to the API means for #AI, #journalism and emergency responses. #TwitterDown #RIPTwitter

Give it a read and boost: https://nicholasmamo.github.io/posts/a-requiem-for-twitter/

A requiem for Twitter: what science has lost

Twitter is dead. Technically, it is still alive—barely—but for scientific research, it is as good as dead. Twitter’s demise did not start with the saturation of blue ticks, nor with the nonsensical limits on daily views. It started and ended with cordoning off access to the Twitter API; now, it costs $5,000 per month for 1,000,000 tweets—a tenth of what academics previously got for free. I started researching on Twitter in 2016.

Nicholas Mamo Apr 23, 2023

New update to the Adonis #LaTeX template:

- Character protrusion and expansion for a cleaner look
- New math font and a legacy option for backwards compatibility
- Smaller heading in two-column mode
- Small changes to section margins

You can download the template from GitHub: https://github.com/NicholasMamo/adonis-template

#AcWri #writing #science #academia

GitHub - NicholasMamo/adonis-template: A no-frills, elegant LaTeX template

A no-frills, elegant LaTeX template . Contribute to NicholasMamo/adonis-template development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Nicholas Mamo Nov 11, 2022

Goosebumps. #TeamOL

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