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LSE Press<p>📣 Calling all LSE staff seeking BPC funding for publishing monographs Open Access. ✅ The LSE Open Access Books Fund is now open. ➡️ More details here: <a href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/research-support/open-access-at-lse/open-access-for-books" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.lse.ac.uk/library/rese...</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23OpenResearch" target="_blank">#OpenResearch</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23OpenAccess" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Books" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ResearchCulture" target="_blank">#ResearchCulture</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Monographs" target="_blank">#Monographs</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AcWri" target="_blank">#AcWri</a> <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/lseimpactblog.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@lseimpactblog.bsky.social</a><br><br><a href="https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/research-support/open-access-at-lse/open-access-for-books" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Open access books</a></p>
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA<p>"for students like me, writing is more than a skill. It’s a form of resistance. It’s how we carve out space in institutions that weren’t built for us. And anyone who helps us do that — respectfully, ethically, collaboratively — is part of that resistance too."<br><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a></p>
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA<p>Do any academic writers &amp; teachers of <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> know about <a href="https://www.masterpapers.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">masterpapers.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>?</p><p>They got plugged via <a href="https://www.thecanary.co/discovery/feature/2025/06/12/university-paper-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thecanary.co/discovery/feature</span><span class="invisible">/2025/06/12/university-paper-writing/</span></a></p><p>There is a market, some of it reputable, for academic writing coaching so checking in here for informed thoughts.</p><p><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a><br><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/AcademicCoaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicCoaching</span></a><br><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a></p>
David Lohner<p>Heute ist am <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.kit.edu/@KIT_Karlsruhe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>KIT_Karlsruhe</span></a></span> <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/TagDerAbschlussarbeit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TagDerAbschlussarbeit</span></a>. Ab 09:00 geht es in zahlreichen Sessions draum, wie <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KI</span></a> für wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (Recherche und Schreiben) verwendet werden kann/soll.</p><p>Alles wird live gestreamt: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGqAsFajxlQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=dGqAsFajxlQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a> <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a></p>
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪<p>The session chair <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/VAR4LCR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VAR4LCR</span></a>, Valentin Werner, has announced that things are now "getting mysterious", nicely setting up the scene for Tove Larsson's presentation on "Grammatical complexity in student writing across academic registers: Solving some remaining mysteries". I like how Tove frequently reminds us of the importance of similarities, in a field that can seem to be constantly looking for differences (L1 vs. L2, across L1s, tasks, registers, etc.).</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/corpuslinguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>corpuslinguistics</span></a></span> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a></p>
oSoTL Journal<p>Chrissi Nerantzi Gems, buds and slippers, or what a series of visualisation tells us about the Learning and Teaching in Higher Education tweetchat (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LTHEchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LTHEchat</span></a>) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oSoTLSummer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oSoTLSummer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoTL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoTL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>highered</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vol1No1_21" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vol1No1_21</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProfessionalDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProfessionalDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Diversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Inclusion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://osotl.org/osotl/article/view/6/23" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">osotl.org/osotl/article/view/6</span><span class="invisible">/23</span></a></p>
Wes Cowley<p>A recent post about a library publishing guidelines on citing genAI got me thinking about when that might be appropriate (rarely) or not (almost always), and what those cites should look like when they are needed. I have a new post talking about why genAI output shouldn’t be cited in most cases and, for when they must be, giving examples from common style guides. </p><p><a href="https://www.wordsbywes.ink/articles/usage/citing-material-generated-by-llms-and-chatbots/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wordsbywes.ink/articles/usage/</span><span class="invisible">citing-material-generated-by-llms-and-chatbots/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/acwri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acwri</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/amediting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amediting</span></a></p>
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA<p>📢Registration for our event in Milton Keynes (UK) is open until 30 June✅</p><p>We warmly welcome in-person attendance on 09 July to ensure discussions are critical &amp; spontaneous♨️<br>But online places are still available.</p><p><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/DoctoralWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DoctoralWriting</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/AcademicLiteracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicLiteracies</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/tleap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tleap</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/OpenUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenUniversity</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-doctoral-writing-critical-dialogues-towards-a-manifesto-tickets-1367263665429?aff=oddtdtcreator" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-</span><span class="invisible">of-doctoral-writing-critical-dialogues-towards-a-manifesto-tickets-1367263665429?aff=oddtdtcreator</span></a></p>
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA<p>What does an AI tl;dr summary afford that the writer's authored abstract doesn't (especially in cases where the writer uses the bot to write their abstract in the first place) other than satisfying an idle curiosity in how LLMs collocate the same input differently?</p><p><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/ActuallyUsefulTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyUsefulTechnology</span></a><br><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a></p>
scholar_farmer<p>powered my way through <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/5amwritersclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>5amwritersclub</span></a>, having completed <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/4amwritersclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>4amwritersclub</span></a> and <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/3amwritersclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3amwritersclub</span></a>.</p><p>It wasn't much sleep, but I feel reeeeeally good about this writing stint!</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MightBeTired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MightBeTired</span></a></p>
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA<p>I'll be giving this year's keynote at <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/EATAW25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EATAW25</span></a> - alongside Suresh Canagarajah &amp; Federico Navarro - on:</p><p>'AI Realism: Reclaiming the Human in AI-enhanced Academic Literacies' (cf abstract) {JM}<br>🤞<br><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/PACEspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PACEspace</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/AcademicLiteracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicLiteracies</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/CriticalRealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalRealism</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/OpenUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenUniversity</span></a> </p><p>www.eataw2025.com/keynote</p>
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA<p>In case of interest, the <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/OpenUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenUniversity</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/GraduateSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GraduateSchool</span></a> has just published its guidance on the use of <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> in <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/DoctoralWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DoctoralWriting</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://www5.open.ac.uk/students/research/ou/services/position-statement-and-guidance-generative-ai-and-doctoral-education" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www5.open.ac.uk/students/resea</span><span class="invisible">rch/ou/services/position-statement-and-guidance-generative-ai-and-doctoral-education</span></a></p><p>Informed comments are welcome as this document has been conceived as a 'living document' responsive to change in an evolving tech landscape.</p><p><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/AcademicMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/MastodonAcademic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAcademic</span></a><br><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a><br><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/phdThesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phdThesis</span></a></p>
David Lohner<p>Morgen darf ich für <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dju.social/@CoachingzonenJuttaWergen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CoachingzonenJuttaWergen</span></a></span> im Rahmen der <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/Schreibwoche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Schreibwoche</span></a> einen Workshop zu <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/Zotero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zotero</span></a> geben. <br>Es wird ein wilder Ritt von den Grundlagen bis ans Eingemachte. Plugins lassen wir erst mal außen vor...</p><p>Bin gerade am Feinschliff der letzten Inhalte und freue mich sehr darauf! </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@zotero" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>zotero</span></a></span> <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a> <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a></p>
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA<p>After much bureaucracy, this event is scheduled 9 July 2025.</p><p>It will be advertised asap on <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/BAAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BAAL</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/BALEAP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BALEAP</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/DoctoralWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DoctoralWriting</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/tleap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tleap</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/EATAW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EATAW</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/CUP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CUP</span></a> networks.</p><p>It will be in person-hybrid at <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/OpenUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenUniversity</span></a> in <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/MiltonKeynes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiltonKeynes</span></a> but due to funding constraints, tickets will be limited.</p><p>Email me for info.</p>
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪<p>"Introduction. This chapter offers six questions, largely without any answers [...]" </p><p>A brave opening for an academic paper! 🙃 <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a></p>
Dr Ian McCormick<p>Select the most appropriate style of writing... <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23acwri" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#acwri</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23phdchat" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#phdchat</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23highered" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#highered</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23acwri" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#acwri</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23humour" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humour</a></p>
Dr Micha Campbell<p>Enjoyable letter in Nature Biotech about the importance of writing. Good advice, set out logically. I've already fwded to all the grad students I know...</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://rdcu.be/efVGS" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">rdcu.be/efVGS</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Prof Prachi Srivastava<p>Is the World Bank Research Observer considered refereed publication? </p><p>It's 'not traditionally peer-reviewed' but it does send papers out for review to economists (from what I understand).</p><p>What would researchers put on CVs? </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span></p>
longdistancecaller<p>"Staring at screens is perhaps unavoidable, but the two-dimensional world makes little sense unless we can draw upon a mental armory that we have developed somewhere else."</p><p>-Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny</p><p><a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/TreeSwallows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TreeSwallows</span></a> <a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/migration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>migration</span></a><br>🌿🪶🍎💙📚🌏<br><a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a> <a href="https://beta.argyle.social/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a></p>
Dr Nathalie Tasler 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪<p>Mal ein etwas anderer Substack <br>Tarot for Scholars <br>mit Margy Thomas und Helen Sword </p><p><a href="https://substack.com/@scholarshape" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">substack.com/@scholarshape</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/Scholars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scholars</span></a> <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/Tarot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tarot</span></a> <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/AcWri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcWri</span></a> <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>