Hey researchers, I'm looking for examples of #OpenResearch practices that you employ that directly benefit _you_.
I.e. things that work towards open science, but also benefit you directly (save you time/effort/money perhaps).

PhD funding announcement (do please boost)

Full scholarships for Social Science PhDs in Scotland from 2025/26 announced:

https://www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentships/open-competition/

In coming days, I'll add toots about our colleagues available to supervise, but feel free to reach out to me with queries on Criminology at Edinburgh.

The trouble with all this talk of collaboration rather than competition in academia is how do we know who's winning?

Someone has to be winning right?

Humans engage with broadly two kinds of content.

Stuff that is valuable and useful to us

Stuff that is emotionally interesting or activating in some way.

For a great presentation you need to have both.

I will be hiring a postdoc (up to 2 years) for a project on transfer learning and dataset similarity, to work with us in Copenhagen .

The official call will be online soon, but please reach out via email if you might be interested!

@grammargirl Well learned something there skirting boards= base boards.
Using pomadoro does that for me, in 5 min spurts #AcademicLife #AcademicChat

Growing up in NYC, Barnes and Noble WAS where books were. When book#2 gave me 2 #books on their site., I felt weirdly comforted. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22chris%20lombardi%22

Meanwhile, .@kirkus_reviews gave "blue: season" a STARRED review, calling it "A richly textured and deeply felt tale of life and tragedy turned into art."

The reviewer really got how my story, about a grad student whose #trauma is triggered by studying #JamesJoyce's daughter, is also a meditation on art and memory. @bookstodon #academicchat

Testimonial #2 comes from David Hyman, who before he became an acclaimed Lehman College prof wrote his dissertation on James Joyce:

"I am blown away. A voicing of silent voices on so many levels.

Really brilliant. And deserves to be read by others!!!

Also made me realize that academia has changed in the past 20 years more than madhouses." #bookstodon @bookstodon #JamesJoyce #academicchat #publicationday https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BM7XWLZT

Today, I received yet another email trying to goad me into contributing to a an academic book on growing potatoes... Because I published an article on Paul Baran's packet-switching design from 1961, which he named 'Hot Potato Routing'. It's a network routing design!

This kind of spam is either bad ML or extreme sloppiness, and it's profoundly annoying.

Does this stuff happen to anyone else?

OpenAI on professors #academicchat @sociologists_list #sociolodon

Caught up with the racist debacle at the Perspectives on Psychological Science journal thanks to this great resource by @flavioazevedo

Everyone, please visit this gdoc and take action if you can: https://docs.google.com/document/d/152aipj7YuyJsmI5qCqHAtsuA9WkOqnxu-yPqBJeuOuE/edit?usp=drivesdk

So historians on here are calling themselves ‘histodons.’ Lit scholars, are we litodons, textodons, litaphants, booktodons, or something else altogether? The historians always get the best names (e.g. twitterstorians).