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Professional Academic Communication in English (PACE)
Doctoral Academic Literacies @ougradsch.bsky.social
#PACEspace
https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/mod/page/view.php?id=200086

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PACE Graduate School Open University @pacespaceou.bsky.social · Nov 19
PACE supports post-graduate researchers at the
#OpenUniversity @ougradsch.bsky.social by providing opportunities to develop the #AcademicLiteracies needed to complete a #Doctorate.

DM or email pace@open.ac.uk for enquiries.

learn2.open.ac.uk/mod/ouconten...
Professional Academic Communication in English (PACE) online resources Communicating your academic work is central to your life as a postgraduate and scholar. Being able to communicate effectively will ensure that others hear about your research and ideas and that your work will contribute to building knowledge in your specific disciplines. Communicating effectively is something that all scholars have to learn to do, whether this is spoken communication such as presenting at seminars, written communication such as writing theses or journal articles, and increasingly a mixture of these such as academic blogs. The Open University offers a range of programmes to support you in developing these wide-ranging skills.
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timeshighered.bsky.social
The Shadow Scholars: Academic who travelled to Kenya to meet those ghostwriting university work says practice is ‘completely reshaping our future’. Juliette Rowsell reports #edusky https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/shadow-scholars-inside-essay-mills-serving-western-students
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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jelena3121.bsky.social
Interested in the history of scientific journals? Or curious why journals became more similar in format over time?

We're starting in about 2 hours 👇
jelena3121.bsky.social Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 15d
I am thrilled to invite you to tomorrow's (Oct. 29) lecture by @alexcsiszar.bsky.social: "Exporting publication standards: Eugene Garfield's global travels"

We're starting at 11 AM (CET). You can join us on Zoom or, if you're around, at Schönhauser Allee 10-11 in Berlin.

More in the link below 👇
RMZ Jour fixe/ Exporting publication standards: Eugene Garfield's global travels
Alex Csiszar (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, USA)
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de
October 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.
August 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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lootina.bsky.social
"“You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI. Before you can be critical of an AI summary, you have to learn to understand a text without having it summarized by an AI tool.”
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19d
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

@apache.be you rule 🖤
October 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
I've been really enjoying our start to #PACEspace 2025-26.

I'm now really looking forward to how your #DoctoralWriting shapes up ✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️

The Future is in the Now!

{JM}
Photo of Julia Molinari smiling Photo of several books on academic writing, academic literacies, multimodal, creative, and sociological scholarship on writing as a critical practice and language as power. The books are laid out on a table for display and browsing during our first in-person and hybrid lesson. Photo of several books on academic writing, academic literacies, multimodal, creative, and sociological scholarship on writing as a critical practice and language as power. The books are laid out on a table for display and browsing during our first in-person and hybrid lesson. Photo of several books on academic writing, academic literacies, multimodal, creative, and sociological scholarship on writing as a critical practice and language as power. The books are laid out on a table for display and browsing during our first in-person and hybrid lesson.
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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m1cr0-judetaylor.bsky.social
Welcome to all our postgraduate researchers! You are what makes us a University.
Welcome 2025 PGR Adventure Begins You are the OU
September 30, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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ellatasm.bsky.social
When @fadiadk.bsky.social presented some of her research on slow reading in higher education, especailly doctoral education at @srhe.bsky.social conference in december last year, it met with furious approval srheblog.com/2025/06/20/r... Intense head-nodding. Lovely to hear more about it.
Reading time: discovery, meaning-making and resistance in the accelerated academy
by Fadia Dakka The increasing exposure of higher education sectors worldwide to market mechanisms (eg privatisation in and of higher education, platformisation and assetization) generates market-ma…
srheblog.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
Is anybody who is involved in #DoctoralEducation able to point me towards a similar report or study on the UK knowledge society, maybe by #UKCGE or similar?

#DoctoralWriting #PhD #GraduateSchool #DoctoralPedagogy

This one is on the European context👇🏼
{JM pace@open.ac.uk}
www.eua.eu/publications...
Doctoral education in Europe today: enhanced structures and practices for the European knowledge society
EUA - European University Association
www.eua.eu
August 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
#PACEspace exists to help with exactly this:

"There’s often a stigma attached to seeking support [...]. There’s nothing more authentic than wanting to do your best work. Asking for help isn’t a failure of ability — it’s a refusal to be isolated"

www.thecanary.co/discovery/fe...
Reclaiming My Voice: The Role of Paper Writers in a Student's Resistance to Silence
University was supposed to be a place of liberation. But almost immediately, I learned that academic writing came with its own constraints
www.thecanary.co
July 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
Recordings & slides relating to the 'Future of Doctoral Writing' are under 'Content'.

This page is subject to edits but there's enough there for those interested to get a sense of what was discussed.

Thank you to those who managed to attend {JM}

#PACEspace
#PACExtra
www.open.edu/openlearncre...
Webpage of the event with 'Material - PACE EXTRA Guest Speaker Series (Graduate School) Description Content Reviews Material content Below is the material content. You can click on any section here and it will take you through to this section of the material. The Future of Doctoral Writing: Critical Dialogues towards a Manifesto'
July 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
Recordings & other resources on the #FutureOfDoctoralWriting sponsored by @ougradsch.bsky.social & #BAAL will be shared ASAP.

> 60 people across at least 10 countries/continents & disciplines attended in-person in #MiltonKeynes & online.

Not easy to organise, but we managed.

#OpenUniversity {JM}
pacespaceou.bsky.social PACE Graduate School Open University @pacespaceou.bsky.social · Jun 19
📢Registration for our event is open until 30 June✅

We warmly welcome in-person attendance on 09 July to ensure discussions are critical & spontaneous♨️
But online places are still available {JM}.
#DoctoralWriting #AcademicLiteracies #tleap #AcWri
#OpenUniversity
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
July 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevie...
Elsevier journal under fire over ‘AI-generated’ review comments
Researcher who waited nearly two years for rejection claims ‘nonsensical’ criticisms of his paper must have been chatbot-generated
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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serenissimaj.bsky.social
Winding my way back to the UK by train from Braga (Pt) having made my point: the real politik of #GenAI needs embedding in ALL academic writing pedagogies.

It's not enough to teach what-how. It's imperative to teach why this is happening to develop agentic reflexivity and flourish.
#CriticalRealism
Slides with aims and content of my talk which will be made available on the EATAW website in due course. Slides with aims and content of my talk which will be made available on the EATAW website in due course. Slides with aims and content of my talk which will be made available on the EATAW website in due course.
July 5, 2025 at 6:31 AM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
📢Registration for our event is open until 30 June✅

We warmly welcome in-person attendance on 09 July to ensure discussions are critical & spontaneous♨️
But online places are still available {JM}.
#DoctoralWriting #AcademicLiteracies #tleap #AcWri
#OpenUniversity
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
June 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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pengzell.bsky.social
They say your contribution should "fill a gap" but is it ok if it mostly just widens existing ones
June 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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philipcball.bsky.social
This is totally what we need right now. So many necessary new emotion words in here.
cait.bsky.social cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Jun 5
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish
June 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
I'll be giving this year's keynote at #EATAW25 - alongside Suresh Canagarajah & Federico Navarro - on:

'AI Realism: Reclaiming the Human in AI-enhanced Academic Literacies' (cf abstract) {JM}
🤞
#PACEspace #AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #GenAI #CriticalRealism #OpenUniversity

www.eataw2025.com/keynote
AI Realism: Reclaiming the Human in AI-enhanced Academic Literacies Julia Molinari ​ Language technologies (LTs) are not new and a life without them means many things to many people: unimaginable, impractical, unavoidable, undesirable, undemocratic, maybe even a welcome relief. LTs include the familiar (dictionaries, machine translators, spellcheckers) and now the unfamiliar, which is rapidly becoming the new normal: LLMs (Large Language Models) powered by GenAI (GenerativeAI) and, apparently, AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) are automating writing in unprecedented ways. I wish to use this talk to press pause, just for a moment, to catch our collective breaths. I would like to halt the dizzying speed at which these technologies are affecting our professional and personal existence by sharing a critical realist perspective (Archer & Maccarini, 2023) on LTs and what it means to be human (Molinari, 2025). This includes reflecting on LTs’ implications for academic literacies broadly understood as multisemiotic modes of communication, which include multilingualism (Lillis & Tuck, 2025). AI Realism entails neither techno-determinism nor techno-enthusiasm nor luddism. Rather, it provides a critical space in which to interrogate why AI has so abruptly irrupted into everyday life and how we might want to respond as educators. For example, it’s no coincidence that ChatGPT was released in the wake of the COVID19 pandemic (Hussain et al., 2024), with significant implications for the development of proctoring and surveillance technologies (McKenna, 2022). It’s also no coincidence that AI is associated with fascist ideologies (McQuillan, 2022). That it remains a black box in terms of how it is trained and by whom also raises concerns for academic writing (Gallagher, 2020). All this presents ideological challenges and opportunities for academic literacies that include, for example, re-visiting what we mean by criticality and agency if these foundational tenets of academi…
June 5, 2025 at 6:32 AM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
What I love about #PACEspace is the privilege of discussing research writing in progress. Achieving #flow, dealing with #feedback, finding #voice are what we discuss most.

But trusting an Other with your writing is hard. PACE provides a safe & brave space to do this {JM}.

#DoctoralWriting #PhDLife
June 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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stephenbheard.bsky.social
For scientific writers: Three things your Methods section shouldn't be - but three things Methods sections often end up being. You can avoid these mistakes! scientistseessquirre...
What your Methods section isn’t
If you’re a scientist like me, you read a lot of papers – and a lot of submitted manuscripts, drafts, and other larval stages of papers.* This is extremely helpful when it’s time to write your own …
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
June 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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patthomson.bsky.social
Taming your perfectionist inner critic patthomson.net/2025/06/03/d...
dealing with perfectionism
Some academic writers are crippled by the desire to write perfect prose from the very start. Even though they know that the first draft is always rough, they find writing rough difficult. They have…
patthomson.net
June 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
The @ougradsch.bsky.social 'Position Statement and Guidance on Generative AI and Doctoral Education' is now available:

www5.open.ac.uk/students/res...

The advice is in the context of a fast-paced changing landscape. It emphasises openness re. #GenAI at all stages of the #thesis.

#OpenUniversity
May 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
Please email me {JM} for more details.

This is a very focused & niche event on the Future of Doctoral Writing given #GenAI but also broader concerns of #EDI in #HigherEducation.

It will soon be advertised as a fee ticketed event so please email pace@open.ac.uk if you have a professional interest.
serenissimaj.bsky.social Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · May 16
After much bureaucracy, this event is scheduled 9 July 2025.

It will be advertised asap on #BAAL #BALEAP #DoctoralWriting #AcWri #tleap #EATAW #CUP networks.

It will be in person-hybrid at #OpenUniversity in #MiltonKeynes but due to funding constraints, tickets will be limited.

Email me for info.
serenissimaj.bsky.social Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · Feb 24
I'm planning an event on 'The Future of the Doctorate' (will update here asap).

In the meantime, what are your views on its future, given all that's happening?

#AcWri #DoctoralEducation #DoctoralWriting #PhDLife #Thesis #ResearchWriting #GenAI #GAI

#AcademicSky

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/change-an...
May 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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leverhulme.ac.uk
The Trust continues to support researchers at risk who have come to the UK from across the globe through a grant scheme delivered by @britishacademy.bsky.social and @cara1933.bsky.social.

Apply now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/brit...
White writing against a black background with gold swirls: British Academy/Cara/Leverhulme Researchers at Risk Research Support Grants. Deadline: 28 May 2025, 5pm. Leverhulme Trust logo
May 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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philipseargeant.bsky.social
To accompany the @openuniversity.bsky.social's collaboration with Radio 4's Word of Mouth with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, here's a short quiz about the bewildering world of idioms

connect.open.ac.uk/education-de...
connect.open.ac.uk
May 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
pacespaceou.bsky.social
"PhDs are awarded individually, but scholarship is [not] alone. Students need people around them to share tips and hunches support and console [...] a PhD remains a unique opportunity to write [...] what you care about most" by @academicdiary.bsky.social

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/too-...
Too much talk about our PhD scars does current students a disservice
Better to remind candidates that a doctorate is an opportunity to find and articulate their own thoughts on what they care about most, says Les Back
www.timeshighereducation.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM