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daisyabbott.bsky.social
Delighted to share that the Open Research Games Portal by @forrt.bsky.social is now live! You can browse #Games4Research and #OpenScience and add your pedagogical feedback, even add your own #research games.

forrt.org/games/

#GameBasedLearning #GameStudies #acadmicSky #eduSky
Open Research Games Portal
Integrating open and reproducible science into higher education
forrt.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
cassandrapaul.bsky.social
Our new research indicates that the gender gap in intro physics is an artifact correlated with the “stakes” associated with physics exams and is therefore NOT due to differences in preparation or understanding. 🧪🧵 #acadmicsky #HigherEd #EduSky #STEMed link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...
High-stakes exams inflate a gender gap and contribute to systematic grading errors in one introductory physics series
A study in introductory physics suggests high-stakes exams are causing a gender gap, rather than measuring it.
link.aps.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
maddmac.bsky.social
This GoFundMe is legit. I fully intend to use these funds to develop the project. There is a link to a version of the full grant proposal, which includes a budget.

I do get to pay myself the first $500. I would then pay 2 PhD's $500 each to review the instrument.

I do need the money.

#AcadmicSky
Donate to Help Fund Innovative Psychology Research, organized by Sean McGill
About to finish the first year of my PhD program in psychology. One of my last cl… Sean McGill needs your support for Help Fund Innovative Psychology Research
gofund.me
September 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
prospero53.bsky.social
‘In 1641, John Milton accused Oxford and Cambridge of being “poyson’d and choak’d” by anti-intellectual conformity; in 1642, he wrote that “monkish and miserable sophistry … stopt and hinderd all true and generous philosophy from entring.”’ #AcadmicSky
www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...
Academic Freedom in Early Modern England
Plus: Our 10 most-read stories this year so far.
www.chronicle.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
chillslincoln79.bsky.social
GRANT SUBMITTED 🥳🥳🥳. First #Snowball of the season to celebrate....tomorrow the tree goes up 🎄🌲🎅🎄. Looking forward to some festive ✨️. It's been a tough few weeks 🤪 #AcadmicSky #CardioSky #NephSky #christmas #academiclife #festive #snowball #womeninSTEM #weekendvibes #Christmastree
November 29, 2024 at 6:31 PM
henrikafloren.bsky.social
The time it takes to #write and #rewrite a research monography is extensive (understatement), and you sit, sit, sit on a chair all day. So, in between stretches of writing I made some plum and rhubarb jam. The writing is slow but I feel good about the jam. #AcadmicSky #PhDlife @ioe.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
kathmhughes.bsky.social
I am calling on all #devpsyc colleagues to condemn & speak out about the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk by the US govt on March 25, 2025. She is a developmental psychology graduate.

#childpsyc #developmentalpsyc #lifespanpsyc #acadmicsky #childrenandyouth @srcdorg.bsky.social @issbd.bsky.social
Dear Developmental Colleagues, I’m a developmental psychologist, Associate Professor (Teaching), and Undergraduate Program Director for the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary. I specialize in social emotional learning, peer relationships, and children’s media. On March 25th, a developmental psychology graduate student at Tufts University in Massachusetts was abducted by the United States government. Rumeysa Ozturk is a PhD student in Child Study & Human Development with a focus on prosocial development and children’s media. She is from Turkey and was studying in the USA on a student visa. Her visa was revoked when she participated in political letter writing asking Tufts University to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide. This political activity made her a target. No peaceful political activity should ever lead to unlawful detainment. The Palestinian-Israel conflict is heartbreaking. My spouse and child are Jewish, we lost an Israeli family member on October 7th, 2022. I’ve seen increases in anti-semitism on university campuses in the past two years, but I know and I acknowledge that the majority of protestors are not hateful, and they want peace and human rights. Rumeysa Ozturk is one of us. Therefore, I am calling on leaders in Developmental Psychology to stand up for Ozturk, to pressure academic societies such as SRCD, SRA, & ISSBD to release a statement regarding her unjust abduction. We need to shine a spotlight and put international pressure on this abduction to help ensure her safety and release. Please also consider writing your political representatives. Ozturk has been relocated from Massachusetts to Louisiana. Her lawyer has lost contact with her in the past day. Our efforts can make a difference during these critical days. Sincerely, Kathleen Hughes, PhD Associate Professor (Teaching) Undergraduate Program Director University of Calgary
March 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
evalefkowitz.bsky.social
"I have good work-life balance. I only work like 50-60 hours a week."
Spoken by a friend, a true GenX -er.
How would you define work-life balance?

#AcadmicSky #PsySciSky #DevSciSky
July 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
sciopentup.bsky.social
🧬 #CallforPapers – Special Issue!
The Ethical Issues of Xenotransplantation & Standards for Donor Tech + Biosafety Risk
🗓️ Deadline: 25 Dec 2025
Explore the ethical, scientific & regulatory frontiers of xenotransplantation.
📩 Submit now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

#Sciopen #AcadmicSky
August 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
torkelson.bsky.social
I was planning on applying there... Any insight from anyone that works at Vassar? #AcadmicSky #WomeninSTEM
September 1, 2023 at 12:22 AM
fmreview.bsky.social
The video of our launch event for FMR 75 on ‘Dangerous journeys’ is now online!

See: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyfQWFG0LZQ

Speakers: Ngang Fru Delvis, Ralph Mamiya, Jana Röthlisberger, Ndumbeh Saho, Malvika Verma, Sanjula Weerasinghe

#Refugees #Displacement #Asylum #Migration #EduSky #AcadmicSky
Online launch event - FMR75 'Dangerous Journeys: Responding to missing migrants and refugees'
YouTube video by Refugee Studies Centre
www.youtube.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
joannaknesbit.bsky.social
I wrote my reps and the Education & Workforce Committee about the student loan proposals. Here's what they want to do with PSLF for med/dental students. Rural areas will not be able to entice them now. Just one small piece of many harsh ideas. #AcadmicSky #EduSky #studentloans #Pell
Republicans Will Cut Off Student Loan Forgiveness For Medical Residents Under New Plan
Buried deep in a new bill is a major change that would cut off a popular federal student loan forgiveness program for medical and dental residents.
www.forbes.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
ailujnostrebor.bsky.social
First PhD Milestone officially passed!

#AcadmicSky
February 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
dcollier74.bsky.social
As I come to tenure, I'm doing more public scholarship.

I wrote an OpEd on Linda #McMahon.
Linda is much different than DeVos with a skill set developed through experience running the WWE and political relevance tied only to Trump.

#highered #acadmicsky

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Why McMahon isn’t DeVos 2.0 (opinion)
Daniel A. Collier writes that Linda McMahon’s approach as secretary of education may not mirror that of Betsy DeVos.
www.insidehighered.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:15 PM
rsbaker.bsky.social
I have a new book chapter, "The Role of Structural Racism for Inequality in Family Poverty: Why Context Matters" in the latest National Symposium on Family Issues book series on Family Socialization, Race, and Inequality in the U.S. #sociology #acadmicsky

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
The Role of Structural Racism for Inequality in Family Poverty: Why Context Matters
The socio-historical context surrounding racism in the United States is integral to understanding the state of contemporary families. Yet the scholarship seeking to explain socioeconomic racial dispar...
link.springer.com
November 9, 2023 at 8:48 PM
papersapp.com
Mini tutorial: How to build an effective database search query

Let’s make your next research search actually find what you’re looking for 👇

#edusky #acadmicsky
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
sarahwilliamshe.bsky.social
Anyone out there in #Acadmicsky interested in PRME SDGs and Sustainable HRM? Give me a wave if you are 🌱
November 15, 2024 at 3:09 PM
nadlabs.xyz
I finally became a true #academic by posting a comic by my desk in true grad student fashion, this strip is from #orb about the movement of the earth (chp59), a fantastic manga about the scientific controversies around finding the fact that the earth goes around the sun in the 1600s #acadmicsky
February 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
invest-flagship.bsky.social
Save the date! 📅

Uncertainty and Resilience in Changing Societies Conference 14-16 May 2025 in Turku, Finland.

Keynote speakers Mary Daly @universityofoxford.bsky.social & Michael Ungar (Dalhousie University).

#AcadmicSky #reslience #conference

Read more 👉 invest.utu.fi/conference/
INVEST Conference 2025 - INVEST
Uncertainty and Resilience in Changing Societies 14-16 May 2025 Turku, Finland The INVEST Conference is an interdisciplinary, international and high-level...
invest.utu.fi
October 4, 2024 at 8:57 AM
theritaphd.bsky.social
*sigh* One of these days I really hope backwards design becomes the norm. #AcadmicSky
December 11, 2024 at 8:17 PM
dcollier74.bsky.social
Just got an alert for my name and saw
#Pew just released something that looks pretty cool about student loan debt (and cited me hence the alert).

I look forward to reading this more deeply tomorrow.

#edusky
#acadmicsky
#highered
#studentloans

www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...
The Student Loan Default Divide: Racial Inequities Play a Role
Black and Hispanic or Latino student loan borrowers are more likely to have difficulty repaying their loans than their White peers, according to a significant body of research. Both populations of bor...
www.pewtrusts.org
December 11, 2024 at 2:21 AM
obialik.bsky.social
One of the worst parts about being public about your writing and in writing discussion spaces early on your path (imposter syndrome aside), is the feeling that everyone done more, published more, and is being read more.
It's intimidating but also sort of motivating 🤷.
#WritingCommunity #AcadmicSky
a woman with red hair is smiling and says just smile and nod
Alt: I'm just going to keep pretending I know what I'm doing and not out of my depth; maybe, at some point, I'll actually know.
media.tenor.com
September 17, 2024 at 10:21 PM
vickiye.bsky.social
I was thinking about this this morning. I'm used to seeing job losses in pretty much all other sectors making the headlines. But when it happens in Higher Education, my own sector, I find myself searching around to find anything at all. And yet HE is a vital part of regional economies. #AcadmicSky
rhiggitt.bsky.social Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · Jan 29
If 1000 job losses were announced in one day for another industry, it would make the top headlines. This one is going to take people by surprise with huge impacts on other sectors, cities, regions, life plans...
gsoh31.bsky.social Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jan 28
I've always told you the truth about the university crisis, haven't I? Always got my predictions right, indeed perhaps a bit on the cautious side? Well, my view now: there is a non-zero tail risk of a rapid implosion of most of Britain's HE system over the next two years. Stark, but true.
January 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
irishinstitute.bsky.social
Our PHds @hspevans.bsky.social and Nik Frenzel are organising a panel for #IMC2026 on the topic of "Law and Contacts in the Irish Sea Region"
Please find below their #CfP - full details in the AltText!

@imc-leeds.bsky.social
#acadmicsky #medievalsky #skystorians
CfP pster for "Law and Contacts in the Irish Sea Region. White print on green blackgroudn with some detaisl picked out in gold and golden celtic know inspired framing. In recent years there has been a rapid expansion in the study of law in the Irish Sea Region. Research has steadily progressed beyond the study of law texts themselves and is starting to brush shoulders with other thematic strands, such as emotion, normativity, identity, culture and gender. This area is still in its infancy and there are a number of directions which are yet to be explored. This session will provide a window into current research and future directions of law and the Irish sea region and its contacts with contemporary cultures, such as the Norse, Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Normans. Topics can include, but are not limited to: - Diaspora and networks - Linguistic and philological developments - Legal and national identities - Gender and emotion - Religion and cultural memory - Political landscapes - Legal procedures - Nationalism and reception of medieval law - Internal developments and external influences We particularly encourage submission from early career researchers and work-in-progress projects. Talks will be 15-20 minutes long, with the option for hybrid participation. Please submit a title, a 150-word abstract and a short bio by Friday 19th of September to hannah.evans@liverpool.ac.uk and frenzel@liverpool.ac.uk. Organisers: Hannah Evans & Nikolaus Frenzel, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool
August 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM