I feel like writing about this again. CSIRO / broader research tips welcome: rickjamesmorton@protonmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I feel like writing about this again. CSIRO / broader research tips welcome: rickjamesmorton@protonmail.com
But the point (there is a point) is, people fetishise the idea over the hard work of plotting and character development and research and internal consistency and just writing the fucker, because the Idea is the sparkly magic bit.
And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.
And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
But the point (there is a point) is, people fetishise the idea over the hard work of plotting and character development and research and internal consistency and just writing the fucker, because the Idea is the sparkly magic bit.
And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.
And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.
I am writing a book on this exact subject and have given TED talks and won major awards for my archaeological research, which also appeared on the front cover of National Geographic. But do go on!
a man in a top hat and bow tie is smiling and says tell me more .
Alt: a man in a top hat (Willy Wonka! and bow tie is smiling and says tell me more .
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November 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I am writing a book on this exact subject and have given TED talks and won major awards for my archaeological research, which also appeared on the front cover of National Geographic. But do go on!
got asked, by a very nice person, 'why don't you use chatGPT in your writing' and their argument was that it's just like using google to research: a modern tech that will enhance my work. all the obvious issues aside, I don't want to be modern. I want to be artisanal.
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
got asked, by a very nice person, 'why don't you use chatGPT in your writing' and their argument was that it's just like using google to research: a modern tech that will enhance my work. all the obvious issues aside, I don't want to be modern. I want to be artisanal.
Research can be hard work - especially when the artifacts you're writing about are behind safes, alarm systems, and guards.
That's why I'm so thankful for heroes like @saudax7.bsky.social, who kindly provided a little rest and relaxation during my trip to the local museum.
That's why I'm so thankful for heroes like @saudax7.bsky.social, who kindly provided a little rest and relaxation during my trip to the local museum.
First day as a hero getting shown the ropes @profwolf.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Research can be hard work - especially when the artifacts you're writing about are behind safes, alarm systems, and guards.
That's why I'm so thankful for heroes like @saudax7.bsky.social, who kindly provided a little rest and relaxation during my trip to the local museum.
That's why I'm so thankful for heroes like @saudax7.bsky.social, who kindly provided a little rest and relaxation during my trip to the local museum.
Had to escaped all the noise & distractions of Boston to get to a remote writing retreat for some solitary focused research time before my sabbatical is up. Wish me luck...
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Had to escaped all the noise & distractions of Boston to get to a remote writing retreat for some solitary focused research time before my sabbatical is up. Wish me luck...
I lament all the research and writing I never got to do because I was too busy fighting sex pests and institutionalized misogyny
Sexual harassment is a productivity tax on women in STEM
Imagine the things we could do with our time if we didn’t have to do this bsky.app/profile/chan...
November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I lament all the research and writing I never got to do because I was too busy fighting sex pests and institutionalized misogyny
I got absolutely zero writing done today, but I did a lot of research and work on THE DEVOURING's cover, so I call that a successful use of the evening.
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I got absolutely zero writing done today, but I did a lot of research and work on THE DEVOURING's cover, so I call that a successful use of the evening.
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November 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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I do these things! I'm a multi-award winning Jack-of-All-Trades with training and experience!
For more info visit my site!
🎭 Performance?
✒️ TTRPG Writing?
🎲 GMing?
⛩️ Cultural Consulting?
🧵 Design/Worldbuilding Research?
✅ Digital Playspace Creation?
🎬 Producing?
🎞️ Overlays?
I do these things! I'm a multi-award winning Jack-of-All-Trades with training and experience!
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Today in #writing research: negative space in art
Bonus: I stumbled across some cool art by Tang Yau Hoong
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Bonus: I stumbled across some cool art by Tang Yau Hoong
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Flying Fox
Museum-quality posters produced on thick matte paper. Printed with multicolour, water-based inkjet printing technique that yields brilliant prints...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Today in #writing research: negative space in art
Bonus: I stumbled across some cool art by Tang Yau Hoong
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Bonus: I stumbled across some cool art by Tang Yau Hoong
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Users of my Empirical Research and Writing - the 2nd edition is available for WINTER 2026 adoption! NEW running example of ways to make multiple research designs from the same question! Expanded coverage of conceptualizing! TWO NEW APPENDICES on quant methods!
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Users of my Empirical Research and Writing - the 2nd edition is available for WINTER 2026 adoption! NEW running example of ways to make multiple research designs from the same question! Expanded coverage of conceptualizing! TWO NEW APPENDICES on quant methods!
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
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November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
1. Many reporters don't understand numbers either. 2. I t is harder to research than just writing up what is given to you and chatGPT can't do it or 3. They are obfuscating.
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
1. Many reporters don't understand numbers either. 2. I t is harder to research than just writing up what is given to you and chatGPT can't do it or 3. They are obfuscating.
I've started research on historic (preWW2) women who worked on volcanology/magmatic rocks. This includes anyone who was traveling to and writing about/observing/drawing/engaging with the landscape in myriad ways.
I'm building a list for further investigation. Will share soon! Any tip offs welcome!
I'm building a list for further investigation. Will share soon! Any tip offs welcome!
November 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I've started research on historic (preWW2) women who worked on volcanology/magmatic rocks. This includes anyone who was traveling to and writing about/observing/drawing/engaging with the landscape in myriad ways.
I'm building a list for further investigation. Will share soon! Any tip offs welcome!
I'm building a list for further investigation. Will share soon! Any tip offs welcome!
I’m going to be at AdventureX this Saturday!
Ostensibly to ~network~
(talk to me about writing words/doing research/consulting for your game)
But mainly to hangout and see friends. Let me know if you’d like to hangout!
Ostensibly to ~network~
(talk to me about writing words/doing research/consulting for your game)
But mainly to hangout and see friends. Let me know if you’d like to hangout!
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I’m going to be at AdventureX this Saturday!
Ostensibly to ~network~
(talk to me about writing words/doing research/consulting for your game)
But mainly to hangout and see friends. Let me know if you’d like to hangout!
Ostensibly to ~network~
(talk to me about writing words/doing research/consulting for your game)
But mainly to hangout and see friends. Let me know if you’d like to hangout!
I think for higher level work, in high school or college, there is an obvious benefit to writing a long research paper on a computer. But I wonder if we've lost some fundamental building block skills leading up to that because we don't write as much by hand in elementary and middle school.
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I think for higher level work, in high school or college, there is an obvious benefit to writing a long research paper on a computer. But I wonder if we've lost some fundamental building block skills leading up to that because we don't write as much by hand in elementary and middle school.
Also on the * like it's Frodo right??? Just like, after the fact, writing the book? so like that MFer did his research and was like HOLY SHIT THAT'S WHAT THAT WAS?????
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Also on the * like it's Frodo right??? Just like, after the fact, writing the book? so like that MFer did his research and was like HOLY SHIT THAT'S WHAT THAT WAS?????
Can't wait to begin production on this moving short film. Well worth the 4 years of research + writing + editing.
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Can't wait to begin production on this moving short film. Well worth the 4 years of research + writing + editing.
Hello! I'm a legal historian specializing in immigration & First Amendment law/history. Unfortunately, my research & writing on ideological exclusion/deportation (1798 to Trump 1.0) continues to be relevant. I post on current events, immigration, free speech, & history. Also post my 📸, 🎧🎵, 🎬 recs. 🗃️
kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .
Alt: kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .
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November 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Hello! I'm a legal historian specializing in immigration & First Amendment law/history. Unfortunately, my research & writing on ideological exclusion/deportation (1798 to Trump 1.0) continues to be relevant. I post on current events, immigration, free speech, & history. Also post my 📸, 🎧🎵, 🎬 recs. 🗃️
Suuureeee I could continue doing research for my next writing project but I could also binge watch a very horny French period piece tv show on HBO.
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Suuureeee I could continue doing research for my next writing project but I could also binge watch a very horny French period piece tv show on HBO.
Why am I writing lectures on the day? Because a whole MA course was dumped on me / without a syllabus a week before teaching started, on top of 3 other modules this semester. Why do they think I’m under hours? Because everyone’s research hours were confiscated and hours to prepare classes were cut.
November 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Why am I writing lectures on the day? Because a whole MA course was dumped on me / without a syllabus a week before teaching started, on top of 3 other modules this semester. Why do they think I’m under hours? Because everyone’s research hours were confiscated and hours to prepare classes were cut.
What some might say, and I saw someone pointing to research on this this morning, is that perhaps we could "fine tune" AI on the works of good human writers. Do you see why that does not impress me? I don't need a digital dj to remix prose styles. That's not what writing is for.
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
What some might say, and I saw someone pointing to research on this this morning, is that perhaps we could "fine tune" AI on the works of good human writers. Do you see why that does not impress me? I don't need a digital dj to remix prose styles. That's not what writing is for.
Delighted everyone found this sculpture as delightful as me!
Tombs, monuments & funerals are something I will be writing about as part of my wills research project - I wonder what insights 25,000 English wills will bring?
🪦⚰️📜🗃️
All the info on the project here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
Tombs, monuments & funerals are something I will be writing about as part of my wills research project - I wonder what insights 25,000 English wills will bring?
🪦⚰️📜🗃️
All the info on the project here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
November 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Delighted everyone found this sculpture as delightful as me!
Tombs, monuments & funerals are something I will be writing about as part of my wills research project - I wonder what insights 25,000 English wills will bring?
🪦⚰️📜🗃️
All the info on the project here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
Tombs, monuments & funerals are something I will be writing about as part of my wills research project - I wonder what insights 25,000 English wills will bring?
🪦⚰️📜🗃️
All the info on the project here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
NY Times Runs Defense For Social Media Bans, Buries Evidence They Don’t Work Until Paragraph 14
Imagine you're writing an article about a popular policy trend. The trend is expensive to implement, disruptive to normal operations, and—here's the key part—there's substantial research showing it…
Imagine you're writing an article about a popular policy trend. The trend is expensive to implement, disruptive to normal operations, and—here's the key part—there's substantial research showing it…
NY Times Runs Defense For Social Media Bans, Buries Evidence They Don’t Work Until Paragraph 14
Imagine you're writing an article about a popular policy trend. The trend is expensive to implement, disruptive to normal operations, and—here's the key part—there's substantial research showing it doesn't actually work and can cause other significant problems. How would you structure that article? One approach: Lead with the evidence. "Despite growing enthusiasm for , studies consistently find it doesn't accomplish its stated goals." Put that in paragraph one, maybe paragraph two or three with some lead-up if you're feeling generous.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
NY Times Runs Defense For Social Media Bans, Buries Evidence They Don’t Work Until Paragraph 14
Imagine you're writing an article about a popular policy trend. The trend is expensive to implement, disruptive to normal operations, and—here's the key part—there's substantial research showing it…
Imagine you're writing an article about a popular policy trend. The trend is expensive to implement, disruptive to normal operations, and—here's the key part—there's substantial research showing it…
Sort of. I wrote it, based off of extensive research and writing from my peer who was laid off before they could publish something public-facing. I stand by it, however!
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Sort of. I wrote it, based off of extensive research and writing from my peer who was laid off before they could publish something public-facing. I stand by it, however!