Are you ready for a reading challenge? This is my favourite so far www.the52book.club/april-2026-m... Thanks to @the52bookclub.bsky.social I am scouring my to-be-read pile.

#LoveLD - love #Take5 - the latest: #Take5 #147: Stories of hope: Reimagining education - the book - the case studies - and what happened next: aldinhe.ac.uk/take-5-147-s...

#Take 5 #147 Stories of Hope to Reimagine Education - ALDinHE

Sandra Abegglen, Tom Burns, Richard F. Heller, Rajan Madhok, Fabian Neuhaus, John Sandars, Sandra Sinfield, Upasana Gitanjali Singh

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Inspired by @therealrw.bsky.social I wrote a post on GenAI and epistemic erasure theslowacademic.com/2026/02/11/e... I would love to hear your thoughts.

Epistemic erasure

I enjoyed reading this Research Whisperer post: Help! I’m an Early Career Researcher and genAI doesn’t know who I am. Early career researcher Dr Tess Shirefley shares a personal encounter with gene…

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Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. ❤️ Australian literature (I was the only student in the class!) ❤️ Women in the ancient world ❤️ Formal logic ❤️ Shakespeare ❤️ Feminism and literature

Petra Boynton@petraboynton.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. 👍 Foundations of the social sciences/philosophy (hated it, but would love to do it now) ❤️ Psychology and society ❤️ Psychology of women 🤮 Labs ('research' = boring 'experiments') 🤮 Statistics Guess which I specialised in? 😂

I continue my monthly slow reading with Steve Tu's Attuning to Absence in the Posthuman University theslowacademic.com/2026/01/24/s...

Slow reading—posthuman universities, ghosts, cooking dosa, storytelling

For my first slow reading of the year, I am rereading an article in the Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education special issue on slow academia that Sean Sturm and I edited last year. In a previou…

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A4 #LTHEchat Reflecting on my values, achievements, and dreasm for the future. Talking with colleagues, union staff, mentors, psychologist (we have an Employee Assistance Program), a coach (in my first early career redundancy experience). In time, identifying lessons I have learnt.

A3 #LTHEchat Connecting with union colleagues was a lifesaver in terms of wellbeing. Formal meetings on understanding the enterprise agreement, change process and responding to proposals. Informal meetings to emote, feel connected and discuss options for the future.

A2 #LTHEChat It is hard, emotional work. By the third time round, I knew I would feel sick, struggle to sleep and be emotional. With others reporting to me, I wanted to support them through the experience. My entire job became managing the change and uncertainty.

David Hopkins, logged in near Leicester, and the author of the post for tonight's #LTHEChat - 'Redundancy, Resilience, and Finding What’s Next' lthechat.com/2026/01/12/l...

LTHEchat 349: Redundancy, Resilience, and Finding What’s Next

There’s no nice way to talk about redundancy. It doesn’t arrive as a single moment, even when there is a single date attached to it. It arrives in phases: uncertainty, waiting, the conversation its…

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We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

PSA: @readingsbooks.bsky.social is offering a 10% discount for recent books of authors who have chosen to withdraw from the 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week: www.readings.com.au/collections/...

Eighteen months ago, I started a slow reading project about slow academia: read one article or chapter a month and blog about it. Here are my posts: theslowacademic.com?s=slow+reading including the latest: What's for dinner? And what does your answer mean for academia?

Search Results for “slow reading” – The Slow Academic

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I'm sharing some of my favouriter books of 2025. I'd love to hear what you enjoyed. Year's end highlights and a giveaway theslowacademic.com/2026/01/03/y...

Year’s end highlights and a giveaway

I like to end the year by reflecting on achievements, enjoyments and challenges at work and beyond. This time, a first for the blog — a giveaway of three of my favourite books from 2025. As I get r…

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Is 'read more fiction' one of your new year's resolutions? Here are some books I enjoyed in 2025. All from Australia and New Zealand, mostly speculative and literary fiction and all underrated in my opinion. I am giving away copies of two or three on my blog: theslowacademic.com/2026/01/03/y...

Year’s end highlights and a giveaway

I like to end the year by reflecting on achievements, enjoyments and challenges at work and beyond. This time, a first for the blog — a giveaway of three of my favourite books from 2025. As I get r…

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Announcing our Slow Academia Special Issue theslowacademic.com/2025/06/07/a... Open access www.peterlang.com/journal/27/7-1

Announcing our Slow Academia Special Issue

Our open access special issue is available! I am excited to share the newly published issue of Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education (Volume 7, Issue 1) on slow academia which I co-edited with …

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I feel like "generous scholarship" is the best compliment anyone can give me regarding my work. That is what I strive for! And it is definitely what I see and hugely appreciate in @agnesbosanquet.bsky.social & colleagues' MOOC, too!

Agnes Bosanquet@agnesbosanquet.bsky.social · last yr.

Generous scholarship at its best! mirjamglessmer.com/2025/02/21/r... from @mirjamglessmer.bsky.social

Generous scholarship at its best! mirjamglessmer.com/2025/02/21/r... from @mirjamglessmer.bsky.social

Reading "Distributed leadership and peer review: a MOOC exemplar" by Bosanquet & Harvey (2005), and checking out their MOOC - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

I have always liked online learning, and ever since my first MOOC experiences (with the “Evidence-based undergraduate STEM teaching” MOOC on Coursera back in 2015, which set me on the path of letting ...

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I'm celebrating recent publications thanks to the power of co-authorship, regular collaborative writing sessions, aligning research with work priorities, and opportunities to publish short articles theslowacademic.com/2025/02/20/r...

Recent collaborative writing

It’s a great feeling when years of collaborative research come to fruition! This February, colleagues and I have had three articles published, which was possible through the power of co-autho…

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We have eight principles for scholarly reflective practice for learning and teaching. What are they? Our open access paper www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @agnesbosanquet.bsky.social @herdjournal.bsky.social #reflection

Reflecting on reflective practice: issues, possibilities and guidance principles

Reflection is a foundational concept and practice across the higher education sector, recognised for its role in supporting student learning and professional development. This comment paper frames ...

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Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC starts 17th February. Join us! Free and open to all canvas.instructure.com/enroll/EJM6JY Look at this incredible map of MOOC participants since 2018. Find out more: theslowacademic.com/contemporary...

The Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC was awarded the inaugural 2024 CAULLT/HERDSA Award for Outstanding Leadership in Research and Development in Higher Education. If you missed out on this MOOC enrol for Semester 1 2025 here: canvas.instructure.com/enroll/EJM6JY

With my co-lead on the Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC, @agnesbosanquet.bsky.social, we have written about how we have used distributed leadership and peer review to enhance the MOOC. Free prints here www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DSEH8... @herdjournal.bsky.social

Distributed leadership and peer review: a MOOC exemplar

This reflection on practice presents an exemplar of an integrated distributed leadership and reciprocal peer review of an academic development initiative. Distributed leadership, characterised by c...

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Critical books about the state of #HigherEd, no. 23: 'We see the neoliberal university as, in many ways, a paranoid, defensive institution that has lost ‘the capacity to distribute hope’ to many of its staff and students.' (Kenway/Boden/Fahey in Thornton (2014): 266)

#MeToo and Higher Education: Call for papers Denise Cuthbert's LinkedIn post introducing @herdjournal.bsky.social's #CFP for a special issue on the impact of awareness of sexual misconduct within #HigherEd and #universities. Please share www.linkedin.com/posts/denise...

Denise Cuthbert on LinkedIn: HERD Special Issue 2026 Call for Papers

#metoo and Higher Education: Call for papers Ceridwen Spark and I are excited to release this call for papers for a special issue of Higher Education Research…

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Thank you for prompting my final slow reading for 2024 @katebowles.bsky.social @francesbell.bsky.social @lornamcampbell.bsky.social and co-authors and quilters. Love your work! theslowacademic.com/2024/12/24/s...

Slow reading – blue sky, quilting, poetry, goodness

This month’s slow reading comes via Bluesky, which I have recently joined. It is wonderful to catch up with folk I lost in the great untwittering and to find new connections. This month&#8217…

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A blog post about Slowing Down lornamcampbell.org/women-in-tec... #femedtech #He4Good HT @sokate.bsky.social @francesbell.bsky.social @drloumycroft.bsky.social @catherinecronin.bsky.social @czernie.bsky.social and Helen Beetham.

Posts by @agnesbosanquet.bsky.social are always thoughtful and worth reading. This one, from late Nov, is no exception: "Acknowledging the ‘I’ who researches and disseminates research in particular ways. This is embodied work, is what this says." https://buff.ly/3OS9X1m #AcademicSky #PhDsky #AcWri

Slow reading – senses, nature, longing

I am just scraping into November with this slow reading post. Here in the southern hemisphere the weather is heating up (too much); the school, university and work year is ending; and we are hurtli…

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The physicality of academic work seems like a little-talked-about topic. I can't write for 8 hours, I can't prepare lectures non-stop, intellectual work is physically taxing on my body. Yes, even doing reviews is mentally and physically taxing.

How is your year ending? I took the time to jot down some ordinary happenings theslowacademic.com/2024/12/11/e... Mine has been a year of farewells and new beginnings, awards and failures, gatherings and celebrations galore. It is ending on a happy note.

Everyday happenings

As always, I am enjoying the little things in life and at work. We are in the countdown to the end of the working year and the long stretch of school holidays from December to February. The weather…

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Last week, in a panel discussion, I mentioned an approach to pedagogy that’s been in my mind for a while … so here’s The (very simple) Pedagogy of Letting Go lydiaarnold.net/2024/11/24/t...

The Pedagogy of Letting Go

I’ve had a phrase in my mind for some time that captures a way of teaching that intuitively appeals to me: I’m calling it the pedagogy of letting go. I mentioned this in a panel last week at Staffo…

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