Today's #ThesisThursday is ‘On the neurocognitive processes underlying joint music making’ by Sara Fernández Abalde. 🎶 Read Sara's thesis on ORO https://ow.ly/rWkJ50ZQ6f2 What subjects do you most enjoy reading about? Tell us below 👇 #OAWeek #ThesisThursday
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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 Posts by https://profiles.open.ac.uk/julia-molinari {JM}
Paper mills don't just threaten #ResearchIntegrity. They expose systemic incentives and pressures across scholarly assessment & publishing. Explore how Canadian librarians developed a free online learning module to build awareness and strengthen trust in research New on our blog 👉 bit.ly/paper-mills
Position statement and guidance on generative AI and doctoral education @ougradsch.bsky.social @openuniversity.bsky.social #GenAI university.open.ac.uk/students/res... 2026 updates include: - choosing, refusing, resisting GenAI - declaration for who chooses to use it - resources and references
Having a technical issue with a library resource? Not sure how to reference an unusual source? Or struggling to find a particular journal article? Don't forget the Library Helpdesk is here to support you 24/7. Contact us by email, webchat or phone: 👉 https://ow.ly/chrq50ZQ9TJ
It was requested by reviewer 2 that this quote post be written in the passive voice
In the Year of Our Lord 2026, I've just had a peer reviewer recommend that we change our methods from active voice to passive voice. Good thing I know something I can cite to establish why We. Are. Not. Doing. That. scientistseessquirre... 1/2
Podcast: Generative AI in EAP – Where Are We Now? Ayanna Prevatt-Goldstein (UCL), Mike Groves (Lingnan University), Klaus Mundt (University of Nottingham), Julia Molinari (The Open University) discuss: 🌶️🌶️Is generative AI inevitable?🥵🥵 #tleap #AcWri youtu.be/ony86PmoWuY (or wherever you listen)
All Things EAP | Podcast on RSS.com
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On being damned if you do, damned if you don't: "Democratisation requires more than access to a tool. It requires dismantling the structures that make the tool necessary in the first place" blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicWriting #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #AcademicPublishing #AcWri #AI
AI promised to democratise academic publishing – the evidence says otherwise - LSE Impact
It was thought AI would level the playing field in academic publishing for non-native English speakers. A growing body of evidence to reveals the opposite.
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"The politics and practices of writing development in UK higher education" @uclpress.bsky.social 978-1-80655-074-6 (#OpenAccess) 978-1-80655-072-2 (HB) 978-1-80655-073-9 (PB) 978-1-80655-075-3 (ePub) • DOI: 10.14324/111.9781806550746 #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #WhatMakesAcademicWritingPolitical
Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing
Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing offers a timely, theoretically grounded examination of the often marginalised yet foundational role of academic writing in UK higher education. Based on the U...
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🔊🔊🔊Publication date: May 13, 2026 uclpress.co.uk/book/critica... My chapter is '2. Academic writing as political', Julia Molinari #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #AcademicWritingAsPolitical #AcademicWriting
"are you open to being changed by the encounter with the reader? Are you genuinely ready for the reader’s response? [...] When a piece of writing fails to convince despite its technical competence, the problem is often [...] in how the writer sounds". #DoctoralWriting patthomson.net/2026/03/15/w...
what’s Habermas got to do with academic writing?
Jürgen Habermas died on Saturday 14 March, 2026 in Starnberg, near Munich. He was 96. The news has been moving through academic social media in the way these things do, with people sharing half-rem…
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My thoughts on "What Makes Academic Writing Human(e): A Critical Realist Response" in: Bouchard & Zotzmann, eds. #CriticalRealism in #AppliedLinguistics #CambridgeUniversityPress 2026 #AcademicWriting #WhatMakesWritingAcademic #WhatMakesAcademicWritingHumane #GenAI www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
Your academic voice is unique. Don't sacrifice clarity for complexity or personality for formality. The best academic writing is distinctly yours.
Following on from last week I have a few pointers for writing about your researcher positionality patthomson.net/2025/12/07/w...
Writing About Your Researcher Positioning
So you know what researcher positioning is and why it matters. Now comes the practical question: how do you actually write about it in your thesis? This is where many doctoral researchers get a bit…
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Scientific writing and writing for the public are very different. As I do both, is that difference eroding for me? And if it is, is that good or bad?
Are my academic and non-academic writing styles converging? And would that be good?
I spent the first 25 years of my academic career writing scientific papers (and the grant proposals to fund them, of course). I never found that easy – although it got easier through time (and it c…
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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
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 👇
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 👇
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...
My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
"“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.”
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b... @apache.be you rule 🖤
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}
Welcome to all our postgraduate researchers! You are what makes us a University.
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…
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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
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#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
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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...
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}
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}
📢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...
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
📢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...
The Future of Doctoral Writing: Critical Dialogues towards a Manifesto
Join our online discussions and agenda-setting 1-day hybrid seminar to collectively author a 'Manifesto on the Future of Doctoral Writing'
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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.
They say your contribution should "fill a gap" but is it ok if it mostly just widens existing ones
This is totally what we need right now. So many necessary new emotion words in here.
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