Academia
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Hello potential scholars, Have yβall done your graduate school admission interviews? If yes, congratulations on your forthcoming admission with funding.β If no, open this thread...
I've argued 'the discipline is in crisis, we need to do something' for both History and Classics and this paper is v. good on that, esp. how, "the βburnoutβ that secure scholars a...
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Itβs 2023 and I know a lot of ppl who are trying to finish books & get contracts this year. Can I share the 10 most common issues Iβve seen in scholarly book manuscripts as a deve...
In Academia, you either Publish or Perish. But the university does a terrible job at preparing you to succeed. Here is how to get this publication done effortlessly: https://t....
@fzzfzzfzzz Mostly the same way as everyone else - if you don't already know it, you take courses. Different area specialties have different language expectations. You'll general...
Create the perfect digital Lab Notebook ππ§ͺ𧬠that links to your Reference Manager and Notes! A Step by Step guide using Obsidian + Calendar Plugin: β¬οΈ #phdlife #phdchat #phdv...
I made ChatGTP write reviews of my paper on the role of middle management as if it was journal reviewer. The first "reviewer" did identify some real issues that I addressed in late...
Frankly, @CityJournal should be embarrassed at this by SLG (https://t.co/Vx7sPzmtmH), attempting to obfuscate an empty side-swipe at @NadyaWilliams81 with a complaint about 'woke'...
Create your research workflow through the threads that I wrote over these few months. A πͺ‘ @OpenAcademics @ThePhDPlace #AcademicTwitter #scicomm https://t.co/i3DKjGbEIT
@MilHist_Lee @jdryan08 @HealeyParera @JakeAnbinder @dbessner @jnthnwwlsn There are shades of grey in literally everything. But many, many history PhD students are trained at depts...
@JanetheActuary This varies a lot by departments and even based on who is chair at a given time in a department. In some cases there is a real imperative to keep enrollments, in o...
To PhD student applicants (to USπΊπΈ schools): take a break, please. Itβs time to pause your email campaigns to prospective advisors. Especially the βgentle reminderβ emails. (Th...
ChatGPT can recommend highly cited papers on given topics. https://t.co/EFUmx2j2to
So this chart, which I made using the numbers in S. Mintz' recent Inside Higher Ed. piece (link and original source below) on the change in permanent faculty for 14 history departm...
A grammatical problem which has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th Century BC has been solved by an Indian PhD student at the University of Cambridge. Rishi Rajpopat (St John...
Every academic has to apply for a grant at some point in their career. But few know how to go about it. Prof. Betty S. Lai has won several prestigious grants including one by the...
A shortπ§΅on research grant writing & preliminary results. The question of whether it's valuable to include preliminary results in grant proposals is one that, I think, needs to be...
Academics love to show that, somehow, all bad things are one bad thing. There is a love of showing that the multiplicity of evils is an illusion, that all the bad ideas and bad peo...
Reversing the gaze towards the West and getting a PhD for it is not easy. I just heard about the harrowing experience of Shri Krishen Kak. Even though it happened some decades ago,...
5. Elsevier Journal Finder Fields covered: medicine, social sciences, and environmental sciences [Again no literary studies π’] https://t.co/wUEZsquyBO
A thread on Juynboll, one of the most influential western academics/critics on hadith Will mainly be taking a look at this ridiculous paper https://t.co/A3dsZmy44C
6 incredible resources developed by top universities to help you become a proficient academic writer β totally free:
My Chapter 4 returns from my principal supervisor and part of the feed back reads: "Please read through my comments - there are not too many, but they impact the overall chapter a...
