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Academia.edu recently launched a journal called Letters. The goal is to publish short articles, quickly, and disseminate them broadly. Here are my experiences publishing with the journal (disclosure: I work at academia.edu). A thread
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An interview with Richard Price, the founder of Academia.edu, about the role that Academia is playing in democratizing access to research.
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I did an interview this morning with @munster_gene about the role that Academia.edu is playing in accelerating research and democratizing access to research youtube.com/watch?v=pGQ66N
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Hello World,
We just launched our newest feature, Courses. You can take one of 18 courses on Academia on:
How to Write a Winning Grant
How to Write a Great Literature Review
How to get an article published in a prestigious journal
and more.....
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NEW EPISODE ALERT: I had so much fun with talking about horoscopes, building community #onhere, the value of social media for academics and when it’s time to say goodbye 👋🏾
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NEW EPISODE
This week on #Professoring, @BadiaAhad and @anthonyocampo talk about the pros and cons of social media and share the benefits of stepping away from the screen and being fully present.
Listen now! hubs.ly/H0GMwV00
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I put together a summary of the top online learning platforms. Tip: will be joining this list soon! #edtech #onlinelearning
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Writing response article on scientific article about the relation between ancient Greek water supply and religion/ritual for Academia Letters! #Greekwatersupply #Greekreligion #Greekrituals #watersupply
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What a conceptual or theoretical framework is, what role or roles it can play in research + how & to what extent a study might contribute to knowledge or theory buff.ly/36r0ZSZ by in #phdchat #phdadvice #phdforum #phdlife #ecrchat #acwri
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A new study finds that greeting students at the door increases engagement by 20%, reduces disruptions by 9% -- effectively adding 1 hour of learning per day. My latest article on
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just launched a new journal called Letters. We solicit short form academic content and focus on quick submission to publication time. DM me if interested in submitting!
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My findings on tenure-track academic job openings in Middle East history, cultural anthology, political science and economics: overall, it's ~3-5X harder to find a decent job today in the humanities than 2 years, & it's 2X as hard in the social sciences #phdlife #AcademicTwitter
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This paper describes what I call the GASL phenomenon, or the Growth of Acronyms in the Scientific Literature elifesciences.org/articles/60080 "Of the ~1.1 million acronyms identified, the vast majority (79%) were used fewer than 10 times in the scientific literature." #AcademicChatter
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Share your research online!
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An amazing *randomized trial* on Twitter+academia:
112 papers were randomly chosen to be shared on twitter by a group with ~58k followers or to not be shared. Papers that were tweeted accumulated 4x more citations compared to non-tweeted papers over 1yr.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32504611/
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Sometimes I use the features we build at in my private life as a citizen, not an employee of Academia. Those moments are joyous.
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According to Alexa, Academia.edu is the 216th most visited website in the world, over the last 90 days.
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#Reporters, are you interested in interviewing subject matter experts on the escalating #tariffs between the #US and #chinatrade? If so, #Academia has several academics who can answer your questions. DM for more details. #openaccess #highered
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Want to know more about what Indian academics are working on in the fields of #machinelearning and #AI? has recommended five research papers on the #Academia platform to read. bit.ly/2ZU8Nb0 #openaccess #highered #openscience
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Despite leaving the academic world a while ago it seems some of my old work is making a resurgence & being read across the world...may have to find a few more to upload
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Interested in knowing more about our #openaccess platform with over 80 million global users? Then click on the following link to our press page. bit.ly/2GGpcrT #Academia #OpenScience
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Today is the last day of early bird tickets! Be sure to join us!
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Join us our next salon! Allison Duettmann will discuss hypertext and how information infrastructure shapes the trajectory of society with Ted Nelson (Project Xanadu).
foresight-tednelson.eventbrite.com
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Curious to learn more about the #EHTBlackHole? Read #openaccess academic papers on #blackholes by clicking on this link: bit.ly/2GeJvN2 #OpenScience # #EHTBlackHoleQ #EventHorizonTelescope
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Interested in learning more about the #EHTBlackHole? Read in-depth academic papers on blackholes for free by clicking on this link: bit.ly/2GeJvN2 #OpenAccess #Academia #EHTBlackHoleQ #EventHorizonTelescope #blackhole
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Why you should care about the raging battle for free access to research findings, by @StanfordMed's Robert Kaplan. latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/
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Join us and Ted Nelson to discuss Hypertext and the alternative history of the computer world, April 16th in San Francisco - mailchi.mp/foresight/tedn
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Fantastic!
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Someone found my @academia page on Bing by searching for "alison sheridan on mesolithic scotland" academia.edu/3417480/Neolit
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We're pleased to announce that Academia.edu has raised $16M in #SeriesC funding, led by . Click on the link for more information: bit.ly/2TF15xb Reporters DM us for more details. #edtech #highered #openaccess #Academia
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has over 75 million users who support Norwegian universities’ decision for #openaccess for all #academic research. Follows similar moves made recently in Germany, Sweden and . #highered #EdTech #openscience
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Click on the attachment to read a recent profile of by the Sunday Times. #edtech #openaccess #academia #openscience
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Reporters interested in #openaccess movement: Please DM us for reaction/comment on Norwegian universities’ decision to support #openaccess for all #academic research
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is strongly aligned with Norwegian research institutions’ decision in supporting #openaccess for all #academic publishing. #highered #edtech
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U of California's break with biggest academic publisher could shake up scholarly publishing for good. Issue provokes to reflect on how hyper-inflated paywalls lowers sharing of research and perceived value of geography as discipline
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Join us on March 14 for the .edu Speaker Series featuring , co-founder and CEO of . Lenny will discuss Protocols.io in the context of the reproducibility problem in science. RSVP: bit.ly/2TsFID2 #openaccess #academia
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Academia.edu is proud to host Lenny Teytelman, co-founder and CEO of Protocols.io, as the inaugural speaker for our Speaker Series. March 12th in San Francisco. More details here: bit.ly/2TsFID2 #openaccess
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