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[Sage Journals @SageJournals]

📢 Call for Papers | Feminist Review invites submissions of completed articles for consideration.

Submit via our online portal by 31 July 2025
https://t.co/LvdqWrsiwO #CallForPapers #FeministResearch #AcademicPublishing #GenderStudies

[Brian Maregedze @bmaregedze]

Mbembe: ‘Pessimistic’ about the future of the university https://t.co/8s3ocdgh1E

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Google Scholar is useful, but it's stuck in the past.

Ai2 is building a new AI-powered search engine for researchers.

It looks for papers, follows citations, evaluates relevance, runs follow-up queries, and shows you only relevant papers — and it's free:

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Libgen, Sci-Hub, and Z-library had millions of pirated academic books and papers.

So, they were shut down. We shouldn't use them anyway.

We should help billion-dollar academic publishers get richer.

Anyway, here's how to access these libraries:

Don't do this!

[Kiran Chauhan @fem_sec]

A grad student asked me for writing advice and the first thing I shared is Prof @raulpacheco's blog. It’s an absolute treasure trove for academics, covering reading, writing, analysis, and insights on just about everything you can imagine.
https://t.co/4yEGkTLGvh

[Brady Long @thisguyknowsai]

I’ve learned more in 1 month with ChatGPT-4o than years of courses.

Here are 8 prompts that can save you thousands of dollars:

[Margaret R. Roller @MargaretRoller]

"Ethnography & the Observation Method: 15 Articles on Design, Implementation, & Uses" This brief text will be useful to the student, the teacher, & the researcher who is interested in a quality approach to designing & conducting ethnographic studies https://t.co/pNL4bedn7S

[Dr Emma Louise Backe @EmmaLouiseBacke]

Anthropologists like Margaret Mead, working in the South Pacific, demonstrated that conceptualizations of gender were culturally and socially contingent, that what it meant to be masculine or feminine were neither stable nor universal.

[Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpacheco]

I am currently mentoring a few academics (my own PhD students and a few early-career TT scholars) and I am trying to teach them about how to frame their work in terms of the broader questions of a field, and a discipline.

Any ideas for good citations on how to do this linking?

[Solomon Harudzibwi @S_Harudzibwi]

In this video Mugabe says we are prepared to go to war if we lose, how do you then want to exonerate him for the crimes committed in 2008?

[Margaret R. Roller @MargaretRoller]

"Credibility: A Quality Approach to Qualitative Data Collection" - A compilation of 10 articles that speak directly to the #TQF Credibility component, e.g., articles on sample design, participant cooperation, rapport building, & question design https://t.co/UaCt1M2oF6

[Dr Selbi Durdiyeva 🌻🍉 @DurdiyevaSelbi]

A friend asked for a reading list of Central Asian thinkers writing on decolonisation/decoloniality/postcolonialism Compiled a🧵A lot is forthcoming, do follow the authors in case if you’re interested in the topic. Please add yourselves/others:

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

I've finalised next year's outline for my course, "Development Economics", which I teach at Cambridge.

Here are the 10 key books on the reading list.

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

The 7 secrets of academic writing every professor should know:

The anatomy of any perfect research paper has 7 crucial components.

[J of Youth Studies @JofYS]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS!
Special issues of Journal of Youth Studies in 2025.
Call open, closing 31/7/2024.
Details here:
https://t.co/UWzPSEYGEk

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

Writing the discussion section of your paper

[Urban Studies Foundation @USForg]

Gentle reminder! The deadline to apply for the 2024 #USFInternationalFellowships grant is approaching soon. 📅 5th July, 2024. This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Apply now: https://t.co/pzdDM7jLOa

[Hetan Shah @HetanShah]

It’s the big one! We’ve opened the call for @BritishAcademy_ Global Professorships. We offer up to £900k over 4 years to attract internationally established scholars to work in the UK to engage in cutting edge humanities & social science research https://t.co/Gpcd7tfL3y

[Elena Llaudet @ellaudet]

Teaching or learning stats and R? #rstats

My syllabus, lecture slides, interactive graphs, and other teaching materials are here: https://t.co/DWo0gTcf9G

I hope they are helpful! They are based on our textbook for complete beginners: https://t.co/GBZa6V1QGG