#academia is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 238 people shared 422 posts with it — around 14 a day. Activity is down 12% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 31 with 29 posts.

Posts with #academia

Admirable Women

@admirablewomen.bsky.social

8 months ago

DYK: Women have earned the majority of doctoral degrees awarded by American universities each year since 2009. First women to earn a PhD in the US? Helen Magill White. Her PhD was in Greek from Boston University, 1877. She was born #OTD in 1853. @bostonu.bsky.social #education #highered #academia

Black-and-white portrait of Helen Magill White. The pioneering American scholar—who in 1877 became the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D.—appears as a young woman with dark hair styled in an elegant updo secured with a decorative comb. She wears a high-necked Victorian dress with a lace collar and striped bodice, with a serious gaze.

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Johanna Joyce

@johannajoyce.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

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SICB journals

@sicbjournals.bsky.social

6 months ago

IOB welcomes DELBERT ANDRÉ GREEN II, as Associate Editor in 2026! Green is an Assistant Professor of #Ecology and #Evolutionary #Biology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor greendeilab.com #biology #academia #PhD #science #entomology #butterflies

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Audrey Truschke

@audreytruschke.bsky.social

10 months ago

Fellow academics, I'm doing it. Going all in. Pulling the plug, literally. This is on my syllabus for Spring 2026: "This is an analog class. No Canvas; this syllabus is your guide." All readings are printed books; hand-written exams; no laptops. #academicbluesky #Highered #academia #Rutgers

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Shahan Ali Memon

@shahanmemon.bsky.social

about 21 hours ago

#Academia has an empathy problem. #LongRant We train people to be rigorous thinkers, and productive researchers (or at least claim to). But we do far less to train ourselves to listen, uplift others, and be good members of an intellectual community. We should actively practice empathy too. 🧵

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THIS ACCOUNT IS MOVING

@xtaldave.xtaldave.net.ap.brid.gy

over 1 year ago

Absolute shots fired. From: www.sciencedirect.com/sci… #Science #Academia #PeerReview #Research

Excerpt from the linked paper:

As strongly requested by the reviewers, here we cite some references [[35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47]] although they are completely irrelevant to the present work.

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Thiago Ursinho

@thiagooursinho.bsky.social

almost 2 years ago

Uma das minhas favoritas atuais. Privacy.com.br/profile/th… #bear #gymbear #gaybear #gay #muscle #lgbtqiapn #bipolar #urso #ursocarioca #carioca #academia #gym #gymmotivation

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Simon Fisher

@profsimonfisher.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #language #linguistics #science #academia

Comic depictions of the first page of research papers in the language sciences, with titles that include the following:
Just what the hell is a word anyway?
See how this single cognitive process or brain area or neural oscillation or gene explains language!
Based on the shapes of these old bones, Homo erectus could sing .... don't @ me.
A baby looked at one thing more than the other, now we know the secret to grammar.
If you think about it, every language is fundamentally the same, amirite?
We taught a load of undergrads a made-up language, lol.
On the staggering diversity of the many languages across the world.
Remember the thing you said only humans could do, here's a video of a monkey / dolphin / corvid / octopus / honeybee doing it.
I trained this AI with 80 billion tweets and it became head-writer for phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Dr Craig R McClain

@drcraigmc.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

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Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM

From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...

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Kristina Šekrst

@epiphenomenal.bsky.social

10 months ago

Accurate. #academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

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Dr Craig R McClain

@drcraigmc.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

We don’t talk enough, or at all, about whether people can actually afford the pathway to becoming a scientist—or staying one. And let’s face it: having wealth makes it much easier, often paving the way for greater success than those without. #science #academia

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