Love this directive from a publisher's style guide:
Rescue the author from pet phrases or overuse of academic clichés (“seen through the lens,” “shines fresh light on”) and punctuation or stylistic devices that become annoying (overuse of em dashes, italics for emphasis, or “scare” quotes).
Correcting a student's thesis or article still is a good way to learn english, and especially to discover things you are used to say since decades are likely wrong.
Latest discoveries for me:
In which I propose an integrated #academic#conference team to be established at #universities, to make the process of organising and running academic conferences much easier - and reduce the workload on #academics - who don't usually have event management as a core skill.
#academic#academicchatter
Do you also have colleagues who, when meeting external visitors, tell that "the real research" is done in their institute, and not in the neighbouring one (which happens to be yours)?
Or are you luckier, and your colleague are less pathetic and less affected by egomaniac problems...?
University teachers suspended, employees sacked: in #israelPalestine, the authorities punish the slightest expression of support for Palestine on social media. In the course of a week, at least 170 people have been arrested for their online activities. https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-war-political-persecution/
Last few hours to submit feedback on the white paper by the EU commission, on the possible change of R&D policies to include "dual use" (-> military application 💣 ) technologies in H2020 and following programs.
On #academic#twitter as practiced by #DiabeticOfEnlightenment: "The truth is I love literary criticism. I never want to be confused with some type of guy that’s all anti-theory, “humanities jargon is meaningless,” “let’s get back to philology.” I love academic arguments. And if I make fun of something scholarly online, I’ve almost certainly spent hours and hours reading and thinking about it, so the joke’s ultimately on me."
It's our first time there and we'd love connect.
Would you like to exchange best practices, tips, and/or knowledge over coffee? We are interested in #communication strategies for libraries and everything #OpenScience-related. Let us know if you want to meet up!
I joined a zoom call with scientists colleague in #palestine, promoted by colleagues at the University of Bologna, to try setting up a funding line for hosting visiting students/researchers, and provide remote lectures there.
One exchange stood out:
"It's difficult to extend this to academics in #Gaza, because based on our information, they are either dead, or have fled the region"
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