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"In the next few years, we will get to a point where all new articles published are available for free immediately" new.www.huffingtonpost.com/quora/the-evol
Click on the attachment to read a recent profile of by the Sunday Times. #edtech #openaccess #academia #openscience
Academia launches PaperRank, a new way of credentialing academic papers. Great article by
an extremely useful list of academic resources on publishing, blogging, tenure, getting a phd & more sterneworks.org/academe/
"Don’t underestimate the value of what you are doing. If you are practicing sound science, then you are doing something worthwhile." #science #AcademicTwitter
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This is a wonderfully thoughtful paper by John Smol of Queen's University, published in Ideas in Ecology & Evolution. PDF --> goo.gl/uqmXF2
Good read for early career scientists (but really anyone!). #phdchat #academictwitter
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“How to write a blogpost from your journal article” by @Write4Research medium.com/advice-and-hel
An extremely important review of the Gender Bias in Academia. A must read for all academics twitter.com/tristanbphd/st
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"The big problem in science is not cheaters or opportunists, but sincere researchers who have unfortunately been trained to think that every statistically "significant" result is notable."
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/
Academics: win a €100,000 grant to debunk your field’s most annoying misconception! projectaiur.com/aiur-community
Academia has raised $23 million from Tencent and other investors. Academia’s mission is to accelerate the world’s research. This funding will help us achieve Academia’s mission.
We've launched a new feature at Academia called Recommendations. Please share your thoughts here! academia.edu/s/657715fb2b/a
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Invoking the Peer Reviewer's Openness Initiative atm during a peer review opennessinitiative.org @richarddmorey #openscience
An interview with Richard Price, the founder of https://t.co/4VS0tY337d, 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 https://t.co/jc3YvsToAO is playing in accelerating research and democratizing access to research youtube.com/watch?v=pGQ66N
“Rather than counting up the number of times a professor’s articles have been cited...we should also be looking at how often the work is cited or used by students, practicing managers, policy-makers, and in articles...distributed to these stakeholders”
Papers can now have multiple authors on Academia.edu! Get started tagging your co-authors here: bit.ly/1vmJJYl
Reporters interested in #openaccess movement: Please DM us for reaction/comment on Norwegian universities’ decision to support #openaccess for all #academic research
a fascinating piece on the problem of "p-hacking" for positive results and severity of the reproducibility crisis
after a decade of work, Wolfram Data Repository is out! exciting development #opendata #openaccess blog.stephenwolfram.com/2017/04/launch
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Academic wishlist
10. Fewer committees
9. More reading
8. Less grading
7. More writing
6. Fewer forgotten attachments
5. More Oxford commas
4. Less rejection
3. More acceptance with minor revisions
2. Less replying to the entire listserv yes Sheila I’m talking to you
1. More pens
blog posts can be of higher scientific quality than journal articles! a win for #openaccess #opendata daniellakens.blogspot.com/2017/04/five-r
With the 105 studies on antidepressants, half were considered “positive” by the F.D.A., and half were considered “negative.” Ninety-eight percent of the positive trials were published; only 48 percent of the negative ones were nytimes.com/2018/09/24/ups
Academia launches a new premium feature! Learn what search terms people use on Academia.edu to find you medium.com/@academia/how-
Many nonprofits and small organizations access research on Academia #openaccessweek
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Are you a nonprofit or small org with research needs? How do you access paywalled scholarship? I'm making a list (will publish) #openaccess
Academia.edu launches a new premium feature, Public Mentions!
Nature just covered Academia's launch of Sessions - a new approach to peer review
What a great article! “How I got job offers from Google and other tech companies, without ‘experience’” by medium.freecodecamp.com/how-you-start-
3/ Blog post with the background to the updated 73% Academia citation effect
Checklist when a paper comes out: Update my Academia profile page!
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Academic Social Network Sites: a rough guide for researchers #academiaedu #googlecitations slideshare.net/DannyKingsley/ via @SlideShare
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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You. Gotta. Be. Kidding. Me, @academia. You have to go *that* low to sell your premium account?!?
The future of peer review.
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the benefits of crowd-sourcing peer-review: "much faster (days, not months) & more-comprehensive feedback" @nature nature.com/news/crowd-bas
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
We're pleased to announce that https://t.co/4VS0tY337d 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
For historians--check out Reviews in #History's best books series, and subscribe to their emails. All reviews are free and #openaccess!
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Happy New Year! We're welcoming in 2017 with part 3 of our best books of the last 20 years special - blog.history.ac.uk/2017/01/review
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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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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.edu is celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth in partnership with and . Read the #academic work of #HBCUs professors here: bit.ly/2DYjJKs #OpenAccess
Shout out to "The California system wants to fundamentally alter how it pays for journal content from publishers like Elsevier and to accelerate open-access publishing in the process"
check out these top university press books of 2016!
Don't read too much into the h-index!
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With a few exceptions at the tails, the formula
h-index = 0.5 * √∑(citations)
holds with astonishing accuracy (96% correlation.) So let's not read too much into the h-index -- If you want it higher, just publish a lot of (better than average) papers.
thebibliomagician.wordpress.com/2018/03/23/is-
Petition to make all US-public funded research Open Access. Sign Today! http://t.co/OSDwmZZx #OpenAccess
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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Exciting news. If a few more big universities show the same spirit, this whole scam will fall apart. It's only a matter of time.
chronicle.com/article/U-of-C
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The announcement that the 10-campus system would cancel its Elsevier subscriptions represents a win for open-access advocates: chroni.cl/2HcebiV
#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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Why you should care about the raging battle for free access to research findings, by @StanfordMed's Robert Kaplan. latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/
is strongly aligned with Norwegian research institutions’ decision in supporting #openaccess for all #academic publishing. #highered #edtech bit.ly/2VWFd1x
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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change conference format @MESA_1966 try speed dating: people pitch their work for 2mins then engage w audience @fp2p theguardian.com/global-develop
When Harvard cannot afford the paywalls, you know the system is broken #openaccess
strongly supports decision for #openaccess for all #academic publishing.
UC terminates subscriptions with world’s largest scientific publisher in push for open access to publicly funded research. bit.ly/2VrtrvT
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
#openaccess levels the playing field. Big institutions will pay more, small ones will pay less
Curious to learn more about the #EHTBlackHole? Read #openaccess academic papers on #blackholes by clicking on this link: bit.ly/2GeJvN2 #OpenScience # #EHTBlackHoleQ #EventHorizonTelescope
"Most of the errors tipped the results in favor of statistical significance" #psychology vox.com/science-and-he
interesting papers on ePortfolios
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I learned a lot about academic publishing & web design editing this issue of @JITPedagogy. More credit should be given for labor of editing. twitter.com/JITPedagogy/st
strongly supports decision. #openaccess for all #academic publishing.
UC terminates subscriptions with world’s largest scientific publisher in push for open access to publicly funded research. bit.ly/2VrtrvT
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Despite months of contract negotiations, Elsevier was unwilling to meet UC’s key goal: securing universal open access to UC research while containing the rapidly escalating costs associated with for-profit journals. bit.ly/2H6P68U
Read the profile of and founder in this week’s @thesundaytimes, written by . “A #Napster moment for Academia.edu” bit.ly/2DVDMJC #OpenAccess #Academia
Join the most active session in Academia.edu history! 1800 participants & 589 comments! #PeerReviewWeek academia.edu/s/657715fb2b/a
Academia founder chats with on This Week in Startups about and accelerating science thisweekinstartups.com/academia-edu-p
2/ Updated version of the Academia citations paper here academia.edu/12297791/Open_. Updated data set here
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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@academia I gave a shout out to Academia.edu last night re. training Social Media Tools for Scientists slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams
Grab your last minute tickets to the Hooked workshop with tonight from 6-8pm! Use code twitter5 for $5 off.
Replying to
. We've been working for the past month to classify all 44k papers. Initial data show no major impact. Data available soon.
Open access papers get twice as many citations as non-open access papers. arxiv.org/pdf/1001.0361v
The updated news feed has doubled downloads & bookmarks of papers per day. How we did it: bit.ly/1DBImp8
"Logging hypotheses and protocols before performing research seems to work as intended: to reduce publication bias for positive results"
CEO calls for rebuilding the entire communication system for #academic research in a podcast interview with @thesundaytimes #PeerReview #OpenAccess #Academia #Innovation. Click here to listen:
The updated news feed has doubled downloads & bookmarks of papers per day. How we did it: medium.com/@academia/5abf
A user delivered a presentation on Academia.edu at the University of Birmingham: http://t.co/DrnFWbNAtp