Academics routinely use the term “sub-Saharan Africa”. Until recently, I also used it without really thinking much about it or questioning its use. But it’s problematic and should be avoided. Here are two excellent pieces explaining why:

My goal is to alert people early on – before the logic becomes too familiar to question.” https://t.co/Md4QEFikkt

Book is out! 💃🏿💛💙 Guys, I wrote a WHOLE book! Oh my God! 🙈😊 You can order it via @RutgersUPress here https://t.co/y4uPcY2Php

People are making a lot of jokes about this paper, but OG academic twitter was one of the closest avenues we reached to the true democratization of academic knowledge. Everything’s behind paywalls. The geographies of information are now closed or tightly controlled… 🫠

didn't expect this post to spark such interesting discussions in the quote tweets and comments.

<span>We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research</span> @SSRN

"We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qualitative approaches, such as reflexive thematic analysis, or various phenomenological approaches."

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky | Integrative and Comparative Biology | Oxford Academic

I agree Twitter is not as useful as it used to be, but I'm not sure that Bluesky is now more useful than Twitter.

didn't know that there is a journal article on this

Most researchers have nothing on Larry Richardson. Racking up more than 130 citations in 4 years, he seemed like a scientific superstar in the making. Except the studies were gibberish—and Larry is a cat. This “exercise in absurdity” is an eye-opening look at byzantine world of

What’s the number one factor that makes PhD students happier? 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧. 👇 That’s what stood out to me in Nature’s latest global PhD survey. Students who met with their supervisors for at least one hour a week were significantly more satisfied with

Full article: More or less than human? Evaluating the role of AI-as-participant in online qualitative research

"We conclude that AI cannot sufficiently replicate affect or capture the richness of human experience that is central to qualitative research, and offer recommendations for future researchers to anticipate and check for AI as an unwelcome research participant."

Its almost as if women have been completely ignored for centuries while all medics were men. Misogyny, like all prejudice, is a form of wilful blindness.

I dream of an african continent where men in their 70s, 80s and 90s would not be clinging onto political power to literally continue robbing their countries while their populations suffer.

You don't do a PhD to reach millions. It is a journey you undertake to know yourself, to learn, to discover, inculcate humility and transform yourself. It is painful, but it has made me a better & kinder person than I was before, albeit poorer.

@Bethlehemtekola Yeah, this preprint by @MohammadAtari90 et al. is fascinating. https://t.co/NDy6rxkWVj Assuming all questions were asked in only English, I wonder if testing in other languages would change results—though the authors note that multilingual LLMs still behave WEIRDly (p.17).

Happy to see that our lab’s open-science tool, GScholarLens has been featured by @Nature. Dalmeet Chawla (@DalmeetS) does a fantastic job highlighting how GScholarLens brings transparency to scientific metrics, helping researchers, institutions, and the community better

Fascinating study “Which humans?”by Atari et al. (Harvard University) "When researchers claim that LLMs give “human”-like responses, they need to specify which humans they are talking about"

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