Librarians versus the world Photo of London’s National Art Library by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash Here at the Research Whisperer, we love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your researc…

"Say ‘no’ to Elsevier. ... Until this dispute is resolved:
Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees.
Boycott Elsevier and all its works and all its empty promises."

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Thing 4: Grant Writing and Planning From Films to Research Funding: What makes this bird go up and who was the real hero in Jurassic Park?Dr Andrew Staphnill, RIS Research Development (Faculty of Science), University of BathIn this blog we’ll cover a lot of groundwork in preparing for your next funding bid. In a later Thing (10) we’ll look in more detail at the writing process, and getting your brilliant ideas across.The classic 1983 film ‘The Right Stuff’ centres on the lives of test-pilots and details the ‘ups and spectacular do

A post from #23Things that is close to my #ResearchWhisperer heart:

Andrew Staphnill's entertaining take on grant writing and planning - the more T-Rexes a post has, the more I am willing to read it... 🦖

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What’s it like to be a researcher in a commerical agency? There's a lot of information out there about the differences between working as a researcher in an academic context compared with an industry one. However, most of these articles (like this recent one...

New at #ResearchWhisperer today: "So, what’s it like to ‘do’ research in a commercial environment with paying clients?"

A post by one of long-time academic buddies, Som Sengmany, on leaving academia and joining a consultancy.
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#ResearchWhisperer has a cluster of really useful writing posts, even though we are not primarily a blog focused on writing - they talk about writing retreats, co-authoring and collaborative writing, preparing to write, #SUAW, and more.

Check it out for yourself: researchwhisperer.org/tag/writing/

And if I was a forward-thinking person, I would've tagged #ResearchWhisperer on the previous post.

Is there an academic hashtag that we're socialising, albeit a bit early?