The year is ending, and I have once again failed to keep my writing promises to myself. In an attempt to salvage the year, here is something I wrote on ghosting, friendships, and semantics. poetrydigressing.com/2025/09/06/o... #blog
#slowacademia #ghosting

My research is like a half-written spell,
waiting for the part of me that still believes in magic.
Lately, life keeps stealing the pen.
Theories blur. Footnotes echo loud.
If you’re also trying to write through the fog
I see you.
Sometimes survival is the work.
#slowacademia #writingthroughit

Does authorship mean anything when academic papers are simply citable tokens? The bibliometric infrastructure of citations has become an inescapable organising feature of academic life. Drawing on a range of evidence of the use and misuse of citations data, Stuart Macdonald …

A great read and a compelling argument for #SlowAcademia - blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Important talk on re-valuing the art of the #BookReview as contribution to knowledge & disciplinary reflexivity.

Relevant to & beyond #AppliedLinguistics & English for Academic Purposes (EAP) communities
#AcademicReading #AcWri #HigherEducation #SlowAcademia #tleap
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AI Will Lead Us to Need More Garbage-subtraction. - The Scholarly Kitchen Generative AI wants to make information cheap, but will people want to read it? Are we ready for more productive writers?

What's the point of academic writing?

Is it to get promoted, published, have impact, think through complexity, get "the right information in the right place so it can change lives?"

Do we need new criteria?

#AcWri #AI #AcceleratedAcademy #SlowAcademia
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/11/02/w...

Is there enough time to cultivate the relationships you need?
#studentsaspartners

Need #slowacademia & #slowSaP @AgnesBosanquet