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- Click on the attachment to read a recent profile of @Academia by the Sunday Times. #edtech #openaccess #academia #openscience
- Academia launches PaperRank, a new way of credentialing academic papers. Great article by @mattlynley
- "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…
- 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.
- A new way to connect readers and authors. medium.com/@academia/acad…
- According to Alexa, Academia.edu is the 216th most visited website in the world, over the last 90 days.
- an extremely useful list of academic resources on publishing, blogging, tenure, getting a phd & more @jonathansterne sterneworks.org/academe/
- An interview with Richard Price, the founder of Academia.edu, about the role that Academia is playing in democratizing access to research.I did an interview this morning with @munster_gene about the role that Academia.edu is playing in accelerating research and democratizing access to research youtube.com/watch?v=pGQ66N…
- Share your research online!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/
- "Don’t underestimate the value of what you are doing. If you are practicing sound science, then you are doing something worthwhile." #science #AcademicTwitterThis 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
- "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."
- Academics: win a €100,000 grant to debunk your field’s most annoying misconception! projectaiur.com/aiur-community… @TheIrisAI
