Join #AcademicChatter for support & community in higher education.https://bsky.app/profile/academic-chatter.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/academic-chatter.bsky.social/post/3mwoy2aghn22vWhat’s an underrated skill in research that you wish more people talked about?29 Sep 2026 23:25 +0000at://did:plc:duxjtc7yzszfgf6mzuxaatmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwoy2aghn22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/academic-chatter.bsky.social/post/3mwoy2aghn22vWhat’s an underrated skill in research that you wish more people talked about?29 Sep 2026 23:25 +0000at://did:plc:duxjtc7yzszfgf6mzuxaatmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwoy2aghn22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/academic-chatter.bsky.social/post/3mwowexv5gs2iHonestly, teaching someone something they don't know yet without making them feel stupid for not knowing it is a real skill. Not everyone recognises this skill. Bravo Dan! [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Sep 2026 22:55 +0000at://did:plc:duxjtc7yzszfgf6mzuxaatmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwowexv5gs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/academic-chatter.bsky.social/post/3mwow6tij222iThe history of a field isn't just a nice bit of context around the science. It helps explain why we know what we know, which questions got asked, and sometimes which questions didn't. The Cold War example is a brilliant illustration of that. Great thread. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Sep 2026 22:52 +0000at://did:plc:duxjtc7yzszfgf6mzuxaatmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwow6tij222ihttps://bsky.app/profile/academic-chatter.bsky.social/post/3mwovqmvwsk2iI think this is the problem with trying to find the "best" research in the first place. There are loads of different things we might value in a piece of research, and they don’t necessarily point in the same direction. Why do we assume they can be reduced to one ranking? [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Sep 2026 22:44 +0000at://did:plc:duxjtc7yzszfgf6mzuxaatmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwovqmvwsk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/academic-chatter.bsky.social/post/3mwovfpwdjk2iYes, this is exactly what worries me about metrics. Something can be useful for measuring research without necessarily being something we should incentivise people to maximise. Once it becomes a target, people start playing to it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Sep 2026 22:38 +0000at://did:plc:duxjtc7yzszfgf6mzuxaatmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwovfpwdjk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/academic-chatter.bsky.social/post/3mwouu274s22iWe talk a lot about reproducibility, but I keep coming back to the incentives around research. If you’re rewarded for getting new results out quickly, where’s the incentive to spend time making sure someone else can actually reproduce them? Worth a read. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04667-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04667-1?utm_source=chatgpt.com29 Sep 2026 22:28 +0000at://did:plc:duxjtc7yzszfgf6mzuxaatmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwouu274s22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/academic-chatter.bsky.social/post/3mwou7omg522iIf financial survival becomes the main concern, it’s going to affect what gets taught, what gets researched, and what risks universities are prepared to take. Universities are supposed to think long-term. That’s pretty difficult when you’re constantly worrying about next year’s finances. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Sep 2026 22:17 +0000at://did:plc:duxjtc7yzszfgf6mzuxaatmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwou7omg522i