In the beginning, we thought BlueSky would be the new hub for academics, but it's not. I think people spend more time on LinkedIn, which I personally find pretty miserable and avoid as much as I possibly can. But why did the brag-about-yourself page win? Are academics really that ego centric? - ThreadSky

lisaschipper.bsky.social • 10 days ago

In the beginning, we thought BlueSky would be the new hub for academics, but it's not. I think people spend more time on LinkedIn, which I personally find pretty miserable and avoid as much as I possibly can. But why did the brag-about-yourself page win? Are academics really that ego centric?

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michelleyoung01.bsky.social•10 days ago

I seem to find a good amount of academics on here - and it’s far more interesting than LinkedIn - which also does my head in 😀

lisaschipper.bsky.social•10 days ago

I just don’t understand the appeal of LinkedIn…

michelleyoung01.bsky.social•10 days ago

I totally agree - it’s just a load of fluff and people trying to sell themselves. At least on here we can show our true selves per se. We can talk about academia and research as well as say we had a bad day and my cat is also being an asshole 😀

lisaschipper.bsky.social•10 days ago

Haha yes or I stepped in a rogue midnight cat turd (happened only once). It did get some likes here 😝

michelleyoung01.bsky.social•9 days ago

That just made me laugh out loud!

charliehorsephotos.bsky.social•10 days ago

I don't know, maybe a psychology, sociology or anthropology teacher knows what professor/ researcher this effect is named after.

helenalf.bsky.social•10 days ago

Perhaps because students are using LinkedIn, none of mine is on Bluesky.

edwardrcarr.com•10 days ago

I’m happy to announce I have a response to this post…oh, wait.

lisaschipper.bsky.social•10 days ago

Are you happy to announce that last week you went to the office and had stimulating conversations with your colleagues? If so, take it to LinkedIn Ed. But paper announcements here, yes please!

drjenbaker.bsky.social•10 days ago

i don't think we'll ever have those days for genuine online acatemic connection like we had on Twitter again. 😢 Hope #battchat will prove me wrong. Linkedin is quite bad although I get fewer dodgy dms these days. (that could be my age)..

drdecaluwe.bsky.social•10 days ago

I like your optimism...

drjenbaker.bsky.social•10 days ago

That's worrying since it was not a very optimistic tweet!! 🤣

drdecaluwe.bsky.social•10 days ago

Lol, no it wasn’t! 😂

And yet…

lisaschipper.bsky.social•10 days ago

😩

profgsgordon.bsky.social•9 days ago

I'm finding a lot of my international law colleagues here on Bluesky. Perhaps every field and subfield will be different. But I say give it time - - Bluesky has a solid foundation now and will continue to grow. I've been encouraging people in my domain to use it more because, yes, LinkedIn sucks!

leticos.bsky.social•10 days ago

I feel bsky is as hard as any social to engage and make connections (at least for a global south early carrer academic). Regarding ego, I guess I am jealous if your experience irl is not among egocentric academics (and happy for u if it's the case, I still hope I find a community to prove me wrong)

mpoessel.de•10 days ago

Might this be different from field to field? For astronomy/astrophysics, Bsky seems to be at least as good a forum as what the old Birdsite was. And I do get interesting science from other fields in my timeline, although I wouldn't be in a position to tell who might be missing.

lisaschipper.bsky.social•10 days ago

I am jealous! It probably does vary. Maybe I should switch fields.

endthegazagenocide.bsky.social•10 days ago

In academics, reputation is all that matters

That creates an incentive to not be excessively humble or risk losing or on tenure track or grants

ckarion.bsky.social•10 days ago

I think it may be a problem with who you follow on LinkedIn. My experience is that I see the cool stuff happening in my field and what current and former collegaues and acquaintances as well as industry movers and shakers are up to. You could try casting a wider net to catch more interesting posts.

lisaschipper.bsky.social•10 days ago

What I would like is to see paper announcements here, and discussions about them. It seems they are instead happening on LinkedIn although the discussion is not real, just superficial.

ckarion.bsky.social•10 days ago

I see, that’s different from what I was thinking about. I’d hoped to see more of discussions about papers on ResearchGate.

collectivided.bsky.social•10 days ago

I'm deep inside academia, but couldn't express myself freely with my real identity, especially knowing that american Hitler2 was probably gonna take back the presidency. So LinkedIn was out, and pseudonymy was in.

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