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patthomson.bsky.social
Academic, educator, silversmith. Researching arts ed, school change, leaders work. Patter academic writing blog - Patthomson.net. Semi-retired. Working part-time @ U Nottingham & U South Australia. #FAcSS
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For weekend readers a blog post in which I make the case for listening not only to public voices about AI but also to the voices of AI researchers #AI #scicomm blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingscienc...

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I asked A I Claude to analyse my blog writing style patthomson.net/2025/06/11/c...

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Taming your perfectionist inner critic patthomson.net/2025/06/03/d...

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Some thoughts on academic writing environments patthomson.net/2025/05/29/t...

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This is a very useful post by @patthomson.bsky.social for improving our feedback as supervisors & for students to ask when they don't get what the feedback means. Lots of tacit knowledge at work - let's have explicit conversations about writing! #SupervizingDecently patthomson.net/2025/05/21/f...

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Finding flow and making links in academic writing can be troublesome Here’s a strategy patthomson.net/2025/05/12/f...

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Connecting big and little research problems patthomson.net/2025/05/07/g...

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We need a bold new vision for addressing the long tail of educational underachievement and child poverty. Pat Thomson argues for the return of seven policy basics. One in six Australian children needs your commitment to do better. loom.ly/u3djX-k

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Writing the conclusion can be hard. Here’s a strategy for addressing the So What question patthomson.net/2025/04/29/c...

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Thanks to the efforts of archivists at least some of ERIC remains open archive.org/details/eric...

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This week I’ve written about redundancy in academic writing isn’t always a problem patthomson.net/2025/04/23/p...

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Vale ERIC obliterated in another attack on freedom of information. www.governing.com/policy/major...

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Why it’s Ok to make up a word or two patthomson.net/2025/04/17/i...

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Writing with research partners means examining power purpose and processes patthomson.net/2025/04/07/w...

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A little series about writing with research partners, starting with why partner at all patthomson.net/2025/03/31/w...

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@campaignforthearts.org here is evidence of the importance of the expressive arts in primary schools www.youtube.com/watch?v=216-...

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In case you missed the launch of our research in arts rich primary schools www.youtube.com/watch?v=216-...

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Listing 112 items is a bit of a task but that’s how much of my work Meta has stolen.

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I’ve been wondering do there’s a disconnect between doctoral researchers and the research done about them. patthomson.net/2025/03/21/d...

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Looking at the problem of reader Deja vu and the writer habit of repeating words patthomson.net/2025/03/11/h...

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A small reminder that there is more to literatures work than reviewing patthomson.net/2025/03/03/l...

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Friends, abstracts are now due for the 2025 Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference. Please see our website for details and we look forward to welcoming you to Oxford in September. #AcademicSky #HigherEducation ethnographyandeducation.org/call-for-pap...

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Our research shows that arts rich primary schools performa as well or better than equivalent schools - and there are other benefits - so why be arts poor? artsprimary.com/2025/02/23/o...

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The research road trip and thinking retreat … highly recommended patthomson.net/2025/02/23/t...

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Can send you this and other research, where to? DM me address?

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Little bit of arts research based media here www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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Researching Sustainable School Leadership (ReSSLe) team - Pat Thomson, Tom Perry, Mike Collins & me - presenting at #icsei2025 in Melbourne today. Some great questions & discussion, thanks to all who came! @patthomson.bsky.social @twperry1.bsky.social

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@sairskay.bsky.social I’d like to send you a copy of our arts rich primary school research project not sure how?

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It really helps me to know what I don’t want to write. patthomson.net/2025/02/10/o...

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A petition to save Cardiff University's music faculty. Please sign: the cuts are totally unnecessary given the university's good financial situation. It's a further attempt to downgrade the humanities & the essential subjects which make life worth living. It's cultural barbarism chng.it/2J2DZjr2hf

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The "biggest education technology exhibition in the world” took place last month. Like a Great Expo for edtech, it exhibited a future of education that felt repetitive and incantatory. I left longing for other imaginable futures of education. codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/g...

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Join us to hear about our primary arts education research

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We are seeking two #PhD students for a project “Partnership Trajectories and Intergenerational Relations,” at the Department of Sociology, Masaryk University! Find more info here: soc.fss.muni.cz/aktuality/jo... #academicsky #phdsky #sociology

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Absolutely agree. “It remains to be seen whether the major academic publishers can respond as the partners they claim to be, or whether we need to look to a new approach entirely.” blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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How do we think about the journals we write for? We’ve all heard the idea of the journal as a conversation, but what about a market? patthomson.net/2025/02/02/i...

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This is why my newsletter isn’t on Substack. They were happy to platform Nazis. Now they’re heralding Elon Musk as a “free speech” champion. Straightforwardly false and morally perverse. read.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

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When people ask why we are starting a new independent journal, I think I’ll just show them this: arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 An estimated $8.98 billion spent on open access fees in 4 years. Imagine what that money could have done for global research.

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#WombatWednesday The collective noun is a wisdom of wombats. Their coats are unbelievably soft. Cute eh. But wombats also run at speeds up to 40 mph, jump fences, bite - and they can push other animals into posts, trees or stones and crush them with their rear ends.

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