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Posts by profiles.open.ac.uk/julia-molinari {JM}
- Reposted by PACE Graduate School Open UniversityYour academic voice is unique. Don't sacrifice clarity for complexity or personality for formality. The best academic writing is distinctly yours.
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My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post: bsky.app/profile/nsou...- My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
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- I've been really enjoying our start to #PACEspace 2025-26. I'm now really looking forward to how your #DoctoralWriting shapes up ✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️ The Future is in the Now! {JM}
- Reposted by PACE Graduate School Open UniversityWelcome to all our postgraduate researchers! You are what makes us a University.
- Reposted by PACE Graduate School Open UniversityWhen @fadiadk.bsky.social presented some of her research on slow reading in higher education, especailly doctoral education at @srhe.bsky.social conference in december last year, it met with furious approval srheblog.com/2025/06/20/r... Intense head-nodding. Lovely to hear more about it.
- Is anybody who is involved in #DoctoralEducation able to point me towards a similar report or study on the UK knowledge society, maybe by #UKCGE or similar? #DoctoralWriting #PhD #GraduateSchool #DoctoralPedagogy This one is on the European context👇🏼 {JM pace@open.ac.uk} www.eua.eu/publications...
- #PACEspace exists to help with exactly this: "There’s often a stigma attached to seeking support [...]. There’s nothing more authentic than wanting to do your best work. Asking for help isn’t a failure of ability — it’s a refusal to be isolated" www.thecanary.co/discovery/fe...
- "for students like me, writing is more than a skill. It’s a form of resistance. It’s how we carve out space in institutions that weren’t built for us. And anyone who helps us do that — respectfully, ethically, collaboratively — is part of that resistance too." #PACEspace {JM}
- Recordings & slides relating to the 'Future of Doctoral Writing' are under 'Content'. This page is subject to edits but there's enough there for those interested to get a sense of what was discussed. Thank you to those who managed to attend {JM} #PACEspace #PACExtra www.open.edu/openlearncre...
- Recordings & other resources on the #FutureOfDoctoralWriting sponsored by @ougradsch.bsky.social & #BAAL will be shared ASAP. > 60 people across at least 10 countries/continents & disciplines attended in-person in #MiltonKeynes & online. Not easy to organise, but we managed. #OpenUniversity {JM}
- I'll be giving this year's keynote at #EATAW25 - alongside Suresh Canagarajah & Federico Navarro - on: 'AI Realism: Reclaiming the Human in AI-enhanced Academic Literacies' (cf abstract) {JM} 🤞 #PACEspace #AcWri #AcademicLiteracies #GenAI #CriticalRealism #OpenUniversity www.eataw2025.com/keynote
- A pdf of my slides on 'AI and multiliteracies' is now available on the EATAW conference website and can be cited via doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Thank you to Jennifer Sizer (orcid.org/0000-0002-27...) for alerting me to #Zenodo (which lets you share presentations via #Orcid with a doi) #PACEspace {JM}
- Recordings & other resources on the #FutureOfDoctoralWriting sponsored by @ougradsch.bsky.social & #BAAL will be shared ASAP. > 60 people across at least 10 countries/continents & disciplines attended in-person in #MiltonKeynes & online. Not easy to organise, but we managed. #OpenUniversity {JM}
- 📢Registration for our event is open until 30 June✅ We warmly welcome in-person attendance on 09 July to ensure discussions are critical & spontaneous♨️ But online places are still available {JM}. #DoctoralWriting #AcademicLiteracies #tleap #AcWri #OpenUniversity www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
- V. relevant to our recent discussions: "Explicit conversations about the nature of the doctorate should enable consideration of how context matters in the conceptualization of doctoral purposes and practices" 'Defining the Doctorate in Africa: Aligning Purpose with Context' doi.org/10.6017/895b...
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- 📢Registration for our event is open until 30 June✅ We warmly welcome in-person attendance on 09 July to ensure discussions are critical & spontaneous♨️ But online places are still available {JM}. #DoctoralWriting #AcademicLiteracies #tleap #AcWri #OpenUniversity www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
- Please email me {JM} for more details. This is a very focused & niche event on the Future of Doctoral Writing given #GenAI but also broader concerns of #EDI in #HigherEducation. It will soon be advertised as a fee ticketed event so please email pace@open.ac.uk if you have a professional interest.
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- What I love about #PACEspace is the privilege of discussing research writing in progress. Achieving #flow, dealing with #feedback, finding #voice are what we discuss most. But trusting an Other with your writing is hard. PACE provides a safe & brave space to do this {JM}. #DoctoralWriting #PhDLife
- Reposted by PACE Graduate School Open UniversityFor scientific writers: Three things your Methods section shouldn't be - but three things Methods sections often end up being. You can avoid these mistakes! scientistseessquirre...
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- The @ougradsch.bsky.social 'Position Statement and Guidance on Generative AI and Doctoral Education' is now available: www5.open.ac.uk/students/res... The advice is in the context of a fast-paced changing landscape. It emphasises openness re. #GenAI at all stages of the #thesis. #OpenUniversity
- The @ougradsch.bsky.social will soon be sharing its 'Position Statement & Guidance' on #AI in #DoctoralWriting, co-authored by me {JM} & aimed at doctoral researchers, supervisors, and examiners. The guidance will inform our #PACEspace Workshops, Writing Circles, and 1-1 Consultations #AcWri [1/2]
- Please email me {JM} for more details. This is a very focused & niche event on the Future of Doctoral Writing given #GenAI but also broader concerns of #EDI in #HigherEducation. It will soon be advertised as a fee ticketed event so please email pace@open.ac.uk if you have a professional interest.
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- Reposted by PACE Graduate School Open UniversityTo accompany the @openuniversity.bsky.social's collaboration with Radio 4's Word of Mouth with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, here's a short quiz about the bewildering world of idioms connect.open.ac.uk/education-de...
- "PhDs are awarded individually, but scholarship is [not] alone. Students need people around them to share tips and hunches support and console [...] a PhD remains a unique opportunity to write [...] what you care about most" by @academicdiary.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/too-...
- The @ougradsch.bsky.social will soon be sharing its 'Position Statement & Guidance' on #AI in #DoctoralWriting, co-authored by me {JM} & aimed at doctoral researchers, supervisors, and examiners. The guidance will inform our #PACEspace Workshops, Writing Circles, and 1-1 Consultations #AcWri [1/2]
- The guidance indirectly draws on 3 #OpenUniversity short courses, which I moderate & recommend to all (learners & educators) in our collective efforts to make sense of #AI in #HigherEducation: - www.open.ac.uk/courses/shor... - www.open.ac.uk/courses/shor... - www.open.ac.uk/courses/shor... [2/2]
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- *Shifting Power in Language Learning & Applied Linguistics with GenAI* The conference is inspired by the Shifting Power project (shiftingpower.kmi.open.ac.uk) and the Radical AI Network (www.nature.com/articles/d41...) #GenAI #EuroCall #CallForProposals #CfP eurocall-languages.org/events/genai...
- How to read a paper involving artificial intelligence (AI) Key messages: 1. [...] 2. [...] 3. A preliminary framework and set of questions for appraising a paper [...] are described Insightful for #DoctoralWriting #CriticalReading #AcWri {JM} #PACEspace bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/...
- "AI applications are, for the most part, designed to be used by a human who has professional training, and not a substitute for that human" (p. 5 Dijkstra P, et al. BMJMED 2025;4. doi:10.1136/bmjmed-2025-001394) Important insights for doctoral research writers: how to be accountable for #GenAI use.
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- Free online workshop on 1st time conference attendance: *Giving a great talk *Getting accepted as a speaker *Networking at conferences *Making the most of a conference as a student 11 March 3pm UK Online <https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/6svwRqkWSv6434QB3JggXA#/registration> #PACEspace
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- Huge thanks to all who travelled & made it, wrote & stretched 😉, and gave feedback on our all-day #PACEspace 'Writing Retreat' last week in #ThePark - the sun streamed and we *all* got tons of writing done ✍️✍️✍️🥳 #DoctoralWriting #PhDLife #ThesisWriting @ougradsch.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social
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- "Asking a dissertation abstract to be unerringly clear is like asking someone to explain complex math in a tweet. Wrong time, wrong place." #AcWri #DoctoralWriting #AcademicJargon #clarity brandy-schillace.medium.com/no-academic-... Worth a read #PACEspace, including thread by Philip Ball, below 👇🏼
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- Reposted by PACE Graduate School Open University🗣️ Arts and Humanities Scholars: this is for you! 🗣️ We are 👏 thrilled 👏 to announce that ORCID now supports an expanded range of work types, such as 🎼 musical compositions, 🎨 still and 🎞️ moving images, and even 📝 teaching materials!! Learn more on our blog: shorturl.at/fiUbQ
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- Reposted by PACE Graduate School Open University🗣️ Arts and Humanities Scholars: Are you ready? 🗣️ We are 👏 thrilled 👏 to announce that ORCID now supports an expanded range of work types, such as 🎼 musical compositions, 🎨 still and 🎞️ moving images, and even 📝 teaching materials!! Learn more: info.orcid.org/new-work-types/
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- Interesting video interviews on writing in the academy from literature to science with scholars at the American University of Beirut. Of interest to academics in Lebanon, the MENA region, and beyond {JM} #AcWri #AcademicWriting #AcademicPublishing #PACEspace #tleap www.aub.edu.lb/writers-univ...
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- A1 Context is everything. At #PACEspace (@ougradsch.bsky.social #OpenUniversity) feedback opportunities for developing #AcademicLiteracies in #DoctoralWriting sit alongside supervisor feedback & consist of: - individual disciplinary consultations on #WritingInProgress - peer-led #WritingCircles {JM}
- Good thread for us to follow #PACEspace, on #feedback 👇🏼 [As an aside, I'm planning an informal #ThursdayMorningCoffee (online & on campus) via @ougradsch.bsky.social in the Spring to share experiences, research, and responses to #SupervisorFeedback] #AcWri #DoctoralWriting #AcademicLiteracies {JM}
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- Wee glance into the sorts of discussions we get into at #PACEspace 😱 {JM}: kick-starting 2025 with a session on 'Commitment, Risk, and Voice' in #DoctoralWriting #ResearchWriting #AcademicLiteracies ✍️ @ougradsch.bsky.social #ZombieNouns #Nominalisation #AcWri #PhDLife #WhatMakesWritingAcademic👀
- Reposted by PACE Graduate School Open UniversityFor evidence-based authorative & nuanced approaches to #AcademicWriting #DoctoralWriting follow these & their *wonderful blogs* #SocialScience #Humanities #Science Reply with your go-to #AcWri favourites as my suggestions were capped ✍🏼 #PACEspace {JM} go.bsky.app/Kt4FCZe @ougradsch.bsky.socialat://did:plc:eohd3dwrkvb5fvlovcchugif/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbh663ycmi23
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- Season's Greetings from #PACEspace {JM} Wishing you all 🕊️, rest, good health, and space to think. Signing off until January 2025 with some words of hope and wisdom from #AcademicDiary on why #HigherEducation still matters. #AcWri #DoctoralLiteracies #DoctoralEducation #ResearchWriting #OpenAccess
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- Register to attend our NCRM event that explores the ethics and possibilities of creative writing and social research at ‘whose words are they anyway?’ Please register here: forms.office.com/e/bUxN0686p2
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- Reposted by PACE Graduate School Open UniversityBake my Research 2024 @oulibrary.bsky.social @ougradsch.bsky.social . I just can't help myself. Had to have a go this year ! My cake describes the process of extracting potentially antimicrobial chemistries from common churchyard lichens.
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- Reposted by PACE Graduate School Open UniversityA poem / blog from Open University WELS PGR Blogger - Marilyn Long my research journey: reliable routes, untried tributaries What's is it like for an autistic PGR to study in an environment dominated by neurotypicals www.open.ac.uk/blogs/welspg...
- Reposted by PACE Graduate School Open University🔊Funded OU PhD studentships live now🔊 "The OU's diverse community of research students are the lifeblood of the University's research programme as well as helping to combat society’s most pressing societal challenges,” Professor Clare Warren, Graduate School Director. shorturl.at/cwzIp #PhDSky
