What is Online Academic?
A monthly newsletter and community helping researchers to build their profile, navigate social media and learn how to communicate their work online.
Just as an AI-only ‘social media’ launches, it might be a good time to say I’m putting together a regular newsletter to help academics represent their research.
Verifiable expertise is vital to counteract disinformation.
If you’re interested, you can sign up below 👇
03.02.2026 09:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interested in ADAPT-AI? Join an information session – ADAPT-AI
Interested in ADAPT-AI? Join an information session 🖥️
The sessions are designed to help prospective candidates navigate the requirements from the award, research themes and to find out more about the institutions and programmes on offer.
Visit the link below 🔗
18.12.2025 11:46 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
It's a brilliant podcast. One that gripped me from start to finish.
Highly recommended and now award winning 👇
27.11.2025 21:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We just published a new report on how UK journalists are adopting AI in their work
Authored by @neilthurman.bsky.social @sinatk.bsky.social & @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it's based on a survey conducted in 2024
Read in full
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ai-adoption-...
10 findings in thread
27.11.2025 07:45 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 2
Arts & Humanities Doctoral School launches new studentships programme | King's College London
Over 30 Doctoral studentship places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities at King’s.
🌟 We have launched a suite of new doctoral studentships through our new Doctoral School 🌟
Over 30 places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities.
More details and how to apply 👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu...
@komldsp.bsky.social @adaptai.bsky.social
21.11.2025 13:56 — 👍 20 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 2
Excellent write-up by my colleague, Sarah, detailing some of the nuances involved in the spread of some *interesting* theories online.
Orwell being such a hit in Estonian conspiracy circles was not on my bingo card.
Give it a read 👇
25.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great to be running comms for this new doctoral programme - which is open to those within and outside of academia.
It's exactly the type of equitable approach we need to understand and curate the development of responsible AI in the creative industries.
More to come, and more below 👇
22.11.2025 14:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
BIAS Lab director studying prejudice, discrimination, dehumanization, speciesism, intergroup contact, generalized prejudice. Confirmed Boffin. #PrejudiceResearch #WhyWeLoveAndExploitAnimals (does not online-bicker).
Independent news website. Only publishes articles written by academics and researchers. No paywall, no ads. All Creative Commons licensed.
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Director of IT and Digital Strategy at @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social, MIT. PhD in CS. Turning data into discoveries. Fan of practical tech that works. Tea drinker, research enabler, innovation chaser. Views are my own. He/him.
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Journalist by trade & inclination. PhD. FRSA.
Lecturer @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
Novel The Pomegranate Peace, Hachette
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Lecturer at the University of Leeds. Assistant editor at the European Journal of Cultural Studies. Interested in gender, politics & popular culture.
Social / cultural / political / media analysis
Prof @Goldsmiths @MediaComGold.bsky.social
📕📗: Left Feminisms, Care Manifesto, Against Meritocracy, Politics of Heritage
#firstgen
All views socially & culturally constructed.
Prof @Goldsmiths U of London | digital infrastructures, tech & AI in global south | New Book: 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' https://tinyurl.com/4ceyvc3s | New project: reimagining digital ID https://tinyurl.com/bdfawt64
BBC journo interested in gaming, tech and culture | ⭐ MCV Women in Games 2025 Jounalism Impact Nominee | 🕹️ Adventure game lover and streamer! twitch.tv/cressup | https://linktr.ee/lauracress
PhD Researcher in Public Policy KCL | views my own | he/him 🇮🇪🏳️🌈
Author and editor. Interests in the Visual Arts, Poetry, Theology, Science, Folklore and the English thoroughbred.
Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
PhD candidate in Applied public policy. Teacher, researcher, behavioural science. Econ, policy, sustainability and society. Views are stunning
Aspiring Historian and long-suffering Arsenal fan. Researching people's lived experience of British imperialism in Rotherhithe, London, from 1755-1914 @ King's College London
Husband, dad, homebrewer, neurodivergent, bi, MA medievalist.
❤️ - arts/media, history, languages/linguistics, ecology, travel, food, lots of books. Francophile, European, Green Party. He/him.
