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Lanie Molinar Carmelo<p>Hoping those familiar with <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/LaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaTeX</span></a> can give me some advice here. I've started using it to create my assignments for school. I'm not writing technical papers yet, but I find using LaTeX with <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/Zotero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zotero</span></a> in <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/VSCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VSCode</span></a> more <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/accessible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accessible</span></a> with a <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/ScreenReader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScreenReader</span></a> than most other setups I've tried.<br>Since my discussion posts have to follow <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/APA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>APA</span></a> style, I’m using LaTeX for those as well as full papers. That part is going well—but I’m running into trouble when I need to actually post what I’ve written.<br>My school uses Brightspace, which allows discussion posts in either rich text or <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a>. I have <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/Pandoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pandoc</span></a> installed, so I tried converting my LaTeX source to HTML and pasting the code. But Pandoc didn’t include my references section in the output.<br>I also tried copying from the PDF, but that stripped all formatting.<br>Does anyone know how I can get a clean HTML version of my work—with references included—that I can paste into Brightspace?<br>Here’s the command I’ve been using:<br>pandoc main.tex \<br> --bibliography=references. Bib \<br> --csl=apa.csl \<br> --standalone \<br> -o main.html<br>It creates the HTML file, but the references section is missing.<br>Any tips?<br><a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/AssistiveTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AssistiveTech</span></a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/Pandoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pandoc</span></a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/APAstyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>APAstyle</span></a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/Brightspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brightspace</span></a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/EdTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EdTech</span></a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/InclusiveTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InclusiveTech</span></a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/BlindTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlindTech</span></a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/CitationTools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CitationTools</span></a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/WritingWorkflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingWorkflow</span></a></p>
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪<p>I spent so long trying to spell the word "attitude" that when the spellchecker suggested "attribute", I enthusiastically accepted. Time to call it a day, methinks! <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a></p>
Kai Arzheimer<p>The Eisenhower Matrix, reviewer #2 edition <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶<p>I made a thing for you.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Memes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/PhDMemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhDMemes</span></a></p>
Fiona Gregory<p>Reading scientific papers is so much more difficult when authors make up <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/acronyms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>acronyms</span></a> for key phenomena and you have to parse through the paper to figure out what the hell it means. Please don't. Down with UMUAs! (unnecessary made up acronyms) <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/academicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicWriting</span></a></p>
de.hypotheses<p>Developing a good research question is an art form, writes <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@vmmmh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vmmmh</span></a></span>: Too broad and it's impossible to answer, too narrow and the results will be tedious and boring.</p><p>What if we thought of research questions not as fixed destinations but as evolving companions in a journey of understanding, as questions that are alive enough to grow with us? ⬇</p><p><a href="https://nodiscipline.hypotheses.org/4465" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nodiscipline.hypotheses.org/44</span><span class="invisible">65</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/hypoverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypoverse</span></a></p>
de.hypotheses<p>"I decided that I didn’t want to be this deadline-driven, miserable writer anymore. I actually like writing. I like my work." Sarah Lang explains how a mindset shift and buliding low-stress routines helped her actually enjoy <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> ⬇</p><p><a href="https://epigrammetry.hypotheses.org/5910" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">epigrammetry.hypotheses.org/59</span><span class="invisible">10</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/hypoverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypoverse</span></a></p>
Kai Arzheimer<p>Same with June <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
Matthias Smed Larsen<p>Today in <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/PredatoryPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PredatoryPublishing</span></a>: A predatory journal encouraging me to submit an editorial piece I wrote for *another journal* about being an editor of *that journal*, for publication in their predatory journal.</p><p>Chef's kiss 🤌</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/Academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/PredatoryJournals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PredatoryJournals</span></a></p>
Mark Dingemanse<p>New on the blog: Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism <a href="https://ideophone.org/oxford-university-press-is-going-all-in-on-surveillance-capitalism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ideophone.org/oxford-universit</span><span class="invisible">y-press-is-going-all-in-on-surveillance-capitalism/</span></a></p><p>In which I show that OUP doesn't trust authors with offprints of their own publicly funded work &amp; thinks scholarly exchange is piracy while at the same time selling out to AI slop producer OpenAI <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/OxfordUniversityPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OxfordUniversityPress</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/OUP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OUP</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/academicwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicwriting</span></a></p>
Kai Arzheimer<p>This is surely a metaphor for something? <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
Kai Arzheimer<p>When I've finally drafted that conference abstract <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
AmazingMeagen<p>Anyone happy to share a copy of:</p><p>Thickett, D. (2020B) Review of analysis for cultural heritage conservation, Current Topics in Analytical Chemistry 12:73-88</p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a><br><a href="https://historians.social/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a></p>
Kai Arzheimer<p>Now back to work <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
Mark Carrigan<p><strong>✍️ How to enjoy writing in spite of the lure of generative&nbsp;AI</strong></p><p>Over the last year I’ve been working on a book <em>How to Enjoy Writing </em>exploring the implications of generative AI for academic writing. I felt I had something important to say about the personal reflexivity involved in working with large language models, but in recent months I’ve realised that I lost interest in the project. Given the book was about cultivating <em>care </em>for our writing, as opposed to rushing through it with the assistance of LLMs, I’ve decided to break it up into blog posts which I’ll share here:</p><ol><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/14/the-lure-of-machine-writing-and-the-value-of-getting-stuck/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The lure of machine writing and the value of getting stuck</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/13/the-eeriness-of-writing-with-claude-when-ai-mirrors-your-voice/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Eeriness of Writing With Claude: When AI Mirrors Your Voice</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/03/31/thriving-in-creative-darkness-free-association-and-llm-collaboration/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Thriving in Creative Darkness: Free Association and LLM&nbsp;Collaboration</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/07/the-ethical-gray-areas-of-machine-writing-in-higher-education/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Ethical Grey Areas of Machine Writing in Higher Education</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/13/machine-writing-and-the-challenge-of-a-joyful-reflexivity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Machine writing and the challenge of a joyful reflexivity</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/13/the-ebb-and-flow-of-writing-from-struggle-to-unconscious-fluency/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Ebb and Flow of Writing: From Struggle to Unconscious Fluency</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/03/31/will-claude-tell-you-if-your-writing-is-crap-the-danger-of-llms-for-wounded-academic-writers/#:~:text=When%20I%20asked%20Claude%20Sonnet,than%20making%20broad%20negative%20judgments." rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Will Claude tell you if your writing is crap? The danger of LLMs for wounded academic writers</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/14/generative-ai-and-the-creative-confusion-of-academic-writers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Generative AI and the creative confusion of academic&nbsp;writers</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/14/using-generative-ai-for-functional-rather-than-expressive-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Using Generative AI for functional rather than expressive&nbsp;writing</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/15/the-joy-of-academic-writing-in-the-age-of-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Joy of Academic Writing in the Age of AI</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/15/the-objects-with-which-we-write-the-materiality-of-academic-writing-in-a-digital-age/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Objects With Which We Write: The Materiality of Academic Writing in a Digital&nbsp;Age</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/15/how-llms-change-the-relationship-between-thinking-and-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How LLMs change the relationship between thinking and&nbsp;writing</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/15/machine-writing-and-keeping-your-inner-world-awake/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Machine writing and keeping your inner world&nbsp;awake</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/16/finding-joy-in-the-creative-darkness-reflections-on-writing-and-stuckness/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Finding Joy in the Creative Darkness: Reflections on Writing and Stuckness</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/16/the-subtle-pleasures-of-llms-psuedo-understanding/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The subtle pleasures of LLM’s psuedo-understanding</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/16/we-urgently-need-to-talk-about-the-temptations-of-llms-for-academics/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">We urgently need to talk about the temptations of LLMs for&nbsp;academics</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/16/generative-ai-and-thriving-in-creative-darkness/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Generative AI and thriving in creative&nbsp;darkness</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/16/academic-writing-has-always-been-in-flux/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Academic writing has always been in&nbsp;flux</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/17/generative-ai-and-the-challenge-of-unbidden-thoughts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Generative AI and the challenge of unbidden thoughts</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/17/how-the-gai-assessment-debate-has-led-us-in-the-wrong-direction/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How the GAI Assessment Debate Has Led Us in the Wrong Direction</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/17/generative-ai-and-the-anxieties-of-academic-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Generative AI and the Anxieties of Academic&nbsp;Writing</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/18/why-its-not-a-bad-thing-for-academic-writing-to-be-difficult/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why it’s not a bad thing for academic writing to be&nbsp;difficult</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/18/the-epistemopathic-dimension-of-writing-with-llms/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The epistemopathic dimension of writing with&nbsp;LLMs</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/18/the-allure-of-llms-as-professional-support-at-a-time-of-crisis-within-higher-education/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The allure of LLMs as professional support at a time of crisis within higher education</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/18/prompting-as-a-literary-practice/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Prompting as a literary practice</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/19/llms-can-be-used-to-help-us-go-deeper-into-creative-difficulty/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LLMs can be used to help us go deeper into creative difficulty</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/19/machine-writing-and-the-pleasure-of-composition/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Machine Writing and the Pleasure of Composition</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/18/why-do-i-write-the-question-generative-ai-implicitly-poses-to-us/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why do I write? The question generative AI implicitly poses to us</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/18/why-its-not-a-bad-thing-for-academic-writing-to-be-difficult/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why it’s not a bad thing for academic writing to be&nbsp;difficult</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/19/four-ways-to-use-llms-as-a-writing-partner/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Four Ways to Use LLMs as a writing&nbsp;partner</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/19/the-embodied-experience-of-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The embodied experience of writing</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/19/the-tea-ceremony-of-writing-what-we-risk-losing-with-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Tea Ceremony of Writing: What We Risk Losing with AI</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/18/what-makes-writing-academic-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What Makes Writing “Academic” in the Age of Generative&nbsp;AI?</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/16/the-sensory-pleasure-of-academic-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The sensory pleasure of academic writing</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/14/finding-joy-in-the-mud-when-and-how-to-use-ai-in-academic-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Finding Joy in the Mud: When and How to Use AI in Academic Writing</a></li></ol><p>This is Claude’s summary of the core argument which unites these posts into a coherent project. One of the reasons I lost my enthusiasm for the project was the manner in which its capacity to imitate my style, sometimes doing it when I hadn’t asked, disrupted the psychology of my enthusiasm for what I was doing:</p><pre>The core argument of the book is that generative AI forces academics to confront fundamental questions about why we write and what writing means to us beyond mere productivity. While machine writing offers tempting solutions to the difficulties inherent in academic writing, these difficulties are actually integral to the creative process and intellectual development. If we embrace AI tools primarily as efficiency mechanisms to produce more outputs more quickly, we risk losing the joy and meaning that make writing worthwhile in the first place. Instead, we should approach AI as a conversational partner that enhances our thinking rather than replacing it, staying with the productive "trouble" of writing rather than seeking to escape it. This reflexive approach to writing technology allows us to resist the instrumental acceleration of academic life while still benefiting from AI's creative potential.</pre><p>However I’ve used Claude to support the editing of these blog posts based on the 80% complete draft of the book, simply because I wouldn’t get round to it otherwise. It has copy edited extracts, condensed them at points, chosen some titles and generally polished the text. There’s a few bridging sentences it provided but nothing more than this. I’m glad it’s given this project a public life because I feel like I was saying something valuable here. But I wasn’t willing to produce a second book on generative AI in two years, as it felt like I was stuck in a performative contradiction which was increasingly uncomfortable. </p><p>Instead my plan is to focus on doing my best intellectual work by focusing, for the first time in my career really, on one thing at a time. I’ll still be blogging in the meantime as the notepad for my ideas, but I’d like to take a more careful and nuanced approach to academic writing going forward. I’m not sure if it will work but it’s a direct outcome of the arguments I developed in this book. It was only when I really confronted the rapid increase in the <em>quantity </em>of my (potential) output that I was able to commit myself in a much deeper way to the <em>quality </em>of what I wanted to write in future.</p><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/img_1919.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IytEOXamsk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IytEOXamsk</a></p><pre>And this is how we rise - by taking a fall<br>Survive another winter on straight to the thaw<br>One day you'll learn to strain the tea through your teeth<br>And maybe find the strength to proceed to the peak<br>You press on into the thin again and cannot breathe<br>Swallow so much of my damn pride that it chokes me<br>The real risk is not a slipped grip at the edge of the peak<br>The real danger is just to linger at the base of the thing</pre><p>This is a follow up to the <a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/04/30/how-to-enjoy-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">23 part series I did last summer</a> on How To Enjoy Writing. In fact it emerged directly from “I have something to say here” to “I should write another book”, which is exactly the transition I’m now questioning in myself 🤔</p><ol><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/01/how-to-enjoy-writing-1-capturing-your-fringe-thoughts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Be rigorous about capturing your fringe thoughts</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/02/how-to-enjoy-writing-2-placing-limits-on-your-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Placing limits on your writing practice</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/03/how-to-enjoy-writing-3-being-realistic-about-how-long-you-can-spend-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Being realistic about how long you can spend writing</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/03/how-to-enjoy-writing-4-embracing-creative-non-linearity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Embracing creative non-linearity</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/06/how-to-enjoy-writing-5-keep-trying-to-say-what-youre-trying-to-say/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Keep trying to say what you’re trying to say</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/06/how-to-enjoy-writing-6-procrastination-is-your-friend-not-your-enemy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Procrastination is your friend, not your enemy</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/07/how-to-enjoy-writing-7-knowing-when-and-why-to-stop-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Knowing when (and why) to stop writing</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/07/how-to-enjoy-writing-8-my-ai-collaborator-offers-initial-reflections-on-the-series-so-far/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Initial reflections from my AI collaborator</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/08/how-to-enjoy-writing-9-creating-the-time-to-encounter-ideas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Identifying and valuing your encounters with ideas</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/08/how-to-enjoy-writing-10-a-poetic-interlude-from-claude/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A poetic interlude from Claude</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/08/how-to-enjoy-writing-11-cultivating-an-ecology-of-ideas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cultivating an ecology of ideas</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/08/how-to-enjoy-writing-12-claudes-ecology-of-ideas-self-assessment-tool/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Claude’s ecology of ideas self-assessment tool</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/09/how-to-enjoy-writing-13-only-ideas-won-by-walking-have-any-value/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Only ideas won by walking have any&nbsp;value</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/09/how-to-enjoy-writing-13-only-ideas-won-by-walking-have-any-value/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Using generative AI as an interlocutor</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/11/how-to-enjoy-writing-14-word-acrobatics-performed-with-both-harness-and-net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Word acrobatics performed with both harness and net</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/28/how-to-enjoy-writing-16-dont-impose-a-shape-on-things-too-quickly/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Don’t impose a shape on things too quickly</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/29/how-to-enjoy-writing-17-creative-confidence-means-accepting-the-tensions-in-how-you-think/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Creative confidence means accepting the tensions in how you&nbsp;think</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/30/how-to-enjoy-writing-18-understand-where-the-ideas-which-influence-you-come-from/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Understand where the ideas which influence you come from</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/31/how-to-enjoy-writing-19-not-everything-you-write-has-to-become-something/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Not everything you write has to become something</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/06/01/how-to-enjoy-writing-20-being-a-writer-means-being-good-at-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Being a writer means being good at AI</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/06/05/how-to-enjoy-writing-21-accept-that-you-are-not-a-precious-and-unique-snowflake/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Make your peace with the fact you don’t have creative freedom</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/06/06/how-to-enjoy-writing-22-confront-the-creepiness-of-llms-head-on/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Confront the creepiness of LLMs head&nbsp;on</a></li><li><a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2024/06/07/how-to-enjoy-writing-23-be-clear-about-why-you-are-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Be clear about why you are writing</a></li></ol><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/academic-writing/" target="_blank">#academicWriting</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/claude/" target="_blank">#claude</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/llms/" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/reflexivity/" 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Tatjana Scheffler<p>The single most important thing I want students to learn about academic writing is that your paper is not a mystery novel! Please state your results right there in the introduction! 🕵️‍♀️ <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/amGrading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amGrading</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/academicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/academicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ice515" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ice515</span></a></p>
JulietJFall<p>A book! A comic! A hybrid-book-comic-essay thing! <br>You know how you sometimes only look at the pictures when you buy an academic book? Well here you are ENCOURAGED to! The main arguments are in the comics, the text offers references, methods &amp; background. <br>Available from EPFLPress &amp; soon internationally via Chicago University Press (pre-order available).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicwriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>borders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/comicstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comicstudies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualmethods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visualmethods</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/walking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>walking</span></a></p>
Mathias Magdowski<p>Liebe Editor*innen, Conference Chairs und akademische Verleger*innen – wenn ihr wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zur doppelblinden anonymen <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/PeerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeerReview</span></a>-Begutachtung verschickt, achtet doch bitte darauf, dass die PDF-Dateien keine Metadaten enthalten, aus denen man die Namen oder Zugehörigkeiten der Autor*innen ablesen kann.</p><p>Ansonsten weiß man halt, wer das Paper geschrieben hat und die ganze weitere Anoymisierung ist für die Katz.</p><p>Vielen Dank an alle.</p><p><a href="https://bildung.social/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <br><a href="https://bildung.social/tags/ScientificWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificWriting</span></a></p>
Yana Suchikova<p>Our short presentation “The Purity Myth: Why Stigmatizing GAI in Academic Writing Is Harmful” at the Newswise Research-To-Practice Webinar: Perils and Promise of Generative AI for Science Communication is available here:<br>🔗 <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.15680.03841" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.156</span><span class="invisible">80.03841</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ScienceCommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceCommunication</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AIinAcademia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIinAcademia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/GAIstigma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GAIstigma</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ResponsibleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResponsibleAI</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Newswise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newswise</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ResearchToPractice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchToPractice</span></a></p>
Mathias Magdowski<p>Leute, seit wann sind JPEG-Dateien das einzig wahre Grafikformat beim wissenschaftlichen Schreiben und wann haben Verlage aufgehört, den anerkannten Stand der Technik umzusetzen und Vektorgrafiken für "Line Art" zu benutzen?</p><p><a href="https://bildung.social/tags/Digitalisierung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Digitalisierung</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/WissenschaftlichesSchreiben" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WissenschaftlichesSchreiben</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/ScientificWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificWriting</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/AcademicPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicPublishing</span></a></p>