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Professionals from every industry use academic research on Academia.edu to solve problems in their working lives. Here are 10 examples of how farmers are using academic research on Academia.edu to improve their farms.

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Without having subscribed to @academia Premium to find out what papers mention my name, how would I have ever discovered that my dissertation was "somewhat poetic"? #phdlife

An interview with Richard Price, the founder of Academia.edu, about the role that Academia is playing in democratizing access to research.

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NEW EPISODE ALERT: I had so much fun with @anthonyocampo talking about horoscopes, building community #onhere, the value of social media for academics and when it’s time to say goodbye 👋🏾

My book is up on the @RutgersUPress website! I suppose you can go ahead and pre-order and I'll go ask about discount codes! #AcademicTwitter #SocAf #AcademicMama #EverydayViolence rutgersuniversitypress.org/everyday-viole…

What a conceptual or theoretical framework is, what role or roles it can play in research + how & to what extent a study might contribute to knowledge or theory buff.ly/36r0ZSZ by @donpassey in @StudiesinTEL #phdchat #phdadvice #phdforum #phdlife #ecrchat #acwri

A new study finds that greeting students at the door increases engagement by 20%, reduces disruptions by 9% -- effectively adding 1 hour of learning per day. My latest article on @edutopia edutopia.org/article/welcom…

My findings on tenure-track academic job openings in Middle East history, cultural anthology, political science and economics: overall, it's ~3-5X harder to find a decent job today in the humanities than 2 years, & it's 2X as hard in the social sciences #phdlife #AcademicTwitter

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Sometimes I use the features we build at @academia in my private life as a citizen, not an employee of Academia. Those moments are joyous.

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@marybethaltier @saberibrahimi When we find a mention of your name in a paper, we try to include a research interest tag of the paper so you know it's a mention of you & not someone else w/same name. We try to blacklist tags like the one you saw, but some slip through. We’ll make sure to blacklist that one.

@saberibrahimi I would have looked, but you have to pay $$ for a premium membership to view your mentions! @academia #AcademicTwitter

Woke up to this gem of a notification this morning. Hopefully, it's an academic paper and they haven't moved from 8chan to Academia.edu... #AcademicTwitter

According to Alexa, Academia.edu is the 216th most visited website in the world, over the last 90 days.

Why are people downloading papers on Academia? "Nepal was hit by earthquake [...] many buildings collapsed due to column failure and many are still standing with defective columns. So it's of interest to all civil engineers to strengthen the affected structures" -anonymous user

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