Making research accessible to a wider audience is no longer optional – it’s essential to academic life. Whether for public engagement, broader impact, or to ensure that essential findings reach beyond the academic bubble, science communication plays a vital role in connecting scholarship with society. One simple but effective way to support this is by sharing your work on platforms like LinkedIn. This post introduces a tailored prompt that helps scholars quickly create clear, informative LinkedIn posts about their latest publications without sacrificing precision or professionalism.
The prompt below is structured to help you include all the essential elements of a clear and professional LinkedIn post. It balances accessibility with accuracy, and ensures your audience knows what your article is about, why it matters, and where they can read it. You can reuse it each time you publish – just fill in the basic details and let the prompt do the rest.
Prompt
LinkedIn Post Template – Research Article Announcement
You are a social scientist announcing the publication of your latest peer-reviewed journal article. Write a restrained yet informative LinkedIn post (maximum 5–8 sentences) aimed at a broader professional audience.
The tone should be professional and accessible, avoiding jargon while clearly communicating the core message.
The post must include:
- The article title (in italics)
- The author(s), indicating any co-author(s) (e.g. “co-authored with…”)
- The name of the journal where it appeared
- A brief explanation of what the article is about, based on the abstract
- A sentence on why this topic or finding is relevant
- 2–3 emojis to help with readability and draw attention to key points
- A sentence indicating where the article can be read, followed by the direct link
- 2–3 relevant hashtags placed at the end of the post
Write the post from the perspective of [AUTHOR NAME HERE]. Use UK English.
Inputs:
- Co-author(s), if any:
[CO-AUTHOR NAME(S) HERE or “None”] - Title of the article:
[ARTICLE TITLE HERE] - Journal name:
[JOURNAL TITLE HERE] - Abstract:
[ABSTRACT TEXT HERE] - Link to the article:
[LINK HERE]
To demonstrate how the prompt works in practice, we tested it using our latest publication: Kiss, R., Sebők, M. (2025). The concept of tailor-made laws and legislative backsliding in Central–Eastern Europe. Comparative European Politics. For this test, we used Claude 3.7 Sonnet to generate a LinkedIn post that clearly and professionally communicates the core message of the study to a broader audience.
Output
LinkedIn Post – Research Article Announcement
📢 I'm excited to share that my latest research article, The concept of tailor-made laws and legislative backsliding in Central–Eastern Europe, co-authored with Miklós Sebők, has just been published in Comparative European Politics.
🔍 Our work examines how legislation codifying individual cases under the guise of general rules can contribute to the process of legislative backsliding in CEE countries. We demonstrate that these "tailor-made laws" function as empirical markers of legislative backsliding, enabling governments to implement discretionary carrot-and-stick policies at the expense of the broader public interest. This research provides a critical analytical framework for understanding the shift from liberal to illiberal democracy through systematic legislative mechanisms in Central-Eastern Europe.
📝 You can access the full article via Springer at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41295-024-00403-6
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