Alexlee, Nobody told me about the snakes! #phdlife #phd @academicchatter
ucaccessnow, 🧵 What is this? After pushing UC for 4 years now to quit designing buildings where inaccessibility is the default, a main entrance to a building is wheelchair accessible?
What finally convinced UC Davis, one wonders? #UCAccessNow #Ableism #HigherEd @disability @academicchatter
ucaccessnow, What finally convinced UC Davis to make the main entrance accessible instead of putting a narrow ramp out on the side by a trash can?
Oh.
@disability @academicchatter What finally convinced UC Davis, one wonders? #UCAccessNow #Ableism #HigherEd
ucaccessnow, Ah, there's the UC Davis we know. Unnecessary steps because you weren't specifically PAID to do your duty under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act nor to actually make a public university accessible to the public.
@disability @academicchatter #UCAccessNow #Ableism #HigherEd
figstick, They're rounding up the historians now.
https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/1790874217828827473?s=48
@histodons @academicchatter @academiccommunity @academicsunite #FreePalestine #ceasefire #ceasefirenow @israel @palestine #gaza #biden #genocide #Netanyahu #apartheidisrael #IsraelApartheid #ethniccleansing #genocidejoe
figstick, @histodons @academicchatter @academiccommunity @academicsunite @israel @palestine
And this is exactly what we've been trying to explain to everyone. When you sponsor this fascist shit anywhere in the world, IT COMES BACK HOME!
GhostOnTheHalfShell, @figstick @histodons @academicchatter @academiccommunity @academicsunite @israel @palestine
shit. :ablobcatknitsweats:
ml, Let's get this @academicchatter moving with a question every academic can chime in on:
What are the top websites/blogs you go to for news of what's going on in your field? #AcademicChatter
ml, I wish I had a one-stop news shop on the web for the kind of plant breeding/pomology information I'm after.
For information about plant science in general, @PlantTeaching tends to be my best source. #AcademicChatter #Botany @plantscience
Cosmosis, @ml @academicchatter I mean, it might sound basic, but for art history I check the ArtHist-Net list serv and review the ToC for each issue of The Art Journal.
richard, Has anyone wrote about how sociological and philosophical writing has changed over the last few centuries from being what the author really meant, really felt, to being what the writer believed people wanted to hear? (Yes, I know there is some Discourse Theory hidden in there somewhere.)
ttpphd, If we collectively stopped writing letters of recommendation, what would change? What new things would be created in the fresh space?
ml, I feel like there should be a way for researchers to anonymously answer the question:
What do you think it's imperative to study right now that isn't being studied because the "new hotness" in your field is funding something else?
What is being funded, but is underfunded?
bud_t, Fellow academic colleagues: please get involved in shared governance at your institution. I know, that kind of service takes up your time and is often thankless, but it is crucially important. And it is on the verge of extinction at many places. The rug is being pulled out from under us while we go about our teaching and research.
If we value our work in #HigherEd we have to do the work to make the institution a place that is fair, equitable, and just.
@academicchatter
mycotropic, It works pretty well at University of Colorado in my opinion.
ml, "The Poster Session" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cK4jBDCwgQ @academicchatter #Satire
geonz, @ml @academicchatter didn't look like satire to me :P :P
GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) @academicchatter @economics@a.gup.pe
18 min
More or less spot on about the cost of housing and higher education. One aspect is “we” is misplaced. The Koch network intended this fate. They’ve worked to this end for 50 years.
- hilarious presentation even if I quibble over some of it.
Billionaires hate us, that is why they are pulling apart the republic and democracy all over the world. It’s them or us. They want tyranny and we want our lives.
clarablackink, @wdjorth @GhostOnTheHalfShell @academicchatter @economics@a.gup.pe Eh, I think people underestimate some people's antisocial tendencies. Hate isn't always a frothing thing. Often it's a polite smile to your face and a discussion behind closed doors that if it was possible to erase your existence without any mess that would be ideal.
It's tied up in the idea that the only good people are people who are personally useful to you.
There's immense harm in that mechanistic perspective.
GhostOnTheHalfShell, @wdjorth @academicchatter @economics@a.gup.pe
It is easily closer to hate. At the very least, contempt. And neither is incompatible with narcissism and can be an aspect of it.
Billionaires spend hundreds of millions of dollars per year to dismantle the republic and ruin people's lives in debt bondage and have done so for 50 years.
The sole reason for the Koch network is to have the US ruled by plutocracy.
ingorohlfing, There must be an easier way to work with review/submission websites.
One registers a master password with the publisher that works for all journals. Every time an account is created with a new journal of this publisher, the master password is linked to it and one could start right away @academicchatter #ScientificPublishing
ingorohlfing, @pkraus @academicchatter Once ORCID has been authorized for an account, yes. For which one first needs to log in in the traditional way. I would not mind using ORCID as the Master password from the start.
jtmuehlberg, @ingorohlfing @pkraus @academicchatter I haven't seen ORCID being used for authentication with conference/journal submission systems. But they do so for some services such as Overleaf.
Mehrad, I wonder if it is even ethical to enlist affiliation to the university if my funding comes directly from a funding institute, I'm buying and using my own hardware and software (down to the HDMI cable and mouse), and the data is also coming directly from another organization. The coffee and food is also off my own pocket.
The only things they provide are electricity (computer, coffee), water (coffee), and internet.
Let know your thoughts.
#AcademicChatter @academicchatter
Mehrad, @geospacedman Actually due to Finland's law, having grant is different from salary and falls under freelancer category. This means that I don't get any of the salary benefits (work insurance, paid vacations, paid pension, automatic taxation, ...), and I have to take care of all that myself. the upside is that I can quit at any given millisecond that I desire. Zero legal obligation to resignation notice and etc.
Mehrad, @geospacedman About profitability, there are companies which do Bioinformatice, data analysis or even Machine Learning. Among the good ones is IQVIA, but the majority of local companies here are not doing quality work especially when it gets to statistics and Machine Learning (not naming names). That's why it is tempting for PIs to get independent grants and recruite people like me to stear their research.
Do you have any positions? 🤓
aeryn_thrace, Jülich Open Science Speaker Series Presents:
Data Tracking on Publishing Platforms
Dr. Bernhard Mittermaier
7th May 2024 15:00 PM CEST
Zoom Reg: https://go.fzj.de/josss-reg-010
samnm, @aeryn_thrace @academicchatter
Maybe the hosts should look at themselves when it comes to data tracking. Why is the presentation hold via zoom?Here you can read more about why zoom should be avoided: https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2023/zoom
Unfortunately many interesting talks use zoom.
Please stop using zoom.#zoom #bigbrotherawards #OpenScience #OpenAccess #opensource
GhostOnTheHalfShell, @economics@a.gup.pe
@academicchatterSo you're in social sciences and mainstream economists giving you grief? How about some ammo?
"Therefore, empirical data and mathematics, the weapons that Neoclassical economists like to wield to intimidate other social sciences, can instead show that their paradigm is based on myths rather than science.
https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/puncturing-the-hubris-of-economics
🧵
GhostOnTheHalfShell, @economics@a.gup.pe @academicchatter
"Economics could be a radically different—and even useful—social science if it absorbed, rather than deflected, the criticisms that David [David Graeber] made of it. But it never will, because the core elements of the Neoclassical paradigm are antithetical to the evolutionary foundations of genuine social sciences like Anthropology and Sociology."
inquiline, "The #USC administration's choice to quell student protest, on the eve of their graduation, after silencing their commencement speaker is obscene"
#USCAAUP Chapter Statement Regarding USC's Militarized Response to Student Protest
https://www.uscaaup.org/ (scroll just below top of page)
GhostOnTheHalfShell, @economics@a.gup.pe
"This article is valuable, not for its insights, but for highlighting the rampant hubris of mainstream "Neoclassical" economics at the apogee of its influence. It opened with the declaration that "Economics is not only a social science, it is a genuine science" (p. 99). ...
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https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/puncturing-the-hubris-of-economics
GhostOnTheHalfShell, @economics@a.gup.pe @academicchatter
"I never expected David's well-documented evidence that barter-based societies were mythical to convince Neoclassical economists to abandon the myth, because without that myth, their entire paradigm unravels. "
..
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GhostOnTheHalfShell, @economics@a.gup.pe @academicchatter
"But David's work did strengthen the resolve of, and improve the analysis done by, the subsets of critical economists to which I belong: the Post-Keynesians, the Evolutionary Economists, the Biophysical Economists, and Modern Monetary Theorists. We frequently find ourselves referring to David's work when we attack the myth of barter, and his work has also had a creative impact upon us."
ajayiyer, (edited ) Dear @linux and @academicchatter folks:
Please suggest libre/open source tools that allow for the extraction of text and images from scientific pdf documents?
P.S: I'm on a linux machine. Would like something terminal friendly, if possible!
CCRhode, I’m mystified that poppler-utils is not a viable option. Of course the *.pdf file would have to include the text itself, but many do.
Carunga, Try Zotero. It is a complete literature databas but it’s PDF reader is very good at extracting images and text. Works on all OS, web and mobile. Native Linux client has been very smooth for me. Oh, terminal it doesn’t do though. If you want to extract a large amount in an automated way, its probably not the right tool.
MariaToft, Diversity is beautiful!🌈 #TheGothenburgManifesto of the Movement for a Free Academia outlines a vision of an academia based on an ethics of care, trust and integrity. The manifesto is now available in several languages. @academicchatter please go to the webpage https://freeacademia.org for reading and signing. Join the movement by sharing this call. @npquarterly #academicchatter #academicfreedom
MariaToft, The transnational Movement for a Free Academia have recently launched #theGothenburgManifesto to call for an academic system built on an ethics of care, openness, trust and integrity.
Please read and sign the Gothenburg Manifesto at https://freeacademia.org.
Join the Movement for a Free Academia and support our mission by sharing this call. 🌱
ethniccanuck, @MariaToft @academicchatter
👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻
inquiline, Open letter from North American academics condemning scholasticide in #Gaza
If that's you, please consider signing
"“[T]hree university presidents have been killed in the Israeli attacks, along with more than 95 university deans and professors [...] Meanwhile, 88,000 students have been deprived of receiving their university education"
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7_K7qybzbeiBAg7sYTxbp1VOyYBrYPaxRf8jvHuBa0kQHlg/viewform
gentrifiedrose, @inquiline @academicchatter They commit scholasticide against POC and the poor in the US, irony
pettter, Is there any #sociologist around who can have a look at the account that passes around massive amounts of 'short primers' on 'easy sociology' to the @academicchatter group? Is it just AI-generated garbage or is it actually something useful?
cyberlyra, @pettter @academicchatter and yes “mostly-almost-but-not-exactly-right-and-occasionally-catastrophically-wrong” is a great way to describe LLM generated text. It unfortunately takes a little more time to read through to spot a gotcha moment, though.
TransitBiker, @cyberlyra @pettter @academicchatter it’s a word salad chopped up by a robot.
koen_hufkens, Alternative title should read: Canadian researchers barely lifted above poverty levels.
koen_hufkens, @GhostOnTheHalfShell @academicchatter And if you don't like it you are clearly not passionate enough.
PublicKnowledgeProject, Dear all, the Public Knowledge Project is hosting its AGM and invites communities to save the date and register.
There is lots to celebrate, so please share, and join us on May 29th, 2024, at 8 AM PDT.
You can check out the agenda and register here:
https://pkp.sfu.ca/2024/04/17/pkp-agm-save-the-date-2024/
@ORCID_Org @DOAJ @crossref @tibhannover @TIBopenpub @sfu @infodocket @Flipboard @openaccessnetwork @openaccess @langscipress @academicchatter @academia @technology
inquiline, Statement by #USCAAUP on the #USC administration's decision to cancel 2024 valedictorian Tabassum's commencement speech:
"By casting aside the achievements and USC’s own recognition of such an acclaimed student, the USC administration does not merely create a chilling effect on the academic freedom of the entire USC community. It actively strangles it."
inquiline, (edited ) Here is a petition people can sign to #LetAsnaSpeak:
inquiline, (edited ) And a nice op-ed in the student paper. #USC has hosted many "controversial" speakers in the past, so what is the matter with allowing one of our own students to speak? 🤔 Security doesn't seem to be the issue.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/16/the-choice-between-safety-and-free-speech-is-a-false-one/
RonaldVisser,
pkraus, @RonaldVisser @academicchatter in pursuit of researchers alright 🤣
RonaldVisser, Lol! The predatory SS in pursuit of scientists 🤣