Half thinking of starting an #AcademicVenting hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.
Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail. #Universities#AcademicChatter#neoliberalism
The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
Well, that's a new one: did you know that #Frontiers states this about their peer review?
"When a manuscript is accepted for publication, the names of the reviewers who endorsed its publication appear on the published article, without exceptions."
(from: https://www.frontiersin.org/about/peer-review)
So this is a hard no on principle. (I'm not worried about myself but I am very much worried about retaliations towards younger and/or more vulnerable folks reviewing for them.)
Am I the only one who unequivocally thinks that philosophy has made progress? Perhaps I have a different definition of what progress means, but surely I can't be the only one?
The number of theories and arguments that philosophers uncovered, as well as the clarity and breadth of their analyses, is certainly progress.
No, I cannot rank this student among their class (I have not taught classes at this institution!) & I cannot compare them as "2nd in 10"or similar among the master students I supervised: I supervised folks at three different institutions & systems in two different countries plus every one has their strength and weaknesses, there is no order from best to worst.
My reference letter will tell you nothing and you are wasting everyone's time because of your stupid form 😬
1/16 This July, I gave an invited talk in the "Communicating Science Through Art" session at the European Astronomical Society annual meeting, organized by the amazing @theastrophoenix . And I thought it may be something that would also interest you #fediverse folks.
The aim of the talk was partly to give people insight into my why & how of my art. But mainly to encourage others to just try. In a very subjective manner.
I wish I knew this already, but I don't: if anyone out there has done a scholarly edition of novel for a publisher, how do you work out the timeline in your proposal? Thanks in advance for any thoughts! #editing#ScholarlyEditing#AcademicChatter
Question for all tenure-track or tenured #Academics of any field:
Do you have to teach (at least some) in your current position?
Would you prefer not to do any teaching?
So oral exam at end of PhD. Good idea or just a tradition that doesn't make any sense any more? What are the good things about them? If we didn't do them, how else could we get those good things? #academia#academicchatter
Since I am planning to delete my Twitter account soon, I am slowly deleting every post I made manually, so I can see what I posted (I also do not trust that they will delete the posts if I delete the account). A large portion of my replies are congratulating people on things like their newly published paper, graduating, getting a grant, etc. These kind of posts are what I miss about Twitter, and I hope more people come and post their successes on Mastodon. #AcademicChatter
How to respond to a reviewer who thinks using 'we' consistently throughout a manuscript (in methods and a little in discussion 'we found' etc) sounds unscientific? @academicchatter#academicchatter#academicwriting
Today I am travelling (almost) transcontinental by train. Few changes so what could possibly go wrong… 😑 probably a few things but I’m prepared!🤣 I will add to this thread during my trip today
The controversy over university presidents who gave lawyerly answers in Congress about punishing students who call for genocide reflects the reality of college free speech codes that try to both encourage debate and stop hatred.
Hey, Mastodon! Indiana's attorney general has created an anti-teacher snitch portal for people to report school teachers for being too woke. It allows you to upload files and everything!
There appears to be no safeguard against entering any text you want in any of the boxes, and no location/residence checking.
Dear academic job applicants - if an upper limit of 4 or 5 pages for your science proposal is given, please do not send 9 or 10. This immediately disqualifies you.
#Postdoc in their 30s are less happy than their non-academic peers in their 20s. Short-term contracts and constant relocating make it almost impossible, among the others, to settle down, and start a family.
As an #academic who lived in 3 countries, has now 2 very young daughters, and if she gets tenure will be well in her 40s, I can't stop wondering what is the reason behind this, because, honestly, I can't see any