Introducing the Innovation in Instructional Laboratories (I² Lab)! @i2lab When I was named an Engineering Unleashed Fellow for 2023, it gave me the opportunity to launch my own research lab. Last semester I had three students working with me and this semester we've added two more. We are applying KEEN's entrepreneurial mindset (EM), design thinking, and universal design for learning (UDL) to make the BIOE415 laboratory space and course more accessible and inclusive. We are also looking at ways to make the course a safe space for students to learn from mistakes. More information: https://rebeccaee.com/research
Shoutout to campus lecture series that are having in-person events but also offering remote access! Specifically: UCSD's Science Studies program; and MIT's Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History 🖥️ 🐐
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Creating a city for all of us: a role for the Fediverse in archiving civic urban memory. A preprint on SocArxiv of my paper (Trevor Norris co author) on how the Fediverse could help to create instances of urban civic memory archives using place-name/geocoded posts and instance cache archiving. technically a laymans view (me!), but feedback on technical or other aspects gratefully received :)
Oh look, my favorite:
An email from a student who can’t be at the first class because reasons blah blah blah can I tell him everything he’ll be missing blah blah blah will I accept late work? #academia#academicchatter#academicmastodon
Do people know about the Zotero group, the 'Fediverse Observatory'? Its a long list of relevant information and sources that mention Fediverse related stuff. Check it out.
Starting Monday, I will no longer be a Postdoc Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
I will be a SCIENTIST.
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Dear Shawn Jones,
We are pleased to offer you the position of Scientist 2 in the Information Sciences Group (CCS-3). This represents a conversion of your student/postdoc appointment.
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Well hey. I didn't expect my post about Aaron Swartz to get so popular but it's so good to see how many ppl are touched and angry and emotional about what happened. How much we care and what ppl do to share his life and what he stood for.
We must modernise copyright law and deal with digital content in more realistic and fair ways. I mean, we are at the #AI watershed. That's a whole other ballpark. Check this paper out.
Today I will be posting thoughts about Aaron Swartz, who died on this day in 2013. The academic community should be much more aware of him, and challenge the massive problem of academic publishing that we are all part of. Let's make it our mission to tell people about Aaron and what he stood for.
Finalized the viewing list for my African-American Film class:
Shaft
Buck and the Preacher
Do the Right Thing
Mississippi Masala
Malcolm X
Poetic Justice
Boomerang
Madea Family Reunion
Selma
Fences
Get Out
BlacKkKlansman
Last Black Man in San Francisco
Moonlight
Black Panther
Readings: James Baldwin's The Devil Finds Work plus articles bc there's no decent textbook (go figure) #academia#LitStudies#academicmastodon
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“The 12-page paper is going to make me cry.”
I’ve dreamed of getting a student evaluation like this, and at long last, it’s here. #academia#academicchatter#academicmastodon
I'm proposing that all educators confronting AI—even writing teachers—ask students to generate an image. Unlike ChatGPT, which comes off as some kind of robot oracle, text-to-image generators show AI capabilities and limits in vivid color 🧵 1/4
I am looking for a suitable video platform - apart from Youtube - that other academics use to share and show your own videos (from conferences etc.). Thanks for your suggestions.
Business Insider found instances where Bill Ackman’s wife committed plagiarism in her dissertation. Now he’s promising to go after the entire faculty at MIT. This dark age of #academia just got darker. Beware should a rich man put you in his crosshairs. #academicchatter#academicmastodon