Hi, #AcademicMastodon! I'm putting the final touches on the web page for my Master's capstone project (for which I passed the defense), and I'm wondering if I'm missing anything. Care to share social science or public administration research web pages you authored or like? Boosts appreciated.
UMaine New Media and Computer Science just finished a groundbreaking 4-month experiment comparing AI with traditional digital methods in creative tasks. From essay writing to game design, 50 students tested AI's capabilities head-to-head with conventional tools https://blog.still-water.net/ai-versus-old-school-creativity 🧵1/7
So much this. (TT) PIs often fail as mentors; or managers for that matter. They get exactly zero hours of training (and often have zero hours of experience) on these matters. (note that: teaching != mentoring)
Professors / PIs seem to be hired on the basis of the science only (and then only on the ideas, not their execution), not on demonstrated competence in running a lab. All other collateral be damned.
yes yes yes. Ive been saying this for at least a year or more and am writing about this again in my current paper. Im 100% behind this. My new theme is promoting the idea of civic learning networks that are based on decentralised federated instance models that also integrate with the open social web.
I have really reduced grade grubbing in the past couple of years by simply showing them how the sausage gets made:
I can’t wave a magic wand and change your final grade once posted. There’s a process. My dean needs to sign off. The dean of undergraduate academic advisement needs to sign off. They need compelling reasons to make the change. PS I’m not lying for you. #academia#professor#academicchatter#academicmastodon
I would really appreciate it if some of my white coworkers would stop telling students that identity politics are "on the rise," when this whole fucking country was literally founded on identity politics. Like, ask the Native Americans. Or read a book.
Update on the National Science Foundation (#NSF) stance on #AI in review and proposal writing.
"A key observation for reviewers is that sharing proposal information with generative AI technology via the open internet violates the confidentiality and integrity principles of NSF's merit review process."
Welp, this semester I’ve made two students (both men) cry not because of bad grades or something similar but because I was nice to them. This is definitely some kind of record. 🤦♂️ #academia#academicchatter#academicmastodon
On the #enshitification of #academic#publishing. Where scientists burn the candle at both ends, paying to read and publish their work, in what is the ultimate grift.
Just signed the contract for the inclusion of my article on James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie in the volume Edward Albee and the Emergence of Difference and Diversity in US and World Theatre, 1950s-1970s to be published in a year by Routledge. #professor#academia#academicchatter#academicmastodon
(This will be a very long list by the end of the year if I keep it up. We'll see.)
Your statements are basically done after the first few deadlines. I always thought I'd customize extensively for each school.
Nope.
On a week like this (with so many apps due Sep 15), you just don't have time. You have to trust that you already put in the work with your base template. It's a mental shift from fellowship apps.