🧵 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?
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.
@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.
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.)
@andy@richard In case you don't already know it, Vilém Flusser’s Does Writing Have A Future (1987/2011) is interesting on the relationship between the author and reader, how it has changed, and how it is continuing to change.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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
@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.
@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.
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.
@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.
@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.
So 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.
"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."
"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). ...
"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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"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."