#AcademicChatter
They say you must use university affiliated email as your corresponding email when you publish you paper, otherwise your paper looks fake and illegitimate.
And when you publish your paper with university email, you get spammed left right center by scammy or totally irrelevant journals and conference you get sick of checking work emails 💀
Reminder! Want to catch tomorrow's #DOAJat20 event @DOAJ? It starts at 9 AM EST.
Join PKP Research Associate Saurabh Khanna alongside an impactful international group of speakers to discuss open access!
Not to be missed, you can register all the way up until the webinar starts:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fu42oi59S7GZ366rjyAUGg#/registration
Happy 20 years to DOAJ!
#OpenAccess #ScholComm #AcademicChatter #AcademicPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #Interoperability #researchers #librarians #universitypress
The EU implements a public database of very large platform moderation decisions! I just found the base data for next year’s social media project in my social #informatics #cyborg #anthropology class #HigherEd #AcademicChatter
Starting to bring out everything in summer storage. Soon there will be tweed.
#professor #professorlife #academia #academicchatter #academicmastodon @academicchatter
✨ Upcoming webinar with @datacite, @crossref & @ORCID_Org
Better Together - The Great Varieties of PIDs and How to Use Them: Navigating the Persistent Identifier Landscape
September 29 @ 6:00 am – 7:00 am UTC+0
Learn more & register:
#ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #OpenInfrastructure #Interoperability #PIDs
A new article in #EOS by #AGU staff & myself on some best practices for peer-reviews: https://eos.org/editors-vox/the-dos-and-donts-of-peer-reviewing
#PeerReview #AcademicChatter #AskAcademia #AmericanGeophysicalUnion #AGU23
How many "compromises around the edges" are ok to get a paper published? And what does it mean for all of us that so many researchers are "inclined to spin their findings in order to advance their private goals"?
A really interesting read from Benjamin Mazer:
The Banality of Bad-Faith Science
White House “Model Scientific Integrity Policy” earlier this year contains:
"a provision that would forbid any federal ... scientist “making or publishing” any statements “that could be construed as being judgments of, or recommendations on,” any federal policy without permission."
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/scientific-integrity-biden-administration
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New piece in Nieman Lab, with Jake Karr & growing out of the Knowing Machines project:
"Press freedom means controlling the language of AI":
"Generative AI systems act like 'stochastic parrots,' using statistical models to guess word orders & pixel placements. That’s incompatible with a free press that commands its own words."
https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/09/press-freedom-means-controlling-the-language-of-ai/
#sts #Commodon #Communication #MediaStudies #AcademicChatter #journalism #ai #generativeAI
cc @niemanlab @communicationscholars
**Faculty Job Opening**
We are hiring for an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Indigenous Land Stewardship.
This is a tenure-track position in The University of British Columbia's Educational Leadership stream. You would be joining the Faculty of Forestry to teach in our new Bachelor of Indigenous Land Stewardship.
Please distribute widely.
#IndigenousLandStewardship #IndigenousEcology #IndigenousGovernance #AcademicChatter
I might need some feedback with this. I'm computing the wave envelope of a variable (a value for each longitude; a sample in the first image) and then computing the correlation of the envelope with the amplitude of each wavenumber (result in second image). Does this make any sense? I'm kind of trying to see which regions "contribute" to each wavenumber.
Just had an upper-level undergrad ask me what a call number is. #histodons #academia #AcademicChatter #libraries
Indiana English is a competitive, peer-reviewed, #OpenAccess academic journal which publishes literary criticism, creative works, pedagogical scholarship, and other work in the field. Check it out and pass it along to anyone you know who might be interested in submitting!
#English #AcademicChatter #Humanities #LiteraryCriticism #Pedagogy #Scholarship
Another day, another “final opportunity” email from a #PredatoryJournal. Surprisingly not #MDPI today! #AcademicChatter
I despise interfolio. Revise your standard letter already. Yes, we're overworked. And, yes, we get asked for way too many letters (hate the system, not the player). But nothing shouts "I don't really care" like a generic letter submitted in support of an application for a position or fellowship. This is someone's life. #academia #AcademicChatter
Researchers!
As part of my PhD, I'm collecting data to help build a better picture of how the results of a research study influence publication in the literature.
The survey take 5-10mins - please participate and share with your networks:
https://cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6g2hWJNtNt9LhjM
Thanks :)
#AcademicPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #PeerReview #OpenScience #Research #PhDchat #AcademicChatter #academic
New academic year is coming, so I did a performance self-checkup. This past summer semester I did not teach (up to now I had teaching only in winter semester), and the breakdown of perf. is following wrote and/or reviewed in resp. to revs of 3 papers (Opt. Express, Carbon, Sens. Act. A Physical), and submitted 1 grant proposal (results soon). Co-wrote 2-3 other papers. Lab work: near 0.
Please grade: Good/bad/"you've got mental health issues".
#academicchatter
The umbrella institution of the institution I work for sends such poorly thought-out emails that our head of IT has to send a follow up email stating they are genuine. My spam filter had already thrown them all out, labelling them as phishing attempts. The included URLs look indeed suspect.
Message from my colleague Tom Beesley (@tombeesley)
"If you work in a university psychology department and teach (or want to teach) statistics using R, then we have a new mailing list for open discussion. We discuss strategies / experiences around teaching R, upcoming workshops, etc."
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RSTATS-TEACHING-UG-PSYCH
Do you have cool pics of Berlin's linguistic landscape = graffiti, ads, public signs, especially on language practices or in languages other than German (or varieties other than Standard German)? Then please send them to me, we'll analyze them with my students of German Studies at Leiden University in our sociolinguistics class!
#AcademicChatter #Teaching #HigherEd #Berlin #German #Berlinerisch
CP2023
We have finalised CP 2023's proceedings! If you haven't read all the papers yet, this is the perfect time to get reading!
https://www.dagstuhl.de/dagpub/978-3-95977-300-3
#CP2023conf #ConstraintProgramming #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #Proceedings #Conference #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
I need to make an interactive/ animated video explaining some concept. Does anyone know open-source tools/softwares to make TED style with videos with voiceover. Any help is appreciated :)
#psychology #neuroscience #OpenScience #academic #AcademicChatter @psychology @neuroscience @opensource
"Saying NO !" decision tree for #academic
I just found this awesome flow chart providing an accurate decision tree on when and how to say #NO at work.
I'm gonna print it and stick it on my office door !
#AcademicLife #academicchatter #academicmastodon @academicchatter #Research
credits: @gbosslet
It is always an exciting day when you have new climate modelling data to look at. The results are not what I expected, but I think I know why. #AcademicChatter
The LMS wasn't working properly yesterday and it has negatively affected three days of my work. Give students a break when they say they are behind because of x. It happens #AcademicChatter
Does anyone else find that the well-meaning trend in seminar of “first question from a student” tends not to succeed?
My proposal: THIRD question must be from a student.
Students usually need time to process the talk and build up the courage/conviction to ask it. And once faculty get the ball rolling it feels easier to raise your hand. I think it’s on hosts to check the vibe partway through and explicitly ask for students to talk, but at the start never seems to work well.
I'm seeing suggestions for students to cite "AI" when they use it. I'm having trouble envisioning this. Not the format of the citation, but the context. What is the value of teaching *students* to cite an algorithm's string of words if the very use of AI in professional work is not acceptable?
Are there any examples of published *professional* (not student) writing where AI output is cited...but not writing which is *about* AI and its output.
Hot take: Imposter syndrome drives an immense amount of academics' research productivity — the drive to become the expert everyone assumes you are by virtue of your title before people discover otherwise.
Another resource I absolutely love is IncludEdu.
IncludEdu is a website for assistive technology. It's built for an audience of educators/younger learners BUT do not let that fool you. I have discovered lots of great plugins on IncludEdu.
You can search by Apple, Microsoft, or Google. Good source for accommodation ideas!
#AcademicChatter #Disability #HigherEd
#Accessibility #DisabledInHigherEd
#DisabledInAcademia
#DisabledStudents #Disability #Accommodations
Ann Gagné's latest podcast episode is "Accessible Social Media" and it's worth a listen for everyone concerned about equity.
Each episode is ~10 minutes, so very ADHD-friendly! Ann also includes transcripts for those who would rather read.
https://anngagne.ca/podcast/episode-11-accessible-social-media/
Watch me go directly from "I really have too many different things to do" to taking on another new, really huge (but also 🤩 ) task... I cannot help myself #academicChatter
... Which grant application has just been returned to me because I used the wrong font. Ah the joys of #academia. #AcademicChatter
Peer review is the cornerstone of academic writing and publishing. That means most scholars will inevitably experience being on both the giving and receiving end of reviewer comments.
On our blog, we’ve gathered some of our favorite peer review resources to shed some light on this scholarly practice and how we can make it better. https://ideasonfire.net/peer-review-resources/
#PeerReviewWeek #PeerReview #ScholarlyPublishing #PRW2023 #AcademicChatter
Getting my combo COVID/Flu shot. I usually get pretty loopy for the rest of the day, trying shots at night so I won’t have to cancel classes tomorrow. What will happen? #highered #academicchatter #proflife
All The Things ADHD is a great podcast by two academics: @Readywriting and Aimée Morrison.
If you're looking for some particularly good places to start, I recommend S5 E8 Neurodivergent college survival tips, S4 E13: What if, wait for it, we didn’t have to fundamentally change who we are to be successful?, and S4 E21: The Sh*t Sandwich.
#AcademicChatter #Disability #HigherEd
#Accessibility #DisabledInHigherEd
#DisabledStudents
#ADHD #Neurodivergent #Autism
In Explainable AI (XAI), very smart people often bicker endlessly (and somewhat pointlessly) about this: do we need one definition of XAI to rule them all? Turns out the history of bicycles can answer this question.
The work w/ @Riedl was presented at the Human-centered AI workshop at NeurIPS'22 (paper --https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.06499.pdf).
#AI #XAI #ResponsibleAI #mastodon #academia #academicchatter
> @purplepadma 🔗 https://beige.party/users/purplepadma/statuses/111127343076344873
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I’m worried that I will lose out professionally if I don’t have a work X/Twitter account. But I don’t want to go back into the cesspit. Is there an academic #psychology #PsychologyResearch community here in the Fediverse? Please boost #phd #phdchat #AcademicChatter
At the Zagreb Applied Ethics Conference, we had a plenary talk by Francesca Minerva about the Journal of Controversial Ideas:
"The Journal of Controversial Ideas offers a forum for careful, rigorous, unpolemical discussion of issues that are widely considered controversial, in the sense that certain views about them might be regarded by many people as morally, socially, or ideologically objectionable or offensive."
What do you think of that idea? 🤔
This fills me with rage.
#academia #academicchatter #academicmastodon @academicch
The Zagreb Applied Ethics Conference 2023 at the Zagreb Institute of Philosophy was great, with a truly international roster of presenters. Loved it! 👍🏻
#academia #academicchatter #conference #ethics #philosophy @academicchatter @philosophy
Major grant application that took a big chunk of the summer submitted! Now to forget about it until results are announced sometime next year... #academia #AcademicChatter
Things I didn't realize about the #AcademicaJobMarket:
4) There's a stage where you keep having nightmares about your job talk. 😳
I'm told these will decrease once I've actually finished writing the talk. But feel free to chime in if you disagree (I'm skeptical).
#PhdChat #GradSchool #JobMarket #AcademicMastodon #PhDLife #Academia #JobTalk #AcademicChatter
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.
Association of Internet Researchers just published a intro to Mastodon video and is encouraging academics to get active on Mastodon.
#AoIR #Mastodon #Introduction #TwitterMigration @AoIR @admin1 #Internet #Commodon #AcademicChatter
Not sure where to begin designing a poster presentation? This blog has excellent advice!
"the supposedly outrageous radicals [in academia] are really not very radical at all."
As a "supposedly outrageous radical," I agree.
#academia #academicChatter #labour #labor
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-sycophant
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* collecting art supplies or learning new tools is a hobby of it’s own and not the same hobby as making art
* understanding of basics is helpful: how to build up a page? how do shadows work? how to colors work together?
And that's it. I do hope you find it useful and maybe encouraging to try on your own!
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.
A thread: 🧵
Struggling to decide who to include in the author list of your manuscript? CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) can help!
@drcaberry #BlackSTEMAIArt #NoireSTEMinist #MySTEMIsForTheStreets #RepresentationMatters #AcademicChatter #Teacher #Teachers #TeacherLife #FollowFriday @AcademicChatter @blackAndSTEM @BlkInEngineerng #AcademicTwitter
https://openart.ai/community/jqmczQHi8GEedXxtaAkZ
See More at NoireSTEMinist. com/shop
@drcaberry #BlackSTEMAIArt #NoireSTEMinist #MySTEMIsForTheStreets #RepresentationMatters #AcademicChatter #Teacher #Teachers #TeacherLife
https://openart.ai/community/FCYrhOJKGzXOY37hYeQV
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@drcaberry #BlackSTEMAIArt #NoireSTEMinist #MySTEMIsForTheStreets #RepresentationMatters #AcademicChatter #Teacher #Teachers #TeacherLife get more at
https://openart.ai/community/FCYrhOJKGzXOY37hYeQV
NoireSTEMinist. com/shop
@drcaberry #BlackSTEMAIArt #NoireSTEMinist #RepresentationMatters #AcademicChatter #Teacher #Teachers #TeacherLife get more at
https://openart.ai/community/R9BkXXn0C8dBVdBREYDI
NoireSTEMinist. com/shop
In the next few years, we will have more stars in our catalogs than people on Earth. I love statistics, but like people, every single star has a story. We are the cosmic journalists, and our job is to know which stories to tell.
#astrodon #astronomy #academicchatter
Memory Lane:
UB TIB - die Technische Informationsbibliothek der Universität #Hannover. Unten rechts im Bild der Audimax von aussen.
#AcademicChatter
@TIBHannover
Really happy to share that I passed my PhD viva today! 🥳
I studied eavesdropping on speech in wild carrion crows in the UK, you can read the main paper here:
https://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id=1348
Another potential resource comes from Disabled Academic Collective. They did a thread a while ago on digital resources for disabled folks who wanted to find community online. They compiled the answers into "Community Resources" and posted it to their Resources page.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tIOlPW0JJNh-HHXPYG3mjjQ5ugITCTgUeraqa4cYBkE/edit
#AcademicChatter #Disability #HigherEd
#Accessibility #DisabledInHigherEd
#DisabledInAcademia
#DisabledStudents
One of the most frustrating and constant aspects of being a #transwoman in #highered is young cishet white (mostly male-identifying) students being openly dubious about my expertise and disrespectful at even the slightest hint of critical feedback. It is especially bad in the technical aspects of my teaching #webdev #creativecode .
This has been happening throughout my 4+ years as a full time faculty member and across all institutions at which I have taught.
cc'ing @academicchatter (#academicChatter) on the above thread.
Prepping next week's activity on #SciFi as #STS critique for my social #informatics and cyborg #anthropology students.
We all watch a short film version of *Car Wars* by @pluralistic and then the class examines the plot from three different critical perspectives.
Students are working together as teams in Google Docs within the same classroom, F2F discussion, shared workspace.
Whole class shares and debriefs toward end of session.
Feel free to reuse CC-BY.
![1. Read the concerns of technology ethicist Cory Doctorow regarding self- driving cars. Doctorow, Cory. 2015. “The Problem with Self-Driving Cars: Who Controls the Code?” The Guardian, December 23, 2015, sec. Technology. https:/www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/23/the-problem-with-self- driving-cars-who-controls-the-code & 2. Listen to Doctorow’s *Car Wars* short story audiobook with animations (recommended that you consume the story this way) * Best version - https:/boingboing.net/2016/12/21/free-audiobook-of-car- wars-my.html & « OR https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CNeaQS7kMQ (copy/paste link; not activated here to prevent YouTube player on page) « Backup, original story text (if you need to ctrl-f and clarify anything in the text) © https:/web.archive.org/web/20190213075619/https: //this.deakin.edu.au/self-improvement/car-wars = 3. With your group, create answers to some topical questions as new posts into the class discussion forum. Your particular answers are assigned by last name: 1. Group Google Docs here [LINK] & 1. Add your name to the table on page 1 2. During the movie, take notes in your area related to answering your questions 3. After the movie, work with your group to answer the questions on page 2](https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/cache/media_attachments/files/111/105/267/755/218/244/small/27b9b374b39a92e9.png)
New blog idea: “Broken Academia: Tales from really tired academics on how they eventually realised the problem was with the system and not them.”
I’m watching an #anime called #evangelion and I’m identifying with Shinji so damn hard
#AcademicChatter @academicchatter
#captcha - To prove that you're an academic, select all the squares that contain something that is more of a comment than a question.
Disabled In Higher Ed's "Disabled in STEM/Academia Literature" spreadsheet is a collection of articles, blogs, etc. that may interest disabled students, staff, faculty, and anyone invested in accessibility in higher education.
Bonus for ADHD folks: there are summaries of what each item is.
#AcademicChatter #Disability #HigherEd
#Accessibility #DisabledInHigherEd
#DisabledInAcademia
#DisabledStudents
The underfunding of higher education coincided with the rise of underrepresented groups attending college.
Bills calling for the removal of tenure coincided with the rise of underrepresented groups becoming college faculty.
#academicchatter #academia #AAUP
"The Racial Equity Initiative at the AAUP" https://www.buzzsprout.com/1837772/13552506-the-racial-equity-initiative-at-the-aaup
A great great teaching gig for MFAs, M.Arch and praxis PhDs working in CAD, computer controlled additive and subtractive fabrication/machining. UCSD is a top 10 public university; the visual arts department is looking for a computer artist to lead our track in machining and makerspace-ish. Tenure track parallel. Please boost!
https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03730
#fabrication #art #artistsonmastodon #artistsofmastodon #makers #makerspace #academicmastodon #academicchatter #academicjobs #artist #academic
I absolutely love it when #Academia does management's work for them by being divisive and rejecting solidarity.
Divided we abso-fucking-lutely fall.
#SlowClap
#AcademicChatter @academicsunite @academicchatter
Dear Students: Exactly what are you asking for when you email a professor after you don't attend class and ask "what did I miss"? Class was almost 2 hours long. Asking for a friend.
One of my papers got accepted with major revisions... Still feels like a win! 😀
One advantage with redundancy is not having to look into the dead eyes of management pretending concern.
#academicChatter #precarity
It's National Postdoc Appreciation Week.
Don't forget to leave a fresh pot of filter coffee and a copy of Angewandte for your postdocs this week!
Tell me you don't understand qualitative research without telling me you don't understand qualitative research.
The most overlooked technology for teaching (if you're on Microsoft for email) is mail merge. I have emailed every one of my students a personalized check in for the start of the semester. It took me about 10 minutes total. This is particularly helpful for people who use #AlternativeGrading #AcademicChatter
90% of the time I need to prepare a talk is spent making little animations to show stuff I could probably explain in 1 minute (like the one below, which took way to long to make).
I think I need help 😞
#AcademicChatter
Hi! Do I know anyone here that #teaches Intro to #Archives #classes?
If so, would you be willing to chat about the books (if any) you assign? I need to rethink my books
#academicchatter #teaching #archivalEducation #libraries #libraryscience #librarySchool