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#academics

Michelson, A. et al. (2023) 'High-strength, lightweight nano-architected silica,' Cell Reports Physical Science, 4(7), p. 101475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101475. #OpenAccess #OA #Science #STEM #Engineering #DNA #Glass #Nanotechnology #Tech #Technology #Mechanics #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @engineering

Rainbow Murray ๐ŸŒˆ
7 hours ago

Verbose #academics, please note! Keep the title of your articles short! Otherwise everyone who ever cites you will resent how much of their word allowance gets eaten up by the references list (they may even avoid citing you if your overlong title would force them to cut loads of words elsewhere...) #AcademicMastodon #academia

Bastien Llamas, Xavier Roca Rada, Evelyn Collen; Ancient DNA helps trace the peopling of the world. Biochem (Lond) 31 January 2020; 42 (1): 18โ€“22. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/BIO04201018 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Science #Biology #AncientDNA #MolecularBiology #Ancient #DNA #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

Matthew Williams, Joรฃo Teixeira; A genetic perspective on human origins. Biochem (Lond) 31 January 2020; 42 (1): 6โ€“10. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/BIO04201006 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Science #Archaeogenetics #PopulationGenetics #Population #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons

Anarchy How
2 days ago

#Academics, what #MacOS #appstore apps should I look into?

Bonus points for getting as close to FOSS as possible and a distinct lack of #enshittification.

Nonilex
2 days ago

The suggestion is clear, & it comes from a man who has one of #Americaโ€™s loudest megaphonesโ€”one that is directed squarely at millions of #extremists who are well #armed, who insist that the govt is illegitimate, & who believe that people like #Milley are part of a โ€œdeep stateโ€ plot against the country.

#Academics have a formal term for exactly this type of #incitement: #StochasticTerrorism. An influential figure w/a large following demonizes a person or a group of people.

#Trump

"We model the impact of the number of native speakers, the proportion of nonnative speakers, the number of linguistic neighbors, and the status of a language on grammatical complexity while controlling for spatial and phylogenetic autocorrelation."

Olena Shcherbakova et al., Societies of strangers do not speak less complex languages. Sci. Adv. 9, eadf7704 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf7704 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Linguistics #Anthropology #Language #Languages #Culture #Grammar #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics @anthropology

Farnsworth, A., Lo, Y.T.E., Valdes, P.J. et al. Climate extremes likely to drive land mammal extinction during next supercontinent assembly. Nat. Geosci. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01259-3 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Earth #Climate #Science #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

Lennard van Otterloo
2 days ago

@t0nyyates Itโ€™s probably a bit much to go through all of them but there is a curated list of curated lists of academics on Mastodon.

https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

#academia #academics #science

One of the key areas where the commercialisation of the #university sector might be seen, has been in the rise of the university #spinout - the commercialisation of research conducted by #academics, spun out into SMEs (often with retained part-ownership for researchers & the university).

So, interestingly having reached a peak in 2021 there has been a recent decline... the Q. is whether this is a blip, or represents a shift in the willingness to invest in uni-based innovation?

Chart: Equity investment in UK university spinouts.

Amount raise has risen from less than ยฃ0.5bn in 2013 to a peak of ยฃ2.5bn in 2021, before dipping down last year & this; this is reflected in the number of deals concluded with has risen from around 200 a year in 2013, to a peak of 400 in 2022 & then dropped into this year.
Nonilex
4 days ago

#Academics & #government #scientists say the campaign also is successfully throttling the years-long effort to #study #online #falsehoods, which grew after #Russian attempts to #interfere in the 2016 #election caught both #SocialMedia sites & politicians unawares.
โ€ฉInterviews w/ >2 dozen professors, government officials, #physicians, #nonprofits & #research fundersโ€ฆ describe an escalating campaign emerging as #online #propaganda is rising.

Nonilex
4 days ago

#Academics, #universities & #GovernmentAgencies are overhauling or ending #research programs designed to counter the spread of #online #misinformation amid a #legal campaign from #conservative politicians & activists who accuse them of colluding w/ #tech companies to #censor #RightWing views.
โ€ฉThe escalating campaign โ€” led by #JimJordan & other #Republicans in #Congress & state gov โ€” has cast a pall over programs that study not just #political falsehoods but also quality of #medical info online.

KRSTIฤ†, V. (2023). A Functional Analysis of Human Deception. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 1-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2023.19 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Philosophy #Deception #Misinformation #Academia #Academic #Academics @philosophy

Nonilex
5 days ago

(Probably as a result of their efforts) The #Koch networkโ€™s position has become increasingly popular in recent yrs. Once broadly supported by #academics & #judges on the #right, #Chevron is now #anathema to many in the #conservative #legal movement.

And thereโ€™s no more prominent convert than #ClarenceThomas.

Luke Martell
6 days ago

This is really excellent on academics. So many espouse critical and radical views in their work and self-presentation but in practice are conformists in university life and dismissive about resisters or opposition at university. I've encountered this inconsistency over and over again.
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-sycophant #universities #highereducation #academicchatter #academics

Barham, L., Duller, G.A.T., Candy, I. et al. Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06557-9 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Limnology #Palaeoclimate #Sedimentology #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons

Bud Talbot
1 week ago

Fellow #academics: can anyone vouch for the journal "Environment and Social Psychology?" Is it legit/not predatory? I have never heard of it (slightly out of field). I checked beal's List (https://beallslist.net/ of course not updated since 2017) and did not find it there.

#academia
@academicchatter

Pรคrttyli Rinne, Mikke Tavast, Enrico Glerean & Mikko Sams (2023) Body maps of loves, Philosophical Psychology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2252464 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Philosophy #Psychology #Emotions #Relationships #Academia #Academic #Academics @philosophy @psychology

Dr. Amy H. Sturgis ๐ŸŽƒ
1 week ago

#Revenant is a peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated to academic and creative explorations of the #Supernatural, the #Uncanny, and the #Weird.

Issue 9 is now available: #Vampires: Consuming #Monsters and Monstrous Consumption ๐Ÿง›โ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿง›โ€โ™€๏ธ

#Journals #Gothic #GothicStudies #Academics #Horror #HorrorStudies #Dracula #VarneyTheVampire

https://www.revenantjournal.com/

Pictured is the black-and-white logo of the Revenant journal (with light shining through standing stones in a field) and the text Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural.
Mark A. Rayner
1 week ago

In case you're wondering, Joe and I are hard at work putting our second season of the Re-Creative podcast together. In it, we talk to creative folks (#writers, #artists, #musicians, #academics, #documentary makers & others) about the piece of #art that most inspired them. They're always engaging conversations filled with insight and inspiration!

Check out our first season at the Re-Creative website, or just subscribe anyplace you listen to #podcasts!

https://re-creative.ca/

cropped version of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night
Dr. Amy H. Sturgis ๐ŸŽƒ
2 weeks ago

Thereโ€™s now a cover and release date for Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales: Reconsidering the Short Fiction! This looks delicious. #ShirleyJackson #Books #Bookstodon #Academics

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/shirley-jacksons-dark-tales-9781350361126/

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Cosimo Posth et al., The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect. Sci. Adv.7, eabi7673 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abi7673 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #STEM #Etruscans #Italy #Europe #Archaeogenetics #Biology #History #Anthropology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons @anthropology

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Villalba-Mouco, V., Oliart, C., Rihuete-Herrada, C. et al. Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia. Sci Rep 12, 22415 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25975-9 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Anthropology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Biology #Genetics #Iberia #Spain #Europe
#Archaeogenetics #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons @anthropology

Dominic J. Skinner et al., Topological packing statistics of living and nonliving matter. Sci. Adv. 9, eadg1261 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg1261 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #Science #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Physics #Biology #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

"This planetary boundaries framework update finds that six of the nine boundaries are transgressed, suggesting that Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for humanity."

Katherine Richardson et al., Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries. Sci. Adv. 9, eadh2458 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Environment #Environmental #EnvironmentalStudies #Pollution #Biodiversity #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

Johannes Wienand
2 weeks ago

New Book Series, "Studies in Ancient Civil War": The series welcomes outstanding monographs and edited volumes exploring any given aspect of ancient civil war.

You want to know more? Feel free to contact the series editors.

https://www.academia.edu/106658874/New_Book_Series_Studies_in_Ancient_Civil_War_De_Gruyter_ISSN_2941_3273

https://twitter.com/WienandJohannes/status/1702694892462370922

#histodons #antiquidons #History #Politics #January6 #GeoPolitics #Academia #Academic #Academics #civilwar
@histodons @antiquidons

Leonardo Grando
2 weeks ago

A D Curry, King Arthur of England, count of Habsburg: the use of Arthurian imagery in Habsburg diplomacy, Historical Research, 2023;, htad018, https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htad018 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Britain #British #UK #UnitedKingdom #C16th #16thCentury #Europe #Habsburg #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons

DEVONtechnologies
2 weeks ago

Tip of the day: #DEVONthink is a good place to keep your literature, because you can add a lot of bibliographic data as metadata. One source for such data is Crossref, and with a script you can easily import metadata from there to #DEVONthink. Here is how that works. #academics #automation #pkm #productivity #research #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20230711-metadata-crossref

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Loy, M. (2023). GEORGE FINLAY IN EGYPT AND SWITZERLAND: NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRAVEL, SCHOLARSHIP AND SOCIAL NETWORKS. The Antiquaries Journal, 1-25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000358152300032X #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Travel #Tourism #Ethnography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Britain #Egypt #Switzerland #C19th #19thCentury #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons

AARTS, B. (2023). Oblique predicative constructions in English with for and as: Qua vs qualitate qua. English Language & Linguistics, 1-16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674323000199 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #English #Language #Linguistics #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Ruiz-Redondo, A., Barciela, V., & Martorell, X. (2023). Cova Dones: A major Palaeolithic cave art site in eastern Iberia. Antiquity, 1-5. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.133 #OpenAccess #OA #Mediterranean #Pleistocene #Rock #Art #RockArt #Antiquity #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Iberia #Valencia #Spain #History #Histodon #Histodons #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons

Roey Angel
2 weeks ago

Some highlights from the regional central European @ISMEmicrobes meeting in Budapest
#CEESME #microbiology #academics

Cameron D. Campbell
2 weeks ago

The Division of Social Science at HKUST has multiple searches ongoing this year. Please help spread the word! Here's a link to the Division web page, which has links to more details for each of the searches. #academics #socialscience https://sosc.hkust.edu.hk/news/faculty-positions-social-science

๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Martin Kolk, Linus Andersson, Emma Pettersson, Sven Drefahl; The Swedish Kinship Universe: A Demographic Account of the Number of Children, Parents, Siblings, Grandchildren, Grandparents, Aunts/Uncles, Nieces/Nephews, and Cousins Using National Population Registers. Demography 2023; 10955240. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10955240 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #Demography #Sociology #Sweden #Swedish #Population #Family #Academia #Academic #Academics @sociology

Juan Miguel Guhlin (tceajmg)
2 weeks ago

@brianb @NewScience101 @edutooters Hi, Brian. Search on hashtags like #education #edtech #science #academics #edutooters and add those when relevant to your posts. I try to follow only education or educator accounts. I will share my following list later with you and you can import them so you can get going with more edu folks. That said, it is sparse hereโ€ฆand different. I find value every day.

"A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, ranging across the civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. Over this long period, chemical artisans, recipes, and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium."

Beretta, M. (Ed.). (2022). A Cultural History Of Chemistry: In Antiquity. London,: Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved September 10, 2023, from http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474203746 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #History #HistSci #Culture #Chemistry #STEM #Technology #Medicine #PhilosophyofScience #Antiquity #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #Academics
@science @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (58)

DrArtAnalytics
3 weeks ago

#academics hornets nest of thieving blokes that like to think they're special. Grrrrr!

Olga Lovick (she/her)
3 weeks ago

Training a new research assistant is hard work. #CatsOfMastodon #Academics

A black kitten snoozing next to a person with a laptop on her lap.
Andrew Porter
3 weeks ago

Worrying perspective on #ResearchCulture from Wyn Evans, professor of astrophysics at University of Cambridge:

'#Bullying is a feature of UK research universities, not a bug' is a response to Cambridge's new 'dignity at work' policy

"It is no coincidence, then, that big egos are associated with โ€œtop #academics alongside charisma, self-promotion and self-importance. And these qualities are also present in the kinds of people who #bully others."

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/bullying-feature-uk-research-universities-not-bug

Sheridan
3 weeks ago

This is a great German-English dictionary. It orders words by their root first, and prefixes/suffixes second, creating families of words with a common root.

Stay away from the ebook version however. It has major formatting issues and is practically illegible in some spots.

#book #books #german #deutsch #language #Linguistics #research #academics

โ€œA GERMAN WORD
FAMILY DICTIONARY
TOGETHER WITH ENGLISH
EQUIVALENTSโ€
HOWARD H. KELLER
UC PRESS
VOICES
REVIVED
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Page from book
Page from book
vy
3 weeks ago

Long discussion by academics on Xitter about arxiv versus peer reviewed, and I have to strongly come down on the side that if you are providing academic/science discussions on Elon Musk's gross platform, you are part of the problem
#Xitter #academics #nazis

Thomas Lavergne
3 weeks ago

So I have an e-ink tablet now (Onyx Boox) and I want to use it in #academic work, e.g. reading papers and taking notes about them. Or use it when reviewing papers. Or annotating pdfs.

Other #academics out there want to share the workflows and (android) apps that work for them? #AcademicChatter

๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Mikko Tolonen, Leo Lahti, Hege Roivainen & Jani Marjanen (2019) A Quantitative Approach to Book-Printing in Sweden and Finland, 1640โ€“1828, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 52:1, 57-78, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2018.1526657 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #BookHistory #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Digital #Library #History #Histodon #Histodons #Publishing #Europe #Sweden #Finland #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @bookstodon

Dr. Amy H. Sturgis ๐ŸŽƒ
3 weeks ago

#CallForPapers: Devils and Justified Sinners โ€“ 2024 Conference

This will be an #OnlineConference marking the 200th anniversary of James Hoggโ€™s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

#Gothic #GothicStudies #RomancingTheGothic #JamesHogg #OnlineEvent #Academics #Horror #HorrorStudies

https://romancingthegothic.com/2023/09/04/devils-and-justified-sinners-2024-conference/

Dr. Amy H. Sturgis ๐ŸŽƒ
3 weeks ago

The Conan Doyle Review, a new peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal focused โ€œon the life, works, creative afterlives, and cultural legacies of Arthur Conan Doyle,โ€ is now open to submissions.

#CallForPapers #ArthurConanDoyle #SherlockHolmes #Journal #Academics #ProfessorChallenger #Sherlockian #ConanDoyle #ConanDoyleReview

https://conan-doyle-review.scholasticahq.com/post/2124-now-accepting-submissions

Text says CDR: The Conan Doyle Review now accepting submissions September 04, 2023 EDT. The background image is Arthur Conan Doyleโ€™s hands, one holding a writing implement, writing on paper on a desk.
DEVONtechnologies
3 weeks ago

Part of the daily routine at university is being able to organize knowledge. That means taking notes, doing research, creating and managing documents. Our apps help you do just that. For a relaxed start into the new term, hereโ€™s a 40 percent discount, only until September 17th, 2023. #devonthink #devonagent #devonsphere #education #academics #discount #promotion #pressrelease https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20230904-back-to-school?utm_content=bufferf6766&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

"Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman world, the Syriac milieu and the Arabo-Islamic tradition)."

(Eds.). (22 Feb. 2021). Traces of Ink. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004444805 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Science #Literature #Philology #HistSci #Culture #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (57)

"In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas."

Barth, J. (2022). The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501755781 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodon #Histodons #English #England #America #Empire #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Money #Currency #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (55)

von Mallinckrodt, R., Kรถstlbauer, J. & Lentz, S. (2021). Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650โ€“1850. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110748833 #OpenAccess #OA #History #EarlyModern #German #Germany #Europe #Slavery #SlaveryArchive #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (53)

von Mallinckrodt, R., Kรถstlbauer, J. & Lentz, S. (2021). Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650โ€“1850. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110748833 #OpenAccess #OA #History #EarlyModern #German #Germany #Europe #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
@earlymodern @bookstodon (53)

Leonard Leo, a key architect of the Supreme Courtโ€™s conservative supermajority, is now the chairman of #Teneo #Network, a group that aims to influence all aspects of American politics and culture

Leo declared in a slick but private video to potential donors, he planned to โ€œcrush liberal dominanceโ€ across American life. The country was plagued by โ€œwoke-ismโ€ in corporations and education, โ€œone-sided journalismโ€ and โ€œentertainment thatโ€™s really corrupting our youth,โ€ said Leo amid snippets of cheery music and shots of sunsets and American flags.

Sitting tucked into a couch, with wire-rimmed glasses and hair gone to gray, Leo conveyed his inspiration and intentions: โ€œI just said to myself, โ€˜Well, if this can work for law, why canโ€™t it work for lots of other areas of American culture and American life where things are really messed up right now?โ€™โ€

Teneo is building what Leo called in the video โ€œnetworks of conservatives that can roll backโ€ liberal influence in #WallStreet and #SiliconValley, among #authors and #academics, with pro #athletes and #Hollywood producers.

A Federalist Society for everything.

โ€” ProPublica

#LeonardLeo
#fedsoc #federalistsociety

https://www.propublica.org/article/leonard-leo-teneo-videos-documents

Dr. Amy H. Sturgis ๐ŸŽƒ
4 weeks ago

#CallForPapers for #OnlineEvent: Dead #Media: Contemporary #Horror and The #Analogue (Saturday, January 13, 2024)

This symposium will explore the reappropriation of analogue formats and styles within the contemporary horror genre across various media platforms. The event is intended to connect media scholars working in this area and highlight current research across relevant topics, with a view to future collaboration.

#MediaStudies #HorrorStudies #Analog #Academics #VirtualConference

https://baftsshorror.weebly.com/dead-media-contemporary-horror-and-the-analogue-symposium.html

The logo for Dead Media: Contemporary Horror
and the Analogue โ€” A BAFTSS Horror Studies SIG Symposium (with these words over an indistinct horror image of a screaming face).

Any other professional #academics annoyed by the way #academia gets portrayed in pop culture? Things like: every lecture ends by telling the class what to read, being the department chair means youโ€™ve made it, tenured colleagues getting fired because of tweets or activism, nobody ever does any work other than the last thirty seconds of teaching class, etc. etc.? How hard would it be to TALK to real-life academics about what their jobs are like and work the story around that?

#AcademicChatter

Heidi Li Feldman
1 month ago

Fellow #professors #academics - anybody else feeling an extra wave of horror over the gun violence at UNC today?
Today was the first day of fall term classes where I work and the killing of a UNC faculty member just feelsโ€ฆ.too much.

Laure
1 month ago

@briannawu lol. It never ceases to amaze how confident far leftists and IMO, a lot of #academics too refuse to admit that their idea of a good anti-capitalist person applies to like 1% of the population. So then #academia is really disconnected from communities and reality. A new #ivorytower. Now add in the insistence on pc jargon and itโ€™s no wonder Joe MAGA-ts turn to #trumpism. Itโ€™s literally a 19th century dead framework. Iโ€™m a progressive btw. Cc @anneapplebaum

"Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online?"

Jongepier, F., & Klenk, M. (Eds.). (2022). The Philosophy of Online Manipulation (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003205425 #OpenAccess #OA #Philosophy #Digital #Ethics #Online #Tech #Technology #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #Academics @philosophy @bookstodon (52)

Burnett, D. G. (2005). Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and Their Significance in the Seventeenth Century. United States: American Philosophical Society. https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Descartes_and_the_Hyperbolic_Quest/oAYNAAAAIAAJ #HIstory #Histodon #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Telescope #C17th #17thCentury #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (49)

1 month ago

@farhanasultana thanks for letting us know, + interesting to know many academics are on #bluesky. Weird though, you'd assume #academics are the most rational people and yet they keep behaving the same way, hoping for a different outcome. ##Dorsey sold you once without a second thought and will do it again. It'll soon be too late to talk the knife out of his hands.

David Nathanson
1 month ago

Serious question for anti-racist academics in sociology and psychology:

Are there studies and accepted terminology regarding the common dynamic where a white person treats a person of color inappropriately, the POC responds with even mild irritation, and the encounter is now about the POC's response rather than the white person's misbehavior?

"White tears" is one form of this dynamic, but that is underinclusive as it tends to be only about white women.
#Academics #sociology #psychology

Josh Wells
1 month ago

Paging folks w/exp in training #MicrosoftTeams #Microsoft #Teams

I want to build a train-the-trainer network at my campus to help alleviate rampant ignorance in Teams use (admins won't do anything).

Suggestions for resources to use? Manuals, blogs, videos, etc.?

I am not Teams fluent, but I understand deeply how hardware, file systems, and networks function so I can seem passingly competent.

Thanks!

#Academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon @academicchatter

Tracy Rosenberg
1 month ago

CA Dept of Education withdraws controversial policy denying access to #research data to #academics who testified or aubmitted briefs in lawsuits against the Department. https://edsource.org/2023/california-backs-down-on-punishing-education-researchers-who-testify-against-it/696031

Rapp, C., Kinloch, M., Krausmรผller, D., Mitsiou, E., Nesseris, I., Papavarnavas, C., Preiser-Kapeller, J., Rossetto, G., Shukurov, R., & Simeonov, G. (2023). Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: A Sourcebook. In V&R unipress eBooks. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737013413 #OpenAccess #OA #Byzantinum #Byzantine #History #Histodon #Histodons #Europe #Medieval #Migration #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #Academics @medievodons @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (45)

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Norberg, J. (2022). The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009063890 #OpenAccess #OA #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #European #Literature #Europe #German #Germany #History #Histodon #Histodons #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (43)

Benjamin Han
1 month ago

I hope more #researchers and #academics will join the exodus to #Mastodon. Sigmoid.social in particular is an instance for folks interested in #AI, #MachineLearning, #Neuroscience, #CognitiveScience or any other relevant disciplines to congregate and mingle.

#DitchX https://aus.social/@thesiswhisperer/110878776001647572

Tambets, K., Yunusbayev, B., Hudjashov, G. et al. Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations. Genome Biol 19, 139 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1522-1 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Demography #History #Language #Languages #Population #Genetics #PopulationGenetics #Genomics #Biology #Geography #Europe #Asia #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology

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Newton, Hannah, Misery to Mirth: Recovery from Illness in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2018; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 July 2018), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779025.001.0001, accessed 8 Aug. 2023. #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #England #Medicine #Society #Culture #Academia #Academic #Academics @earlymodern @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (33)

El Duvelle
2 months ago

Another question for tenure-track or tenured #Academics:

Did you choose this job mostly for the teaching aspect? The research aspect? Or both?

#AcademicChatter #Teaching #Research

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญHolenstein, A., Maissen, T., & Prak, M. (Eds.). (2008). The Republican Alternative: The Netherlands and Switzerland Compared. Amsterdam University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46mtmg #OpenAccess #OA #EarlyModern #History #Histodon #HIstodons #Netherlands #Switzerland #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Ebook #Ebooks @earlymodern
@histodon @histodons @bookstodon (30)

El Duvelle
2 months ago

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?

Question for the comments: do you think research and teaching should be done by separate people?
#AcademicChatter #Academia #Teaching

Dr Laura Mitchell
2 months ago

Still exploring and getting to grips with mastodon. Loving silent Sunday. Searching for people to follow, especially humanities and #sociology #academics critical perspectives of business, #ethics and philosophy, #green economy. Any suggestions?

Lu, S. (2019). The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868โ€“1961. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108687584 #OpenAccess #OA #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Asia #Japan #Academia #Academic #Academics #History #Histodon #Histodons #C19th #19thCentury #C20th #20thCentury #Colonialism @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (26)

Cohen, F. (2012). How Modern Science Came into the World: Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048512737 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodon #Histodons #Science #C17th #17thCentury #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Ebook #Ebooks #Academia #Academic #Academics @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @science (14)

Andrew Porter
2 months ago

@BBCRD Great to see the #BBC experimenting with the #fediverse and #mastodon

I still remember the experiments with streaming - of #radio content - back when I was at university, and how far advanced the BBC was in that technology (the original #iPlayer!)

I'm looking forward to seeing how this #experiment pans out and hope to learn from it in ways that are useful to #academics and #scientists - good luck!

Solarpunk Presents Podcast
2 months ago

Calling #solarpunks and #academics interested in #coding and #utopia - this call for papers crossed my feed and I am very sure that this community would be interested!

https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/coding-utopias/

@academicchatter @sciencefiction @solarpunk