#universities
Fossil lizard gets its name from grandma
Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:23:46
A new fossil lizard, Helioscopus dickersonae, was an ancestor of modern geckos. Its name that honors the lead researcher's grandmother and great aunt.
#Futurity #Research #news from #top #universities #bot
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I recently wrote a letter to the editor for the Technician (NC State's student newspaper) about the mechanized hunk of garbage in Hunt Library that destroys the beauty of reading and discovery.
(Contains small edits by Technician staff.)
#NCState #NCStateWire #regularlibrariesplease #academia #academicchatter #universities
Nihon University has decided to disband its American football club following a scandal over drug use within the team, the school confirmed Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/11/29/japan/nihon-university-american-football-team-disband/?utm_content=buffer1002d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #japan #nihonuniversity #universities #americanfootball #drugs
Students have long been an anchor in relations between the U.S. and China, even when political or economic ties have soured. But that anchor is now under threat, with numbers of students headed in both directions falling. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/11/29/world/politics/us-china-student-geopolitics/?utm_content=buffer8814b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #worldnews #politics #us #china #universities #education
New Yorker: An “Academic Transformation” Takes On the Math Department https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/an-academic-transformation-takes-on-the-math-department #NewYorker #News/AnnalsofEducation #News/U.S.Journal #CollegeDegrees #Universities #WestVirginia #Professors #Education #Colleges #Math
Universities' failure to recognise an ecological truth
'Humanism ... privileged ‘us’ over the non-human / the more-than-human. ... This privileging has now come home to roost: ... we have been sawing off the ecological branch on which we live.'
Rupert Read – Ecologism or barbarism
16 theses on the failing academic system
November 16, 2023
https://braveneweurope.com/rupert-read-ecologism-or-barbarism
#RupertRead
#universities #education
#ClimateCrisis #Economics
#Environment #Finance
#Sustainability #ecology
#politics
Dezeen : Leddy Maytum Stacy revamps century-old university building in California https://www.dezeen.com/2023/11/28/revamp-century-old-walker-hall-california-university/ #LeddyMaytumStacyArchitects #Architecture #Universities #California #Education #Net-zero #Concrete #Louvres #Steel #all #USA
Injectable spine stimulator may restore mobility for people with paralysis
Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:26:17
A tiny device called a spinal stimulator may one day restore mobility to people with lower limb paralysis, researchers report.
#Futurity #Research #news from #top #universities #bot
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A UP vs DLSU finals, a first for the UAAP. Game 1 starts tomorrow.
#Philippines #Asian #SportsPH #UAAP #BasketballPH #PhilStar #UPFight #AnimoLaSalle #UAAP86 #Universities
https://www.philstar.com/sports/2023/11/28/2314888/maroons-archers-meet-uaap-last-dance-first-time
Did ‘volcanic winters’ lead to dinosaur extinction?
Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:16:08
Climate change triggered by massive volcanic eruptions, and not a meteorite plummeting to Earth, may have led to dinosaurs' extinction.
#Futurity #Research #news from #top #universities #bot
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Several years ago while attending a national conference, I listened to a panel of executives from a large software company talk about their wish to promote open sharing of management data about higher education administration at colleges and universities so anyone at a university could do research using the data and publish their results for others to see. Having already led institutional research at a large public university for nearly 30 years at the time, I stood up and told them it was a bad idea for at least two reasons: (1) It ignores that fact that many people do not understand such data and produce nonsensical results from it, which I have personally witnessed. (2) University leaders care about messaging and want the ability to exercise some control over what is made public. In hindsight, I wished I had asked the distinguished panel members how they felt about the idea of their company openly sharing management data with all employees to do research and publish the results for everyone at the company to see.
#HigherEducation
#Colleges
#Universities
#Management
#InstitutionalResearch
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/surfing-the-datawave/
#GreatAusPods #AusPods #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #Technology #Data #Science #Tech #Cyber #Universities
How universities relate with students changed in the past century, but a duty of care remains
#Universities #Academia #Education #Canada #AcademicChatter
📢It's #Friday so we share some of our latest #job opportunities with you! If you're up for the next step in your #career, take a look at https://ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities and maybe you'll be #working at Radboud University too soon! #academia #universities #vacancy #youhaveaparttoplay
Dezeen : Page\Park brings "external living room" to University of Stirling https://www.dezeen.com/2023/11/23/pagepark-campus-central-video-stephenson/ #RoyalIncorporationofArchitectsinScotland #Architecturevideos #Architecture #Universities #Stephenson& #Education #Page\Park #Scotland #Videos #all
R to @REA_research: We invite organisations from #academia and #industry to apply, including: #universities, research institutions, #businesses and #SMEs.
Do not miss our dedicated online #MSCA #StaffExchanges Info Session on:
8️⃣ December 2023, 10:00 - 12:30 (CET)
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/REA_research/status/1727239543932227654#m
[2023-11-22 08:16 UTC]
Team calls for research on potential nanoplastic, Parkinson’s link
Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:38:07
"The emergence of micro and nanoplastics in the environment might represent a new toxin challenge with respect to Parkinson's disease risk and progression."
#Futurity #Research #news from #top #universities #bot
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Team finds new culprit behind brain hemorrhage formation
Tue, 21 Nov 2023 14:44:01
A discovery that deepens understanding of microbleeds in the brain clarifies how they occur and may lead to new therapeutic targets.
#Futurity #Research #news from #top #universities #bot
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Dezeen : OMA to expand Seoul university with cluster of buildings and courtyards https://www.dezeen.com/2023/11/21/oma-hongik-university-cluster-seoul/ #HongikUniversity #Architecture #Universities #SouthKorea #Education #Seoul #all #OMA
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/campus-insights/
#GreatAusPods #AusPods #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #Education #Universities
A little under half of takers passed this year's national bar exam. For decades the rate was much lower, but the improvement has cost several regulatory blunders. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2023/11/20/japan/japan-bar-exam-pass-rate/?utm_content=buffer35946&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #commentary #japan #education #law #universities #mext #justiceministry
#Alumni of elite #universities added voices to resistance to #UnitedStates’ support for #Israel’s bombardment of #Gaza — announced they'd withhold #donations to #AlmaMaters unless schools reverse their suspension of #Palestinian rights groups on campus.
More than 2,000 #graduates of #ColumbiaUniversity & #BarnardCollege signed a letter accusing the schools #institutionalizing “#AntiPalestinian #racism” by suspending #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine & #JewishVoiceForPeace.
As #Israel continues its bombardment of #Palestine, #Palestinian #activists & allies in #Canada have been drawing attention to the role that institutions such as #governments & #universities can play in either advancing or mitigating the violence in #Gaza. Recent #protests taking place at #McGill & in #Montreal have #CalledOut the alleged #complicity of #Canadian & #Quebec governments, as well as the McGill administration, in supporting the ongoing #genocide in Gaza
The way to answer extreme #speech at #colleges & #universities: educate, not #censorship. #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/17/israel-gaza-mideast-war-college-speech/
#Universities are conservative.
Their administrators are not jumping to new technologies for administration.
They are afraid of ransomware and failing to protect data. They are banning TicToc and employing IT workers trained in Windows-only environments.
Don't look to administrators to join the #fediverse. Look to #students to lead the way.
Well, well, well, after ranting at #universities for supposedly 'no platforming' people whose views were deemed 'unacceptable' t transpires that across the #civilservice, the #Tories have issued guidelines to staff to ensure exactly that when it comes to events they are hosting/convening.
So, as so often with those championing #freespecch, its free speech for us & our supporters but for you (critics), not so much.
#hypocrisy on a grand scale!
I suspect that UK universities are limited by government policy and contract agreements as to what official platforms they can use
That said, I'm sure there must be a lot of personal Fedi accounts in @academicchatter @edutooters and so on.
Can any academics comment?
:fediverse:
#fediverse #Universities #education
#USA #Israel #Palestine #Surveillance #Universities #FreedomOfSpeech: "Alongside Israel advocacy groups like the Brandeis Center, the International Legal Forum, and the David Horowitz Freedom Center, StandWithUs has spent years trying to shut down criticism of Israel on college campuses, often by weaponizing civil rights law. The groups allege that, while the political speech may be protected by the First Amendment, it fosters a campus climate of antisemitism in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits federally funded programs from discriminating on the basis of race, color, or national origin. As students have ramped up pro-Palestinian demonstrations over the past month, Israel advocacy groups have escalated a pressure campaign of their own.
Earlier this month, StandWithUs sent an open letter to thousands of universities addressed to the general counsel and vice president of student affairs, outlining actions colleges could take to ensure compliance with Title VI. The group’s recommendations include requiring student identification cards at protests, monitoring university communication channels for “biased statements about Israel,” and investigating student groups for ties to Hamas. The group has also sent a surge of direct letters urging administrators to clamp down on specific Palestine solidarity campus events."
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-australian-law-student-podcast/
#GreatAusPods #AusPods #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #Education #Careers #Law #Universities
"Palestine has always served as a litmus test of our collective imagination of what freedom could look like. When we say from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, we imagine a world free of Islamophobia, antisemitism, anti-Blackness, militarism, occupation & apartheid."
— letter from 65 student organizations to The Daily Northwestern
#Gaza #FreePalestine #Imagination #Universities #Solidarity #Protest #Palestine
Burned at the Stake Monument in Wellesley, Massachusetts
Dedicated to a college founder's alleged ancestor who was martyred in 1555.#universities #martyrs #monuments #section-Atlas
Burned at the Stake Monument
When I said the #staff-to-#undergraduate ratio wasn't enough to give the 100% each #student needs given their #entrylevel of #skills, I was told 80% will do! It's all about the #money now. Time to quit #HigherEducation. Not much hope of another #job at 63.
#universities #HE #Education #students
Dutch universities have slammed one of the frontrunners in next week’s general election for suggesting the Netherlands has too many international students taking courses in English, describing his proposals as “ridiculous” and representing a “closing of the Dutch mind”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/17/dutch-universities-slam-proposal-cap-foreign-students-omtzigt #netherlands #education #academia #universities #law #politics
Insights on values and #interoperability in the #digitaltransformation of #universities from @SURF's brilliant @ChristienBok
Dutch universities slam ‘ridiculous’ proposal to cap foreign students
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/17/dutch-universities-slam-proposal-cap-foreign-students-omtzigt
Good! Scientists should slam the facts on populists when they get too frisky.
#science #universities #internationalization #nationalists
A little fresh hell for your late morning:
The Right-Wing Attack on Academia, With a Totalitarian Twist
New model legislation, ostensibly meant to overhaul general education, proposes a radical assault on faculty and academic freedom, John K. Wilson writes.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/11/16/new-front-right-wing-attack-academia-opinion
“My #campus is not your corporation. My #classroom is not your boardroom:” in defense of the #humanities as #colleges #universities threaten to cut back in favor of programs to make #students employable in local industries. #highereducation https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/15/opinion/education-humanities-college-degree.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Transfer and #startups at German #universities - watch this @stifterverband video on current issues and possible solutions with contributions by Dietmar Harhoff (in German)
https://youtu.be/cfCyOvz0ZYE?feature=shared&t=5
Goldney Grotto in Hotwells, England
An exotic shell grotto ornamented with "Bristol Diamonds," is considered to be the finest surviving example from the eighteenth century.#universities #grottoes #history&culture #section-Atlas
Goldney Grotto
"and if you wanna talk about #jewish students feeling unwelcome on campus... my #university's chapter of jewish voice for peace was banned from our jewish center for being a "political club" despite them allowing pro #israel #political clubs to be affiliated with it. the guy one of our college schools is named after, a wealthy #zionist philanthropist, literally flipped me and my jewish friends off for protesting. a zionist student doxxed us all and put us on blacklists of pro #palestine students. my #israeli american friend got arrested for burning an israeli flag near campus. many such cases on american #universities but somehow this type of stuff never makes it into the headlines about jewish students feeling threatened"
https://www.tumblr.com/anarchistmemecollective/733817509257592832
🚨🎓✍️
International Critical Geographies Group statement on the genocide in Palestine, for signatures & circulation 🇵🇸
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8NhoMlYLPJq7HcFHsYJLDoIKWEpvWJCDPGm9DGncChF_VIg/viewform
@academicchatter #Mapstodon #Geography #CriticalGeography #CritGeog #Academia #UKHE #Universities #Academics #AcademicFreedom #SocialJustice #Racism #Apartheid #Palestine #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Gaza #Solidarity #Ceasefire #Peace #IDF #Boycott #BDS #Colonialism #SettlerColonialism #Abolition
Elite universities get tougher on antisemitism
"Top #universities, under pressure for being silent or soft on #antisemitism, are being forced to take tougher lines on verbal and physical violence against #Jews.
Columbia ... said Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace "repeatedly violated University policies...culminating in an unauthorized event that proceeded despite warnings and included threatening rhetoric and intimidation.""
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/11/antisemitism-university-policies-2023
Graduate hotels, and campus humor #EconTwitter #universities
http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2023/11/graduate-hotels-and-campus-humor.html
#Lawmaker Calls for #Commission to Study #State #Universities’ #History of #Uprooting #Black #Communities.
#Delegate #DeloresMcQuinn said a #taskforce could shed #light on the #impact of #college #expansion in #Virginia. Officials are also calling for #displaced #families to receive #redress, from #scholarships to #reparations.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Virginia #HigherEducation #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #BlackMastodon
https://www.propublica.org/article/commission-black-families-displaced-virginia-universities
Palestinians arrested for 'terrorism' over WhatsApp status | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Thinking about the #enshittification of education, specifically #universities
Who is the actual customer in a university, and what is our product?
The customer isn’t really students, and the product isn’t really knowledge and skills.
The customer is (mainly) business and the product is (reasonably) skilled labour.
More than that, a significant portion of the cost of our product is borne by the product itself, often in the form of long-term debt, justified on the basis that university grads will (eventually) benefit financially from investing in their degrees.
Yes, behind the data is the business model forced on #universities... that's always been clear to me (especially when I was still working)!
Some of the shine has come off the UK's #universities as an 'export' business. They're not delivering such a great service to non-EU students.
Non-EU foreign students are more likely to get lower class degrees than home/EU #students.
Interestedly in many cases EU students seem less likely to get lower class degrees than UK-domestic students... (which was certainly my experience of EU students when I was still a working academic).
(yes, I know calling universities a business is unpopular)
A university in Japan recently became the first to successfully breed Japanese eels by hatching fish larvae from older specimens farmed in the facility. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/11/05/japan/science-health/japan-eel-cultivation/?utm_content=buffer677fc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #japan #sciencehealth #kindaiuniversity #universities #fish #food
A 23-year-old Hong Kong student was sentenced to two months in prison on Friday
for "seditious" social media posts made while in Japan, highlighting the reach
of the city’s laws beyond its borders.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/11/03/asia-pacific/crime-legal/hong-kong-student-sedition-charge/?utm_content=buffer6483d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn
[https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/11/03/asia-pacific/crime-legal/hong-kong-student-sedition-charge/?utm_content=buffer6483d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn]
#asiapacific [https://mastodon.social/tags/asiapacific?utm_content=buffereb3e5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn] #crimelegal
[https://mastodon.social/tags/crimelegal?utm_content=buffer20464&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn] #hongkong
[https://mastodon.social/tags/hongkong?utm_content=buffer61edd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn] #students
[https://mastodon.social/tags/students] #universities
[https://mastodon.social/tags/universities] #china
[https://mastodon.social/tags/china]
Hmmm.... I have been thinking about this for years (having worked in #Universities for a quarter of a century)... you might find the piece I wrote for @NWBylines of interest, although I suspect we will differ on some of the points... be interested in what you think
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/news/education/who-should-pay-for-students-to-go-to-university/
A 23-year-old Hong Kong student was sentenced to two months in prison on Friday for "seditious" social media posts made while in Japan, highlighting the reach of the city’s laws beyond its borders. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/11/03/asia-pacific/crime-legal/hong-kong-student-sedition-charge/?utm_content=buffer22468&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #asiapacific #crimelegal #hongkong #students #universities #china
All but five of the the China-funded Confucius Institutes opened in the U.S. in 2024 to promote the Chinese language have closed, a new report has found. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/11/03/asia-pacific/politics/us-confucius-institutes-close/?utm_content=buffer47514&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #asiapacific #politics #us #china #universities #education #joebiden #xijinping
From Chris Brink: "It is not difficult to construct a university ranking. What is needed is not so much any technical skill as enough blind self-confidence to tell the world that the arbitrary choices you have made in constructing your ranking actually represent reality."
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20231024130858697
Reminder that a #student #strike against #Quebec's discriminatory #tuition hike (for non-local students attending English-language #universities) is happening today at 1pm. The march starts from Dorchester Square (Peel & René-Lévesque).
Rappel qu'une #manifestation contre le haussement discriminatoire des droits de scolarité (des gens non-locales aux universités anglophones) au Québec se déroule aujourd'hui à 13 heures, à Square Dorchester (coin Peel & René-Lévesque).
Are you ‘overteaching’? — University Affairs
I am increasingly observing this.
““overteaching” – where an instructor will devote too much time, energy and emotional labour to teaching and teaching prep. It is increasingly becoming a pandemic of its own for most professors.”
#Academia #AcademicChatter #HigherEd #Universities #Canada
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/are-you-overteaching/
2/n Instance Thread -- The response to this question has been amazing! Thank you! Below is what I've found so far, organized by Country. Since people were so generous with the information, I will have two reply threads to my question - One with instances and one with general mastodon accounts.
-- FEDIVERSE INSTANCES --
Austria - University of Innsbruck - Institutional Science Communication - https://social.uibk.ac.at
Canada - Queens University - Administered by Ingenuity Labs - https://robotics-ai.social
Finland - South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences - https://fedi.xamk.fi/about
France - Sorbonne Université - https://mastodon-pa.sorbonne-universite.fr
France - Ministry of National Education run server for Educational users? - https://mastodon.mim-libre.fr/about
Germany - State of Baden-Württemberg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information operated instance with many Universities - https://bawü.social/
Germany - Hemholtz Research Centres - https://helmholtz.social
Germany - Dusseldorf University of Applied Sciences - https://mastodon.hosting.medien.hs-duesseldorf.de/explore
Germany - Max Planck Society - https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/explore
International - Association of Internet Researchers - https://aoir.org/about/
Netherlands - https://social.edu.nl/explore - A Mastodon Pilot for all Dutch Universities
Phillipines - University of the Philipines - https://social.up.edu.ph
Sweden - https://social.sunet.se (The University IT network in the country open for all Swedish institutions including sub-domains)
Sweden - Academic Computer Club of Umeá University on a subdomain of sunet.set - https://mastodon.acc.sunet.se/explore
USA - MIT Computer Club - (not official MIT) https://mastodon.mit.edu
Mexico - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico - https://fediunam.site/explore
There is also https://fedi.directory/tag/university/. It might be worthwhile to have that link become a directory for both accounts and instances?
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Education #Universities #SelfHosted #MastoAdmin
Why Canada is losing the next generation of researchers.
"But I think that when more than [one third] of all the PhDs that we’ve just trained for the last five to six years are leaving the country immediately, I think that sends alarm bells, especially when that was 2019 […] before the pandemic and inflationary crisis that we’re having right now,”
#Research #Academia #AcademicChatter #Universities #Canada #Science
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/why-canada-is-losing-the-next-generation-of-researchers/?utm_source=University+Affairs+e-newsletter&utm_campaign=4e0292090a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_10_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_314bc2ee29-4e0292090a-425251589
Just want to add to the above ⬆️ this screenshot I took yesterday as it encapsulates our piece perfectly: #ClimateCrisis ever more urgent but #universities still busy creating meaningless meetings, roles, agendas and functions that we all have to constantly engage with. “Accelerated Knowledge Transfer to Innovate”. #ClimateDiary
Scathing audit of MUN shows 95 days off with pay for executive, spending concerns.
Audits for all University admins should be completed and made public. This is likely the tip of the iceberg.
well, I guess its all relative - these are often not out of line (and often less) than CEOs working in the private sector managing similar sized organisations.... the same debate is often had about VCs of #universities.... the wider argument is about pay disparities across the economy, of which these salaries are just on part.
But, your concern is not unprecedented nor uncommon
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/global-horizons-the-australian-international-education-podcast/
#GreatAusPods #AusPods #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #Education #Courses #Places #Travel #Universities
Hmmm... I think I'd agree on the self-development point, but on the economic issue, the data (given the lag in reaping the benefits) might suggest a latter PhD has even less chance of earning a return (although of course there are many non-pecuniary rewards from research)... but certainly all PG degrees are seen as cashews by business-shaped #universities
Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs
“A survey of thousands of US academics has found that the number one reason that women leave faculty positions is poor “workplace climate”, which can encompass discrimination, dysfunctional leadership, a feeling of not fitting in and other problems1. Even work–life balance was less important than workplace climate for many respondents.”
#Academia #Science #Universities #AcademicChatter #Workplace
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03251-8
For those of you who are wondering about #universities as engines of #socialmobility, and the variance in 'performance' between them, here's the latest from HEPI.... my own university (Lancaster) has risen nine places, but still remains relatively low on the list (still at 48th) - they should be doing much better....
https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2023/10/19/2023-english-social-mobility-index/
1/ I just spoke at a #SPARCEurope event on university #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtcuqhqjIoH9f-NlDZE0LLT5yO0FZCVzUI#/registration
All of us were asked to share relevant links, and here are the ones I shared (7 pieces I've written or co-written on rights retention):
#Academia #Universities
@academicchatter
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The #UMontana is cancelling more than 5,000 #journals from #Elsevier, #TaylorAndFrancis, and #Wiley, forced by "rising journal…#prices and a stagnant #budget…The library has seen a $700,000 reduction in money received since fiscal year 2020."
https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/mansfield-library-at-um-set-to-cut-largest-e-journal-packages
#Academia #Cancellations #Libraries #Publishers #ScholComm #Universities
@academicchatter
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-solutionists-with-mark-scott/
#GreatAusPods #AusPods #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #Society #Culture #Climate #Sustainability #Science #Discussions #Universities
Our paper “No Research on a Dead Planet” is out today! Aaron Thierry is very much the lead author, but it’s been great working on this together with AT, Laura Horn and Charlie Gardner. Why do #Universities, #ClimateEmergency declarations and all, still largely continue with #BusinessAsUsual? For us it’s about #CognitiveDissonance as well as the structures of neoliberal #HE. HE needs to change & lead on true #ClimateAction. Open access
@ScientistRebellion
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1237076
The sign I made for this week's strike. Double sided and complete with details and sources in footnotes. (Painted on a recycled Greens coreflute we had out the front of our unit at the last state election.)
#UniMelb #UniMelbStrikes #NTEU #union #strike #WageTheft #universities
There is still time to register for the first of our free #CyberSecMonth 2023 #webinars, talking place tomorrow (5 Oct) at 15:00 CEST!
Kieren Lovell, Head of IT Security at BetVictor, will present on current #CyberSecurity threats faced by #universities… and how to face them! 👉 https://events.geant.org/event/1549
Including live interpretation in English, Spanish and Portuguese, thanks to our collab. with RedCLARA.
🦸♂️ #BecomeACyberHero #SecurityAwareness #security #webinar #Research #Education
#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.
The escalating campaign — led by #JimJordan & other #Republicans in #Congress & state gov — has cast a pall over programs that study not just #political falsehoods but also quality of #medical info online.
#Misinformation research by #academics, #universities, #scientists is buckling under GOP legal attacks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/23/online-misinformation-jim-jordan/
-- @geant #CyberSecMonth 2023 Webinar Programme --
🗓️ 5 October 2023 – 15:00 CEST
#CyberSecurity for #universities, current threats in the #security landscape… and how to face them!
🦸 Kieren Lovell, Head of IT Security at BetVictor
There's an interesting piece in the Observer about the decline of regional Art Schools (not yet online), which makes the case that one of he reasons for the increasingly middle class (privileged) character of our culture & arts is the result of these local institutions decline, as their student body was mostly drawn from less privileged social groupings.... it makes sense, as the increasing move to art at #universities raised the costs of experimenting with your creativity as a young person.
"The committee found too many examples of the OfS "acting like an instrument of the government's policy agenda rather than an independent regulator"".
Shocked. This is my shocked face.
Data from the @chronicle: "Nearly 80% of [Americans] with a #college degree said the cost was worth it…[But] the positive attitudes…tend to follow salaries. About 88% of higher earners — those with a household income greater than $100,000 — said their degree benefits outweighed the cost…Only 63% of graduates in households with incomes less than $50,000 said their degree benefits outweighed the cost."
https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/weekly-briefing/2023-09-09
(#paywalled)
#University / #Universities picks of the day:
➡️ @UL - Univ. of Limerick, Ireland
➡️ @uniofaberdeen - Univ. of Aberdeen, Scotland
➡️ @YaleDivinitySchool - Theological school at Yale Univ, USA
➡️ @Uni_Stuttgart - Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany
➡️ @unifreiburg - Univ. of Freiburg, Germany
➡️ @unituebingen - Univ. of Tübingen, Germany
➡️ @Radboud_uni - Radboud Univ., Netherlands
➡️ @Bibliothecaris - Library at Univ. of Groningen, Netherlands
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More Than 650 Academics Urge UK Universities To Go Plant-Based #plantbased #food #university #universities #GoVegan #UnitedKingdom #UK https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/academics-call-uk-universities-plant-based/
“Universities should see themselves as microcosms of society, where a spirit of exploration encourages people to try new things, to test better options, and to assess the consequences.”
Me, quoted in this article in the Guardian about support for a student-led campaign to make UK university catering entirely plant-based (while obviously still allowing people to bring what they want to eat on campus).
The far right's war on higher ed. & esp. the liberal arts is an attack on democracy. Unless stopped, it will play out on many US campuses.
“This is a test case for a conservative overhaul of higher education – and it isn’t going to stay isolated to New College or Florida.”
-Gender St. faculty, New College, resigned Prof. Clarkson.
#newcollege #desantis #fl #florida #HighEducation #universities #farright #rightwing @politicalscience @histodons @sociology @anthropol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/03/new-college-florida-desantis-teachers
Did you notice that members of the university and college union @ucu
have shut down approx 150 universities in the UK in 2022/23?
Then you might be interested:
We have invited John Hegerty, to talk with him about #union organizing, methods, structure tests, headwinds, pink lipstick and #strike.
Join us on October, the 10th. There will be public screenings at at least 9 #universities in Switzerland.
Get in touch with the local VPOD/SSP group! https://www.stablejobs-betterscience.ch
#stablejobsbetrerscience
Michael O'Neill, writing up some issues about academic workloads following the Variety conference. I think this summarises a lot of what is going on -- of particular note being the increase in admin load that comes with centralising services. We all know this is a bad idea, but upper management of UK universities will not even entertain that thought.
https://www.michaeloneill.org/blog-1/2023/8/28/vicephec23-conversations-about-workload
#Chemistry #AcademicChatter #Universities #ViCEPHEC23 #Workload #Education #Teaching #TeachingAndLearning
We Carry the Burden of Repatriating Our Ancestors. Here’s What It’s Like to Report on the Process as an #Indigenous Journalist.
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Mary Hudetz describes the financial cost and emotional distress that #tribal communities face as they continue to wait for the return of the remains of their ancestors, thousands of which are held in #museums across the country.
#Repatriation #Schools #Universities #NativeAmerican
https://www.propublica.org/article/what-its-like-to-report-on-repatriation
"Right-Wing Cancel Culture Has a Home at Texas A&M University" - Conservative university at center of storm over political influence over campus. #TexasAandM #Aggies #HigherEd #HigherEducation #Academia #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #Universities #Texas #politics #Conservatives https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-cancel-culture-has-a-home-at-texas-aandm-university?via=ios
@Ruth_Mottram @bifouba @ct_bergstrom
Children's #schools in England (not Wales or Scotland and I don't know about N Ireland). Also not everywhere in England..yet
#Universities also have short term contracts but I know less about this. There are big #strikes in the English University sector at the moment and contracts are apart of the negitiations from bit main Unions, Unison and UCU
https://www.ucu.org.uk/stampout
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No one is immune from attack, professors are warned in Tampa - “Critical thinking is under attack in the arts and humanities…” “The demonization of higher ed is really unfortunate and higher ed has been dragged into the culture wars, whether we like it or not.” #Academia #AcademicChaatter #AcademicMastodon #HigherEd #HigherEducation #Universities #Tenure #Colleges #politics #Florida #CultureWars https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/08/04/no-one-is-immune-attack-professors-are-warned-tampa/
"VCU Sparks Revolt After Nixing ‘Racial Literacy’ Requirement" - an act of “blatant institutional racism.” #HigherEd #VCU #HigherEducation #Racism #universities #colleges #politics #Academia #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon https://www.thedailybeast.com/vcu-sparks-student-faculty-revolt-after-nixing-racial-literacy-requirement?via=ios
Looking for a study partner? Go for a Swiftie.
#Music #IQ #Intelligence #Students #Universities #Swiftie #TaylorSwift #Study #InquirerPH #Learning
New study: "The average proportion of #OpenAccess publications in European countries is significantly higher (39.07%) than the world average (30.16%), with a clear inclination [toward] the #GreenOA route (79.41%) compared to the #GoldOA route (52.30%). Most European research #funders and institutions [#universities] have required researchers to make OA available for their research findings."
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DLP-06-2022-0051/full/html
(#paywalled)
Why you should start using open educational resources in your teaching
#Universities #academia #Canada #Education #academicchatter