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A. Rivera

Well, well, well, the chickens coming home to roost. Me and some other librarians (incl. celebrity ones) have been saying this for years. Publishers act as if the money will never run out, but meet goose and golden egg.

Help too if scholars and faculty stopped obsessing over high end journals and #PublishOrPerish. You helped enable this.

> Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial

Impact of Social Sciences - Maximizing the impact of academic research · Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements - Impact of Social SciencesCaroline Edwards argues transformative agreements are unaffordable and introduces the Open Journals Collective as a model for scaling open access.
#BadEconomy#academia#HigherEd
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Brian Gettler

In February, the Canadian Association of University Teachers published this brief provincial breakdown of funding for post-secondary education. It includes two striking graphs on declining provincial funding vs the growing share paid by tuition. Ontario, where I teach, is obviously the worst of an increasingly bad bunch.

caut.ca/bulletin/2025/02/numbe

Provincial grants and tuition fees as a share of university and college operating revenue, 2012-2013 to 2022-2023 A graph showing a steadily rising green line representing tuition and fees, from slightly more than 30% to the upper 40s, and a steadily decreasing orange line, from roughly 54% to roughly 42%. The lines crossed in 2021-22.
A map of Canadian provinces showing provincial funding vs tuition and fees. 6 out of 10 provinces (AB, SK, MB, QC, NB, NL) maintain a balance in favour of the former while the other 4 (BC, ON, PEI, NS) provide less funding than what they collect through tuition and fees.
#HigherEd#cdnpse#academia
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Dr Pen

I think Im about to step out of academic life now. Ofc its easier for me, Ive had my 20 years of study, lecturing, paper writing, app making and phd doing. I can step away, Im older, I can afford to. But Im not tired or bored, Im angry, appalled, Im not able to carry on because Im ethically so compromised. I just cannot be part of this charade for big tech extractive grifting anymore. Im with Miyazaki.

#academicchatter #academia #bigtech #edtech #ai #genai

bloodinthemachine.com/p/openai

Blood in the Machine · OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itselfBy Brian Merchant
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Martin Rundkvist

@hysteretic Partly all the time wasted on applying for grants, partly the fact that in the #Humanities you don't need a research group with a PI to get a paper written and published. That kind of organisation is very low on the outcome parameter *research per money* in the Humanities. I don't need time on the Webb telescope, or a lab of my own, or three PhD students, or a technician to get a paper into Praehistorische Zeitschrift.

#academia
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Cassana 🍻

It's concerning when I get an email from the SOAS #library asking for donations. It's one of the 5 national #research libraries in the UK housing 1.3 million volumes in 300+ languages, plus access to online journals, ebooks, global newspapers, etc. For over 50 years, it's been a special place for many (yes, me included), a mind-boggling repository of knowledge. Although they don't mention reasons, them asking for help is a big hint the library is struggling. That's just wrong. #Academia

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safest_integer

The next #ai fueled #productivity paradigm shift in #academia will be agents that can listen to context-specific voice instructions like "cross reference the people in this mail thread with speakers in my conference session" or "discuss the paper on the screen in the context of 20th century philosophy of science", and the agent calmly replies "SHUT THE F UP AND CONCENTRATE ON THE TASK, YOU LAZY ASS".

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Jana Semrau

Liebe Fediverse Community,
ich möchte noch einmal kurz auf die heutige Vorstellung des im Projekt PartWiss neu entwickelten Leitfadens Partizipation in der Forschung aufmerksam machen.

Das ist für alle spannend, die sich für unterschiedliche Beteiligungsformate in der Forschung interessieren.

fediscience.org/@jasemrau/1142

Registrierung:
eu02web.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi

Website:
partizipation-wissenschaft.de/

#Leitfaden #Partizipation #Forschung #CitizenScience #PartizipativeGesundheitsforschung #OpenScience #OpenInnovation #SozialeInnovation #CoDesign #PartizipativeTechnikfolgenabschätzung #PartizipativeAktionsforschung
#PatientAndPublicInvolvement #Reallabore #LivingLabs #CommunityScience #TransdisziplinäreForschung #PartizipativeWissenschaftskommunikation #PublicEngagement
#Science #Academia

@academicchatter
@schroep

FediScience.orgJana Semrau (@jasemrau@fediscience.org)Leitfaden Übersicht - Partizipation Wissenschaft Launch Das Projekt PartWiss lädt herzlich zur öffentlichen Vorstellung des kollaborativ entwickelten Leitfadens Partizipation in der Forschung ein! 1. April, 12:00 unter Zoom (Link zur Anmeldung ist auf der Website) Als ein Mitglied des Endredaktionsteams kann ich berichten, dass die Zusammenarbeit mit Menschen aus ganz unterschiedlichen Bereichen, die aber alle mit partizipativen Ansätzen in der Forschung arbeiten, sehr spannend und bereichernd war. Philipp Schrögel @schroep@mastodon.social vom Projektteam Partwiss hat uns in hervorragender und effizienter Weise durch den Prozess gelotst. Ein ganz großes Dankeschön an Ihn und das Projektteam Partwiss 💖🙏. https://www.partizipation-wissenschaft.de/leitfaden-uebersicht @academicchatter@a.gup.pe @academia@newsmast.community @science@newsmast.community #Partizipation #Wissenschaft #Leitfaden #Launch #Academia #Research #Science
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Martin Rundkvist

When a university department in the humanities is made dependent on big grants, it decreases publication bang-per-buck. Because the department's survival becomes decoupled from the quality and quantity of its research output. Grant hunting becomes a higher priority than research output per money. 2/2

#academia
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Martin Rundkvist

University departments are supposed to produce research, so they compete for big grants. In natural #science, this is unproblematic because you can't really produce top-level research without big grants.

In the #Humanities however, you can. So the system of incentives is counterproductive here. The fastest way to get top-level publications out of a humanities scholar is not to make her compete for big grants. It's just to give her 75% research time. 1/2

#academia
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W Kroneman

Ok, I think one of the things I'm hoping will improve by putting my research notes under version control (instead of Syncthing) is that I'll be more conscious about the sheer amount of random files I'm throwing into that folder.

#git#research#notetaking
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Das

Super glad colleagues at CMU are organizing & speaking up. A letter from a few initial signatories was made public to garner wider support and now has >100 signatures.
Addressed to our Univ Prez and Provost (who did just earlier send out a nice statement to everyone emphasizing among other items that we would not compromise "CMU’s values of creativity, empathy and compassion, inclusion, integrity, and sustainability." ) Here's the open letter
#Academia #USPol

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

Google DocsOpen Letter from Members of the Carnegie Mellon University CommunityDear President Jahanian and Provost Garrett, We write to you as deeply concerned members of the Carnegie Mellon University community. We condemn recent actions by the Trump administration that threaten academic freedom for researchers, teachers, and students at all US universities. We applaud the actions you have taken thus far in committing to support all affected students through the end of the year and your recent statement emphasizing CMU's continued commitment to fostering an inclusive, engaged, and supportive community. In no way do the Trump administration’s recent actions align with CMU’s values of creativity, empathy and compassion, inclusion, integrity, and sustainability. The actions of the Trump administration are in direct opposition to CMU’s mission to “cultivate a transformative university community committed to (a) attracting and retaining diverse, world-class talent; (b) creating a collaborative environment open to the free exchange of ideas, where research, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship can flourish, and (c) ensuring individuals can achieve their full potential.” The US leads the world in innovation. This is due in no small part to our excellent and independent universities. These institutions cannot foster new technologies and generate new knowledge without freedom of thought and expression. By threatening to withhold federal funds, the Trump administration hopes to silence universities and end academic freedom as we know it. We are passionate about our work as teachers, advisors, and mentors for the next generation and we are outraged by recent illegal detainments and deportations of trainees, recent graduates, and faculty from US universities. Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate, was forcibly removed from a residence on Columbia grounds and detained by ICE, apparently for participating in constitutionally protected free speech. Dr. Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University, was detained and deemed “deportable” by the Department of Homeland Security though he was not charged with a crime and there is no evidence that he has participated in any illegal activities. Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a physician and professor at Brown University, was detained by US Customs and Border Protection at Boston Logan airport and deported in defiance of a court order. Mr. Khalil has a green card. Dr. Suri has a J-1 visa. Dr. Alawieh has an H-1B visa. We have been fortunate to welcome the best scholars from all over the world to US universities; their work is essential to our continued excellence. The tactics of the Trump administration are putting a stranglehold on our international collaborations. They are silencing and frightening our international students and scholars. We need to stand now and express our opposition to the rapid erosion of our freedom of thought and expression and we need to call on all other US universities to do the same. We urge you to lead CMU in the following actions: Publicly denounce the Trump administration’s punitive withholding of federal funding and detainment and deportation of international scholars without due process. Confirm that CMU will not cooperate with any federal requests for information about students, faculty, and staff unless strictly required by law. Publicly commit to provide stopgap funding for terminated or frozen federal grants in instances where previously supported students and staff will not be paid. In the event of lost federal funding, we ask at a minimum that [i] current graduate students be supported so that they can finish their degrees; [ii] postdoctoral scientists and staff be supported until the end of their current contracts. Protect the CMU community’s right to free speech, academic freedom, and privacy regardless of threats to federal funding and preserve CMU’s commitment to all current programs regardless of changing governmental ideology. Please join the undersigned in defense of our indispensable freedom of thought and expression. Signatories: Signatories (48 faculty, staff, and alumni) speak for themselves and not for their institutions Harrison Apple Associate Director Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Alison Barth Maxwell H. and Gloria C. Connan Professor of the Life Sciences Department of Biological Sciences Andrew Bellesis Lab Manager Biological Sciences Nirvan Bhattacharyya Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Chemistry Matthew Carrick Senior Video Producer Computing Services Terry Collins Teresa Heinz Professor in Green Chemistry and Director, Institute for Green Science Department of Chemistry Subha R. Das Associate Professor Department of Chemistry Edward Dunlea MCS Senior Director of Corporate and Government Relations Mellon College of Science Neil Donahue Lord University Professor of Chemistry Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy Bonnie Fan / Bobbie Fan Alumni Heinz School Roberto R. Gil Professor Chemistry Luisa Hiller Associate Professor Biological Sciences Olivia Haberberger Student Affairs IT and Graduate Student at Tepper Student Affairs Jessica Hammer Director Center for Transformational Play Rob Handel Professor Drama Olexandr Isayev Carl and Amy Jones Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry Paulina Jaramillo Professor Engineering and Public Policy Robin Karlin Principal Systems Software Engineer Computing Services Haley Kenney Program & Events Coordinator Graduate Student Assembly Darya Kharabi Alumni DHSS, History, '20 Hyung Kim Professor Chemistry Greg Lowry Hamerschlag University Professor CEE Danith Ly Professor Chemistry Olivia Lynn Alum; Current Research Staff Mellon College of Science McKenna McCall Postdoc S3D Carrie McDonough Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry Michael Melville Senior Data Science Research Associate Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation Rachel Molé Postdoctoral Research Associate Civil and Environmental Engineering John Nagle Emeritus Professor Physics Cynthia Nelson Alum DHSS, English, '84 Allison Connell Pensky Senior Data Science Research Associate Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation Linda Peteanu Professor Chemistry Wren Ritchie Health Promotion Assistant Program Director University Health Services Constance Robbins Research Scientist Biomedical Engineering Olivia Robinson Teaching Professor ETC and IDeATe Nica Ross Director, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and Associate Professor of Drama CFA Brigitte F. Schmidt Senior Research Chemist Chemistry Gloria Silva Teaching Professor Chemistry Evan Walter Clark Spotte-Smith Carnegie Bosch Fellow and incoming Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Ryan Sullivan Professor, Chemistry Graduate Chair Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering Robert M. Suter Emeritus Professor of Physics Physics Stefanie A. Sydlik Associate Professor Chemistry Anastasia Tsuhlares Research Staff, CREATE Lab Robotics Institute Eric W Tupper Systems Engineer Computing Services Patrick Walsh Teaching Consultant Eberly Center David Gray Widder PhD Alum School of Computer Science Jeff Williams Professor English Garth Zeglin Project Scientist/Instructor Robotics/IDeATe 74 graduate students 26 undergraduate students
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