#academia — Public Fediverse posts

Oh look, it's another riveting piece of academic literature desperately trying to measure the un-measurable: how much #AI is meddling with our precious words. Because nothing says "cutting-edge research" like a deep dive into the mysterious art of text editing by our robo-overlords. 🤖📚 We eagerly await the next groundbreaking paper on quantifying the extent of #procrastination in #academia. 🙄✨
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03154 #Research #TextEditing #RoboOverlords #HackerNews #ngated

Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026. guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-Aut... #Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

Yale University Library Resear...

Kudos to #Yale for adopting a #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policy, to take effect July 1, 2026.
https://guides.library.yale.edu/FAS-SEAS-AuthorRightsPolicy

#Academia #Copyright #GreenOA #ScholComm

🧑‍🎓 Princeton faculty mandate proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 years of precedent
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/05/princeton-news-adpol-proctoring-in-person-examinations-passed-faculty-133-years-precedent

#ai #cheating #edu #academia

👩‍💻 Ah yes, the age-old quest to give live feedback a personality test 🙄. Josh Horowitz bravely attempts to map the uncharted territory of technical babble with six buzzwords, ensuring #academia never runs out of meaningless #metrics. Because who doesn't want to measure the "materiality" of their code's feelings? 🤔📉
https://joshuahhh.com/dims-of-feedback/ #techbuzzwords #livefeedback #codepersonality #HackerNews #ngated

The caliph and the falcons: a ninth-century history from Iceland to Iraq

"The story of the falcons demonstrates how other Muslim powers, including the Saffārids and Sāmānids, employed their contacts with the far north to build status and compete for power."

Ellis, C., and Ottewill-Soulsby, S. (2026) The caliph and the falcons: a ninth-century history from Iceland to Iraq. Early Medieval Europe, 34: 299–322. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70022.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Medieval #Academia

The caliph and the falcons: a ninth-century history from Iceland to Iraq

"The story of the falcons demonstrates how other Muslim powers, including the Saffārids and Sāmānids, employed their contacts with the far north to build status and compete for power."

Ellis, C., and Ottewill-Soulsby, S. (2026) The caliph and the falcons: a ninth-century history from Iceland to Iraq. Early Medieval Europe, 34: 299–322. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70022.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Medieval #Academia

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/administrative-tech/2026/05/11/instructure-pays-ransom-canvas-hackers “While there is never complete certainty when dealing with cyber criminals, we believe it was important to take every step within our control to give customers additional peace of mind, to the extent possible” #HigherEd #academia #Canvas

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/administrative-tech/2026/05/11/instructure-pays-ransom-canvas-hackers “While there is never complete certainty when dealing with cyber criminals, we believe it was important to take every step within our control to give customers additional peace of mind, to the extent possible” #HigherEd #academia #Canvas

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/administrative-tech/2026/05/11/instructure-pays-ransom-canvas-hackers “While there is never complete certainty when dealing with cyber criminals, we believe it was important to take every step within our control to give customers additional peace of mind, to the extent possible” #HigherEd #academia #Canvas

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/administrative-tech/2026/05/11/instructure-pays-ransom-canvas-hackers “While there is never complete certainty when dealing with cyber criminals, we believe it was important to take every step within our control to give customers additional peace of mind, to the extent possible” #HigherEd #academia #Canvas

My book comes out this week. You can still pre-order a limited hardback:

https://renee.press/product/a-serious-dilemma-for-a-serious-philosopher/

"A bold look at the culture of academic philosophy and asks whether rigor, seriousness, and tradition have gone too far. Haven argues that philosophy has become trapped by its own habits, distancing itself from lived experience, diverse voices, and the questions that matter most."

#books #selfpublishing #smallpress #philosophy #academia

Texas Tech students held a funeral for academic freedom 🪦

https://pen.org/texas-tech-academic-freedom-funeral/

#Texas #TexasTech #DavidBowie #AcademicFreedom #HIgherEd #Academia

Texas Tech students held a funeral for academic freedom 🪦

https://pen.org/texas-tech-academic-freedom-funeral/

#Texas #TexasTech #DavidBowie #AcademicFreedom #HIgherEd #Academia

Texas Tech students held a funeral for academic freedom 🪦

https://pen.org/texas-tech-academic-freedom-funeral/

#Texas #TexasTech #DavidBowie #AcademicFreedom #HIgherEd #Academia

Texas Tech students held a funeral for academic freedom 🪦

https://pen.org/texas-tech-academic-freedom-funeral/

#Texas #TexasTech #DavidBowie #AcademicFreedom #HIgherEd #Academia

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@altim/116538049980369866

Someone made a cartoon. Self-quote: Just as some of Europe's brightest minds sought refuge in the United States during the dark days of fascism, we should now welcome the best minds from America to Europe.

A recent example proves the point: Katalin Karikó, a Hungarian immigrant rejected and humiliated at an American university, found opportunity at a German startup for her work with mRNA - ultimately helping to save millions of lives during a pandemic and winning a well-deserved Nobel Prize.

https://social.vivaldi.net/@everton137/114015706595115024

#Science #USA #Europe #Academia #FarRight

@KOKEdit

1. Good that global students who want to study abroad aren't limiting themselves to the anglosphere…
2. …but still, why are more students not even considering the rest of the anglosphere outside the U.S. and UK? We don't all have buffoons leading us.

TBF, it is tougher to get a student visa to Canada than it used to be (which I think is a terrible policy).

#students #academia #visas

#ISECEE2026 #EngineeringConference #AcademicConference
#WaterInfrastructure #UrbanResilience #SmartCities
#FloodManagement #WaterEngineering #SustainableCities
#Research #Academia #Researchers #PhDLife
#Berlin #GermanyResearch #BerlinAcademia
#TUberlin #FreieUniversitaetBerlin
#CallForPapers #SubmitAbstract

#ISECEE2026 #EngineeringConference #AcademicConference
#WaterInfrastructure #UrbanResilience #SmartCities
#FloodManagement #WaterEngineering #SustainableCities
#Research #Academia #Researchers #PhDLife
#Berlin #GermanyResearch #BerlinAcademia
#TUberlin #FreieUniversitaetBerlin
#CallForPapers #SubmitAbstract

#ISECEE2026 #EngineeringConference #AcademicConference
#WaterInfrastructure #UrbanResilience #SmartCities
#FloodManagement #WaterEngineering #SustainableCities
#Research #Academia #Researchers #PhDLife
#Berlin #GermanyResearch #BerlinAcademia
#TUberlin #FreieUniversitaetBerlin
#CallForPapers #SubmitAbstract

#ISECEE2026 #EngineeringConference #AcademicConference
#WaterInfrastructure #UrbanResilience #SmartCities
#FloodManagement #WaterEngineering #SustainableCities
#Research #Academia #Researchers #PhDLife
#Berlin #GermanyResearch #BerlinAcademia
#TUberlin #FreieUniversitaetBerlin
#CallForPapers #SubmitAbstract

Short Nature piece on scientists abstaining from using AI: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00508-w

Main reasons cited:

- Accuracy, reliability, hallucinations
- Inefficiencies from needing to fact-check AI
- Ecological impact (~ 50 Mt CO2, 500 Mt H2O in 2025)
- Social impact (job loss, skill atrophy)
- Copyright ethics

I strongly agree with: "I don’t think outsourcing it to a large language model is the goal of a PhD for me."

The AI-generated (?) luddite pic is an unnecessary dig though.

#ai #academia #phd

Short Nature piece on scientists abstaining from using AI: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00508-w

Main reasons cited:

- Accuracy, reliability, hallucinations
- Inefficiencies from needing to fact-check AI
- Ecological impact (~ 50 Mt CO2, 500 Mt H2O in 2025)
- Social impact (job loss, skill atrophy)
- Copyright ethics

I strongly agree with: "I don’t think outsourcing it to a large language model is the goal of a PhD for me."

The AI-generated (?) luddite pic is an unnecessary dig though.

#ai #academia #phd

Short Nature piece on scientists abstaining from using AI: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00508-w

Main reasons cited:

- Accuracy, reliability, hallucinations
- Inefficiencies from needing to fact-check AI
- Ecological impact (~ 50 Mt CO2, 500 Mt H2O in 2025)
- Social impact (job loss, skill atrophy)
- Copyright ethics

I strongly agree with: "I don’t think outsourcing it to a large language model is the goal of a PhD for me."

The AI-generated (?) luddite pic is an unnecessary dig though.

#ai #academia #phd

Short Nature piece on scientists abstaining from using AI: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00508-w

Main reasons cited:

- Accuracy, reliability, hallucinations
- Inefficiencies from needing to fact-check AI
- Ecological impact (~ 50 Mt CO2, 500 Mt H2O in 2025)
- Social impact (job loss, skill atrophy)
- Copyright ethics

I strongly agree with: "I don’t think outsourcing it to a large language model is the goal of a PhD for me."

The AI-generated (?) luddite pic is an unnecessary dig though.

#ai #academia #phd

Short Nature piece on scientists abstaining from using AI: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00508-w

Main reasons cited:

- Accuracy, reliability, hallucinations
- Inefficiencies from needing to fact-check AI
- Ecological impact (~ 50 Mt CO2, 500 Mt H2O in 2025)
- Social impact (job loss, skill atrophy)
- Copyright ethics

I strongly agree with: "I don’t think outsourcing it to a large language model is the goal of a PhD for me."

The AI-generated (?) luddite pic is an unnecessary dig though.

#ai #academia #phd

Die Humanities@NFDI veranstalten diese Woche Dienstag wieder ihre gemeinsame offene FDM-Sprechstunde. Kolleg:innen aus Text+, NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Memory und NFDI4Objects bieten Online-Beratung für Studierende, Forschende oder Mitarbeitende zu allen Fragen rund um das Forschungsdatenmanagement. --> Einfach ohne Anmeldung vorbeischauen: https://events.gwdg.de/category/320/ <-- #NFDI #NFDI4Objects #FDM #NFDIrocks #NFDI4Memory #NFDI4Culture #Text+ #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #DH #academia

Die Humanities@NFDI veranstalten diese Woche Dienstag wieder ihre gemeinsame offene FDM-Sprechstunde. Kolleg:innen aus Text+, NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Memory und NFDI4Objects bieten Online-Beratung für Studierende, Forschende oder Mitarbeitende zu allen Fragen rund um das Forschungsdatenmanagement. --> Einfach ohne Anmeldung vorbeischauen: https://events.gwdg.de/category/320/ <-- #NFDI #NFDI4Objects #FDM #NFDIrocks #NFDI4Memory #NFDI4Culture #Text+ #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #DH #academia

Die Humanities@NFDI veranstalten diese Woche Dienstag wieder ihre gemeinsame offene FDM-Sprechstunde. Kolleg:innen aus Text+, NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Memory und NFDI4Objects bieten Online-Beratung für Studierende, Forschende oder Mitarbeitende zu allen Fragen rund um das Forschungsdatenmanagement. --> Einfach ohne Anmeldung vorbeischauen: https://events.gwdg.de/category/320/ <-- #NFDI #NFDI4Objects #FDM #NFDIrocks #NFDI4Memory #NFDI4Culture #Text+ #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #DH #academia

Die Humanities@NFDI veranstalten diese Woche Dienstag wieder ihre gemeinsame offene FDM-Sprechstunde. Kolleg:innen aus Text+, NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Memory und NFDI4Objects bieten Online-Beratung für Studierende, Forschende oder Mitarbeitende zu allen Fragen rund um das Forschungsdatenmanagement. --> Einfach ohne Anmeldung vorbeischauen: https://events.gwdg.de/category/320/ <-- #NFDI #NFDI4Objects #FDM #NFDIrocks #NFDI4Memory #NFDI4Culture #Text+ #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #DH #academia

Die Humanities@NFDI veranstalten diese Woche Dienstag wieder ihre gemeinsame offene FDM-Sprechstunde. Kolleg:innen aus Text+, NFDI4Culture, NFDI4Memory und NFDI4Objects bieten Online-Beratung für Studierende, Forschende oder Mitarbeitende zu allen Fragen rund um das Forschungsdatenmanagement. --> Einfach ohne Anmeldung vorbeischauen: https://events.gwdg.de/category/320/ <-- #NFDI #NFDI4Objects #FDM #NFDIrocks #NFDI4Memory #NFDI4Culture #Text+ #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #DH #academia

Sounds like #MIT has no policy when it comes to #AI and #writing https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/10/fiction-writing-professor-ai?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other MIT isn't exceptional my take here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2026/03/09/writing-critical-thinking-and-ai-where-are-we-headed/ #tech #publishing #books #academia #chatbots

"After #USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school."
https://www.science.org/content/article/after-usda-request-indiana-plant-biologist-locked-out-lab-school

"A faculty member at #IndianaUniversity, who has sharply criticized the government’s recent prosecution of several Chinese scientists accused of smuggling biological materials into the United States, has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders."

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #China #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Just submitted my paper on Buddhist teenagers in the U.S., for the Nordic Conference on Religious Education taking place in Helsinki next month. Hopefully will receive some constructive criticism to flesh it out into a publishable article. #AcademicSky #Academia ☸️ www.academia.edu/166880855/Id...

Just submitted my paper on Buddhist teenagers in the U.S., for the Nordic Conference on Religious Education taking place in Helsinki next month. Hopefully will receive some constructive criticism to flesh it out into a publishable article. #AcademicSky #Academia ☸️ www.academia.edu/166880855/Id...

I’m waiting for the smooth brained 🧠 Chancellors of #Universities to take pay cuts for their lack of #contingency planning when the fully endorsed, “single point of failure #examination, #marking and #grades” disrupts the academic year resulting in disruption of #academic #SLA

Does anyone remember paper examinations?

#Software / #hacks / #CyberAttack / #academia / #tech / #lol 🤪
<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/08/canvas-cyberattack-us-schools-universities>

I’m waiting for the smooth brained 🧠 Chancellors of #Universities to take pay cuts for their lack of #contingency planning when the fully endorsed, “single point of failure #examination, #marking and #grades” disrupts the academic year resulting in disruption of #academic #SLA

Does anyone remember paper examinations?

#Software / #hacks / #CyberAttack / #academia / #tech / #lol 🤪
<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/08/canvas-cyberattack-us-schools-universities>

I’m waiting for the smooth brained 🧠 Chancellors of #Universities to take pay cuts for their lack of #contingency planning when the fully endorsed, “single point of failure #examination, #marking and #grades” disrupts the academic year resulting in disruption of #academic #SLA

Does anyone remember paper examinations?

#Software / #hacks / #CyberAttack / #academia / #tech / #lol 🤪
<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/08/canvas-cyberattack-us-schools-universities>

I’m waiting for the smooth brained 🧠 Chancellors of #Universities to take pay cuts for their lack of #contingency planning when the fully endorsed, “single point of failure #examination, #marking and #grades” disrupts the academic year resulting in disruption of #academic #SLA

Does anyone remember paper examinations?

#Software / #hacks / #CyberAttack / #academia / #tech / #lol 🤪
<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/08/canvas-cyberattack-us-schools-universities>

I’m waiting for the smooth brained 🧠 Chancellors of #Universities to take pay cuts for their lack of #contingency planning when the fully endorsed, “single point of failure #examination, #marking and #grades” disrupts the academic year resulting in disruption of #academic #SLA

Does anyone remember paper examinations?

#Software / #hacks / #CyberAttack / #academia / #tech / #lol 🤪
<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/08/canvas-cyberattack-us-schools-universities>

🇺🇸 Labor Market Impacts of ICE Activity in Trump 2.0

"We find no evidence of positive spillover effects to U.S.-born workers and U.S.-born workers who work in immigrant-heavy sectors are harmed."

Elizabeth Cox and Chloe N. East, "Labor Market Impacts of ICE Activity in Trump 2.0," NBER Working Paper 35129 (2026), https://doi.org/10.3386/w35129.

#Labour #Economy #Economics #Demography #Unemployment #Immigration #Academia #USA #US #UNitedStates #America

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Bewirb Dich bis zum 01.06.2026 unter [email protected].
💡Alle Infos: https://shorturl.at/SqfBJ

#Job #JobAlert #Academia #SHK #Studijob

'Recruitment and retention in academic libraries: New perspectives' www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #Librarian #LIS #LibraryWorker #Neurodivergent #Autistic #Library #Workplace #Academia #HE

Recruitment and retention in a...

'Recruitment and retention in academic libraries: New perspectives' www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #Librarian #LIS #LibraryWorker #Neurodivergent #Autistic #Library #Workplace #Academia #HE

Recruitment and retention in a...

'Recruitment and retention in academic libraries: New perspectives' www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #Librarian #LIS #LibraryWorker #Neurodivergent #Autistic #Library #Workplace #Academia #HE

Recruitment and retention in a...

'Recruitment and retention in academic libraries: New perspectives' www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #Librarian #LIS #LibraryWorker #Neurodivergent #Autistic #Library #Workplace #Academia #HE

Recruitment and retention in a...

...𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴 in 'Recruitment and retention in academic libraries: New perspective' crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr... #Librarian #LIS #LibraryWorker #Neurodiversity #Library #Workplace #Academia #HE

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Love for Yuri

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2041371/love-for-yuri

‘A French academic is under investigation for inventing a Nobel-style prize for philology in order that he could then go on to win it…

the prize was a fiction, as was the body that supposedly awarded it, the International Society of Philology - both apparently dreamed up by Montaclair to burnish his academic credentials.’

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g8pwjdp6do

#academia #nobel #france