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How is #academia responding to the combined attacks from #surveillance corporations and anti-science politicians?
- Believe and amplify professional propaganda #impactfactor
- Provide data for the surveillance corporations, facilitating attacks on academics
- Provide ammunition for the political weaponization of the #replicationcrisis
- Provide more $$$ for the kleptopic corporations: Transformative agreements
How should academia respond?
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230206
#academicchatter
Big eye roll: https://irb.wisc.edu/2026/10/20/a-note-of-caution-using-ai-in-preparing-irb-materials/
I guess the IRB must have received a bunch of crappy protocol submissions... Really speaks to your ethics as a researcher if you can't be bothered to write your own protocol. Especially since our IRB provides _a lot_ of guidance and templates.
Once a #TitleIX complaint begins, anonymity ends. You're named. Cross-examined.
This petition asks Congress to fix that.
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#StudentDebtHostage: held in place by the debt you've already accumulated. Leaving means the loans were for nothing. Staying means funding your own exploitation, with interest. 👀
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Would be great if dissertations for review would also be submitted as e-pub or something. Just saying, there is a device much better suited for reading digitally 200+ pages hulks, and it isn't a computer screen.