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I’m Christian Wickert, Professor of Sociology & Criminology and editor of SozTheo.com (EN) & SozTheo.de (DE).

On SozTheo I publish resources on crime, deviance, policing, punishment & social control – for students, researchers & anyone curious about society.

Here I’ll share updates & key concepts from #Criminology / #Sociology.

#Criminology #Sociology #Deviance #Policing #Punishment #SocialControl #SocialScience #AcademicMastodon #Introduction

💡 Warum ist die Summe zweier aufeinanderfolgender Quadratzahlen immer ungerade?
In der Lernumgebung „Arithmetische Zusammenhänge beweisen“ entwickeln Studierende Beweise, erstellen Erklärvideos für fiktive Lernende & geben sich Peer-Feedback – praxisnah, inklusiv & didaktisch reflektiert.
👉 Direkt nutzen und runterladen: https://www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/components/render/868ef77c-55d1-4647-aa23-ff983e8e11dd

#OERde #Mathematikdidaktik #Erklärvideo #Grundschuldidaktik #Hochschullehre #FediCampus #openscience #FediLZ #AcademicMastodon #CCLde

Session 1 of the 18th EASE Conference, Disinformation in Publishing, is in progress.

Our keynote speaker Nicolien van der Linden says:
"Misinformation and disinformation have been identified by the World Economic Forum as the greatest threats to global stability in 2024 and 2025."

She added, "If we can't agree on what disinformation is, how can we fight it? What exactly are we combating?"

#EASE2025 #EASEoslo #Disinformation #ScientificPublishing #Misinformation #SciComm #AcademicMastodon

TU Delft will join the relay strike on 24 April!

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We are protesting the announced budget cuts of 1.2 billion euros on higher education in the Netherlands. This means that we have to cut about 10-20% of our budget.

Please join us in letting Eppo Bruins know that these budget cuts are unacceptable!

https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/tu-delft-will-go-on-strike-too-employees-and-students-to-suspend-work-on-24-april

#WOInActie #HigherEducation #Eppocalypse #Strike #BudgetCuts #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #EppoBruins #KabinetSchoof #TUDelft #HetKabinetSlooptHetHogerOnderwijs #HogerOnderwijs #FNV #AOB #VSSD #Unionise #Unionize

We zijn aan het verzamelen!

#TUDelft #DutchPolitics #KabinetSchoof #Bezuinigingen #WOInActie #AoB #HogerOnderwijs #DeGroetenMetJeBoete #KennisEconomie #Eppocalypse #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #EppoBruins

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives of the Netherlands will vote on the proposed budget, which includes dramatic budget cuts to higher education.

Today is the last opportunity for us to make our voices heard before tomorrow's vote. There will be protests throughout the country.

At Delft University of Technology, we will gather at 1pm in front of the Aula for a walk-out.

https://www.aob.nl/en/actueel/campagne/kabinetsloopthogeronderwijs/

#WOInActie #AoB #KabinetSchoof #HigherEducation #Education #Science #Research #Eppocalypse #EppoBruins #BudgetCuts #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #AcademicLife

Morgen stemt de Tweede Kamer over de nieuwe begroting, inclusief de voorgestelde bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs.

Daarom zijn er vandaag demonstraties door het hele land. Dit is de laatste gelegenheid om onze stem te laten horen vóór de stemming van morgen.

Bij de TU Delft: om 13u verzamelen voor de Aula voor een walk-out tegen de aankomende Eppocalyps.

https://www.aob.nl/en/actueel/campagne/kabinetsloopthogeronderwijs/

#WOInActie #AoB #KabinetSchoof #HogerOnderwijs #Onderwijs #Wetenschap #Eppocalyps #Eppocalypse #EppoBruins #Bezuinigingen #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #AcademicLife

Ex academics or those who know about the recent Capita breach - can you help or advise? Im sharing this anonymously, but it concerns someone I know.

#privacy #data #breach #capita #academicmastodon #academicchatter

𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗮
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I noted with some concern that my institution's advice on email signature includes every proprietary socmed platform - an icon list of 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸, 𝗫, 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗜𝗻, 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺, 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗶𝗸𝗧𝗼𝗸. It made me recall the days a decade ago when HE had not even heard of socmed, nevermind utilised it for 'brand' or L&T. But I now yearn for those days. That list is 𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲, including actors that are considered 𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 by western nations (TikTok), or spread 𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 so much that the EU digital rights chief (Thierry Breton) gives a 24 hr warning to Musk about it.

Yet, we are advised to literally connect our *every email* to these platforms and our profiles on them (and subsequently our university servers and technical infrastructure). Are we mad? Yes, it's a bit like 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗺 𝘀𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲, in thrall to big tech and our perceived huge self importance, or ultra tech-bro hipness.

Speaking as an ex senior lecturer who at one time promoted all use of socmed in L&T and for uni or faculty branding, and even ran a big academic project with it - here are my current rules for use of email, connecting to your socmed profiles, and general use of socmed:

1. Stop using any socmed in your L&T. It places student data and privacy at high risk. Youre also giving L&T content to proprietary platforms. Don't.
2. Stop giving your email so haphazardly to anyone. Its an open invitation to identity theft, or at the least, spamming.
3. Stop putting your life history on your Facebook profile. Its an open invitation to identity theft.
4. Place minimal academic biography on LinkedIn, that you regularly update (ie that can only be cached for short periods).
5. Leave X. Never use it for professional content dissemination. You are compromising everyone else to expect them to use that platform.
6. Never use TikTok for L&T. Just dont do it.
7. If you really must use Instagram (for anything), just use it as a personal thing, dont involve your place of work.

Remember, I have a fair amount of tech knowledge as well as academic experience at this stuff.

https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/TikTok-bans-explained-Everything-you-need-to-know

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/10/11/eus-thierry-breton-gives-elon-musk-24-hour-ultimatum-to-deal-with-israel-hamas-misinformat

#academicmastodon #academicchatter #academic #socialmedia #datasociety #data #privacy #education

#BBC R5 will later this morning be featuring a discussion on ChatGPT left wing bias, shown in a recent study.

Will update post with detsils/link when I get it.

#chatgpt #ai #bias @bbc5live #academic #academicmastodon #datasociety