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We also had tactical workshops on improving first-year student retention, building student confidence, AI tools for accessibility, and unconscious bias training for teaching staff.

Looking forward to bringing these practical ideas back into our courses!

#CSed #AcademicMastodon #SoftwareEngineering #TechEducation #Accessibility #EdTech

💡 Wie kann KI dabei unterstützen, die Qualität offener Bildungsmaterialien einzuschätzen – und was bleibt ihr verborgen? Beim #OER-Fachtag von ORCA.nrw werden in unserem Online-Workshop bestehende OER-Qualitätskriterien betrachtet und gemeinsam eingeordnet. Wir freuen uns auf euch 🤗 !

Weitere Infos und Anmeldung hier 👉 https://www.orca.nrw/vernetzung/veranstaltungen/oer-fachtag/oer-fachtag-2026/

#OERde #OpenEducation #FediCampus #FediLZ #CCLde #openscience #AcademiaEdu #AcademicMastodon #hochschuldidaktik

💡 Wie kann KI dabei unterstützen, die Qualität offener Bildungsmaterialien einzuschätzen – und was bleibt ihr verborgen? Beim #OER-Fachtag von ORCA.nrw werden in unserem Online-Workshop bestehende OER-Qualitätskriterien betrachtet und gemeinsam eingeordnet. Wir freuen uns auf euch 🤗 !

Weitere Infos und Anmeldung hier 👉 https://www.orca.nrw/vernetzung/veranstaltungen/oer-fachtag/oer-fachtag-2026/

#OERde #OpenEducation #FediCampus #FediLZ #CCLde #openscience #AcademiaEdu #AcademicMastodon #hochschuldidaktik

💡 Wie kann KI dabei unterstützen, die Qualität offener Bildungsmaterialien einzuschätzen – und was bleibt ihr verborgen? Beim #OER-Fachtag von ORCA.nrw werden in unserem Online-Workshop bestehende OER-Qualitätskriterien betrachtet und gemeinsam eingeordnet. Wir freuen uns auf euch 🤗 !

Weitere Infos und Anmeldung hier 👉 https://www.orca.nrw/vernetzung/veranstaltungen/oer-fachtag/oer-fachtag-2026/

#OERde #OpenEducation #FediCampus #FediLZ #CCLde #openscience #AcademiaEdu #AcademicMastodon #hochschuldidaktik

🚀 #OER basics and practical use cases: In our introductory course we’ll be looking at the legal framework and exploring practical examples together. Find all the details and register here 👉 https://www.twillo.de/en/event/oer-basics-and-practical-use-cases-2/

#OERde #OpenEducation #FediCampus #FediLZ #CCLde #openscience #AcademiaEdu #AcademicMastodon #hochschuldidaktik

🚀 #OER basics and practical use cases: In our introductory course we’ll be looking at the legal framework and exploring practical examples together. Find all the details and register here 👉 https://www.twillo.de/en/event/oer-basics-and-practical-use-cases-2/

#OERde #OpenEducation #FediCampus #FediLZ #CCLde #openscience #AcademiaEdu #AcademicMastodon #hochschuldidaktik

🚀 #OER basics and practical use cases: In our introductory course we’ll be looking at the legal framework and exploring practical examples together. Find all the details and register here 👉 https://www.twillo.de/en/event/oer-basics-and-practical-use-cases-2/

#OERde #OpenEducation #FediCampus #FediLZ #CCLde #openscience #AcademiaEdu #AcademicMastodon #hochschuldidaktik

A doctoral student recently came with a weird question: their supervisor told them that "examiners would be reassured" by seeing many connections on LinkedIn.
I have many ethical issues with the framing and with LinkedIn itself (despite having an account there), but I'd love to know from experienced scholars (maybe examiners themselves): how and why would examiners be concerned with my LinkedIn account?

@academicchatter @phdstudents #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi

A doctoral student recently came with a weird question: their supervisor told them that "examiners would be reassured" by seeing many connections on LinkedIn.
I have many ethical issues with the framing and with LinkedIn itself (despite having an account there), but I'd love to know from experienced scholars (maybe examiners themselves): how and why would examiners be concerned with my LinkedIn account?

@academicchatter @phdstudents #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi

A doctoral student recently came with a weird question: their supervisor told them that "examiners would be reassured" by seeing many connections on LinkedIn.
I have many ethical issues with the framing and with LinkedIn itself (despite having an account there), but I'd love to know from experienced scholars (maybe examiners themselves): how and why would examiners be concerned with my LinkedIn account?

@academicchatter @phdstudents #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi

A doctoral student recently came with a weird question: their supervisor told them that "examiners would be reassured" by seeing many connections on LinkedIn.
I have many ethical issues with the framing and with LinkedIn itself (despite having an account there), but I'd love to know from experienced scholars (maybe examiners themselves): how and why would examiners be concerned with my LinkedIn account?

@academicchatter @phdstudents #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi

A doctoral student recently came with a weird question: their supervisor told them that "examiners would be reassured" by seeing many connections on LinkedIn.
I have many ethical issues with the framing and with LinkedIn itself (despite having an account there), but I'd love to know from experienced scholars (maybe examiners themselves): how and why would examiners be concerned with my LinkedIn account?

@academicchatter @phdstudents #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi

Last day of #ASEE2026. In the last paper I am presenting, I will share recommendations on how communities of practice can empower educators and promote course improvements. A huge thanks to the rest of the GCoE Lab & Design Community of Practice core team for supporting and sustaining this group for 5 years so far! Also, appreciate the support from the Grainger College of Engineering and KEEN.

#engedu #communityofpractice #sotl #academia #teaching #highered #academicmastodon #lab #design #stemeducation #flc

Update. Yesterday #UPenn filed a 163-page brief in federal court condemning the #Trump admin demand for a list of #Jews at the institution as “extraordinary and unconstitutional".
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/university-of-pennsylvania-trump-jewish-staff.html

"The #EEOC insists that Penn produce this information without the consent — and indeed, over the objections — of the employees impacted while entirely disregarding the frightening and well-documented history of governmental entities that undertook efforts to identify and assemble information regarding persons of Jewish ancestry. The government’s demand implicates Penn’s substantial interest in protecting its employees’ privacy, safety and First Amendment rights."

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/115849070993758165

I find appalling that West universities are so silent about this, and many still cooperating with Israeli universities, while schools of arts and humanities like the one I'm doing my PhD fill their mouth of "class struggle, decoloniality and [insert your favourite academic leftwing jargon].

#AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #Academia #HigherEd

RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/115849070993758165

I find appalling that West universities are so silent about this, and many still cooperating with Israeli universities, while schools of arts and humanities like the one I'm doing my PhD fill their mouth of "class struggle, decoloniality and [insert your favourite academic leftwing jargon].

#AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #Academia #HigherEd

RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/115849070993758165

I find appalling that West universities are so silent about this, and many still cooperating with Israeli universities, while schools of arts and humanities like the one I'm doing my PhD fill their mouth of "class struggle, decoloniality and [insert your favourite academic leftwing jargon].

#AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #Academia #HigherEd

RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/115849070993758165

I find appalling that West universities are so silent about this, and many still cooperating with Israeli universities, while schools of arts and humanities like the one I'm doing my PhD fill their mouth of "class struggle, decoloniality and [insert your favourite academic leftwing jargon].

#AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #Academia #HigherEd

RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/115849070993758165

I find appalling that West universities are so silent about this, and many still cooperating with Israeli universities, while schools of arts and humanities like the one I'm doing my PhD fill their mouth of "class struggle, decoloniality and [insert your favourite academic leftwing jargon].

#AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #Academia #HigherEd

Remember the academic dogma: decolonisation, politics, systemic analysis...all are for an intellectual entertainment to produce papers, not to be applied in real life.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/oct/08/uk-universities-offered-to-monitor-student-social-media-for-arms-firms-emails-show

#HE #HigherEd #university #surveillance #war #palestine #academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi

Remember the academic dogma: decolonisation, politics, systemic analysis...all are for an intellectual entertainment to produce papers, not to be applied in real life.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/oct/08/uk-universities-offered-to-monitor-student-social-media-for-arms-firms-emails-show

#HE #HigherEd #university #surveillance #war #palestine #academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi

Remember the academic dogma: decolonisation, politics, systemic analysis...all are for an intellectual entertainment to produce papers, not to be applied in real life.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/oct/08/uk-universities-offered-to-monitor-student-social-media-for-arms-firms-emails-show

#HE #HigherEd #university #surveillance #war #palestine #academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi

Remember the academic dogma: decolonisation, politics, systemic analysis...all are for an intellectual entertainment to produce papers, not to be applied in real life.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/oct/08/uk-universities-offered-to-monitor-student-social-media-for-arms-firms-emails-show

#HE #HigherEd #university #surveillance #war #palestine #academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi

Remember the academic dogma: decolonisation, politics, systemic analysis...all are for an intellectual entertainment to produce papers, not to be applied in real life.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/oct/08/uk-universities-offered-to-monitor-student-social-media-for-arms-firms-emails-show

#HE #HigherEd #university #surveillance #war #palestine #academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi

RE: https://mastodon.social/@HafizHusnain/115328490796649616

This review connects molecular biology and clinical neuroscience, showing how #miRNAs could transform how we diagnose and treat neurodegenerative diseases.

#Neuroscience #Neurodegeneration #Biomarkers #miRNA #MolecularBiology #Alzheimers #Parkinsons #ALS #Huntingtons #biosensors #NGS #Diagnostics #Therapeutics #AcademicMastodon #OpenScience #springernature

Hey academic Fedi,
I'm regularly thinking that it would be useful to have a tool that helps me find articles that cite a paper to contradict (or at least "contrast") its result.

It seems that scite [1] does this but they requires a pretty steep subscription given that I'm not sure how reliable their tool is and that they also advertise a chatbot...

[1]: https://scite.ai

Does anyone know of something similar, or a workaround to achieve something similar using standard scientific search engines?

If you don't know, boosts are also appreciated to help the person who might know see this post 😉

#academicChatter #academia #scientificPublication #citations #research #academicMastodon #AcademicFedi #AcademicFediverse

Hey academic Fedi,
I'm regularly thinking that it would be useful to have a tool that helps me find articles that cite a paper to contradict (or at least "contrast") its result.

It seems that scite [1] does this but they requires a pretty steep subscription given that I'm not sure how reliable their tool is and that they also advertise a chatbot...

[1]: https://scite.ai

Does anyone know of something similar, or a workaround to achieve something similar using standard scientific search engines?

If you don't know, boosts are also appreciated to help the person who might know see this post 😉

#academicChatter #academia #scientificPublication #citations #research #academicMastodon #AcademicFedi #AcademicFediverse

Hey academic Fedi,
I'm regularly thinking that it would be useful to have a tool that helps me find articles that cite a paper to contradict (or at least "contrast") its result.

It seems that scite [1] does this but they requires a pretty steep subscription given that I'm not sure how reliable their tool is and that they also advertise a chatbot...

[1]: https://scite.ai

Does anyone know of something similar, or a workaround to achieve something similar using standard scientific search engines?

If you don't know, boosts are also appreciated to help the person who might know see this post 😉

#academicChatter #academia #scientificPublication #citations #research #academicMastodon #AcademicFedi #AcademicFediverse

Hey academic Fedi,
I'm regularly thinking that it would be useful to have a tool that helps me find articles that cite a paper to contradict (or at least "contrast") its result.

It seems that scite [1] does this but they requires a pretty steep subscription given that I'm not sure how reliable their tool is and that they also advertise a chatbot...

[1]: https://scite.ai

Does anyone know of something similar, or a workaround to achieve something similar using standard scientific search engines?

If you don't know, boosts are also appreciated to help the person who might know see this post 😉

#academicChatter #academia #scientificPublication #citations #research #academicMastodon #AcademicFedi #AcademicFediverse

Hey academic Fedi,
I'm regularly thinking that it would be useful to have a tool that helps me find articles that cite a paper to contradict (or at least "contrast") its result.

It seems that scite [1] does this but they requires a pretty steep subscription given that I'm not sure how reliable their tool is and that they also advertise a chatbot...

[1]: https://scite.ai

Does anyone know of something similar, or a workaround to achieve something similar using standard scientific search engines?

If you don't know, boosts are also appreciated to help the person who might know see this post 😉

#academicChatter #academia #scientificPublication #citations #research #academicMastodon #AcademicFedi #AcademicFediverse

Join TU Delft's strike against budget cuts on higher education and scientific research.

See you on 24 April 2025!

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#KeepTheFlameBurning #StopTheBudgetCuts #TUDelft #WOInActie #Delft #Strike #DoeHetNiet #Eppocalypse #KabinetSchoof #HigherEducation #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter

Strike prep in progress.

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#WOInActie #DoeHetNiet #Eppocalypse #KabinetSchoof #Staking #TUDelft #HigherEducation #HogerOnderwijs #Eppocalyps #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter

Vandaag om 11:30 bij Omroep Delft (radio):

Gesprek met VSSD bestuurslid Eise de Boer over de TU Delft staking op 24 April. We protesteren tegen de aangekondigde bezuinigingen van 1.2 miljard euro op het hoger onderwijs.

Luister live mee op https://www.omroepdelft.nl/radio

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Wil je actief mee helpen met de organisatie van deze staking? Meld je dan aan via https://www.fnv.nl/tu-delft

#WOInActie #DoeHetNiet #Eppocalypse #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #HogerOnderwijs #HigherEducation #KabinetSchoof #Bezuinigingen #Eppocalyps #KennisEconomie #TUDelft #OmroepDelft #Radio #Delft

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

Shout-out to my colleagues from Leiden University, University of Applied Sciences Leiden, and mboRijnland, who are striking today in Leiden and The Hague.

They are protesting the announced budget cuts on higher education, and represent the start of a staggered Higher Education strike that will continue at least for the coming five weeks or so.

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/03/10-march-leiden-university-starts-staggered-strike-against-government-cuts

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#HigherEducation #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #LeidenUniversity #UniversiteitLeiden #CampusDenHaag #CampusTheHague #MBORijnland #TheHague #Leiden #Sleutelstad #Strike #Staking #WOInactie #HogerOnderwijs #AoB #FNV

Coming soon: EASE Editorial School for Journal Editors. Part I begins online Wed 19 March, Part II in the Autumn.

Part I:
19/3: Journal structure & management, Duncan Nicholas
26/3: #PublicationEthics, Joan Marsh
2/4: #PeerReview processes, Serge Horbach
9/4: Journal visibility, promotion, indexing, Are Brean

£80 for EASE members
£160 for non-members
(low-income country discount)

Register:
https://ease.org.uk/ease-events/training/ease-editorial-school-for-journal-editors/

#JournalEditing #ScienceEditing #Training #AcademicJournals #AcademicMastodon

Hello #Fediverse @academicchatter
I need your help for a privacy-focused local-host (run offline from my computer) transcription software.

I am (luckily?) collecting more interviews than I planned and transcribing manually is becoming a giant task, so it would really be helpful to have an automatic assistance.

Any suggestions?

@phdstudents

#academia #research #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #transcription #software #privacy #localhost #interviews #OralHistory #help #tips

Hello #Fediverse @academicchatter
I need your help for a privacy-focused local-host (run offline from my computer) transcription software.

I am (luckily?) collecting more interviews than I planned and transcribing manually is becoming a giant task, so it would really be helpful to have an automatic assistance.

Any suggestions?

@phdstudents

#academia #research #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #transcription #software #privacy #localhost #interviews #OralHistory #help #tips

Hello #Fediverse @academicchatter
I need your help for a privacy-focused local-host (run offline from my computer) transcription software.

I am (luckily?) collecting more interviews than I planned and transcribing manually is becoming a giant task, so it would really be helpful to have an automatic assistance.

Any suggestions?

@phdstudents

#academia #research #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #transcription #software #privacy #localhost #interviews #OralHistory #help #tips

Hello #Fediverse @academicchatter
I need your help for a privacy-focused local-host (run offline from my computer) transcription software.

I am (luckily?) collecting more interviews than I planned and transcribing manually is becoming a giant task, so it would really be helpful to have an automatic assistance.

Any suggestions?

@phdstudents

#academia #research #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #transcription #software #privacy #localhost #interviews #OralHistory #help #tips

Hello #Fediverse @academicchatter
I need your help for a privacy-focused local-host (run offline from my computer) transcription software.

I am (luckily?) collecting more interviews than I planned and transcribing manually is becoming a giant task, so it would really be helpful to have an automatic assistance.

Any suggestions?

@phdstudents

#academia #research #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #transcription #software #privacy #localhost #interviews #OralHistory #help #tips

I'm teaching my first lecture at the new job today, about probabilistic logic programming, probabilistic inference, and (weighted) model counting.

Some of the required reading is a paper (https://eccc.weizmann.ac.il/eccc-reports/2003/TR03-003/index.html) that was written by a great mentor of mine, prof. dr. Fahiem Bacchus. He passed away just over 2 years ago, and I am honoured to keep his memory alive by teaching his ideas to a new generation of students. Hope to do him proud. 🌱

Please send good vibes? 🥺

#AcademicChatter #AcademicLife #AcademicMastodon #Teaching #Probability #ProbabilisticInference #Probabilities #Logic #LogicProgramming #PropositionalModelCounting #ProbabilisticLogicProgramming #ModelCounting #PropositionalLogic #WeightedModelCounting #DPLL #BayesianProbability #BayesNets #BasianStatistics #BayesianInference #BayesianNetworks #KnowledgeCompilation #DecisionDiagrams #BinaryDecisionDiagrams

"A committee of the [US] National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will conduct a consensus study that will seek to upgrade the scientific literature by recommending improvements to the processes used to correct errors in scientific articles, including editorial expressions of concern, errata, corrigendum, retractions, and other actions."

https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/corrections-and-retractions-upgrading-the-scientific-record

#Retractions #Corrections #PublicationEthics #NationalAcademies #NASEM #AcademicMastodon #AcademicPublishing

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

To put the budget cuts in perspective: it's a billion euros *per year*. The amount is the equivalent of closing an entire university. Combined with inflation and higher energy prices, universities are seeing a cut in their budgets of up to 10%.

#WOinActie #Eppocalypse #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #KabinetSchoof #BudgetCuts #EducationIsARight #HigherEducation

Unsere qualitative Studie zur Nutzung von #OERde im Bereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften an niedersächsischen Hochschulen ist abgeschlossen. Die Auswertung läuft und die ersten Ergebnisse werden auf der #GWM2024 enthüllt!📊✨ #GWM https://gmw2024.wordpress.com/
#OER #academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademiaEdu #hochschuldidaktik #FediLZ #FediCampus #OpenEducation

Another grant for supporting Palestinian students, this time by the University of Oxford:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-09-19-oxford-university-support-students-and-academics-gaza-and-west-bank

@academicchatter @academics @phdstudents @PGResearchHub
@palestine

#academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #Academic #grant

Another grant for supporting Palestinian students, this time by the University of Oxford:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-09-19-oxford-university-support-students-and-academics-gaza-and-west-bank

@academicchatter @academics @phdstudents @PGResearchHub
@palestine

#academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #Academic #grant