#academics — Public Fediverse posts
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
I am sure that university life would be better, both intellectually and morally, if most university students had temporary childless marriages. This would afford a solution to the sexual urge neither restless nor surreptitious, neither mercenary nor casual, and of such a nature that it need not take up time which ought to be given to work.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 9 “Sex in Education” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/850…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #academics #coeducation #cohabitation #college #highereducation #marriage #sex #studies #university
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This will go poorly for The Jews™ 🫠
"#Australian #universities will be required to adopt definitions on #antisemitism, #Islamophobia and #racism towards #Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander people from next year, under a legally enforceable standard designed to stamp out #discrimination on #campuses.
Details of the #antiracism standard will be published on Monday as #university bosses, #students and #academics prepare to appear at the royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion.
A separate set of governance principles will also become enforceable standards, including an obligation on public universities to publish vice-chancellor salaries, spending on consultants and the outcome of board meetings.
The introduction of a formal anti-racism standard was part of the antisemitism plan that the federal government published after the #Bondimassacre, and a recommendation from the #HumanRightsCommission’s landmark report on racism at #Australia’s universities."
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This will go poorly for The Jews™ 🫠
"#Australian #universities will be required to adopt definitions on #antisemitism, #Islamophobia and #racism towards #Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander people from next year, under a legally enforceable standard designed to stamp out #discrimination on #campuses.
Details of the #antiracism standard will be published on Monday as #university bosses, #students and #academics prepare to appear at the royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion.
A separate set of governance principles will also become enforceable standards, including an obligation on public universities to publish vice-chancellor salaries, spending on consultants and the outcome of board meetings.
The introduction of a formal anti-racism standard was part of the antisemitism plan that the federal government published after the #Bondimassacre, and a recommendation from the #HumanRightsCommission’s landmark report on racism at #Australia’s universities."
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𝟯-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗔 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀𝗼𝗻 -
Prosaic
Thoughtful
Endeavoring𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲:
𝘗𝘳𝘦-𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 5 of your favorite titles from the past 20 years, how well do they fall into Richardson's categories as you read them?
#bookreview #literature #books #book #reading #frictionalreading #3words #brianrichardson #nonfiction #narratology #literarycriticism #academics
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𝟯-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗔 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀𝗼𝗻 -
Prosaic
Thoughtful
Endeavoring𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲:
𝘗𝘳𝘦-𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 5 of your favorite titles from the past 20 years, how well do they fall into Richardson's categories as you read them?
#bookreview #literature #books #book #reading #frictionalreading #3words #brianrichardson #nonfiction #narratology #literarycriticism #academics
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🚀 Oh joy, another paper on #Rust that has more authors than actual lines of code 📚😆. Apparently, Rust's #ownership type system is so complex it takes 12 #academics to decipher it, and yet the world still turns 🌍. Who knew model checking could be this thrilling? 🙄
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01504 #TypeSystem #ModelChecking #Thrilling #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Oh joy, another paper on #Rust that has more authors than actual lines of code 📚😆. Apparently, Rust's #ownership type system is so complex it takes 12 #academics to decipher it, and yet the world still turns 🌍. Who knew model checking could be this thrilling? 🙄
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01504 #TypeSystem #ModelChecking #Thrilling #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
Scientists fight back against far-right plans to restrict academic freedom in Germany
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01496-7?W
#news #science #academics #germany #censorship #afd #politics
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 📝📊 The #SAT was first administered to 8,000 students in June 1926, born from #WorldWarI #military I.Q. tests designed by #Princeton psychologist and eugenicist Carl Brigham.
Now taken by two million #students annually, fewer than 10% of U.S. #colleges require it for fall 2026 admissions, a shift accelerated by the #Covid #pandemic and long standing debates about what the test actually measures. The article traces the test’s #evolution from a tool that helped break into the old boys’ network of elite colleges to an #exam whose scores strongly correlate with family #income.
#history #education #equity #meritocracy #publicschool #highschool #academics #policy #learning #criticalthinking #teaching
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 📝📊 The #SAT was first administered to 8,000 students in June 1926, born from #WorldWarI #military I.Q. tests designed by #Princeton psychologist and eugenicist Carl Brigham.
Now taken by two million #students annually, fewer than 10% of U.S. #colleges require it for fall 2026 admissions, a shift accelerated by the #Covid #pandemic and long standing debates about what the test actually measures. The article traces the test’s #evolution from a tool that helped break into the old boys’ network of elite colleges to an #exam whose scores strongly correlate with family #income.
#history #education #equity #meritocracy #publicschool #highschool #academics #policy #learning #criticalthinking #teaching
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What are some good Markdown to Presentation software (No AI please)
I would like it to include diagram functionality too. Search engines keep suggesting bad stuff
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What are some good Markdown to Presentation software (No AI please)
I would like it to include diagram functionality too. Search engines keep suggesting bad stuff
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Welcome to CIM's #bonfire instance! We are currently using the #openscience openscience.network/ flavour, which has some features that are relevant to #academics. Feel free to test it and share your thoughts here!
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Welcome to CIM's #bonfire instance! We are currently using the #openscience openscience.network/ flavour, which has some features that are relevant to #academics. Feel free to test it and share your thoughts here!
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Professor gives his class perfect scores after realizing most were cheating on their final papers
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/teacher-gives-students-grades-for-teaching-ex1/
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Professor gives his class perfect scores after realizing most were cheating on their final papers
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/teacher-gives-students-grades-for-teaching-ex1/
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US Researchers Say Trump’s Attack On Science Has Resulted In Self-Censorship
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US Researchers Say Trump’s Attack On Science Has Resulted In Self-Censorship
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I'm pleased to share that I'll be presenting my paper "Strange Girls Now Missing: How Dark Academia Storytelling Revisits Historical Cold Cases" in the "History and Popular Uses of the Past" track at the 2026 annual conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) online in October.
#DarkAcademia #TrueCrime #MissingPersons #History #Gothic #Histodons #Literature #Academics #PopularCulture #OnlineConference -
I'm pleased to share that I'll be presenting my paper "Strange Girls Now Missing: How Dark Academia Storytelling Revisits Historical Cold Cases" in the "History and Popular Uses of the Past" track at the 2026 annual conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) online in October.
#DarkAcademia #TrueCrime #MissingPersons #History #Gothic #Histodons #Literature #Academics #PopularCulture #OnlineConference -
The Tamil Nadu government has made physical education classes compulsory for students from Classes 6 to 12 in all schools, including private institutions, from the current academic year. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/tamil-nadu-makes-physical-education-classes-mandatory-schools-pwoaunh6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TamilNadu #PhysicalEducation #Academics #Education
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Every year, @oshwassociation convenes with several hundred #hardware #hackers, #academics, and enthusiasts at a carefully-selected international destination for the #OpenHardware Summit. A collection of #talks, #workshops, exhibits, and satellite activities, #OHS provides an annual appraisal of the state of #OpenSource hardware, while sharing a glimpse at what’s next.
Couldn't make it to Germany for this year's event? We've you covered with a full recap!
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Every year, @oshwassociation convenes with several hundred #hardware #hackers, #academics, and enthusiasts at a carefully-selected international destination for the #OpenHardware Summit. A collection of #talks, #workshops, exhibits, and satellite activities, #OHS provides an annual appraisal of the state of #OpenSource hardware, while sharing a glimpse at what’s next.
Couldn't make it to Germany for this year's event? We've you covered with a full recap!
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/world-inequality-lab-equality-academics-planetary-survival. A #utopian #fantasy, delivered by Ivory Tower left-wing #academics, like Thomas #Piketty, who don't realise there is no saving our so-called #civilisation from the #revenge of #Gaia, or the remorseless #logic of #social #entropy. They will still be saying all can saved, even as the grand edifice of #global #technological #capitalism crashes down around their ears - but see: https://globaljusticeproject.wid.world/. For my response, see: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/gavz7_v1.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/world-inequality-lab-equality-academics-planetary-survival. A #utopian #fantasy, delivered by Ivory Tower left-wing #academics, like Thomas #Piketty, who don't realise there is no saving our so-called #civilisation from the #revenge of #Gaia, or the remorseless #logic of #social #entropy. They will still be saying all can saved, even as the grand edifice of #global #technological #capitalism crashes down around their ears - but see: https://globaljusticeproject.wid.world/. For my response, see: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/gavz7_v1.
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To #academics, #tech enthusiasts, and #internet enjoyers, I need some help. Designing a composition course around the enshittification of the internet, and I am looking for reading suggestions.
More information about that on my blog: https://hpkomics.com/2026/06/course-design-i-need-your-help-i-need-reading-options/
Thank you!
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To #academics, #tech enthusiasts, and #internet enjoyers, I need some help. Designing a composition course around the enshittification of the internet, and I am looking for reading suggestions.
More information about that on my blog: https://hpkomics.com/2026/06/course-design-i-need-your-help-i-need-reading-options/
Thank you!
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@DoomsdaysCW This is interesting - it's also vile & disgusting, but it's interesting. Right-wing #academics, like Richard Hernstein & Charles Murray, have argued that black people are less #intelligent than whites (see their: The Bell Curve, 1994, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve). Making out that a #learning #disabled black person is more intelligent than he really is so he can be executed - words fail!
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@DoomsdaysCW This is interesting - it's also vile & disgusting, but it's interesting. Right-wing #academics, like Richard Hernstein & Charles Murray, have argued that black people are less #intelligent than whites (see their: The Bell Curve, 1994, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve). Making out that a #learning #disabled black person is more intelligent than he really is so he can be executed - words fail!
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New #Books in Critical #Theory: Drew M. Dalton, "The Matter of Evil: From Speculative
#Realism to Ethical #Pessimism" (Northwestern UP, 2024)Episode webpage: https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/critical-theory/
Media file: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK2042128884.mp3
This is so bad. The autor claims to do #philosophy, that is "guided by #science", namely by the laws of #thermodynamics, namely by the ubiquity of #entropy just to then equal entropy with evil.
I do agree, that it is stunning to think about how all of “our” (Including nonhuman lifeforms such as plants) metabolisms are dependent on a total/external energy-influx (aka the sun). #Metabolism IS using out-of-system energy to create states of higher complexity within dynamic local systems, while accelerating out-of-system/total entropy. That just IS the condition of our existence. That is the mode of our being. It seems so absurd to coin this fact (or the fact of ubiquity of entropy) as some kind of absolute #evil.
This is just so weird on so many levels. Let's start with the temporal dimension. If entropy is pure evil, are we then to conclude, that eternal existence would be the essence of good? Entropy will end humanity at some point if nothing else has done so before, that is for sure. But climate catastrophe, to take just one obvious example, is NOT an inevitable effect of entropy — if evil is the end of life and energy-negativ systems are the nature of life, it would seem more logically sound to posit the evil as the thing that lies in "our" (aka human) hands and weird little energy-negative systems that create some states of higher energy-complexity in the eye of their storm as the essentially good (if you have to). But no, instead, the autor claims that he wants to exit anthropocentrism, only to then ascribe the inherently human categories of good and evil to the most basic conditions of our existence, thus achieving the opposite.
Maybe the author is practicing himself the "fashionable nonsense" that he wants to see been "driven out of the academy"?
More importantly, the ethical consequences of this questionable arrangement are devastating: The ethically good that has to stand in, in absence of eternal existence is understood simultaneously as a virtue and as inevitably futile. This is no #ethics for a human future on an exceptional planet, but for individuals who like to think of themselves as exceptional while watching the socio-ecological demise of a planet. It is an ethics for and by #privileged #academics, who still manage to think from a non-position, as if their subject-hood was somehow external to the material world it treats as an object (of knowledge). It is essentially #crypto-conservatism and as such, it fails to do the social and cognitive metabolic work necessary to take side with the ongoingnes of life and with those who are most exposed to its precarity.
It is thus putting wheight to the wrong side of the scales, in this fearful historical moment!
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NDSU head football coach to become highest-paid public employee in the state – InForum https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/892728/ #Academics #BisonFootball #CollegeSports #Football #HighestPaid #HowMuchMoneyDoesTimPolasekMake #NorthDakotaPublicEmployees #NorthDakotaStateUniversity #TimPolasek #WhoAreTheHighestPaidNorthDakotaEmployees #WhoIsND'sHighestPaidPublicEmployee?
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Smart Phone Bans in schools failed to positively impact academic outcomes based on research published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Strict phone bans resulted in a meaningful decline in student cellphone us - duh! But test scores have not increased on average, and at first, banning phones led to higher suspension rates.
The research included more than 40,000 schools between 2019 and 2026. Over time, students in schools with strict bans reported a greater sense of personal well-being, however, the bans did not improve student attendance or perceptions of online bullying. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/did-school-cellphone-bans-study.html #SmartPhones #PhoneBans #Mobility #Students #Academics #CellPhone #Disicpline #Suspensions #OnlineBullying #SocialMedia
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Smart Phone Bans in schools failed to positively impact academic outcomes based on research published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Strict phone bans resulted in a meaningful decline in student cellphone us - duh! But test scores have not increased on average, and at first, banning phones led to higher suspension rates.
The research included more than 40,000 schools between 2019 and 2026. Over time, students in schools with strict bans reported a greater sense of personal well-being, however, the bans did not improve student attendance or perceptions of online bullying. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/did-school-cellphone-bans-study.html #SmartPhones #PhoneBans #Mobility #Students #Academics #CellPhone #Disicpline #Suspensions #OnlineBullying #SocialMedia
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RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@ACM/116494817521116667
Thank you dr. Shannon your work both directly and indirectly meant SO much in my life in many various ways!
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RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@ACM/116494817521116667
Thank you dr. Shannon your work both directly and indirectly meant SO much in my life in many various ways!
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“A number of things were taken into account as we move towards proposing changes … #funding model changes, #regulatory environment, international student #downturn and so on – but also the reality that the #demand for courses in the Faculty of #Arts has changed,”
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“The chair of the inquiry, #DrSarahKaine, raised concerns about “sham redundancies” within the #FacultyOfArts because a number of #courses that had previously been taught by a #staff member who took a #redundancy are now being taught by #casuals
Those uppity clerks are getting out of control again.
#Academics / #Work / #MacquarieUniversity / #PhD / #RayGun 💃🧑🩰🩰 <https://smh.com.au/national/sydney-olympic-sensation-raygun-loses-academic-post-20260429-p5zs8n.html> / <https://archive.md/C2D6L>
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“A number of things were taken into account as we move towards proposing changes … #funding model changes, #regulatory environment, international student #downturn and so on – but also the reality that the #demand for courses in the Faculty of #Arts has changed,”
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“The chair of the inquiry, #DrSarahKaine, raised concerns about “sham redundancies” within the #FacultyOfArts because a number of #courses that had previously been taught by a #staff member who took a #redundancy are now being taught by #casuals
Those uppity clerks are getting out of control again.
#Academics / #Work / #MacquarieUniversity / #PhD / #RayGun 💃🧑🩰🩰 <https://smh.com.au/national/sydney-olympic-sensation-raygun-loses-academic-post-20260429-p5zs8n.html> / <https://archive.md/C2D6L>
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Inside Epstein’s web: The 137 men and women who reveal how his international network of power and influence operated | U.S. | EL PAÍS English
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-18/inside-epsteins-web-the-137-men-and-women-who-reveal-how-his-international-network-of-power-and-influence-operated.htmlEL PAÍS has also identified 14 #academics whose careers have been damaged through their relationship with #Epstein, half of them tied to #Harvard. That institution opened an investigation against various affiliates when their connection to the pedophile were exposed.
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EL PAÍS has also identified 14 #academics whose careers have been damaged through their relationship with #Epstein, half of them tied to #Harvard. That institution opened an investigation against various affiliates when their connection to the pedophile were exposed. Among them are Hasty Pudding Institute president Andrew Farkas, physics professor Andrew Strominger & donor Gerald Chan. The university also took action against #MartinNowak by shutting down the Evolutionary Dynamics Program,
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https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/apr/20/universities-fines-freedom-of-speech-ofs-england. This isn't about #freedom of #speech - it's about the supposed "right" of right-wing #academics to spout their right-wing drivel, their #racism & other forms of #bigotry, & get away with it, @ChrisMayLA6. The rest of us call that #hate speech. The #Tories thought it was a good idea to allow that in the groves of academe - why does #Labour?
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https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/apr/20/universities-fines-freedom-of-speech-ofs-england. This isn't about #freedom of #speech - it's about the supposed "right" of right-wing #academics to spout their right-wing drivel, their #racism & other forms of #bigotry, & get away with it, @ChrisMayLA6. The rest of us call that #hate speech. The #Tories thought it was a good idea to allow that in the groves of academe - why does #Labour?
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Ich kenne das etwas anders, aber doch ähnlich. Ich kam gerade aus einem Kriegsgebiet zurück nach Hause und da interessierte das Sterben einfach niemanden. Sogar für die Medien war es nur ein Randthema.
Es ist, wie es ist, das Leben geht eben weiter. Nur man selbst fühlt sich plötzlich für einen Moment aus dem Takt der Weltuhr.
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Ich kenne das etwas anders, aber doch ähnlich. Ich kam gerade aus einem Kriegsgebiet zurück nach Hause und da interessierte das Sterben einfach niemanden. Sogar für die Medien war es nur ein Randthema.
Es ist, wie es ist, das Leben geht eben weiter. Nur man selbst fühlt sich plötzlich für einen Moment aus dem Takt der Weltuhr.
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Someone criticized this teacher’s out-of-the-box lessons. Her comeback was an A+.
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Someone criticized this teacher’s out-of-the-box lessons. Her comeback was an A+.
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Canada cannot afford to lose international research talent — here’s what needs to change
#Canada #Science #Immigration #SkilledWorkers #Research #Policy #Innovation #Economy #Education #HumanRights #Labour #Academics #Universities #GlobalTalent #EDI
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Canada cannot afford to lose international research talent — here’s what needs to change
#Canada #Science #Immigration #SkilledWorkers #Research #Policy #Innovation #Economy #Education #HumanRights #Labour #Academics #Universities #GlobalTalent #EDI
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Academics Need to Wake Up on AI, Part III www.popularbydesign.org/p/academics-ne… (many good ideas) #AI #research #academics #socialSciences #education
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Academics Need to Wake Up on AI, Part III www.popularbydesign.org/p/academics-ne… (many good ideas) #AI #research #academics #socialSciences #education
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#CfP MIASA workshop on female academic careers in Africa
📌 8-10 July 2026 | at the #UniversityOfGhana in #Accra | organised by @dhiparis, #CEGENSA and #CentreMarcBloch | for early- and mid-career #female #academics
📅 Deadline: 19 April 2026
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Academic writing is a different kind of tired.
You have to hold a mental picture of the forest, the trees, and the veins on a single leaf. SIMULTANEOUSLY! (and justify each one to a standard that survives review)..
Then rinse and repeat across days.
You finish a session and you can’t read a text message because you’ve been contextswitching between altitude levels for 13 hours straight and your working memory is just gone.
People don’t see that. They see someone sitting at a desk.
The thinking is the labour and it is relentless.I say this as someone with 20+ years of commercial and industry experience before I went into academia.
