"Hundreds of cancer papers mention cell lines that don’t seem to exist" 👀
“...looks like a massive invention of data and experiments that probably never happened," Some have been cited in reviews, this could "confuse and mislead scientists".
Aftermath of #Petrocultures2024 last week: colleagues are now sending emails urging the Academic Senate to take up the matter of #policing on campus. Because there was a SERIOUS police presence/perimeter. A number of attendees dropped out in protest of that alone... & I don't blame them one bit
I think it's gonna take a lot more than eloquent letters... And unf I don't think we should plan any more conferences for police state campuses, ever again
one argument I have heard repeatedly is that patent are important to fund research (it often funds CEOs, stakeholders, advertisement, law suites, etc too), so when I read about a successful (academic) patent around cancer research, surely those millions should feed into (academic) research too. Right?
@egonw@academicchatter millions do, but that's nothing really. It could be much more if academics took a more active role.
Often, academics and even tech transfer dep. look to sell as early as possible. This makes sense in one way, as early failure rates are high, but it minimises the payout when an idea does bite.
@egonw@academicchatter most academics have entertaining war stories and/or great advice on how to game "their" peer reviewed journals.
Very few can, however, tell you when when you would be better placed to have a patent application filed, or how you might go about maximising your chance of success in this.
The basics aren't actually hard, but especially outside chemistry, it is surprisingly poorly understood.
@noctuaminervae Author-year is probably easier to navigate. My real problem with it is that it’s ugly. An entry in an author-title bibliography reads like a sentence; the year/ date in author-year interrupts. I appreciate that bibliographies aren't generally read from beginning to end, but even so...
10 more days to apply! Postdoc position: Working on fair AI and interested to combine normative and empirical research? Come work with me other Leiden colleagues on fair educational assessment in the age of AI.
@TomTheuns
Could you please give me some examples of what kind of AI the successful applicant should have worked with? Is it necessary to have such features in one's doctoral thesis, for example, or more relevant to be genuinely interested and have some knowledge, and a background in such areas as #DigitalHumanities or #corpus_linguistics ? Thank you!
students at College Unbound are AMAZING! Check out this #PressRelease about how they led the way in developing our #GenAI institutional policy! So cool to get to play a part in this!
Hi Masto, I'm home. The day began with the wind and rain which had me wanting to listen only to The Cure during my commutes and while I was prepping for class. Can the eyeliner be far behind. I jest. My eyes are far too sensitive for eye makeup these days and all of my fancy eye makeup palettes are going to waste.
It was an okay day. Another Drama Lab with my Oral Literacy MA Students. Their big project for this semester is connected to The Lady's Not For Burning. My approach to Oral Literacy is Oral Literacy x Pop Culture x Performance Studies. I'm enjoying it! I always enjoy teaching performance as it takes me back to some of those roots (I did two years of a performance studies x literature PhD before I defected fully to lit to be a Gothic scholar)
A march by Edgar Elgar is the traditional soundtrack for American college commencements and high school graduations. It’s a stirring bit of music, but perhaps an odd choice, given its roots as a celebration of the British king.
#US / Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé Interrogated by U.S. Agents at Detroit Airport
[…] The acclaimed Israeli historian Ilan Pappé has revealed he was interrogated for two hours by federal agents at an airport in Detroit after flying into the United States. The agents questioned him about his Arab and Muslim friends in the U.S., as well as his views on #Hamas and if he thought Israel was committing genocide in #Gaza. Pappé said he was allowed to enter the U.S., but only after agents copied the contents of his phone.
"She criticized my organizational skills and told me that she didn’t see a passion or spark for doing research in me."
Pleading to passion are cop outs for not paying your, or providing sufficient guidance. This was squarely on the PI to begin with, by not reading the room or asking for timely feedback on workload. The the response left a culture of fear (nor one of responsibility and disclosure). Poor management as ever.
#Israel / Around 900 lecturers and staff at universities and colleges demand an immediate end to the war in Gaza
Around 900 university lecturers and staff have signed a petition calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza and the return of captives held there. The petition argues that while the benefits of continuing the war are unclear, the damage it is causing is severe and undeniable - to civilians in Gaza, to Israel's economy and international standing, and to the ability to resolve the situation and return displaced persons. It states that the right to self-defense does not justify a war without realistic purpose beyond the political survival of leaders. The petitioners urge the government to prioritize ending the war and returning captives without delay.