I am currently revisiting the "Openness Profile" by Knowledge Unlatched.
This quote points to a bigger systemic problem in the academic world than some might realise. These collegial care activities are a) extremely important for science as a social system, not least for the integration of new minds into the community and b) they prevent people from working on papers and grants with the same effort as those (men) who avoid them.
Excited to have an interview on my university website due to my doctoral thesis on Czech news representations now being official!
(The link goes to my intro chapter mainly, if you would actually like the whole thesis in one pdf, send direct message, please.)
"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
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)
"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.
“In academic life, someone comes in my room and asks me to explain an economic problem —a hard one— and I do. And then they say, ‘Thank you,’ and leave my office. In government, someone asks me to explain a hard economic problem, I do, and they look at me and say, ‘You’re an asshole.’ ”
This will surprise absolutely no one, but in digging around for cohort comparators for a tenure case, there are many people producing excellent cognate work, but very few of them are on a tenure track and thus have to be excluded from comparison. This isn't working, folks