@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...
"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.
#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.
#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.’ ”
so… humanities commons is changing its name to “knowledge commons”
i dislike this. it was a one of a kind platform that originated in and foregrounded humanities. now it’s dumping it and becoming a generic preprint thing and dumping its niche. a criminally underserved niche
i don’t know if i wanna use it anymore. when i was quite excited that i would soon be able to upload my thesis and planned papers on it @academicchatter
@academicchatter i mean you might think this is a bit of an overreaction on my part but frankly the “humanities” in the name was almost the main attraction for me. it was like the one place humanities wasn’t an afterthought. it is a big deal imo 🤷♂️
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
New study (quoting Google's translation): "The main factors that led [#Japanese] researchers to implement #OpenAccess for the first time were external factors such as the #journal they submitted to and the #policies of their…institutions…[But] after the researcher realized her OA through external factors, there was a tendency for internal factors to gradually develop such that he wanted to contribute to the OA." https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jims/22/1/22_68/_article/-char/ja
Have any good investigative journalists done pieces on how the slant of donors, the power of large universities "strategic communications" departments, and the evisceration of newsrooms have affected how the public gets access to reliable scientific research and information in the public interest? #Science#Newstodon#Journalism@academicchatter
@ml@academicchatter unfortunately for comp bio/bioinformatics/regulatory genomics, it's still mostly Twitter. Which is annoying, because I'm no longer on twitter.
Like, we are probably over represented here, but it's nothing compared to twitter.
@TheConversationUS@academicchatter
East for you to say... did you spend 4 + years of your life and a hundred thousand to get a degree that barely gets you a job? People deserve to celebrate some parts of their short life on earth without political interference.