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petersuber , 2 days ago to AcademicChatter group

"A History Instructor Complained About Parking Fees. It Cost Him His Job"
https://www-chronicle-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/article/a-history-instructor-complained-about-parking-fees-it-cost-him-his-job
(#paywalled)

He complained about the high price of parking. He disputed the President's numbers in a "cordial" but "tense" public meeting on the topic. He turned over the research documenting his numbers. Two and a half weeks later, the provost fired him, explaining that Tarleton State University would not "tolerate intolerable behavior."

#Academia #AcademicFreedom
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petersuber , 10 days ago to AcademicChatter group

#University #rankings as incentives to commit research #misconduct in #China.

• summary
  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01697-y

• primary source
  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17470161241247720

#Academia
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petersuber , 22 days ago to AcademicChatter group

"[US] colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week…up from a little more than two a month last year."
https://hechingerreport.org/colleges-are-now-closing-at-a-pace-of-one-a-week-what-happens-to-the-students/

#Academia #Colleges #Universities
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petersuber , 1 month ago to AcademicChatter group

Kudos to all 38 editors of 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴, who just resigned to launch a new #OpenAccess (#DiamondOA) journal with @openlibhums on the same topics.
https://dailynous.com/2024/05/22/editors-at-philosophy-will-launch-new-oa-journal/

Also see the entry I just created for it in the #OpenAccessDirectory list of journal #DeclarationsOfIndependence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2024

#Editors #Philosophy #Wiley
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@openscience

petersuber , 1 month ago to AcademicChatter group

@casssunstein on the difference between working in #academia and #government.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/20/a-semi-famous-fame-scholar-takes-in-the-knicks-courtside-celebs

“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.’ ”

#Academia
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petersuber , 1 month ago to AcademicChatter group

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

h/t @hannaSH

#Academia #Japan
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benjamingeer , 1 month ago to linguistics group

“Starting with Volume 35 (2024), Cognitive Linguistics is transformed into a Diamond Open Access journal thanks to our subscribers participating in the Subscribe to Open (S2O) project. All current content will be published under a Creative Commons License (CC-BY 4.0) at no cost to authors and will be freely available to readers.”

https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/cogl/html

cc @petersuber

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #linguistics @linguistics