Started a new committee assignment and because the old chair stepped off, no one is sending an email to setup the next meeting for fear of becoming chair by default. #academia #academicchatter

I feel seen, just not in a nice way #AcademicChatter

For the #PennState (or central #PA) people across the #fediverse – Sign this letter to tell congressman Glenn Thompson (PA) to publicly oppose the cuts to federal funding for research, healthcare, and education.

We'll be delivering the letter to his office on 4/8 as part of the #killthecuts national day of action

Please give this post a boost so it gets to the right people

https://www.jotform.com/form/250887035514055

#Genetics #Genomics #Cancer #Academia #AcademicChatter

Interested in cancer genetics? Don't want to fly somewhere to here about it? Next week the American Society of Human Genetics is having an online-only digital symposium on cancer genetics.

https://www.ashg.org/product/2025-spring-symposium-emerging-frontiers-in-cancer-genetics/

I think it's also worth up to 6 #CME credits if you do continuing medical education.

Fellow social scientists: What's your favorite survey panel for US adults in 2025? #commodon #academicChatter

Enjoyable letter in Nature Biotech about the importance of writing. Good advice, set out logically. I've already fwded to all the grad students I know...

#AcWri #AcademicChatter #Writing

https://rdcu.be/efVGS

I was just reminded tomorrow is April 1st. Thank God i stopped reading the arxiv some time ago #academicchatter

#AcademicJob | #PhDStudentship

PhD Scholarship – The Townshend Studio

University of West London

Full-fees PhD scholarship + stipend (£22,000 full-time / £11,000 part-time) for research on Pete Townshend’s electronic instrument collection. Open to UK & international students.

Deadline: 30/04/2025 (Intl) | 15/06/2025 (UK)

https://www.uwl.ac.uk/course/research/music?start=1560&option=33

CC @academicjobs

Very useful list of European alternatives to US Bigtech (Mar2025):
"There is a growing sentiment that the US shouldn't be relied upon for the technologies that many people and businesses use every day. Lately, the US has been unilaterally cutting off access to critical technologies to European countries, prompting calls for "radical action" to bolster European tech stacks from EU lawmakers."

#bigtech #eu #europe #alternative #academicchatter #academia

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-european-alternatives/

Three professors leave Yale for University of Toronto amid Trump crackdown (The Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition)), Mar 29, 2025
https://globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281749865160634

Incentives in work and academia are so broken.

My literature review (!) continues to get press coverage and I did not get paid for the 3-4 months full time work it took to write. I can barely get a job interview much less a paid position.

The people whose harmful nonsense I debunked are on £60k and up.

How is anyone supposed to do this?

In more WTF #USPol #AcademicChatter #Universities

The Trump administration is asking for a bunch of super intrusive information on Chinese students at CMU and five other universities:

https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/letters/letter-farnam-jahanian-president-carnegie-mellon-university-transparency-universities

Latest ASM Researchers blog post is about two new research articles in the bibliography:
https://socialmediaalternatives.org/2025/03/28/two-new-items-bib.html
Both of these academic studies focus on the movement of people from Twitter to systems like Mastodon. One focuses on journalists, the other focuses on the different moral values of both networks.

Yep: "most unusual, not only just to receive a questionnaire at all, but this one was clearly screening for ideological questions."
#Canada #AcademicChatter #cdnpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-researchers-us-grants-political-questions-1.7493820

Retired UCSF professor wins the internet this week:

"Watch: Older Woman In Berkeley Gives a Whoopin’ to Pro-Trump Counterprotester Who Tried to Stun-Gun Her"

https://sfist.com/2025/03/25/watch-old-lady-in-berkeley-gives-a-whoopin-to-pro-trump-counterprotester-who-tried-to-stun-gun-her/

Susan Kegeles:
https://profiles.ucsf.edu/susan.kegeles
What a hero: Her research saved lives and now she works to save her homeland

"If all US citizens would be like that old lady, the US would be saved tomorrow,"
https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/03/26/community/berkeley-woman-protest-takedown-trump-supporter/

Stanley doubling down and making it unambiguously clear for everybody, where he thinks things are headed:

"What does it say that a scholar of fascism is leaving the US right now? Said Stanley: “Part of it is you’re leaving because ultimately, it is like leaving Germany in 1932, 33, 34."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/yale-professor-fascism-canada

I am writing an abstract: Diasporic Identity and the Chinese Temple. I hope I can do justice to this paper.... #AcademicChatter

For a proposal I have to select 10 relevant papers. I have actually co-authored more than 67 publications, but I just discovered only 8 of them are first authored. I feel like maybe this is a bad sign in a roughly 20 year career, on the other hand, if I did publish more, would anyone actually read them?

I feel like there are already far too many papers...

#AcademicChatter.

I'm absolutely losing my mind with this publication. The title is "The GLOBAL climate anomaly 1940–1942". My man, I don't believe this is the GLOBE.

The entirety of the discussion about the Southern Hemisphere is a single sentence with the dreaded "not shown" added just to throw shade.

I've been thinking a lot about 'administration' in academia recently, I think because I have taken on a new role and that has introduced me to all sorts of new opportunities for my time to be taken up with bureaucracy.

Somewhere here in the Fediverse I stumbled over a discussion on The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber. And his essays on why our lives can be full of bureaucracy. That was my train commute reading this week.

Okay, so I'm ten years late in reading this. It was a thought provoking read, and highly recommended. Especially now with the DOGE experiment happening in the US government bureaucracy. I wonder what David Graeber would have thought of that?
#academicchatter