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EGU<p>Are you still relying on traditional <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metrics</span></a>? If so, you might be using irrelevant indicators to track your performance. </p><p>Check out the latest <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> post from EGU Seismology Division for a full guide on how to effectively monitor and improve your academic performance.</p><p>👉 Read more : <a href="https://egu.eu/17H3VN/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">egu.eu/17H3VN/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>📷 Jerome Mayaud on <a href="https://imaggeo.egu.eu" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">imaggeo.egu.eu</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"Walter Zev Feldman’s “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Klezmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Klezmer</span></a> and Other Displaced <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Musics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musics</span></a> of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a>” is part ethnomusicological treatise and part memoir.</p><p>Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Ottoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ottoman</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Turkish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Turkish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a>, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Yiddish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yiddish</span></a> dance and klezmer music. An accomplished <a href="https://babka.social/tags/musician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musician</span></a> and a respected <a href="https://babka.social/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> who has taught at elite universities, Feldman was a key player in the 1970s klezmer revival — and, in fact, it was Feldman who popularized the term “klezmer” to describe the traditional instrumental music of East <a href="https://babka.social/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>European</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a>.</p><p>“Klezmer was still an obscure term of the Yiddish lexicon,” Feldman writes in his new memoir, “From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York.”</p><p><a href="https://www.jta.org/2025/07/16/ny/he-kicked-off-the-1970s-klezmer-revival-now-hes-paying-tribute-to-new-yorks-vast-global-music-scene" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jta.org/2025/07/16/ny/he-kicke</span><span class="invisible">d-off-the-1970s-klezmer-revival-now-hes-paying-tribute-to-new-yorks-vast-global-music-scene</span></a></p>
Fedi.Garden 🌱<p>Hcommons.social is a Hometown Mastodon server for all kinds of humanities scholars and practitioners around the world:</p><p>:Fediverse: <a href="https://hcommons.social" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">hcommons.social</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>You can find out more at <a href="https://hcommons.social/about" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">hcommons.social/about</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> or contact the admin <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@hello" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>hello</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/FeaturedServer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FeaturedServer</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humanities</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academic</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Scholars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scholars</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/HomeTown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeTown</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/HometownMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HometownMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/FreeFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeFediverse</span></a></p>
UniversityofGroningenLibrary<p>New in our electronic <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/collection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>collection</span></a>:</p><p>➡️ Decentralizing Knowledges. Essays on Distributed Agency</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/103403/1/9781478094289_RodriguezMedina_txt.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">library.oapen.org/bitstream/20</span><span class="invisible">.500.12657/103403/1/9781478094289_RodriguezMedina_txt.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/decentralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decentralization</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
pjw<p>Hi, academics, <br>I have a question that is somewhat important for understanding the treatment of some untenured folks at a university. </p><p>This question is specifically aimed for academics who are working in a country where they are not citizens: How much, if any, assistance did/does your university provide with your necessary visa requirements? (I was going to do a poll but its probably too fine-grained of answers.)</p><p>Please share if relevant!</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/academics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academics</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a></p>
Dr. Or M. Bialik<p>Scientific papers that people can find and easily access get cited more (I know, shocking). But that's true even if those papers are on Shadow Libraries ("articles downloaded from Sci-Hub were cited 1.72 times more than papers not downloaded from Sci-Hub").</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academic</span></a> | <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SciHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciHub</span></a> | <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Bibliometric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bibliometric</span></a> </p><p>Link: <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-020-03806-w" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">link.springer.com/article/10.1</span><span class="invisible">007/s11192-020-03806-w</span></a></p>
beSpacific<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>knittingknots2</span></a></span> Over course of several months Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded she no longer had <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> freedom necessary 4 doing her job. But now she’s leaving her position &amp; institution because orders from <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a> she said have made staying both morally, practically untenable. Remaining on faculty, she would mean implicitly lending her approval to policies she cannot support. And she said that the kind of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teaching</span></a> and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Navy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Navy</span></a> once hired her to do will now be impossible.</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WTAF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WTAF</span></a>???</p><p>A <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteNationalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteNationalist</span></a> Wrote a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a> School Paper Promoting <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racist</span></a> Views.<br>It Won Him an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Award" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Award</span></a>.</p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UniversityOfFlorida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfFlorida</span></a> student won an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/honor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>honor</span></a> after he argued in a paper that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> applies only to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhitePeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhitePeople</span></a>. From there, the situation spiraled.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/us/white-supremacist-university-of-florida-paper.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Rk8.wzWO.fL5o2MqxGMDT&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/06/21/us/whit</span><span class="invisible">e-supremacist-university-of-florida-paper.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Rk8.wzWO.fL5o2MqxGMDT&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
yPhil<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@bytebro" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bytebro</span></a></span> Yeah, possibly. But as soon as he veers off the "witty <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a>" shtick He also leans towards a milktoast <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/normie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>normie</span></a> parroting the mainstream TV's talking points. So there's that, too.</p>
Bruno Amaral<p>AI copyediting: how Paperpal butchered my paper on AI-generated writing<br>This morning I received the copy-edited version of a paper I recently submitted to a journal. This is always cause for celebration, another step towards publication accomplished! But this time the …<br><a href="https://jilltxt.net/ai-copyediting-how-paperpal-butchered-my-paper-on-ai-generated-writing/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jilltxt.net/ai-copyediting-how</span><span class="invisible">-paperpal-butchered-my-paper-on-ai-generated-writing/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jill</span></a>-rettberg <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/p" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>p</span></a>-bksy <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paperpal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paperpal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tools</span></a></p>
Duncan Yellowlees 🎓💬<p>How fit all your research into a short talk...</p><p>Don't. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PHD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Presenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Presenting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PHDChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PHDChat</span></a></p>
UniversityofGroningenLibrary<p>🆕 Out now: our study on <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> staff engagement on <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a></p><p>🔗 Summary<br><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15582839" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1558283</span><span class="invisible">9</span></a> </p><p>💡 While Mastodon is valued for its ethical positioning, continued engagement hinges more on social and institutional dynamics than on technical features alone</p><p>➡️Ethical concerns drive adoption<br>➡️Peer presence matters more for staying than joining<br>➡️Academic institutions could be game-changers by leading adoption instead of waiting for grassroots growth</p><p><a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/AcademicMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicMastodon</span></a></p>
Farhad<p>Video showing the damage to the residence of Dr. Tehrani, President of Iranian Azad University in <a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/Tehran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tehran</span></a> after Israeli terror attacks. </p><p>This means any Israeli <a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/scientist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientist</span></a> or <a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> aee "legitimate targets" of Iranian retaliation against <a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> <a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/IranUnderAttack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IranUnderAttack</span></a> <a href="https://freefree.ps/tags/StopIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopIsrael</span></a> </p><p>Video shared on Blue Sky: <br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/faab64.bsky.social/post/3lrhrkxss2s2e" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/faab64.bsky.s</span><span class="invisible">ocial/post/3lrhrkxss2s2e</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/paleatine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>paleatine</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemmy.ml/c/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/iran" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>iran</span></a></span></p>
Fedi.Garden 🌱<p>Datasci.social is a Mastodon server for researchers &amp; practitioners in human-centric data science, broadly defined (network science, social data science, computational social science, geospatial data science).</p><p>:Fediverse: <a href="https://datasci.social" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">datasci.social</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>You can find out more at <a href="https://datasci.social/about" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">datasci.social/about</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> or contact the admin <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://datasci.social/@mszll" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mszll</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/FeaturedServer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FeaturedServer</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/DataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataScience</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/DataSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataSci</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academic</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humanities</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/FreeFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeFediverse</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The actions come as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> &amp; his top aides seek to bend <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> institutions to their <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ideological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ideological</span></a> beliefs. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/State" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>State</span></a> Dept’s public *diplomacy* office is run by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DarrenBeattie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarrenBeattie</span></a>, a political appointee who was fired from a job during the first Trump admin after he gave a talk at a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteNationalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteNationalist</span></a> conference. He has made social media posts on white grievances, including one saying “competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work.”…</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Fulbright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fulbright</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a></p>
Duncan Yellowlees 🎓💬<p>How long does it take you to understand new graph of figure when you read it in a paper?</p><p>5 mins?<br>10?</p><p>Need to go away, have a cuppa, and come back to it?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PHD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Presenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Presenting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PHDChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PHDChat</span></a> 🧵<br>1/3</p>
David J. Atkinson<p>Support the Bethesda Declaration: A Call for <a href="https://c.im/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NIH</span></a> and HHS Leadership to Deliver on Promises of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academic</span></a> Freedom and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scientific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scientific</span></a> Excellence.</p><p>Read the Bethesda Declaration:<br><a href="https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">standupforscience.net/bethesda</span><span class="invisible">-declaration</span></a></p><p>Add your name to the open letter in support: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/open-letter-in-support-of-science" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">actionnetwork.org/petitions/op</span><span class="invisible">en-letter-in-support-of-science</span></a> </p><p> 2/ …</p>
Chris Hall<p>What do you think about this thought experiment?</p><p>Established academic publishes an article introducing a new term. And that term was used a year earlier by a PhD student in a media article explicitly based on their PhD research. </p><p>And both articles include not only the same term new term, but also some phrases verbatim? </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academic</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a></p>
Kathy Reid<p>Sandi Toksvig for Cambridge Chancellor? Yes please. </p><p><a href="https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/chancellor/election-of-the-next-chancellor/the-candidates/statement-from-ms-sandi-toksvig" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cam.ac.uk/about-the-university</span><span class="invisible">/how-the-university-and-colleges-work/people/chancellor/election-of-the-next-chancellor/the-candidates/statement-from-ms-sandi-toksvig</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/higherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>higherEd</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>At the same time, a proposal making its way through <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> that would increase <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/taxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taxes</span></a> on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/endowments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>endowments</span></a> could cost <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> an estimated $850 million a year.</p><p>The wider <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> community was shocked at Thursday’s move by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Admin. In a statement, Sally Kornbluth, president of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a>, called it a “grave moment.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InternationalStudents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalStudents</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BrainDrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrainDrain</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOverreach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOverreach</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a></p>