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Warrick Ball<p>Apropos of nothing, if you teach anything to anyone in any context, I encourage you to read the 10-page "Science of Learning" document prescribed in the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@thecarpentries" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thecarpentries</span></a></span> instructor training:</p><p><a href="https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/files/papers/science-of-learning-2015.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">carpentries.github.io/instruct</span><span class="invisible">or-training/files/papers/science-of-learning-2015.pdf</span></a></p><p>I first encountered this shortly after being given a higher-education teaching qualification and it's an amazing distillation of evidence-based, actionable advice that most teachers/instructors/etc (myself included!) can benefit from.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a></p>
KProfsBlog<p>Rumors of “citation rings” reached @brianleiter.bsky.social. Belatedly, I provide a perspective from The Other Legal Academy. Unsurprisingly, I have cited Brian Leiter. I assure you, if he ever cited me, there was no quid pro quote.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contracts</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/scholarship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scholarship</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LawSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawSchools</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/02/brian-leiter-has-cracked-the-case-of-citation-rings.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lawprofessors.typepad.com/cont</span><span class="invisible">ractsprof_blog/2025/02/brian-leiter-has-cracked-the-case-of-citation-rings.html</span></a></p>
Alexander Weber<p>"How could a system ostensibly designed to give scholars the security to be able to<br>say dangerous things have been transformed into a system so harrowing and psychologically destructive that, by the time scholars find themselves in a secure position, 99 percent of them have forgotten what it would even mean to have a dangerous idea?" - David Graeber on academic tenure <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
DEVCE CIC<p>Time for a break from asking you fill in our little survey about reliability of computer evidence ( <a href="https://forms.gle/ZiXtaE8LoCAY4Vbo6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">forms.gle/ZiXtaE8LoCAY4Vbo6</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> ).</p><p>We've been commissioned to do some work on "judicial malware" - the deployment of something that looks like malware in order to retrieve evidence. What are the questions we should be asking? (and what are your answers?)</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DFIR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DFIR</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DigitalForensics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalForensics</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DigitalEvidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalEvidence</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Malware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Malware</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Evidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Evidence</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/JudicialMalware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JudicialMalware</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a></p>
Martin Rundkvist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mementomori.social/@juergen_hubert" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>juergen_hubert</span></a></span> This was not a movement primarily among philosophers, but was widely fashionable among all kinds of humanities scholars in the 80s and 90s. I mainly encountered it in my own discipline, <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a>. There was a widespread attitude or pose that the concept of a scientific fact was politically and philosophically naïve.</p><p><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
Martin Rundkvist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mementomori.social/@juergen_hubert" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>juergen_hubert</span></a></span> You can relax. A major movement in the <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humanities</span></a> argued for half a century that Truth and Facts were meaningless.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_philosophy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmode</span><span class="invisible">rn_philosophy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
twillo<p>Von der Stellensuche 🧐 zum Job👩‍⚕️ : Bewerbungstipps für (internationale) Studierende. Unser <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/OER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OER</span></a> des Monats 💍 ist diesmal ein Moodle-Selbstlernkurs, der sich an Zugewanderte und Geflüchtete richtet. Die Kursinhalte orientieren sich dabei an dem europäischen 🇪🇺 Standard für Bewerbungen und vermittelt sprachliche sowie interkulturelle Kompetenzen.</p><p>🔗&nbsp;<a href="https://www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/components/render/5c7acc91-0629-4889-8cb5-a1caae169159" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">twillo.de/edu-sharing/componen</span><span class="invisible">ts/render/5c7acc91-0629-4889-8cb5-a1caae169159</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bildung.social/tags/OERde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OERde</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/CCLde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCLde</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/AcademicMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/AcademiaEdu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademiaEdu</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/hochschuldidaktik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hochschuldidaktik</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/FediLZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediLZ</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/FediCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediCampus</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/OpenEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenEducation</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openscience</span></a></p>
jbz<p>👀 Among world’s top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds</p><p>「 Geoscientists Peter Mora and Simone Pilia found that an increasing number of researchers – about 20,000 out of the roughly 200,000 scientists on Stanford’s ‘Top 2%’ researcher list – are producing ‘anomalously high publication and co-authorship metrics’, indicating efforts to inflate their publication metrics 」</p><p><a href="https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-worlds-top-researchers-10-publish-at-unrealistic-levels-analysis-finds/4020962.article" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">chemistryworld.com/news/among-</span><span class="invisible">worlds-top-researchers-10-publish-at-unrealistic-levels-analysis-finds/4020962.article</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a></p>
T. J. Bombadil<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
Ben Lockwood, PhD<p>Fellow comrades in <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> - there’s a very cool project launching called Science Homecoming, that allows you to find local papers from your hometown and encourages you to pitch them an opinion piece about the current attacks on <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> and <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>highered</span></a>. </p><p>I pitched a piece to my hometown paper and they got back to me in about 10 minutes saying they definitely wanted to see it. So think this is a simple thing to do with high impact potential </p><p>More info here 👇<br><a href="https://sciencehomecoming.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sciencehomecoming.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
KProfsBlog<p>New Top Tens: It’s still all about BCO (Bankrupt Crypto Orgs), but lots of exciting developments including “Disconsents,” "Regulation of Rob-Advisors in the Age of Generative AI,” and a Perdue Pharma piece</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contracts</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crypto</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/scholarship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scholarship</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/bankruptcy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bankruptcy</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <br><a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/02/tuesday-top-ten-contracts-commercial-law-top-ssrn-downloads-for-february-18-2025.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lawprofessors.typepad.com/cont</span><span class="invisible">ractsprof_blog/2025/02/tuesday-top-ten-contracts-commercial-law-top-ssrn-downloads-for-february-18-2025.html</span></a></p>
Ed Bilodeau<p>So the Clarivate news turned out to not be the biggest news to hit my inbox today…. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lcsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lcsh</span></a></p>
Andy Baker<p>Page by Julie Libarkin | @holdingupthesky.bsky.social - skywriter.blue</p><p><a href="https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:62adzkqicsp4nvqdjjvbrmzl/post/3lihm3qesgc2z" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:6</span><span class="invisible">2adzkqicsp4nvqdjjvbrmzl/post/3lihm3qesgc2z</span></a></p><p>&gt; I want to see the American Geophysical Union (AGU) continue its awesome work on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. This thread is a call to AGU and AGU members. 1/...<br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/earthscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earthscience</span></a></p>
A. Rivera<p>&gt; Student Loan Watchdog on the Chopping Block <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/02/18/cfpbs-student-loan-watchdog-chopping-block" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">insidehighered.com/news/quick-</span><span class="invisible">takes/2025/02/18/cfpbs-student-loan-watchdog-chopping-block</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/PendejoInChief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PendejoInChief</span></a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PartyOfStupid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PartyOfStupid</span></a> fucking up student juice loans. TBH, had I taken a juice loan with the Mob I'd be paid and free by now. </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/BadEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Adrienne Lu (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/adriennelu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>adriennelu</span></a></span>) in the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/chronicle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>chronicle</span></a></span>: "Burnout has been an issue in academe for some time. But recently, the stress of working in a sector battling for its very existence in the face of declining student enrollment, political attacks, and public skepticism about the value of a college degree has also taken a toll…According to the Chronicle survey, 55% of faculty members are less satisfied with their jobs now than they were five years ago, compared with 46% of staff members and 38% of administrators."<br><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/higher-education-is-exhausted" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">chronicle.com/article/higher-e</span><span class="invisible">ducation-is-exhausted</span></a> <br>(<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/paywalled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paywalled</span></a>) </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span></p>
fossilesque<p>Among world’s top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds</p><p><a href="https://mander.xyz/post/25215519" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">mander.xyz/post/25215519</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
JabRef<p>The updated comparison of Reference Management Software from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wisskomm.social/@tu_muenchen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tu_muenchen</span></a></span> <br>that features <a href="https://foojay.social/tags/JabRef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JabRef</span></a> 5.15 is now: available: </p><p>TL;DR: JabRef is an excellent alternative to commercial reference management software and both suited for beginners and advanced users. </p><p>Read the full report at:<br><a href="https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/1320978?id=1320978&amp;change_language=en" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediatum.ub.tum.de/1320978?id=</span><span class="invisible">1320978&amp;change_language=en</span></a></p><p><a href="https://foojay.social/tags/referenceManager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>referenceManager</span></a> <a href="https://foojay.social/tags/citations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>citations</span></a> <a href="https://foojay.social/tags/scholar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scholar</span></a> <a href="https://foojay.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://foojay.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a></p>
Ivi Choc<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FYI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FYI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SabineHossenfelder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SabineHossenfelder</span></a> video lecture and literature review <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p><p>"Donald Trump and Elon Musk are in full control of the U.S. government, and they’re using that power to attack “woke” DEI programs and slash federal funding for academic research. Let’s take a look at how those cuts have played out and how they could affect scientific research going forward."<br>(ad starts at 6:15)</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXx5Ziwh6is" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=pXx5Ziwh6is</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Brian Gettler<p>English is so dominant in <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> that it's easy to neglect work in other languages. About half of what I've published is in English. But, so far as I can tell, the piece that's most widely read is one I wrote in French. It's focused on the intersection of contemporary political and historical discourse with respect to Indigenous peoples in <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Qu%C3%A9bec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Québec</span></a>.</p><p>«&nbsp;Les autochtones et l’histoire du Québec. Au-delà du négationnisme et du récit "nationaliste-conservateur"&nbsp;» (2016)</p><p><a href="https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/raq/2016-v46-n1-raq02940/1038931ar/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">erudit.org/en/journals/raq/201</span><span class="invisible">6-v46-n1-raq02940/1038931ar/</span></a></p>
franco_vazza<p>Saddest <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> day in the year: I started working again after 8 months of payed leisure. 😔<br>The "work" is teaching and the "payed leisure" is research. I don't like teaching (no shame) as it introduces a stressful performance dimension to almost every day, for the next 4 months (all 120 teaching hours in this semester).<br>Occasionally I can do it well (last year I got an unprecedented 100% satisfaction rate by about 100 students in 2 courses) but it's tiring. Help! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a></p>