Stop evaluating academics based on #university#ranking indicators. Start rewarding the contributions of faculty and researchers in all areas of university activities.
Stop constructing university strategies based on university rankings. Do not use ranking tiers in analytical reports for management decision making; instead, focus on the actual contributions made by a university (scientific, educational, and societal).
Stop evaluating universities based on ranking indicators. Every university has a unique mission, and only fulfillment of this mission really matters.
Stop using ranking information in national strategies and other kinds of ambitions. Only universities’ contributions to national and global goals should be considered.
Stop paying money for consulting services to ranking compliers. This is a pure conflict of interests. Source: https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the-role-of-university-rankings-in-research-evaluation-revisited
I gotta say, #English#proficiency requirements for #university#admissions are unreasonably inconsistent: exemption from #TOEFL et al. seems to vary greatly, from just a degree from an university with English instruction, to only having English as a mother tongue... Even region restrictions exist in between... C'mon, I lived my life mostly in English for so many years, is that not enough?!
A company developing a drug delivery process with treatments activated by ultrasound received an option to license a key technology from its founders' university labs.
Last night, city council voted to make a change to a building code that would allow a larger number of not-blood-related people to live together under one roof.
A developer of electronic health data tools and a university's neuroscience labs are collaborating on tests of Parkinson's disease drugs using digital measures of patient functioning.
During the engineering work for the supersonic Concorde in England, "Thunderbirds" TV series creator Gerry Anderson was visiting the main facility one day. Someone asked him what he did for a living. Feeling massively outranked by all the engineering talent surrounding him there, he quietly replied that he made children's TV shows. Asked which ones, he mentioned Thunderbirds.
Within minutes he was surrounded by Concorde engineers who wanted to talk to him and shake his hand, many of whom told him it was his shows that had inspired them toward engineering careers, because they wanted to actually build the planes and rockets he had in his series. He was flabbergasted.
The original Star Trek had a similar effect on many career choices.
Now of course, TV mostly inspires people toward careers as lazy bums or crooks.
My article on the high level of education of youtubers. If you know of a fact-based youtuber, please let me know. I am trying to identify as many as I can
Findings from two clinical trials show a digital health mobile app helps improve outcomes and manage the conditions for people with depression and asthma.
I'm always writing about Ecolclips. Not sure what this is: check out our new trailer here. In brief: ecology explained by experts for students and early careers
Since I'll be back in university soon, as an unusually old student (late 30s) for a BSc program, and also queer, and trans, and a woman, I'm interested in experiences, advice, etc from others who have been in a similar situation too.
Like, will the age-difference with my co-students be an issue for example?
This shift from Blackboard to Canvas is really stressful.
The platforms aren't really all that different. Some things have different names, or are located in different places. Some new concepts have to be mastered.
But it's impossible to migrate a whole course, so you have to learn how to migrate quizzes & other content, & then rebuild everything else from scratch.
They should give us a stipend for this crap.
👨🎓 #university#professor
Rust 101 is a #university course that introduces #rustlang to computer science students, and is available for anyone who wants to teach Rust. Don't hesitate to contact us if you'd like some help setting up the course for your students!
Philadelphia's SEPTA now offers college students a dirt-cheap "all-you-can-ride" transit pass -- but only if their school buys one for ALL students. Swarthmore College is the first to sign on.
It's a model other schools and transit agencies should consider.
Astronomers have discovered that free-floating planets, which are not bound to a host star, are much more abundant than planets in orbit. These solitary planets are believed to form within the gas and dust disks around young stars, similar to other planets. However, instead of staying in their star system, they are forcefully...
Theres a Nephilim living under UQ says some UQ nut on Reddit. Of all the places in the world a nephilim could live, why would they choose that dopey shithole?
_Nephilim Under St Lucia (self.brisbane)...
Study finds free-floating planets more common than previously believed (citylife.capetown)
Astronomers have discovered that free-floating planets, which are not bound to a host star, are much more abundant than planets in orbit. These solitary planets are believed to form within the gas and dust disks around young stars, similar to other planets. However, instead of staying in their star system, they are forcefully...
At least half of all people likely to develop mental health disorders before 75: study (thehill.com)
A recent study in The Lancet found that by the age of 75 about half of all people will develop a mental disorder....