50 years ago, economists claimed capitalism is the font of freedom and prosperity. They advocated everything be privatized. Universities were one target.
It's time to compare claims made then with today's reality. If you're in academia, you probably know where this is going. I am not gentle with Friedman.
Closed out the paperwork for the Spring term yesterday and, with my first post-semester deadlines approaching, I'm realizing that I seriously under-budgeted the amount of time I would need to stare into near space.
“I” versus “the author”: The power of first-person voice when writing about science https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2316966121?TOC_v121_i22 Fully agree that first-person writing should be the norm. Probably disputed bc I know that students are still often trained in using passive language and avoiding "I" @academicchatter
🧵 What is this? After pushing UC for 4 years now to quit designing buildings where inaccessibility is the default, a main entrance to a building is wheelchair accessible?
Ah, there's the UC Davis we know. Unnecessary steps because you weren't specifically PAID to do your duty under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act nor to actually make a public university accessible to the public.
@ml@academicchatter I mean, it might sound basic, but for art history I check the ArtHist-Net list serv and review the ToC for each issue of The Art Journal.
Has anyone wrote about how sociological and philosophical writing has changed over the last few centuries from being what the author really meant, really felt, to being what the writer believed people wanted to hear? (Yes, I know there is some Discourse Theory hidden in there somewhere.)
@andy@richard In case you don't already know it, Vilém Flusser’s Does Writing Have A Future (1987/2011) is interesting on the relationship between the author and reader, how it has changed, and how it is continuing to change.
Fellow academic colleagues: please get involved in shared governance at your institution. I know, that kind of service takes up your time and is often thankless, but it is crucially important. And it is on the verge of extinction at many places. The rug is being pulled out from under us while we go about our teaching and research.
If we value our work in #HigherEd we have to do the work to make the institution a place that is fair, equitable, and just.
There must be an easier way to work with review/submission websites.
One registers a master password with the publisher that works for all journals. Every time an account is created with a new journal of this publisher, the master password is linked to it and one could start right away @academicchatter#ScientificPublishing
@pkraus@academicchatter Once ORCID has been authorized for an account, yes. For which one first needs to log in in the traditional way. I would not mind using ORCID as the Master password from the start.
@ingorohlfing@pkraus@academicchatter I haven't seen ORCID being used for authentication with conference/journal submission systems. But they do so for some services such as Overleaf.
I wonder if it is even ethical to enlist affiliation to the university if my funding comes directly from a funding institute, I'm buying and using my own hardware and software (down to the HDMI cable and mouse), and the data is also coming directly from another organization. The coffee and food is also off my own pocket.
The only things they provide are electricity (computer, coffee), water (coffee), and internet.
@geospacedman Actually due to Finland's law, having grant is different from salary and falls under freelancer category. This means that I don't get any of the salary benefits (work insurance, paid vacations, paid pension, automatic taxation, ...), and I have to take care of all that myself. the upside is that I can quit at any given millisecond that I desire. Zero legal obligation to resignation notice and etc.
@geospacedman About profitability, there are companies which do Bioinformatice, data analysis or even Machine Learning. Among the good ones is IQVIA, but the majority of local companies here are not doing quality work especially when it gets to statistics and Machine Learning (not naming names). That's why it is tempting for PIs to get independent grants and recruite people like me to stear their research.