When we teach WW1 history and show photographs of men in the trenches, and no one knows if they are real or midjourney fake then we are in deep trouble. Or teach scientific principles through research papers and don't know if the text is authentic human created or response engine output, we are in deep trouble. Imagine a hundred other contexts and you understand why gen ai is such a massive problem.
Later this week I'm giving a colloquium to my old grad school department (physics) about my experience getting out of #academia and working as a software engineer. It'd be interesting to crowd-source this: grad students and other former grad students of Mastodon, what would you want to hear in this kind of a talk?
after transcribing text in 18th century German dialect for a month, I have lost all capacity for detecting whether or not something in modern German is spelled correctly or not.
The peer review process was long, and in the mean time, my institution's read & publish agreement with the publisher expired... so now I can't publish as open access! 😞
On positioning: Every time I do sociolinguistic fieldwork or conduct interviews, people assume I am a student 🙃 I could decide to be angry, and I am, at a structural/systemic level, but I think I also use it to my advantage to minimize inherent power hierarchies... Thoughts?
Day 3 of #SocialNetworkAnalysis Duality@50 conference is coming to a close.
After 3 days of intense discussions my brain feels very exploded - (mostly) in a good way.
Reminded how hard #interdisciplinarity is - I'm the only architecture scholar in a group of sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, mathematicians and statisticians and while it's super inspiring, I also translate in my mind all the time how everything I'm hearing might be relevant for my own domain #AcademicChatter
Hey CS PhDs on the market: My dept is doing a late cycle TT asstnt prof hire! Emphasis on Ai, data science or operating systems! Well resourced mostly undergrad serving state school in Charleston, SC, small classes, chill dept, beach town. jobs.cofc.edu/postings/14587 #AcademicChatter
It's really a shame just how many anti-capitalists are out there spending their time and their voice trying to predict just how soon #capitalism will fail. It's already failed! I am more anti-capitalist than most, but I do not see capitalism going anywhere anytime soon. There is nothing wrong with being a realist.
I come across so many articles online where the pipe dreams of anti-capitalists are really no different than all the tone deaf articles that #capitalism will save the world. There is so much bad writing online. It is my belief that is why #academics need to worry less about publications and see blogging as a public service.
With Google search results having been awful for some time now, I have to assume that Google Scholar results are also less satisfactory.
While I'm old enough to have been in undergrad before the WWW, I wasn't in grad school before the 21st c. For those of you old enough, how were you doing literature review of journal articles back in ye olde days? @academicchatter#Science#AcademicChatter#Library
Our faculty slack has a 'kudos' channel to announce good news, like awards, publicity, new grants, etc.
We recently added a 'soduk' (kudos backwards) channel where people can announce and commiserate over rejected papers, bad proposal reviews, etc.
I really like this setup, it both encourages people to announce and take pride in the things that go well, and provides a space where's it's encouraged to discuss the fact that things often don't go well, that all of us deal with rejection, and that this is okay.
Totally busy finalising both my thesis and a future book, but still delighted to receive an invitation for a #CorpusLinguistics book review in a very relevant journal. Will post when published, promise 😃 #academicchatter @phdlife @corpuslinguistics
I have a perversion to disclose here.
Please don't judge me.
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I love editing stuff, both my stuff and my students and collaborators's stuff.
So at present I can edit via overleaf about 4 papers in progress by my students, 1 master thesis, 1 paper of mine under review and another in preparation.
Tomorrow I'll set off on my first conference travel since 2019 to Switzerland.
In the 2010s I went to 3-4 conferences a year (and greatly enjoyed it) then the pandemic and #LongCovid put things to a grinding halt.
Hoping my energy management and pacing regime will work but also excited to see old conference buddies again and learn about new research.
Also excited about the train journey (including the scenic Gotthard route) #AcademicChatter#ConferenceTravel
My university, UCL is now supporting train journeys for #ConferenceTravel over plane tickets due to the #ClimateEmergency but it still takes so much dedication to actually do it as it's more complicated to key together journeys. I've got tickets from three different rail companies on various platforms / apps. #AcademicChatter
A turbulent start to day 2 of my #ConferenceTravel as the direct train from Basel was cancelled due to engineering works. Took a slightly earlier one and need to interchange in Olten.
Organised impeccably at Basel - as you'd expect from Swiss trains #AcademicChatter
The Treno Gottardo was every bit as scenic as promised!
Gorgeous views of snow capped mountains, villages dotted in the hills, rivers and alpine lakes #AcademicChatter#ConferenceTravel