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Daniel BellingradtASTROLOGVS HIC SIT CAVTVS - literally: the astronomer should be careful here.This is a detail from the so-called star mantle of Heinrich II., made around 1000 AD. The meaning of the gold woven comment:Do not expect facts. This image is not accurate. <a href="https://historians.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histodons</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a>

Megan Lynch (she/her)A corollary to this is that the "prestige" of an institution is what we assign to it. Many of these institutions are assigned a prestige that hasn't jibed with the reality for a while. And non-prestigious institutions that actually do a better job of teaching are disregarded.It's time to look at your candidates themselves and their works, and not spend as much time assigning prestige based on institution names. <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a>

Megan Lynch (she/her)Re last boost:Those in charge of admissions at other universities, those in charge of hiring: What makes a university degree worth something is the value you assign to it.When universities are revoking degrees because they're too weak or collaborationist to resist the pressure of a fascist gov't, that doesn't mean you have to go along with that.Accept the credentials of those who've earned them. Hell, they're ESPECIALLY earned right now. <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a>

Dr PenThe relief is palpable. Students sometimes/often don't want this - or at least they should be given the choice, and mandatory to be asked for consent if AI is being utilised in their L, T & A process. [screenshot from the Artists Against Generative AI FB group]<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#teaching</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#learning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a>

Natasha WarnerI'm so proud of my academic department (Linguistics at University of Arizona). We run a table at the Tucson Festival of Books, in the Science City portion, where we get lots and lots of members of the general public of all ages involved in hands-on activities about language. We use ultrasound to show them how their tongues move while they talk, which got reactions like freaky! awesome! weird! cool! We also did an activity about what language family your family's/ancestor's language fits into, which was a huge hit. I twisted a whole lot of arms last week to get enough volunteers to staff the table (and did eventually succeed), and I'm so proud of our department for putting the effort in to do public outreach about science this way. <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Tucson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tucson</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/UniversityOfArizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UniversityOfArizona</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a>

Ben Lockwood, PhDAny <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecology</a> or <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> folks know of papers that reconstruct/estimate historical biodiversity globally? <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a>

Tatjana SchefflerHas anybody done the math on how much it costs German tax payers when the DFG changes their CV template? <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/academicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicChatter</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/grantWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grantWriting</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/cvUpdating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cvUpdating</a> 🙄

Dr PenNote to friends in my feed: Im sharing all <a href="https://mastodon.social/@BenPatrickWill" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenPatrickWill</a> BS posts bc he has stopped posting in Mastodon. I for one think he should post here too as (arguably) Masto has more visibility, even though he has less followers than in BS (maybe he cld try Buffer?). Anyway, I get notified when he posts so I boost everything. His content is too important to not be seen. Please pass it on.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a>

Robert W. GehlLatest FOSS Academic Post: My workflow, 2025 edition:<a href="https://fossacademic.tech/2025/03/15/workflow2025.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fossacademic.tech/2025/03/15/workflow2025.html</a>In which I discuss chasing the FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream, a world in which an academic can get all their work done using free and open source tools. And not just coding! I'm talking about humanities writing, interview methods, sharing work on the fediverse, and so much more.<a href="https://aoir.social/tags/FOSSAcademic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSSAcademic</a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/academicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicChatter</a>

Dr PenBaffling to see a woman in a friends FB thread supporting the presence of Tate bros 'Pimping Hoes' podcast on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Spotify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spotify</a> in the name of free speech. Describes herself as a 'free speech absolutist'. Just not for those poor country PoC moderators that have to deal with the absolute sh*t pouring into socmed streams every day - see screenshot from Gillespie, 2018 Custodians of the Internet. <a href="https://archive.org/details/Custodians_of_the_Internet_by_Terleton_Gillespie" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/Custodians_of_the_Internet_by_Terleton_Gillespie</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socmed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socmed</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/moderation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moderation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#misogyny</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freespeech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socmed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socmed</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a>

Christian MeestersI have been approach by an editor of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/JOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JOSS</a> (<a href="https://fediscience.org/@joss@fosstodon.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fediscience.org/@joss@fosstodon.org</a>) who told me about <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/JOSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JOSE</a> (<a href="https://jose.theoj.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jose.theoj.org/</a> - for which I could not find a Mastodon handle).The idea is to provide a low-hurdle academic reward for open access educational material -- with a particular computational emphasis.Thing is, that you hardly get an academic “paper” if you develop teaching material. So, this might be appealing for some folk here. 😉<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Teaching</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicCareer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicCareer</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademiCChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademiCChatter</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenScience</a>

Cerstin MahlowHeute im Unterricht Notizen für Themenwünsche mit Kreide an der Tafel gemacht — kein Flipchart im Raum trotz Bestellung, dafür Kreide in siebzehn FarbenAm Ende fragt der Kollege, ob ich das schon abfotografiert hätte oder ob er soll? Ich: „Ja, hab ich schon, kannst Du löschen.“Abwischen heisst das Wort! Abwischen!<a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/AllesSoDigitalHier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AllesSoDigitalHier</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a>

SpiegelMixWe're an inch away from book burnings! The administration is using the FBI to go after researchers that successfully received grants on climate topics. Are academics leaving the US already or is it like the protests that are supposedly happening but strangely don't show up at all on any media including here? <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/emigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#emigration</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/frogsinaboilingpot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#frogsinaboilingpot</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a> <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations</a>

DOAJHello 2025! A year of opportunities as we expand our team, reestablish <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOAJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOAJ</a> in Europe, relaunch our <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ambassador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ambassador</a> programme and rebuild the heart of our editorial review system <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScholComm</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOAJVolunteers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOAJVolunteers</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a><a href="https://blog.doaj.org/2025/03/13/2025-the-year-ahead/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.doaj.org/2025/03/13/2025-the-year-ahead/</a>

Dr PenEd Zitron on the recent estimated 14% cut in planned data center capacity due to waning demand for gen AI.This is big news. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microsoft</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a> Power Cut <a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/power-cut/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wheresyoured.at/power-cut/</a>

Dr. Anna LatourSir Terry Pratchett was one of two people who I quoted directly in my dissertation. This line from Feet of Clay was the motto for my introductory chapter:"This is where we’ve filled ourselves up with so many questions that they’re starting to overflow and become answers."It resonated with me, because this is what doing research often feels like for me.<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/GNUTerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GNUTerryPratchett</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/PhDLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhDLife</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AcademicMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicMastodon</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fiction</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Discworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Discworld</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/DiscworldQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiscworldQuote</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/FeetOfClay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FeetOfClay</a>

DOAJ<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOAJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOAJ</a> Vacancy - we are now recruiting Ambassadors for West Africa and Brazil<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOAJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOAJ</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOAJAmbassadors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOAJAmbassadors</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScholComm</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOAJVolunteers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOAJVolunteers</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a><a href="https://blog.doaj.org/2025/03/11/vacancy-doaj-ambassadors-for-west-africa-and-brazil/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.doaj.org/2025/03/11/vacancy-doaj-ambassadors-for-west-africa-and-brazil/</a>

Jacob CampbellWhy are there many journals that don't seem to support RSS as a standard for keeping up to date with their publications? <a href="https://social.vsp.ink/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://social.vsp.ink/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a>

Megan Lynch (she/her)Remember when disabled academics were begging y 'all to keep the progress we made during the early pandemic at offering creative accessible online options for events?Don't you wish you'd kept them now?Can you please not blow it off when disabled scholars are asking you for accessibility? It turns out that people who aren't disabled benefit from this stuff, too. <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a>

Public Knowledge Project▶️ Check out this preview of what's coming in Open Journal Systems version 3.5!After working with user feedback, we have a lot of exciting updates to share with you. Be sure to check the description for chapters and resources.If you find this walkthrough helpful, please consider giving it a like, leave a comment, and subscribe for more useful content!<a href="https://youtu.be/oCBw2TciG3Y?si=fUKNWfW4GApY1ObG" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/oCBw2TciG3Y?si=fUKNWfW4GApY1ObG</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenJournalSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenJournalSystems</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OJS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OJS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScholarlyPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScholarlyPublishing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScholComm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a>

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