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Koen Hufkens, PhD<p>"That's a real nice academic career you have there, shame should some low-impact publication or pre-print happen to it."</p><p><a href="https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-world-2025-3-springer-nature-credits-open-access-for-financial-growth/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">researchprofessionalnews.com/r</span><span class="invisible">r-news-world-2025-3-springer-nature-credits-open-access-for-financial-growth/</span></a></p><p><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/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> </p><p><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>
Kristin Wilson<p>sharing for :mascot: a new home for SES researchers is launching this month.</p><p>🌍 SocSES. <a href="https://socses.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">socses.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/SocialEcologicalSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialEcologicalSystems</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Interdisciplinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Interdisciplinary</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
TribesmanJohn 🇦🇺🌏👨🏼‍💻📷<p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academic</span></a> community, I need some help :)</p><p>Do Acadamic Journals offer themselves as an electronic PDF of the entire journal ediition, or is everything a web index page linking to PDFs of individual articles?</p><p>Everything I have searched for so far seems to indicate the latter, and I am more interested in how journal looks in book form, e.g. does it have and introductory editorials? is it just papers with a cover page? are published papers headed by abstracts? whats the layout like?</p><p>If anyone could point me in the direction of an actual PDF or “online reader” of a journal in it’s full &amp; complete glory, I would be most appreciative :)</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/academicpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicpublishing</span></a></p>
Megan Lynch (she/her)<p>It's pretty rare to see funded Masters so I'm passing this info on.</p><p>"2 Two Masters Funded Positions in Environmental Science at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK (for UK and international students"</p><p><a href="https://agristok.net/2025/03/15/2-two-masters-funded-positions-in-environmental-science-at-canterbury-christ-church-university-uk-for-uk-and-international-students/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">agristok.net/2025/03/15/2-two-</span><span class="invisible">masters-funded-positions-in-environmental-science-at-canterbury-christ-church-university-uk-for-uk-and-international-students/</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
Björn Brembs<p>Who says <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> is not a growth business?</p><p>"Springer Nature has announced its results for the financial year 2024. Revenue was €1,847 million, representing, on an underlying basis, a 5% increase over the same period in 2023. Adjusted operating profit increased to €512 million, equating to underlying growth of 7%." </p><p>and a profit margin of nearly 28%</p><p><a href="https://www.researchinformation.info/news/springer-profits-up-to-e512-million/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">researchinformation.info/news/</span><span class="invisible">springer-profits-up-to-e512-million/</span></a></p><p><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/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openacces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openacces</span></a></p>
Daniel Bellingradt<p>ASTROLOGVS HIC SIT CAVTVS - literally: the astronomer should be careful here.</p><p>This is a detail from the so-called star mantle of Heinrich II., made around 1000 AD. The meaning of the gold woven comment:</p><p>Do not expect facts. This image is not accurate. </p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a></p>
Megan Lynch (she/her)<p>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.</p><p>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">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a></p>
Megan Lynch (she/her)<p>Re last boost:</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a></p>
Dr Pen<p>The 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 &amp; A process. </p><p>[screenshot from the Artists Against Generative AI FB group]</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>teaching</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a> <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/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a></p>
Natasha Warner<p>I'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">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Tucson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tucson</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/UniversityOfArizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfArizona</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
Ben Lockwood, PhD<p>Any <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> or <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> folks know of papers that reconstruct/estimate historical biodiversity globally? </p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a></p>
Tatjana Scheffler<p>Has 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">#<span>academicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/grantWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grantWriting</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/cvUpdating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cvUpdating</span></a> 🙄</p>
Dr Pen<p>Note to friends in my feed: Im sharing all <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@BenPatrickWill" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BenPatrickWill</span></a></span> 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.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a></p>
Robert W. Gehl<p>Latest FOSS Academic Post: My workflow, 2025 edition:</p><p><a href="https://fossacademic.tech/2025/03/15/workflow2025.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fossacademic.tech/2025/03/15/w</span><span class="invisible">orkflow2025.html</span></a></p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://aoir.social/tags/FOSSAcademic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSAcademic</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/academicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicChatter</span></a></p>
Dr Pen<p>Baffling 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">#<span>Spotify</span></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. </p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/Custodians_of_the_Internet_by_Terleton_Gillespie" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/Custodians</span><span class="invisible">_of_the_Internet_by_Terleton_Gillespie</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socmed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socmed</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/moderation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moderation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misogyny</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freespeech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socmed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socmed</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a></p>
Christian Meesters<p>I have been approach by an editor of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/JOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JOSS</span></a> (<a href="https://fediscience.org/@joss@fosstodon.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fediscience.org/@joss@fosstodo</span><span class="invisible">n.org</span></a>) who told me about <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/JOSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JOSE</span></a> (<a href="https://jose.theoj.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">jose.theoj.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> - for which I could not find a Mastodon handle).</p><p>The idea is to provide a low-hurdle academic reward for open access educational material -- with a particular computational emphasis.</p><p>Thing is, that you hardly get an academic “paper” if you develop teaching material. So, this might be appealing for some folk here. 😉</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Teaching</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicCareer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicCareer</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademiCChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademiCChatter</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a></p>
Cerstin Mahlow<p>Heute im Unterricht Notizen für Themenwünsche mit Kreide an der Tafel gemacht — kein Flipchart im Raum trotz Bestellung, dafür Kreide in siebzehn Farben</p><p>Am Ende fragt der Kollege, ob ich das schon abfotografiert hätte oder ob er soll? </p><p>Ich: „Ja, hab ich schon, kannst Du löschen.“</p><p>Abwischen heisst das Wort! Abwischen!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/AllesSoDigitalHier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AllesSoDigitalHier</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
SpiegelMix<p>We're an inch away from book burnings!<br>The administration is using the FBI to go after researchers that successfully received grants on climate topics. <br>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? <br><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/emigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emigration</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/frogsinaboilingpot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>frogsinaboilingpot</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> <br><a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/post/192660/tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations</span></a></p>
DOAJ<p>Hello 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">#<span>DOAJ</span></a> in Europe, relaunch our <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ambassador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ambassador</span></a> programme and rebuild the heart of our editorial review system </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScholComm</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOAJVolunteers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOAJVolunteers</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p><p><a href="https://blog.doaj.org/2025/03/13/2025-the-year-ahead/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.doaj.org/2025/03/13/2025-</span><span class="invisible">the-year-ahead/</span></a></p>
Dr Pen<p>Ed Zitron on the recent estimated 14% cut in planned data center capacity due to waning demand for gen AI.</p><p>This is big news. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> </p><p>Power Cut<br><a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/power-cut/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">wheresyoured.at/power-cut/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>