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Sometimes it's hard to figure out who's culled their office library to stock the free book shelves in the Department. Today it wasn't.
#academia

The metaphor a colleague is using to describe allocation of teaching assistants to our massive number of courses is "juggling chickens." Seems appropriately awkward.
#academia

> In a separate experiment, I sampled 1,000 random abstracts from two genetics journals and randomly assigned them authors sampled from gender and ethnicity groups. I then gave all of the data (including gender and ethnicity) to a variety of LLMs and prompted them to conduct a thematic analysis of the abstracts for trends. Every single model reported some type of demographic-topic relationship in this random data!

Thoughts on AI in academia
PhD-level thinking, LLM bias, alignment, AGI, data centers, and AI politics

academia_edu: Academica.edu (2011)
Snapshot of the follower relationships among users of academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers, scraped in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) denotes that user i follows j.
This network has 200169 nodes and 1398063 edges.
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UK-based Creator Fund closes a $56M fund to back European PhD founders, reaching them in universities before they're pulled into academia, Big Tech, or US labs (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)
https://pathfounders.com/p/creator-fund-clo…

Creator Fund closes $56M to woo Europe’s PhDs out of the lab and into startups
LP interest in the fund was driven by increasing geo-political risk around China, Russia and the US.

Why I Quit the Tenure Track (Tyler Austin Harper/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/09/elite-academia-leadership-hypocrisy/687969/?gift=UvnwM_ucHtaApOJJQ10uJolAZFZySG0WcPHDljE_lh8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260810/p74#a260810p74

Acho que vou cancelar o Pilates/Academia de amanhã. Jš estou muito melhor da virose, mas ainda estou tossindo pra caramba e com disposição ainda abaixo de 100%, creio que não é sšbio me forçar desse jeito, deixa pra quarta-feira. De repente eu até faço uns vinte ou trinta minutos de alongamentos leves no meu quarto como preparação e sentir como meu corpo reage.

#CFP: From Blueprints to Praxis | Religion Call for Papers @… #acrel

#CFP: From Blueprints to Praxis
Call for papers for the Fall 2026 Journal of Auto-Academia issue on practical disruption, praxis, activism, and expansive forms of knowledge production.

Academia is so cooked.
I'm constantly getting emails for courses like this one, which promises to teach you to use GenAI to (a) come up with survey items, and (b) to then *validate* those items. Step (a) is bad enough, but then step (b), which typically involves asking humans to take the survey and then using sophisticated techniques to make sure it's measuring what you want it to, is replaced by piping the survey into the computer and treating the output text as meanigful res…

My calendar had
Long been blissfully empty.
Then I was named Chair.
#haiku #academia

#CFP: From Blueprints to Praxis #acrel https://relcfp.com/2026/07/09/cfp-joaa-fall-2026/

#CFP: From Blueprints to Praxis
Call for papers for the Fall 2026 Journal of Auto-Academia issue on practical disruption, praxis, activism, and expansive forms of knowledge production.

I liked screamy music before. But the carthasis it offers has become all the more important since taking on an admin role.
#academia

Was alte Bekannte so treiben: https://www.academia.edu/128529335/THE_TEAROOM_PROJECT_A_Portable_Tearoom_to_Promote_Interest_in_Traditional_Architecture_and_Craftsmanship

THE TEAROOM PROJECT: A Portable Tearoom to Promote Interest in Traditional Architecture and Craftsmanship
The tearoom is a building type that expresses the essence of Japanese Culture's aesthetic ideals: wabisabi. However, most tearooms have restricted access and are closed to the public. This project started from the idea that to preserve and keep

academia_edu: Academica.edu (2011)
Snapshot of the follower relationships among users of academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers, scraped in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) denotes that user i follows j.
This network has 200169 nodes and 1398063 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://

Kubicki-Fanboys auf Threads glauben nicht, dass vom neuen Kurs der FDP nur die AfD profitieren wird. Ergebnisse, wie das Working Paper von Heike Klüver, könne man ignorieren, weil das ist ja nur "leftist academia". https://osf.io/3mtxs_v1
Na dann, Kubicki-FDP. Mit Volldampf und sehenden Auges direkt in…

At a time of mounting political violence and shrinking civil rights,
the promise of civility and bridge-building is appealing.
Donors have flocked to finance these initiatives,
while universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy have eagerly embraced them.
“At a surface level, who could be against civility?”
said Bethany Moreton, a historian at Dartmouth College
whose forthcoming book focuses on the so-called “culture wars” in academia.
Bu…

‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?
Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project

Smart Meters Conference, Salford (2019) - Bringing together industry, academia and policy makers to innovation around the smart meter infrastructure. #UoSSmart2019 - https://www.earth.org.uk/Smart-Meters-2019…

Smart Meters Conference, Salford (2019)
Bringing together industry, academia and policy makers to innovation around the smart meter infrastructure. #UoSSmart2019

What a day! Spent 3 hours with a MA student to finish our pilot experiment for her research project (it’s launched!), meeting 1 with former current PhD students on paper edits, meeting 2a b with another current PhD student on paper edits slides for a talk (different topic), meeting 3 with a future PhD student and their second supervisor on “what it means to do a PhD”, then 7 meetings with students on their term paper topics. 😅 All made possible by the fact that virtually all of German academia is on vacation, so I received a single digit number of actionable emails today #academicChatter

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Arianna Venditelli, Emilie Renard, Rupert Charlesworth, Marcell Bakonyi, Coro Maghini, Claudio Chiavazza, Academia Montis Regalis & Alessandro De Marchi:
🎵 Vesperae solennes de confessore, K.339

Fiz meia-hora de alongamentos e abdominais. Coisa leve, mas quase morri. Mais de dois meses sem ir pra academia ou Pilates foram suficientes para acabar com meu condicionamento físico. Que jš era pífio antes, visto que eu mais faltava do que ia para a academia/Pilates. Mas a conclusão é que, mesmo tão irregulares, essas idas faziam diferença sim.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Aurora y la Academia:
🎵 Horas
#AuroraylaAcademia

I've been engulfed in the story to the point that I've brought the phone to the dinner table to keep reading - to my familys dismay. It's a compelling story, you quickly start to worry about the protagonist!
You won't want to put this book down, because you too will want to solve the mysteries surrounding the school.
https://www.…

Footsteps of Heroes | BR Dexter Author
A dark mystery-thriller set in a boarding school in the last weeks of apartheid, 1994 South Africa. Dark Academia, for readers of The Secret History, What if the legends of an elite boarding school were a cover for a 50-year-old murder, and the only one who could solve it was a scholarship boy with everything to lose?

I had the opportunity to write a chapter for the handbook *The Global Business of Education*, edited by Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Sieglinde Jornitz, and S. Karin Amos.
“People Farming in Academia” analyzes how the increasing datafication of academia is increasingly modeling it after the platform economy as we know it - with all the accompanying phenomena: vendor lock-in, precarity, ghost work, geopolitical interference, and an increasingly questionable relationship with factual accur…

I've finally finished "Katabasis" and find it again eerily accurate when it comes to relationships in academia. Also, of course I'm biased because the main character is a linguist 🤩 I'm getting my dad, the philosopher, to read it to let me know what he thinks of the philosophy parts 😅 #darkAcademia #academicChatter

TFW you read something attributed to your work that it absolutely doesn't do.
#academia

CFP: From Blueprints to Praxis: Practical Disruption in Academia and Beyond
https://ift.tt/DyiL1AH
updated: Saturday, May 30, 2026 - 4:38pmfull name / name of organization: Journal of…
via Input 4 RELCFP

CFP: From Blueprints to Praxis: Practical Disruption in Academia and Beyond
https://ift.tt/DyiL1AH
updated: Saturday, May 30, 2026 - 4:38pmfull name / name of organization: Journal of…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Me atrasei (de novo) para o Pilates hoje. Foram só 30 minutos, ao invés de 50. Mas compensei na academia, foram 22 minutos no spinning e 24 de esteira. Depois ainda foram dez minutos caminhando pra casa que eu conto só como 5 minutos (afinal, é ritmo bem lento, né?). Então no total eu consegui executar os 80 minutos de exercícios planejados para hoje.

Trying to Write While Chair - A Tragedy.
#academia

RE: #llm #academia

Fui para o Pilates e para a academia hoje. Fiz exercícios por 75 minutos e detestei cada um destes 75. 😞

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3Breakfast
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Tokyo Musashino Academia Musicae Symphony Orchestra & Kšlmšn Berkes:
🎵 Overture (from 'Ruslan and Lyudmila')
#MikhailIvanovichGlinka #TokyoMusashinoAcademiaMusicaeSymphonyOrchestra #KálmánBerkes

Next to Subscribe-to-open, the @… now has Launch-to-open (L2O)!
This specifically aims at liberating journals from commercial exploitative publishers like Elsevier/SpringerNature and relaunch them in the not-for-profit world.
#publishing #academia

The interview that exposed academia's cluelessness (Megan McArdle/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/07/19/higher-education-is-losing-publics-trust/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260719/p36#a260719p36

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Arianna Vendittelli, Emilie Renard, Rupert Charlesworth, Marcell Bakonyi, Coro Maghini, Claudio Chiavazza, Academia Montis Regalis & Alessandro De Marchi:
🎵 Mass in C major, K.317 'Coronation'
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CFP: Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare #acrel #amrel #conference #academia

CFP: Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT
This call for papers invites work on religion, politics, and cognitive warfare, exploring how belief, media, conspiracy, identity, and power shape struggles over reality, interpretation, and life in an age of disinformat