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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

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.

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_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://

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

GÉANT selected as candidate Node in the EOSC Federation 🎉
As one of the pan-European e-infrastructure Nodes, GÉANT will help scale up Europe's open science ecosystem, providing trusted access, secure data exchange and high-performance connectivity for researchers across borders.
🔗 Read more: htt…

#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.

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

I'm acting chair again this week. I'm thinking of changing my signature to: "I'm not a chair, but I play one on email."
#academia #AcademicChatter

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

This paper argues that frontier models approximate tenure-level academic outputs in social science and humanities topics with "minimal engineering effort". They developed some custom agent skills to extract the qualities of individual scholars from their published works.
#LLM #AIResearch #academia

#GiftLink
Opinion | Yale report shows academia moderating. Democrats stay left. - The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/4u7EfzN

🇺🇦 #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

RE: https://assemblag.es/@rustlab/116448055411753879
We will party-discuss our book, an intervention into how academia operates (and extracts). This is open access via transcript:

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

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

Of all the AI angst in academia, the strangest one is undoubtedly the one about AIs making up references.
The solution is just so simple: IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THE SOURCE, DON’T REFERENCE IT IN YOUR WORK. C’mon, people; it’s not hard.

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…

Estou pensando seriamente em matar o #Pilates e a academia amanhã.

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

Vocês que falam na sensação de bem-estar após a academia são um bando de caôzeiros, né? rs
Eu só quero ficar jogado no sofš, precisei de toda a minha força de vontade para levantar aqui agora.

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Jacques Ibert & The Academia Wind Quintet of Prague:
🎵 Three Short Pieces
#JacquesIbert #TheAcademiaWindQuintetofPrague
https://open.spotify.com/track/2qP6aGvvVMIeQjrIHIqAAj

RE: #llm #academia

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.

Pi quilômetros de corrida hoje. 😁
E, sim, eu fiz de propósito, estava 3,12 km quando eu ia desligar o aparelho e aí eu prolonguei mais um tempo até chegar em 3,14 rs.

RE: #2MR event for democracy-strengthening #SocialMedia on Monday, 4 May, at 9.30 a.m.– there will be subtitles in English, French and other languages.
🔴 #business #politics #journalism #academia, the #arts and #culture!
#democracy #communication #MayThe4th #MayTheForth #SciComm #science #BigTech #meta

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

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

É, hoje foi só isso mesmo. Dormi muito pouco, não deu pra fazer mais do que isso na esteira não. E ainda cheguei atrasado no Pilates. 😕

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Academia Palatina, Michael Haydn & Florian Heyerick:
🎵 Sinfonia in E flat major, MH.340, P.17
#AcademiaPalatina #MichaelHaydn #FlorianHeyerick

Judith Curry is possibly the most confusing and infuriating scientist in the entire climatological arena. She contributed to major understandings around the changes in the jet stream, the Arctic, and other processes that helped explain the impact climate change has already had on our day to day weather.
But then she left academia and essentially became a mouthpiece for Neo-denialism, claiming others were being “alarmist” and that while CO2 was the main cause, we really shouldn’t be spending money on reducing emissions.
Her final blog announcing its retirement is an interesting combination of declaring victory, mostly thanks to Trump and his acolytes (like Carney) who have pivoted fully into the arms of the fossil fuel industry, and declaring she was tired of it all and just wants to be in her garden and stop the flow of now $16,000 (!!) to maintain her Wordpress blog for the past 15 years.
She has done real damage to efforts to stop CO2 emissions. But another part of me wonders if this is an admission of guilt. Very often people come to a point, even subconsciously, where they realize they’re in with the wrong crowd.
I wonder if she has had that moment with Trump. She probably thinks it’s all irrelevant and out of her hands now. Other players, namely the oil industry, Trump, Putin, etc. will decide what happens and scientists like her will have no impact.
I am glad she is tapping out, as so many deniers inevitably do, but it is clear she is doing it because she thinks she’s won, and that is very very bad for the world.
#climateChange #carney #cdnpoli #canpoli #climateEmergency #climateDenial #science #JudithCurry #theAmericanFascist