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Judge Proposes Restricting Deportation of Scores of Noncitizen Academics- The New York Times
https://archive.ph/eyD8h

not that anyone asked, but here's a chart of UM LSA grade inflation over the past 25 years
taken from
https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/academics/lsa-academic-policies-and-procedures/grading-and-transcript-n…

The Trump administration began what could be a contentious process
to rework the trade deal that governs North American business this week,
as it began hearings about the
U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement that Trump signed into law in 2020 during his first term.
Farmers, academics, trade groups and others assembled in a government building south of the National Mall on Wednesday
for the first of three days of hearings
to share their assessment of the deal.

Groups Express Anixety as Trump Threatens to Derail U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Pact
Hearings that began Wednesday in Washington reflected anxiety over the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact and whether the president could end up scrapping it.

Scientists at NeurIPS, which drew a record 26,000 attendees this year, say key questions about how AI models work and how to measure them remain unresolved (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-progress-surges-resea…

AI progress surges while researchers struggle to explain It
Academics, start-up founders and researchers representing industrial titans from around the globe descended on San Diego for the top gathering in AI.

I know many academics, especially in these dark days, have to deal with worse, but it's obnoxious when the university takes a few years to slowly smother the cost-sharing program that you wrote into your successful grant application. Where I once had the money to hire the undergrad RAs the project needs, I now have enough for maybe a sixth of the planned hours.

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://

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/23/academics-who-say-they-are-pro-white-and-have-ethnic-conception-of-australia-turn-spotlight-on-sydn…

Academics who say they are ‘pro-white’ and have ‘ethnic conception’ of Australia turn spotlight on Sydney’s Campion College
Higher education regulator investigates Catholic institute after comments by academics, including endorsing the White Australia policy

Announcing the new CBS Evening News, anchor Tony Dokoupil says people lost trust in legacy media in part due to a focus on "the analysis of academics or elites" (@cbseveningnews)
https://x.com/cbseveningnews/status/2006696909235171821

CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) on X
"On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you." That changes now. The new CBS Evening News

The “AI” bubble is all driven by greed, narcissism, and the craving for fame.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers

Americans are good at powerplay but that don't impress me much. I much rather work with serious academics to resolve a small nummer of remaining issues. The vOICe has set the bar for vaporware https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PewuFviiSsQ and we welcome new papers without strings attached

One of the things I expect most US academics love and hate about winter break is reading dozens of folders of amazing PhD applicants (love the energy, passion, accomplishment) who are interested in working with you but you're going to have to disappoint almost all of them (hate).

#DHBenelux is a lovely conference - consider submitting something for their Call for Proposals!
From: @…
https…

The wheel keeps turning
SciComm academics

↙️ ↖️
despise despise

Tech & Biz ➡️ "Serious"
Writers despise Academia

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
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Call for Proposals: Board Game Academics 2026 Conference
https://ift.tt/PSuNpYb
updated: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:50pmfull name / name of organization: Board Game…
via Input 4 RELCFP ht…

Here's a concrete example of how "vibe coding" with Claude Code changes everything for mildly tech-savvy #humanities academics. #digitalhumanities I have been using one particular commercial PDF management app for years to manage a library of 3000 PDFs I have accumulated o…

Academia seems to take all the joy out of academics.

And here’s what I’m trying to get at: when the bubble bursts, many “AI” “applications” will disappear, but #genAI is here to stay in academia. Companies will discover students and academics as a market and, when the free offers go away, inevitably crank up the prices. But as students have already become dependent on #genAI

And here’s what I’m trying to get at: when the bubble bursts, many “AI” “applications” will disappear, but #genAI is here to stay in academia. Companies will discover students and academics as a market and, when the free offers go away, inevitably crank up the prices. But as students have already become dependent on #genAI

from my link log —
Teacher effects on student achievement and height: a cautionary tale.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26480
saved 2019-11-27 https://…

Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/project-to-bring-voices-of-enslaved-people-to-life/

Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life - The National Archives
  The National Archives is working with international academics to make the largest collection of first-person testimony of enslaved people from the Caribbean in existence – the Reports of the Protectors of Slaves – accessible to researchers anywhere in the world. Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana will digitise, map […]

"Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right."
-- Donald Norman
https://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html

Carbon offsets have failed for 25 years, and most should be phased out #carbon

Carbon offsets have failed for 25 years, and most should be phased out
Academics at the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania have conducted the most comprehensive review of evidence on the effectiveness on carbon offsetting to date and concluded the practice is ineffective and riddled with "intractable" problems. The review is published in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

A fascinating thing about so many ostensibly very intelligent "AI-curious" people is that they're—in public—attacking e.g. academics who wrote papers critical of claims of the tech industry, often with wild conspiracy-type theories and ad hominems.
Like hello, I (not a trained scientist) can drive trucks through the holes (logical fallacies) in some of these arguments and accusations.

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
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[Das Hotel verfügt nicht nur über eine bis 24 Uhr geöffnete Sauna sowie eine Luis Trenker Infrarotkabine, sondern auch über ein Dampfad, zu dem man sich ordentlich Solesalzpeeling gönnen kann. Neben pudgy academics laufen hier vorwiegend Skifahrer*innen herum, dies sorgt für spaßige Körperkontraste.]

Starting the fourth chapter "The Rise of the Web" of #ThisIsForEveryone, I am pleasently surprised to find out a librarian — Louise Addis of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) — played an important, supportive role in the very first days of the web.

Looking for a not-for profit alternative for academics by academics? An alt to academia DOT edu, Facebook, Research Gate, etc. Check out #ProfBook
https://profbook.net/share/PvJ-2503ZCJ

ProfBook
Do you love the ability to connect with fellow scholars to share resources, ask questions, announce conferences and books, and build collaborative networks? Are you tired of the existing social media options that feed you constant ads, invade your privacy, and monetize your data? ProfBook combines the best of the former and none of the latter. Founded by an individual human being who is a professor and not a businessman, this is a non-corporate, non-invasive option for genuine networking and co…

UK privacy regulator has seen ‘collapse in enforcement activity,’ rights coalition says https://therecord.media/privacy-regulator-ico-collapse

📝 Looking for a not-for-profit alternative for academics by academics? An alt to academia.edu, Facebook, ResearchGate, etc. Check out #ProfBook https://profbook.net/share/PvJ-2503ZCJHn03A?utm_source=manual

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://

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday an aggressive plan to continue dismantling the Education Department,
ending the agency’s broad role in supporting academics at elementary and high schools and in expanding access to college.
Those responsibilities, which had been overseen by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Office of Postsecondary Education,
will instead be largely taken over by the Labor Department.
Additional changes include movin…

Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department
Responsibilities for K-12 and college programs, among others, will be moved to other federal agencies.

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://

👀 Browsing Ten Publishing Tips for Young Academics, Revised Edition. - Bleak Theology (https://www.bleaktheology.com/2014/09/21/ten-publishing-tips-for-young-academics/).