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faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

Happening now: Cambridge University REAL Centre 10th Anniversary Conference online.
Centre Director, Prof Pauline Rose, gives a warm welcome speaking about friendship as the starting point for rigorous research in education and development, building connections, inclusivity, and warmth.
https://www.educ.c…

If you look at the organizations standing up for students being targeted by US immigration, the unions are really leading the way. A huge thanks to the AAUP for it's leadership in this:
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/2025.04.07-AAUP-Letter-to-GCs-corrected.pdf
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/Faculty_Association_Amicus_Brief.pdf

Accidental coincidences in camera-based high-dimensional entanglement certification
Rapha\"el Guitter (Institut des NanoSciences de Paris), Baptiste Courme (Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel), Chlo\'e Verni\`ere (Institut des NanoSciences de Paris), Peter Svihra (Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering Czech Technical University), Andrei Nomerotski (Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering Czech Technical University), Hugo…

Accidental coincidences in camera-based high-dimensional entanglement certification
High-dimensional entangled states, such as spatially-entangled photon pairs produced by Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion (SPDC), are a key resource for quantum technologies. In recent years, camera-based coincidence counting approaches have considerably improved the ability to characterize them in terms of speed and dimensionality. However, these methods have limitations, including in most of them the necessity to subtract accidental coincidences. Here, we study the role of these accident…

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Congratulations to YDS alum Toni Alimi '15 M.A.R. He has been appointed Assistant Professor in Religion at Princeton University! https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/05/29/board-approves-14-new-faculty-appointments

Board approves 14 new faculty appointments
The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of 14 faculty members, including one full professor and 13 assistant professors.

A change in reporting and evaluating faculty productivity... the increased workload will fall to... faculty...?
https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/05/02/indiana-budget-bill-curbs-univer…

Indiana budget bill curbs university faculty power, ties tenure to new ‘productivity’ reviews • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Sweeping changes to how public universities manage faculty tenure and campus governance were quietly added to Indiana’s new budget.

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
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Majorana Signatures in the Tripartite Uncertainty Relations with Quantum Memory
D. Maroulakos (Doctoral School at the University of Rzeszow), C. Jasiukiewicz (Department of Physics and Medical Engineering Rzeszow University of Technology), A. Wal (Institute of Physics Faculty of Exact and Technical Sciences University of Rzeszow), A. Sinner (Institute of Physics University of Opole), I. Weymann (Institute of Spintronics and Quantum Information Faculty of Physics and Astronomy A. Mickie…

Majorana Signatures in the Tripartite Uncertainty Relations with Quantum Memory
Quantumness imposes a fundamental limit on measurement accuracy. The paradigmatic cases are Heisenberg's uncertainty relation in the original formulation, Robertson's formulation, and improved uncertainty relations. However, the more universal measures are given in terms of quantum entropies. Uncertainties of measurements done on one quantum system correlated with another quantum system constitute a more intriguing question. Quantum correlations can influence the lower bound of uncertainties, a…

Computer scientist Greg Nelson and I presented "Following AI's Footsteps from School to Society" at the 2025 UMaine Faculty Institute https://mycampus.maine.edu/web/uc-faculty-portal/faculty-institute-2025 including the IMPACT RISK framew…

From Cascade Institute
Solar geoengineering: A radical, frightening, and hopeful response to climate change
Thursday June 26, 2025
2:30pm to 4pm PDT
in person at Royal Roads and online
mailto:pointon@cascadeinstitute.org
Edward A. (Ted) Parson is Distinguished Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law and Faculty Director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the University of California, Los Angeles.

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

The absolute bare minimum, the bar is on the floor, threshold for university leadership in these cases should be to communicate what they have decided to do directly to the faculty. Here at UF we learn about it through rumors on group chats and the local news.
https://hachyderm.io/@ethanwhite/114319273422129252

🪂 Extreme turnover of Latin American legislators highlights political instability in the region
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-extreme-turnover-latin-american-legislators.html

Extreme turnover of Latin American legislators highlights political instability in the region
A new study led by Karel Kouba from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, reveals unprecedentedly high rates of legislative turnover in Latin America, raising concerns about democratic stability and governance quality in the region.

We're recruiting on our MSc Sociology and Data Analytics for next September at the University of Limerick @…

This MSc offers in depth knowledge of sociological analysis, research… | Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick
This MSc offers in depth knowledge of sociological analysis, research methods and social science analytics - including high level training in data, data science, and data mining, and a range of sequenced topics that include crime, law, and deviance, culture and media, health and well-being, political analysis and social movements, and stratification and social inequality. The combination of high level training in research methods and robust exposure to core topics in Sociology and the Social …

Sonnet 122 - CXXII
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full charactered with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain,
Beyond all date, even to eternity:
Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist;
Till each to razed oblivion yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be missed.
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Ther…

Local Type Inference for Context-Free Session Types
Bernardo Almeida (LASIGE, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal), Andreia Mordido (LASIGE, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal), Vasco T. Vasconcelos (LASIGE, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20855

Local Type Inference for Context-Free Session Types
We address the problem of local type inference for a language based on System F with context-free session types. We present an algorithm that leverages the bidirectional type checking approach to propagate type information, enabling first class polymorphism while addressing the intricacies brought about by the sequential composition operator and type equivalence. The algorithm improves the language's usability by eliminating the need for type annotations at type application sites.

After Delays and Public Blowback, Chapel Hill Board Votes Outside Meeting to Award Tenure (Ryan Quinn/Inside Higher Ed)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/tenure/2025/06/04/after-delay-chapel-hill-board-votes-award-tenure
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p115#a250604p115

Teams of #PurdueFortWayne 🐘 students and faculty presented their projects on data science and industrial consulting at the Indiana Data Mine Symposium at #Purdue #WestLafayette

Electrically reconfigurable extended lasing state in an organic liquid-crystal microcavity
Dmitriy Dovzhenko (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom), Luciano Siliano Ricco (Science Institute, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland), Krzysztof Sawicki (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom), Marcin Muszy\'nski (Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Wa…

Electrically reconfigurable extended lasing state in an organic liquid-crystal microcavity
Small-footprint, low-power arrays of coupled coherent emitters with the capability of near- and far-field engineering and coherence control are highly sought after to meet modern nanophotonics evolving needs. Between existing solutions based on vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, phase masks in bulk traditional cavity-based systems, and lattices of exciton-polariton condensates, only the strongly light-matter coupled systems were shown to be capable of controlled on-chip interaction betwee…

The four types of imagination and how they create our worlds https://www.newscientist.com/article/2480349-the-four-types-of-imagination-and-how-they-create-our-worlds/ (archived at

The four types of imagination and how they create our worlds
Your imagination isn't just one thing. The latest neuroscience is untangling just how diverse this faculty really is, says cognitive neurologist Adam Zeman

Optimizing Mesh to Improve the Triangular Expansion Algorithm for Computing Visibility Regions
Jan Mikula (Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague), Miroslav Kulich (Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague)

Optimizing Mesh to Improve the Triangular Expansion Algorithm for Computing Visibility Regions
This paper addresses the problem of improving the query performance of the triangular expansion algorithm (TEA) for computing visibility regions by finding the most advantageous instance of the triangular mesh, the preprocessing structure. The TEA recursively traverses the mesh while keeping track of the visible region, the set of all points visible from a query point in a polygonal world. We show that the measured query time is approximately proportional to the number of triangle edge expansio…

PhD position Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis (GIVA) “GeoNavLearn” with Prof. Sara I. Fabrikant
https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/phd-position-geographic-informa…

UZH: PhD position Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis (GIVA) “GeoNavLearn”
With 28,000 students and 9,000 employees, the University of Zurich (UZH) is the biggest university in Switzerland. As a member of the League of European Research Universities, it counts amongst the leading European universities. The UZH offers a culturally diverse and inspiring working environment and promotes international collaboration in research. The Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis (GIVA) group at the University of Zurich, Faculty of Science, invites applications for a 4-y…

I nearly gave my credit card to a legit-looking Maine business, until I noticed their “privacy policy” linked to Wikipedia. That’s not laziness but AI-generated HTML vibecoded into place without review. And a lot more can go wrong than a missing legal page.
https://www.

Edge interventions can mitigate demographic and prestige disparities in the Computer Science coauthorship network
Kate Barnes, Mia Ellis-Einhorn, Carolina Ch\'avez-Ruelas, Nayera Hasan, Mohammad Fanous, Blair D. Sullivan, Sorelle Friedler, Aaron Clauset
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04435…

Edge interventions can mitigate demographic and prestige disparities in the Computer Science coauthorship network
Social factors such as demographic traits and institutional prestige structure the creation and dissemination of ideas in academic publishing. One place these effects can be observed is in how central or peripheral a researcher is in the coauthorship network. Here we investigate inequities in network centrality in a hand-collected data set of 5,670 U.S.-based faculty employed in Ph.D.-granting Computer Science departments and their DBLP coauthorship connections. We introduce algorithms for comb…

Automatic detection of overshooting tops and their properties from visible satellite channels
Ane\v{z}ka Dole\v{z}alov\'a (Department of Atmospheric Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University), Jakub Seidl (Czech Hydrometeorological Institute), Jind\v{r}ich \v{S}\v{t}\'astka (Czech Hydrometeorological Institute), J\'an Ka\v{n}\'ak (Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute)

Automatic detection of overshooting tops and their properties from visible satellite channels
Overshooting tops (OTs) are critical indicators of convective storm intensity and are widely utilized in meteorological analyses. This study presents an automated algorithm for OT detection and OT height estimation using convolutional neural networks applied to visible satellite imagery. The models are trained and validated on an extensive OT dataset comprising approximately 10,000 manually detected cases over Europe. The OTs were identified from high-resolution visible (HRV) channel of the SEV…

There are many parallels between the changes happening in academia and those in tech laid out by @….
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/#are-more-equal-than-others
Join your faculty union. If you don't have a local union (or even if you do) join the AAUP. Together we can work to make academia what it should be.

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 300 nodes and 1155 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gra…

The #Purdue (West Lafayette) student newspaper, reporting on #NSF funding, with quotes from graduate students and faculty:

YEZZ! Lead by the #IndianaUniversity in the #usa #universities bond together to fight the #trumpcoup