2026-06-10 15:46:17
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
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
Just be an adult and submit your peer review more or less on time. It's not a surprise - you saw the due date when you agreed to write it in the first place. If you can't, just don't accept the request. There are other reviewers in the sea.
#academia
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
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
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
TFW you read something attributed to your work that it absolutely doesn't do.
#academia
πΊπ¦ #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Academia Palatina, Michael Haydn & Florian Heyerick:
π΅ Sinfonia in E flat major, MH.340, P.17
#AcademiaPalatina #MichaelHaydn #FlorianHeyerick
RE: #2MR event for democracy-strengthening #SocialMedia on Monday, 4 May, at 9.30 a.m.β there will be subtitles in English, French and other languages.
π΄ #business #politics #journalism #academia, the #arts and #culture!
#democracy #communication #MayThe4th #MayTheForth #SciComm #science #BigTech #meta
That's how it can be! The @… officially promotes #Fediverse presence of its staff and students. My staff profile includes the Mastodon button [1]. The University Library @… promotes #OpenScience and #DigitalAutonomy through #Mastodon and #PeerTube @… [2].
[1] #UniversityOfGroningen #Universities #Academia #DigitalSovereignty #DIDit #diday #digitalindependence #digitalindependenceday #did