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It is more than just a warning sign when two experts on fascism (Snyder and Stanley) leave the US citing political developments - it's the canary fleeing the coalmine:
dailynous.com/2025/03/25/stanl…
When people like these leave, you know it's bad.
Stanley from Yale to Toronto - Daily Nous
Jason Stanley, currently professor of philosophy at Yale University, will be moving to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto (with a partial appointment in Toronto's Department of Philosophy).Justin Weinberg (Daily Nous)
I'm finally unveiling the #ActivityPub project that has been consuming my weekends: Encyclia, an #ORCID bridge that will make ORCID records followable and interactable on the fediverse. 🙂
It's early-stage and the ORCID following function is not publicly available yet. We're seeking community feedback on functionality and safety aspects. Read more at encyclia.pub or follow @encyclia for news!
Last week, I took my son to explore some old quarries in the area. In one of them, we came across these Cretaceous oysters Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum.
Not being a paleontologist, I had to identify them later through online research (hopefully correctly!). And to my surprise, I found a 2024 paper describing this very site. But the biggest surprise? The author is my friend and former classmate!
Rantuch (2024): doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2023…
#academicchatter #paleontology #cretaceous
Let's play a game.
Don't say PowerPoint presentation, say slidedeck
Don't say Word, say text document
Don't say Photoshop, say image editing
Don't say Excel, say spreadsheet
Don't say...
Language is important. When corporate companies own the names of the tasks or the digital items you create, you have become a cog in their branding machine.
This is awesome! My colleagues and friends, Jiří Bruthans and Jakub Mareš, contributed to the discovery of the world's largest underground thermal lake and helped explain the complex water flow within the cave system.
For more details, check out this report: english.radio.cz/czech-scienti…
#academia #academicchatter #geoscience #research #science #speleology #albania
Czech scientists in Albania discover world's largest underground thermal lake
Czech scientists have discovered in southern Albania the world's largest underground thermal lake, named Lake Neuron, after the foundation that funded the expedition.Radio Prague International
Hello Fediverse,
I am a researcher in #geoscience, focusing mostly on hydrogeology, hydrology, evaporation and rock weathering. I am affiliated with Charles University (Czech Republic).
I am here to stay in touch with – and share – news about #science and academic life. That's why I chose #Fediscience as my home server and will mostly contribute to the tags #academia and #academicchatter.
I am in my mid-thirties and live near Prague with my family. I enjoy reading #books and spending time in nature. Addicted to #coffee.
This boggles my mind:
In the 1980s and 90s, universities just pulled thousands of kilometers of cables, installed routers and software - just so they could have web servers and give everyone at their institution an email account.
Today, the best most of them can do is find some arbitrary Mastodon instance somewhere else and get one single account.
Imagine every university having just a single email address, e.g.
my-university@apple.com
🤦♂️
Hi, scientists from the Fediverse! It seems that Nature is asking people about Twitter migration and if they are happier on #bluesky .
On Nature writers' minds, Bluesky is the only place to migrate to. There's not a single mention of the Fediverse in there! However, there is a small free text box where you can write your thoughts, in the step before "send" button. So I did fill the poll anyway, writing why I decided not to go to Bluesky but to Mastodon instead.
I thought that maybe if we get enough people to actually fill the survey and mention that they migrated to Mastodon, we can make a stronger case for open, free networks. It's an extremely short survey, so let's try! nature.com/articles/d41586-025…
Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll
The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky. Tell us about your experience.www.nature.com
As the #eXit continues, the next weeks and months will show how seriously universities take concepts like democracy, equality or inclusion, all words most of them list in their mission statements:
bjoern.brembs.net/2024/12/by-t…
How about your university? Is their mission statement more show or more substance?
#academicchatter #academia #universities
By their actions you shall know them
Universities worldwide currently face a pivotal choice: should they contribute to building a global infrastructure for exchange, science, and discourse, free from the control of oligarchs, to promo…bjoern.brembs.blog
- Mostly show (46%, 7 Stimmen)
- Both (6%, 1 Stimme)
- Mostly substance (13%, 2 Stimmen)
- My university has a mission statement? (33%, 5 Stimmen)
Bye X 👋🏼
Dutch science foundation NWO drops X.
Reason: “public discourse on X is increasingly characterized by the spread of misinformation and hate speech”
NWO will use their website, newsletter and LinkedIn for announcements.
nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-stops-using…
NWO stops using social media platform X | NWO
NWO will stop using the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) as of January 6, 2025. This decision follows a thorough evaluation of how the platform aligns with NWO's core values and responsibilities.NWO
Sometimes it helps stating the obvious clearly and explicitly:
"If #Bluesky keeps growing, it too will microwave the brains of too many influential people, with consequences unpredictable in every way—save for the fact that they’ll not be terribly good for pluralism and democracy."
liberalcurrents.com/bluesky-wo…
Which is why an alternative that supports democracy is clearly needed. We have called on universities to help make the fediverse this alternative:
openpetition.de/petition/onlin…
Bluesky Won't Save Us
Like radiation, social media is invisible scientific effluence that leaves us both more knowledgeable and more ignorant of the causes of our own afflictions than everKatherine Alejandra Cross (Liberal Currents)
What should universities do with #socialmedia? By their actions you shall know them:
bjoern.brembs.net/2024/12/by-t…
By their actions you shall know them
Universities worldwide currently face a pivotal choice: should they contribute to building a global infrastructure for exchange, science, and discourse, free from the control of oligarchs, to promo…bjoern.brembs.blog
@neuSoM Public institutions like universities do not HAVE to be on X/Twitter. It's not like they face existential threats and could get wiped out by market forces should they decide to leave. It's just the vanity of the decision-makers that makes them stay.
It's disheartening that they won't do the right thing even if there is so little at stake.
> This. Is. Hilarious. The PhD-Simulator research.wmz.ninja/projects/ph… #PhDs #phdlife #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan #WissZeitVG #AcademicChatter
[original: bildung.social/@davidlohner/11… - dieser Beitrag ist bis jetzt meine beste „virale Erfahrung" mit über 340 Likes und über 370 Boosts 🤯
PhD Simulator - A Text-Based Game by Mianzhi Wang
A completely random event based text game. Simply make your choice at the beginning of each month and see if you can graduate in time. All outcomes are determined by the random number generator and do not take them seriously.research.wmz.ninja