A corollary to this is that the "prestige" of an institution is what we assign to it. Many of these institutions are assigned a prestige that hasn't jibed with the reality for a while. And non-prestigious institutions that actually do a better job of teaching are disregarded.
It's time to look at your candidates themselves and their works, and not spend as much time assigning prestige based on institution names. #AcademicChatter #Fascism
Re last boost:
Those in charge of admissions at other universities, those in charge of hiring: What makes a university degree worth something is the value you assign to it.
When universities are revoking degrees because they're too weak or collaborationist to resist the pressure of a fascist gov't, that doesn't mean you have to go along with that.
Accept the credentials of those who've earned them. Hell, they're ESPECIALLY earned right now. #AcademicChatter #Fascism
Any #ecology or #evolution folks know of papers that reconstruct/estimate historical biodiversity globally?
Has anybody done the math on how much it costs German tax payers when the DFG changes their CV template? #academicChatter #grantWriting #cvUpdating 
I just added two new journals to the list of 
#DiamondOpenAccess journals in the small Guide that Opens Science at 
https://guide.opens.science/publishing-open-access.html - @rupdecat pointed me to the Journal of Open Source Education earlier, and then I also found the International Journal of Open Educational Resources.
Does anybody know any other Diamond OA journals to add?
Or better yet - is there already an overview of Diamond OA journals somewhere?
I have been approach by an editor of #JOSS (https://fediscience.org/@joss@fosstodon.org) who told me about #JOSE (https://jose.theoj.org/ - for which I could not find a Mastodon handle).
The idea is to provide a low-hurdle academic reward to provide open access educational material -- with a particular computational emphasis.
Thing is, that you hardly get an academic “paper” if you develop teaching material. So, this might be appealing for some folk here. 
On an intellectual level, I do understand that this is phase one of burnout. I know this, because I’ve been here before, a few years back, at the time when K1 was my little coworker and refused to sleep. I also know that most balls are plastic. And yet, not sure why, but I find it incredibly difficult to just stop and relax for a moment. 
Anyways, happy weekend everyone, I hope we’ll all get some rest.
Luxury problem:
I’m sooo tired, because my little coworker is getting mobile and going through another sleep regression, so I should definitely stop working and take a break, you know, to recharge my batteries and stay sane, but my PhD students are all producing exciting new results like crazy, so I can’t stop thinking about their projects, because it’s all so FASCINATING... 
Join us for the book launch of 'Transforming Development in Education: from coloniality to rethinking, reframing, and reimagining possibilities'.
A crucial time given the widespread changes to the global education and development architecture.
When: Tuesday, 18 March 2025 at 9 am EST | 3 pm CEST
@academicchatter #AcademicChatter #Research #Education #Books
What's the hardest thing in the world, and why is it writing?
"Much of my working world in 2015 is unrecognisable to me now, and my daily aim is just to preserve what remains. "
This captures the transformation that has happened in UK Universities over the last decade
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-decade-of-crisis/
Long read - perhaps too long for what it has to say - but there's very little I'd disagree with.
Thanks for your feedback on the kinds of ORCID records you'd like to follow! It may influence how Encyclia will try to help you find them.
For the next question, let us flip it around: how do you feel about your own ORCID record being potentially available to follow on the fediverse in the future?
We put some work into the question of what privacy protections may be needed and whether an opt-out model is justified: https://encyclia.pub/optin-optout-analysis
I'm thinking of creating a sort of pledge/agreement to use with both academic collaborators as well as grad students, where we (the collaborating team or the student and I) would pledge to never use generative AI in our work.
That would mean I would not collaborate with other researchers who want to use these tools, and I would not supervise students who want to use these tools.
I'm curious to hear thoughts on this.
Sir Terry Pratchett was one of two people who I quoted directly in my dissertation. This line from Feet of Clay was the motto for my introductory chapter:
"This is where we’ve filled ourselves up with so many questions that they’re starting to overflow and become answers."
It resonated with me, because this is what doing research often feels like for me.
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the stability of Notepad++? I installed it on my new PC (for work) today, and it looks IDENTICAL to how it looked when I started using it in gradschool, back in 2011 or so.
I even put a user-defined Praat syntax colouring on it, last updated in 2014, and it still fucking works.
Software people, this is what we want!
I once had - and I kid you not - a student who argued that Socrates was a locomotive #AcademicChatter
