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Morgan, A. C., Way, S. F., Hoefer, M. J. D., Larremore, D. B., Galesic, M., & Clauset, A. (2021). The unequal impact of parenthood in academia. Science Advances, 7(9), eabd1996. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd1996
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www.newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com
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“The Eight Biggest Covid-Sceptic Myths – and Why They’re Wrong.” Accessed February 24, 2021. https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/coronavirus/2021/01/eight-biggest-covid-sceptic-myths-and-why-they-re-wrong.
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- Feb 2021
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twitter.com twitter.com
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David Dye. (2021, January 26). So if you work somewhere already like this maybe suggest how to really run a WFH/mobile collaboration uni, and how we re-tool the physical meeting place we then in light of that? Maybe the philosophers already know this?? [Tweet]. @DavidDye9. https://twitter.com/DavidDye9/status/1354176181042556929
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Prosser, A. M. B. (2020, November 10). The Pandemic and my PhD: Lessons from a Policy Research Placement with the Reset Initiative. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jg67m
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Pownall, M., Harris, R., & Blundell-Birtill, P. (2021). Supporting students during the transition to university in COVID-19: 5 key considerations and recommendations. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4fykt
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- Jan 2021
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Are the books that much better than the disses? Mostly, no, I'd say. So what's the deal? I think it's that we just like books. And by "we" I mean the whole industry of academe.
Often when I see this pattern happening, the dissertation is the new and original research and the subsequent book is a rewriting of that research into a form meant to help popularize and distribute it into a broader public.
This is similar, in a way to journal articles being written about by science journalists which then usually massively broadens the audience of the work. Usually this version helps the work to reach more eyeballs than the dissertation to book route does.
Another version of this might be the translation of a screenplay and a move into a novelization for popular movies. Some of the goal here however is just to make more money.
It's worth looking at who is (privileged to be) doing the writing in each of these cases.
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Grossmann, I., Twardus, O., Varnum, M. E. W., Jayawickreme, E., & McLevey, J. (2021). Societal Change and Wisdom: Insights from the World after Covid Project. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yma8f
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declaring-independence.org declaring-independence.org
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SPARC (2020) We Declared Independence and so can you. Retrieved from https://declaring-independence.org/
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White-Sullivan. C., (2019) Retrieved from https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1278609573973127169
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www.editage.com www.editage.com
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Researchers and Their Stories (2020) WEBINAR: Managing your mental health is an ongoing journey – Let's embrace the process!. Retrieved from https://www.editage.com/insights/managing-your-mental-health-is-an-ongoing-journey-lets-embrace-the-process
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- Dec 2020
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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But by default, reports also let managers drill down into data on individual employees, to find those who participate less in group chat conversations, send fewer emails, or fail to collaborate in shared documents.
This is going to be awesome when it debuts in universities. I can't imagine that any academics will be concerned when a departmental chair or administrator asks you why you're not sending more emails.
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www.geekwire.com www.geekwire.com
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Microsoft says it will make changes in its new Productivity Score feature, including removing the ability for companies to see data about individual users, to address concerns from privacy experts that the tech giant had effectively rolled out a new tool for snooping on workers.
It's great that MS has reacted so quickly to the outcry around the privacy of workers.
I thought it would be super-interesting to see how academics might have responded to the idea of institutional administrators keeping tabs on the number of hours that they'd spent in meetings (via Teams), composing and reading emails (via Outlook), writing articles (via Word), and so on.
And yet these would be the same academics who do this kind of monitoring of student work.
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- Oct 2020
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Science as Amateur Software Development. (2020, September 26). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwRdO9_GGhY&feature=youtu.be
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Hybrids: Between Industry and Academia ft. Nurit Nobel (Episode 016). (2020, August 9). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oRegXaGsTU
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- Sep 2020
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Kojaku, S., Livan, G., & Masuda, N. (2020). Detecting citation cartels in journal networks. ArXiv:2009.09097 [Physics]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09097
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osf.io osf.io
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King, M. M., & Frederickson, M. (2020). The Pandemic Penalty: The gendered effects of COVID-19 on scientific productivity [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/8hp7m
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github.com github.com
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FreeOurKnowledge/discussion. (2020). Free Our Knowledge. https://github.com/FreeOurKnowledge/discussion (Original work published 2019)
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github.com github.com
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FreeOurKnowledge/discussion. (n.d.). GitHub. Retrieved September 10, 2020, from https://github.com/FreeOurKnowledge/discussion
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Postdocs in crisis: Science cannot risk losing the next generation. (2020). Nature, 585(7824), 160–160. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02541-9
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GruberMay. 20, J., 2020, & Pm, 4:50. (2020, May 20). Professors must support the mental health of trainees during the COVID-19 crisis. Science | AAAS. https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2020/05/professors-must-support-mental-health-trainees-during-covid-19-crisis
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Sir Anthony Seldon on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved September 2, 2020, from https://twitter.com/AnthonySeldon/status/1300355492783554561
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- Aug 2020
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annehelen.substack.com annehelen.substack.com
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Petersen, A. H. (n.d.). Between f**ked and a hard place. Retrieved August 30, 2020, from https://annehelen.substack.com/p/between-fked-and-a-hard-place
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The Cost of Correcting Bad Science. (2020, July 9). RIOT Science Club - YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZBHGzQ8lVg
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Esther Choo, MD MPH on Twitter: “Question for Twitter. Why didn’t academia take the lead on Covid information? Why didn’t schools of med & public health across the US band together, put forth their experienced scientists in epidemiology, virology, emergency & critical care, pandemic and disaster response...” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved August 10, 2020, from https://twitter.com/choo_ek/status/1291789978716868608
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- Jul 2020
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Perrott, D. (2020, May 22). Exploring the Valley’s of the Applied Behavioural Science Landscape. Medium. https://medium.com/@DavePerrott/exploring-the-valleys-of-the-applied-behavioural-science-landscape-a8b8ed53e58a
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- Jun 2020
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leibniz-phd.net leibniz-phd.net
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Leibniz PhD Network - Mental Health for Doctoral Researchers During COVID-19 Webinar
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www.freeourknowledge.org www.freeourknowledge.org
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Free our knowledge. (n.d.). Retrieved June 30, 2020, from https://www.freeourknowledge.org/pages/about/
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journals.plos.org journals.plos.org
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Goh, H.-H., & Bourne, P. E. (2020). Ten simple rules for researchers while in isolation from a pandemic. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(6), e1007946. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007946
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Amy Perfors on Twitter: “I’ve been having a difficult time lately — partly because of [insert frantic gesturing at the state of the world], partly personal — but one thing has been a real bright light for me in the last few months. I think it has some broader lessons that might give some hope, so THREAD” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved June 26, 2020, from https://twitter.com/amyperfors/status/1275931919897595904
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Using LinkedIn for Social Research. (2019, July 9). Impact of Social Sciences. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/07/09/using-linkedin-for-social-research/
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Behavioural Economics on a Post-It. (2020, June 16). Impact of Social Sciences. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/06/16/behavioural-economics-on-a-post-it/
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Woolston, C. (2020). Take our postdoctoral-researcher survey. Nature, d41586-020-01863-y. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01863-y
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Gabster, B. P., Daalen, K. van, Dhatt, R., & Barry, M. (2020). Challenges for the female academic during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31412-4
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Lindsay, D. S. (2020, May 29). Enhancing Peer Review of Scientific Reports. Psychonomic Society Featured Content. https://featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/enhancing-peer-review-of-scientific-reports/
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Fung, D. J. (2018, April 10). The Corruption of Evidence Based Medicine—Killing for Profit. Medium. https://medium.com/@drjasonfung/the-corruption-of-evidence-based-medicine-killing-for-profit-41f2812b8704
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- May 2020
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blogs.lse.ac.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk
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10 Ways scientists can better engage with decision makers. (2020, May 19). Impact of Social Sciences. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/05/19/10-ways-scientists-can-better-engage-with-decision-makers/
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author/carie-penabad. (2020, May 27). Carie Penabad: Architecture and the Great Confinement. Architect. https://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/carie-penabad-architecture-and-the-great-confinement_o
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Mark Shapiro MD on Twitter: “A poll for #MedTwitter Do you have media appearances, #SoMe activity, writing in forward facing magazines/websites included in your professional contract as a promotion lever or financial incentive?” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved May 29, 2020, from https://twitter.com/etsshow/status/1265855571812478977
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science-sciencemag-org.ezproxy.redlands.edu science-sciencemag-org.ezproxy.redlands.edu
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Aspesi, C., & Brand, A. (2020). In pursuit of open science, open access is not enough. Science, 368(6491), 574–577. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba3763
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Ennis, E. G. (2020, April 16). A Novel Solution to Academic Publishing. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gqxmu
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Ways forward
The shift from "review article" to "research proposal" article uses a format that I've been trying to promote for quite some time: the call to research format.
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- Oct 2019
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iir.gmu.edu iir.gmu.edu
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North American Borders in Perspective
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- Sep 2019
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www.txstate.edu www.txstate.edu
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centerforthesouthwest.unm.edu centerforthesouthwest.unm.edu
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bostonreview.net bostonreview.net
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The practices and institutions that govern our daily lives
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thebaffler.com thebaffler.com
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Known Assailants Stalking the white working class from within
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- Mar 2019
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theamericanscholar.org theamericanscholar.org
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In academia, an article that is 10 years old is considered dated.
In academia - but Lasch is still considered relevant?
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- Jan 2019
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blog.edtechie.net blog.edtechie.net
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Blogging highlights the process, not the output – one of my early blogging chums was Tony Hirst here at the OU. He has commented that blogging reveals an ongoing process of research, but that much of our formal systems (promotion, REF, research funding) are focused on outputs. That’s not to say outputs aren’t important, but the longitudinal picture that a blog gives you allows for a better representation of developing ideas.
Totally agree. Hope to blog more in 2019! #TrustTheProcess
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- Nov 2018
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jamanetwork-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu jamanetwork-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu
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Most early hospitalist groups formed in community hospitals. Over the past 5 years, many academic medical centers have adopted hospitalist models for inpatient care and teaching. Beyond the legitimacy that this expansion into academia affords the movement,68 the 2 greatest effects are on education and research.69 Academic hospitalists are emerging as core teachers of inpatient medicine. For example, at the University of California, San Francisco, 15 faculty hospitalists now staff about two thirds of ward-attending months and all medical consult months. Preliminary evidence indicates that resident teaching evaluations of hospitalists are significantly higher than those of our highly selected nonhospitalist 1-month-per-year ward attendings (K. Hauer, MD, written communication, December 2001), an effect seen elsewhere as well.32 The impact on medical student education has not been empirically studied; we recently described several potential advantages and disadvantages of hospitalists in student education.70 The development of hospitalist groups in academic medical centers may have its most far-reaching effects in defining a new research agenda.69 No longer limiting their research to the impact of the hospitalist model itself, academic hospitalists are now applying the tools of health services and outcomes research, ethics, and clinical epidemiology to critical inpatient issues, such as preventing nosocomial infections,71 end-of-life care,72 and hospital quality measurement.46 Over time, hospitalists are likely to become increasingly engaged in patient-centered research, clinical trials, and genetic epidemiology (BOX 2), taking advantage of their onsite availability and large numbers of potential subjects. Box 2. Clinical Research That Might Be Undertaken by Academic Hospitalists, Beginning With Those Areas Already Under Study 1. Studies of the efficiency, cost, and quality of hospitalist services. 2. Studies of new approaches to systems issues that arise in and around the hospital (eg, medical errors, pain management, palliative care, inpatient-outpatient communication). 3. Clinical trials (single site or multicenter) involving diseases that hospitalists commonly encounter (eg, pneumonia, sepsis, gastrointestinal bleeding, heart failure, thromboembolism, asthma). 4. Multicenter trials involving interventions with smaller expected benefits or less common diseases. 5. Multicenter studies of the etiology of disease and disease susceptibility (eg, genetic analyses of why some patients become severely ill with pneumococcal pneumonia while exposed family members do not).
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inter-logic.gr inter-logic.gr
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janabacevic.net janabacevic.net
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The paradox of resistance: critique, neoliberalism, and the limits of performativity
I found this post from Sherri Spelic's post, "A Convention In My Mind.
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Varieties of neoliberalism, varieties of critique?
The three main varieties of critique of neoliberal knowledge production: marxist, poststructuralist, and neo-materialist (eg, big data, ai, machine learning).
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Relatedly, given the level of agreement among academics about the general direction of these changes, engagement with developing long-term, sustainable alternatives to exploitative modes of knowledge production has been surprisingly scattered.
Alternative practices to exploitative knowledge production have not kept up with critiques.
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Scholars still have a lot of anxiety about this practice. Many of those relate to the university careers and workplaces: evaluation, tenure, reactions from their peers, hallway jealousy, and so on. These are real worries, and as a scholar and university professor myself, I empathize with many of them.
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The internet has made it easier than ever to reach a lot of readers quickly. It has birthed new venues for publication and expanded old ones. At the same time, a sense of urgency of current affairs, from politics to science, technology to the arts, has driven new interest in bringing scholarship to the public directly.
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- Jun 2018
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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When I see a paper that I find interesting, I make sure to send the author an e-mail or message them on Twitter. I say: “I just read your paper — it helped me with some concepts. I look forward to seeing your future work.” It lets people know that they have worth.
We need to do more of this!
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- May 2018
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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I’m part of the policy working group for an international professional network called the Marie Curie Alumni Association. I’d like the working group to have a new mission: aligning the incentives and rewards of science with the type of work and productivity that we really want to see. We need to better reward non-traditional outcomes, such as data sets, research methods and code. And we need to better appreciate activities outside of the lab, such as public engagement, education and outreach. That’s the way towards achieving substantial and lasting change.
Crucial yet challenging given the power system in place. More academics need to recognize the value of shifting the current valuation system.
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Everyone is publishing and publishing because that’s where the money in science comes from. But if everyone is publishing and nobody is reading, are we making a contribution?
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www.ronberk.com www.ronberk.com
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Grit 2.0: A Review with Strategies to Deal with Disappointment, Rejection, and Failure
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- Feb 2018
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medium.com medium.com
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decolonization of knowledge and research methodology point to critical areas of reflection for researchers, regardless of the context of their work.
La investigación se hace desde HackBo, pero no en nombre de él.
¿Qué otras formas de narrativas, desarrolladas al interior de las comunidades, les permitirían narrarse a sí mismas? ¿Acaso el documental?
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maestriadesarrollo.com maestriadesarrollo.com
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Se trataría de inventar prácticas de contra-diseño que puedan mantener un compromiso duradero con proyectos de vida politizados. ¿Podrá la educación del diseño cumplir esta misión? Los conocimientos académicos, fundados bajo el imperativo firme de la separación del mundo natural, parecieran ser completamente incompetentes para proveernos con los conocimientos en sintonía con la Tierra necesarios para que los humanos funcionemos acoplados con ella. Tampoco parecen ser capaces de acoger los conocimientos lugarizados y vernáculos de las culturas que se rehúsan a rendirse al mundo globalizado, manteniendo su sabiduría del habitar y de enraizar sus mundos.
Esta frase me recuerda mis menciones a la anti-hackatón como forma de protección contra la gentrificación. En todo caso, la solución está del lado de no ser absorvido por la academía, para quedarse cómodamente enunciando desde su "torre de marfil" cómo está de mal el mundo, pero sin untarse de él, siguiendo esclavos de sus dinámicas de publicación indexada y los egos asociados.
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¿no es la universidad una de las fuerzas más eficaces de ocupación ontológica de las vida y de los territorios de la gente, junto con el Estado, la economía, la Policía y los ejércitos? ¿Será capaz la academia de superar la cultura de la profesionalización del conocimiento experto tan desacreditada por Illich, de tal forma que pueda apoyar miradas conviviales? ¿Lograrán los diseñadores y aquellos dedicados a la recomunalización de la vida ‘escapar de la educación’ de tal forma que puedan diseñar “desde las culturas de base” (Prakash y Esteva 2008) para las cuales la educación convencional no puede sino devaluar sus conocimientos y vidas? Hay, sin duda, muchas respuestas a estas preguntas, desde renunciar a la universidad como espacio para la afirmación de la vida hasta luchar por su pluralización epistémica, especialmente frente a la incesante presión para que la universidad adopte cada vez más modelos corporativos al servicio del mundo globalizado.
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la mayoría de las principales universidades, tal vez en el mundo, se están doblegando ante las presiones para capacitar a las personas con el fin de ser ‘exitosas’ en un ‘mundo cada vez más globalizado e interconectado’, lo que significa preparar ‘individuos’ para competir en una economía de mercado; estos son los mismos individuos que llevarán a cabo el mandato de la insostenibilidad y la desfuturización
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. Como Maturana y Varela señalaran con referencia a la forma como concibieron el novedoso concepto de autopoiesis, “no podíamos escapar de estar inmersos en una tradición [la racionalista] pero con un lenguaje adecuado podíamos orientarnos de manera diferente y, tal vez, desde la nueva perspectiva generar una nueva tradición” (1980: xvii). La novedad de su trabajo reside, precisamente, en haber inventado un nuevo léxico para hablar de la existencia biológica, en particular sobre la cognición, como veremos en el último capítulo
Uno podría pensar en algunas referencias circulares que permitan escapes de la lógica en la que están inmersas. Un ejemplo es la licencia GPL, que usa los sistemas de restricciones que brinda el derecho de autor para proveer una meta-restricción: "prohibido prohibir". Estas prácticas circulares que deconstruyen las lógicas donde se instauran, podrían ser usadas también para revisar las tradiciones académicas, por ejemplo desde la publicación.
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maestriadesarrollo.com maestriadesarrollo.com
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El diseño está inextricablemente ligado a las decisiones sobre el tipo de vidas que vivimos y los mundos donde las vivimos; estas son cuestiones normativas que la academia usualmente rehúye, dada su predilección por la neutralidad: “La pregunta que los humanos debemos enfrentar dice Maturana, [a quien recurriré en secciones posteriores] es qué queremos que pase con nosotros, no una cuestión de conocimiento o de progreso”
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- Nov 2017
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www.tidningencurie.se www.tidningencurie.se
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“These phenomena make it difficult to interpret the results.”
It would have been nice to learn a bit more about why this is so.
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Excerpt from the UBC Guide to Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Procedures (RPT): Evidence of educational leadership is required for tenure/promotion in the Educational Leadership stream… It can include, but is not limited to…Contributions to the practice and theory of teaching and learning literature, including publications in peer-reviewed and professional journals, conference publications, book chapters, textbooks and open education repositories / resources.
via this @SteelWagstaff Tweet, itself via this @_Mike_Collins slide.
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- Oct 2017
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Local file Local file
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Emden, C. (1998). Establishing a ‘track record’: Research productivity and nursing academe.Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing,16(1), 29–33
Discusses the adequacy of writing training and support in PhD programmes.
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- May 2017
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static1.squarespace.com static1.squarespace.com
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Responses to Ed Folsom's "Database as Genre: The Epic Transformation of Archives
So an interesting thing about this article is that i's part of a set of articles, all responding to the same essay by Ed Folsom about the Whitman Archive. Jerome McGann (big name in digital humanities) slammed it, saying he didn't understand what a database was. Meredith McGill criticizes a number of things he claims his archive can do. Hayles is actually pretty friendly to Folsom, and in his response, he mentions he wants to make use of her "natural symbionts" phrasing.
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- Mar 2017
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www.salon.com www.salon.com
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That summer was the first time he rented an inexpensive cottage on Gotts, a remote island off the coast of Maine; it lacked running water and electricity but was covered in pine forests and romantic mists. There, he wrote Levin, he was “reading nothing more frivolous than Plotinus and Husserl,” and Harry was welcome to join him “if Wellfleet becomes too worldly.”
Paul de Man is buried on Gotts
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rhetcompnow.com rhetcompnow.com
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I am still an outsider running an underground railway and I am needing folks to guide me: is this connectedcourses System A or a well-disguised System B.
Both. These are not railway tracks they are intermingled and confusing networks - undergrowth and cash crops
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tachesdesens.blogspot.com tachesdesens.blogspot.com
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The Academy won't save us.
academia capitalism status quo
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tachesdesens.blogspot.com tachesdesens.blogspot.com
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I was in Nancy in November 2010, for a conference which I blogged about in "What are you?".
Academic power structure, values and education.
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I felt, perhaps wrongly as a result of my own fear, that I wasn't in the company of learners.
Academic hierarchy power games. cf Bourdieu.
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I was in Clermont in 2008, a maverick, to talk about using social networks in teaching
I was only a maverick because of academic power structure.
Who has the right to speak? In whose name?
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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This is not to say that those of us in higher ed are immune from market forces,
Right?! Or neo-liberalism.
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tachesdesens.blogspot.com tachesdesens.blogspot.com
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whose story are we telling 'objectively'?
KEY "Whose story are we telling?"
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- Jan 2017
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hybridpedagogy.org hybridpedagogy.org
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How can we, instead, meta-communicate liberation and possibility?
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While networked peer-to-peer mentoring may appear mundane and time consuming, in harkening back to Noddings’ concept of an ethic of care, we argue these connections and conversations should not be overlooked but cultivated, celebrated, and studied.
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More significantly, I believe, schools are losing an ability to matter, to influence things in the real world. If we are to change this, we academics must begin to rethink the arcane conventions that govern our way of being in this world. The traditional protocols of attribution, vetting, and credentialing have helped to preserve, protect, and maintain a closed and gated academic community. It may be safe, but it is also detached and, in many ways, infantilized and absurd.
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- Jun 2016
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www.researchtrends.com www.researchtrends.com
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Results of our analysis show that there has been a consistent growth in the number of articles published over the past decade; from 1.3 million in 2003 to 2.4 million in 2013 (see Figure 1). At the same time, the number of authorships has increased at a far greater rate from 4.6 million in 2003 to 10 million in 2013.
authorships are growing at a much faster rate than articles (though interestingly, "unique authors" are also growing at a faster rate than authors... though I think what they mean is the number of unique individuals identified as authors, however many times they are identified (= unique authors) vs. "number of names appearing in bylines (=authorships).
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- May 2016
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designandthecity.eu designandthecity.eu
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‘academic’ in the contemporary sense, and so co-designed, collaborative, located on the ground, and outputting accumulated learning through numerous channels.
A very nice reframing of the term. Useful.
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- Apr 2016
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www.universityaffairs.ca www.universityaffairs.ca
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McGill’s Dr. Sterne calls it “the gamification of research,”
Most research is too expensive to really gamify. Many researchers are publishing to either get or keep their jobs. The institutionalization of "publish or perish" if anything has already accomplished the "gamification", Academia.edu is just helping to increase the reach of the publication. Given that research shows that most published research isn't even read, much less cited, how bad can Academia.edu really be?
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“I don’t trust academia.edu,”
Given his following discussion, I can only imagine what he thinks of big publishers in academia and that debate.
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the platform essentially bans access for academics who, for whatever reason, don’t have an Academia.edu account. It also shuts out non-academics.
They must have changed this, as pretty much anyone with an email address (including non-academics) can create a free account and use the system.
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35 million academics, independent scholars and graduate students as users, who collectively have uploaded some eight million texts
35 million users is a lovely number, but their engagement must be spectacularly bad if only 8 million texts are available.
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- Mar 2016
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musicfordeckchairs.com musicfordeckchairs.com
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Simply saying competition is divisive won’t raise standards for collaboration, and won’t create the grounds for hope. To do this, we urgently need to start collecting new stories and evidence of a different culture forged in kindness, that we know we can build together. Then maybe we need to start making our own videos.
Yes.
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academicirregularities.wordpress.com academicirregularities.wordpress.com
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I told them you could work 60 hours a week, never take a holiday or weekend off, have internationally regarded publications – lots of them, write textbooks, be a great teacher, and managers will still ask for more. And more. I told them you are measured only by what you have not managed to achieve, not what you have achieved, never mind how valuable or prestigious.
Unfortunately, this is how academics assess their students, too.
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In effect, the status of an academic has slid from institutional asset to indentured servant.
This is unsustainable, and is already leading to good academics leaving the academy.
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- Feb 2016
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medium.com medium.com
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The author almost realized the much more important conclusion of the fact he lived. He shouldn't conclude the article by asking "what is the purpose of studying maths?" and then giving an three stupid answers.
He should have asked: is this actually "knowledge" as they say academia brings to society? Is the money researchers earn being well spent? Did I actually deserve to be remunerated by this piece of work no one understands -- and, in fact, no one has read except for maybe three people?
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hypothes.is hypothes.is
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A coalition of some of the world’s key scholarly publishers, platforms, libraries, and technology organizations
Important that academia is in this space. It's also important that annotations and connections can be open as this is how knowledge spreads and grows.
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- Jan 2016
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clintlalonde.net clintlalonde.net
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BCcampus as a whole is a research project in the eyes of our parent institution SFU
Good to know. Didn’t realise this.
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- Dec 2015
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learning.blogs.nytimes.com learning.blogs.nytimes.com
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Annotation in academic settings
Providing context for the coalition (coming a bit over two weeks later).
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The scholarly community
Officially, the core constituency for the coalition. And they’re probably easy to define, especially among English-speaking academics in North America or Europe. But there are important bridges to build with other spheres of agency which also contribute to the construction of knowledge. Who knows? Maybe open annotations will fill in the gaps between the Ivory Tower and the so-called “Real World”.
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www.meanboyfriend.com www.meanboyfriend.com
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Among the most useful summaries I have found for Linked Data, generally, and in relationship to libraries, specifically. After first reading it, got to hear of the acronym LODLAM: “Linked Open Data for Libraries, Archives, and Museums”. Been finding uses for this tag, in no small part because it gets people to think about the connections between diverse knowledge-focused institutions, places where knowledge is constructed. Somewhat surprised academia, universities, colleges, institutes, or educational organisations like schools aren’t explicitly tied to those others. In fact, it’s quite remarkable that education tends to drive much development in #OpenData, as opposed to municipal or federal governments, for instance. But it’s still very interesting to think about Libraries and Museums as moving from a focus on (a Web of) documents to a focus on (a Web of) data.
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- Oct 2015
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courses.edx.org courses.edx.org
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Davidson shocked his professors by taking off for India to explore meditation practice and Buddhist teachings. After three months there and in Sri Lanka, he came back convinced he would do meditation research. He was quickly disabused of this notion by his professors, who let him know that if he had any hope of a career in science, he’d better stow the meditation and follow a more conventional path of research. He became a closet meditator and an affective neuroscientist—a deep student of the emotions.
This seems to be the theme for scientific pioneers in recent decades.
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- Jul 2015
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blogs.lse.ac.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk
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academia.edu
Curiously, I couldn't see this service in the above comparison table. Is it hidden and grouped under "ResearchGate &..."?
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