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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted

[?]Dr. Divya 🍉 is offline » 🤖 🌐
@divya@sunny.garden

KEEP SPARK OPEN! A youth volunteer project bringing shelter, electricity, internet to the community. So they can work, study, earn income—and yall, Income means that families can secure food as Gaza faces famine AGAIN.

Click "weekly" on even a five! chuffed.org/project/spark-spac

@mutualaid @palestine

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    [?]Koen Hufkens, PhD » 🌐
    @koen_hufkens@mastodon.social

    "Personally, I am seriously tempted not to take a chance on a novice for my new project—which means today, I probably wouldn’t recruit my younger self."

    Frankly, any person should lose their mentoring Professor credentials, if not their job outright, for this. Not a surprise I came across this glib piece on LinkedIn.

    science.org/content/article/wh

      [?]Emma Stamm » 🌐
      @emma@assemblag.es

      A+ article: "The University Within the Limits of Automated Knowledge"

      e-flux.com/journal/161/6776851

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        [?]ClaraBlackInk » 🌐
        @clarablackink@writing.exchange

        That even thought this was worth implementing underscores how much our social needs have been hijacked for profit: wired.com/story/grammarly-is-f

        The class action lawsuit: prf-law.com/current-cases/clas

        Actually being engaged within a community, actually joining writing and professional groups, these activities build skill and confidence but are hard to build and keep equitable.

        *edit a typo

          [?]petersuber » 🌐
          @petersuber@fediscience.org

          Trump tries bribery.

          "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."
          nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/poli

          "The White House on Wednesday sent letters to nine of the nation’s top public and private universities, urging campus leaders to pledge support for President Trump’s political agenda to help ensure access to federal research funds."

          , , , , , , , ,

            [?]petersuber » 🌐
            @petersuber@fediscience.org

            Update. The American Association of Colleges & Universities (, @aacu) just issued a statement on 's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”.
            aacu.org/newsroom/aac-u-statem

            "College and university presidents cannot bargain with the essential freedom of colleges and universities to determine, on academic grounds, whom to admit and what is taught, how, and by whom. They cannot trade academic freedom for federal funding—and should not be asked to do so."

              [?]petersuber » 🌐
              @petersuber@fediscience.org

              Update. The Academic Council unanimously called on the UC President and Regents "to unequivocally reject governmental demands that compromise institutional autonomy and academic freedom."
              senate.universityofcalifornia.

                [?]petersuber » 🌐
                @petersuber@fediscience.org

                Update. The NYTimes has a good collection of institutional responses as of Oct 2, the day after Trump sent his letter to nine colleges and universities.
                nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/trum

                  [?]petersuber » 🌐
                  @petersuber@fediscience.org

                  Update. Also see the American Council of Learned Societies () statement on the Trump compact.
                  acls.org/news/acls-statement-r

                  "Universities and colleges have one mission: to advance knowledge…Interfering with that process by forcing knowledge to pass through a political filter is a tactic adopted by the Soviet Union and other authoritarian states. The White House is dressing up its compact as a reasonable corrective to what it views as problems in campus culture. Let no one be deceived. This proposal imposes government censorship on academia. It is anti-American, and it weakens our democracy by devaluing academic expertise."

                    [?]petersuber » 🌐
                    @petersuber@fediscience.org

                    Update. Forgot to add this important response last week:
                    gov.ca.gov/2025/10/02/governor

                    "Governor today [Oct 2] issued the following statement in response to the White House’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which ties access to federal funding to radical conservative ideological restrictions on colleges and universities: IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY’LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY. CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM."

                      [?]petersuber » 🌐
                      @petersuber@fediscience.org

                      Update. The Chronicle of Higher Education is tracking comments from the nine universities that received the Trump threat-bribe.
                      chronicle.com/article/the-whit
                      ()

                      Summary: Large faculty groups at each institution urge administrators to reject the deal.

                      Administrators are saying little beyond the fact that they received the letter and are discussing what to do about it -- with one exception.

                      The exception is UTexas, where the chair of the Board of Regents, Kevin Eltife (a retired Republican State Senator), said Texas is "honored [to be] named as one of only nine institutions in the US selected by the Trump administration for potential funding advantages under its new 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'. We enthusiastically look forward to engaging with university officials and reviewing the compact immediately."

                        [?]petersuber » 🌐
                        @petersuber@fediscience.org

                        Update. just became the first university to reject Trump's compact. Here's the letter from MIT President to faculty, dated today.
                        orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regar

                          [?]petersuber » 🌐
                          @petersuber@fediscience.org

                          Update. After said 𝗻𝗼 to the Trump compact (yesterday), the Chronicle of Higher Education asked the other eight targeted universities for their reactions.
                          chronicle.com/article/what-cou
                          ()

                          "Asked for reactions to MIT’s announcement, spokespeople for Brown University, Dartmouth College, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University had no new information to share. The other recipients — the Universities of Arizona and Pennsylvania — didn’t respond."

                            [?]petersuber » 🌐
                            @petersuber@fediscience.org

                            Update. "Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT."
                            bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
                            ()

                            "The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter…Trump has said that colleges who reject the deal will face investigations into compliance with federal laws, but the extent to which federal research grants or student aid eligibility will be predicated on acceptance of the accord remains murky."

                              [?]petersuber » 🌐
                              @petersuber@fediscience.org

                              Update. If you've heard that Trump "offered" his compact to all US colleges and universities, and your institution didn't receive the Trump letter, here's why. Trump didn't use letters. He used this Truth Social post:
                              truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru

                              The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that, "A source at the Department of Education confirmed Tuesday that a Truth Social post from President Trump was intended to be an invitation to higher ed. 'We welcome any institution that wants to adopt these principles to sign the compact,' wrote the source, who declined to go on the record."
                              chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-
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                                [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                Update. has not yet made a public statement rejecting the Trump compact. But two Dartmouth sources "who asked to speak anonymously…said they participated in a meeting with President Sian Leah Beilock in which…she said 'she would not sign the compact as written.'"
                                chronicle.com/article/dartmout
                                ()

                                  [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                  @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                  Update. just rejected the Trump compact. Here's the public letter from Brown President Christina Paxson.
                                  brown.edu/sites/default/files/

                                  "Brown’s existing agreement with the federal government expressly affirms the government’s lack of authority to dictate our curriculum or the content of academic speech -- a principle that is not reflected in the Compact."

                                  h/t

                                    [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                    @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                    Update. just rejected the Trump pact (Oct 16). Here's the public letter from UPenn President J. Larry Jameson.
                                    penntoday.upenn.edu/announceme

                                      [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                      @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                      Update. The U of Southern California just rejected the Trump compact (Oct 16). Here's the public letter from interim president Beong-Soo Kim.
                                      we-are.usc.edu/2025/10/16/upda

                                        [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                        @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                        Update. The U of Virginia just rejected the Trump compact (Oct 17). Here's the public letter from interim President Paul Mahoney.
                                        news.virginia.edu/content/comm

                                          [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                          @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                          Update. just rejected the Trump compact (Oct 18). Here's the public letter from Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock.
                                          president.dartmouth.edu/news/2

                                            [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                            @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                            Update. The U of Arizona just rejected the Trump compact (Oct 20). Here's the public letter from President Suresh Garimella.
                                            president.arizona.edu/sites/de

                                              [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                              @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                              Update. From Barbara Snyder, President of the Association of American Universities (), on the Trump compact:
                                              aau.edu/newsroom/press-release

                                              "Federal support for higher education must never be tied to ideological alignment with any administration."

                                                [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                Update. has not yet accepted or rejected the Trump compact. But Chancellor Daniel Diermeier just released a vague and inconclusive open letter on where it stands.
                                                t.e2ma.net/message/tu4xiq/5vxm

                                                "Last Friday, Vanderbilt participated in a discussion with members of the administration and other university leaders about shaping a productive process for providing such comments. We expect to share our input with the administration through that process. Our response will be grounded in our long-held principles and values…Vanderbilt believes deeply in the power of constructive dialogue."

                                                The letter is undated (why?) but the Chronicle reports that it was made public on Oct 20.
                                                chronicle.com/article/compact-

                                                  [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                  @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                  Update. Like Vanderbilt (above), has not not accepted or rejected the Trump compact. But also like Vanderbilt, its Chancellor, Andrew Martin, just released a vague and inconclusive statement on where it stands (Oct 20).
                                                  andrewdmartin.washu.edu/washu-

                                                  "We believe it is in the best interest of our university, and higher education more broadly, for us to participate constructively, share our experience and expertise, and help inform policies that strengthen the nation’s research and education ecosystem…We firmly believe meaningful progress will best be achieved through open, ongoing dialogue."

                                                    [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                    @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                    Update. has now rejected the Trump compact. Here's the public letter from Chancellor Andrew Martin (Oct 22).
                                                    wustl.app.box.com/s/f3wwjqkrq9

                                                      [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                      @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                      Update. will also reject the Trump compact, according to an Oct 22 statement by Chancellor Kent Syverud to the University Senate. Apparently there is not a public letter announcing the decision.
                                                      dailyorange.com/2025/10/syveru

                                                        [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                        @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                        Update. " of Is Ready To Be The First To Sign President Trump’s Higher Education Compact."
                                                        einpresswire.com/article/86195

                                                          [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                          @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                          Update. The University of Kansas provost says that will not sign the Trump compact.
                                                          kansan.com/news/ku-won-t-sign-

                                                            [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                            @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                            Update. just offered (Oct 28) to sign the Trump compact. Here's the open letter from its President and Chairman of the Board to the Trump Dept of Education.
                                                            static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com

                                                              [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                              @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                              Update. Five faculty from five institutions argue that "Colleges Must Reject Trump’s ‘Compact’ To Protect Our Democracy."
                                                              usnews.com/opinion/articles/20

                                                                [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                                @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                                Update. The U of Virginia surveyed its community in October on how it should respond to the compact. The Chronicle of Higher Education got the results through a public-records request.
                                                                chronicle.com/article/uva-aske
                                                                ()

                                                                " 'Nope. Nothing. Nada.' 'Not at all.' 'No'. 'NO.' 'NO!'… Those curt replies were broadly representative of the responses as a whole…The F-word is used nine times…There were nearly 200 references to ’s founder, , almost all of which were in service of the argument that the compact went against his vision of the university. 'Stand your ground,' one wrote. 'You know it’s what Thomas Jefferson would have wanted.' "


                                                                  [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                                  @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                                  Update. The American Enterprise Institute () defends the compact and offers some improvements.
                                                                  aei.org/research-products/repo

                                                                  After the compact was introduced (Oct 2025), "a rough consensus emerged that the Trump administration had identified crucial problems but that its solution needed work. This project is an attempt to do some of that work."

                                                                  By "rough consensus" I suppose AEI means "rough consensus of the people and orgs we read." If so, take that as a sign of how it reads.

                                                                    [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                                    @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                                    Update. Billionaire was the driving force behind the compact with universities.
                                                                    nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/bill

                                                                    It helps to know that Rowan is the owner of the for-profit University of Phoenix...
                                                                    republicreport.org/2025/billio

                                                                    ...which has paid hundreds of millions to settle more than a dozen claims of fraud.
                                                                    vetsedsuccess.org/university-o

                                                                    Now we learn that Rowan has a history of talking business with .
                                                                    nytimes.com/2026/02/02/busines

                                                                      [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                                      @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                                      Update. And now the Trump admin is lifting regulations on for-profit universities. The article doesn't mention Marc Rowan, but "the University of Phoenix is rising from the ashes [and] staging a comeback, partly with help from Washington."
                                                                      washingtonpost.com/education/2

                                                                      "Some Democrats and education advocates argue for-profit schools have historically accounted for a disproportionate number of complaints and need more scrutiny. They also worry the Trump administration’s pledge to eliminate the Education Department could make it harder to investigate complaints. 'The Trump administration is making it easier for for-profit colleges to scam students,' Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) said in a statement to The Washington Post."

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                                                                        [?]Dilman Dila » 🌐
                                                                        @dilmandila@mograph.social

                                                                        There is this cool project where universities use science fiction to teach, in a project called Applied Science Fiction, and one of my short stories is on the syllabus, so to speak. It's an action story, about a village under attack from monster mosquitoes, and it is freely available to read here.

                                                                        "Miss Doe and the Leafy Man – Applied African Speculative Fiction"
                                                                        appliedafricansf.com/miss-doe-

                                                                          [?]Proto Himbo European » 🌐
                                                                          @guyjantic@infosec.exchange

                                                                          I'm at an academic conference. A presenter just said "surprise! Workshop!" We are all supposed to discuss some issues and develop some recommendations then switch tables and do it again a few times.

                                                                          The audience seems mostly cool with this and enthusiastic. I have a lot of difficulty understanding speech in many situations (bc hearing loss) so I made an excuse and left.

                                                                          I guess this is about disability and accessibility but I don't have even a little criticism for the presenter. There are a lot of experiences that work for many people but not for others. I don't think we should stop providing experiences just because not everyone can benefit equally or participate. I would also have left the room if there was a special hearing amplification system available--i have some in my ears already and don't want to become someone's logistical problem.

                                                                          Typing this I realized what I do want: to explain my exit to the speaker so he doesn't feel bad.

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                                                                            [?]Proto Himbo European » 🌐
                                                                            @guyjantic@infosec.exchange

                                                                            At a focused academic conference. Sessions haven't even started and I'm having thoughts. Right now, looking at the program:

                                                                            If you are an out/open person in , how much pressure (overt or not) is there to make your scholarship and maybe teaching about yourself?

                                                                            Many bios seem to have some version of "Dr. X's research focuses on (their kind of queer experience)" or "Dr. Y's most recent piece is an exploration of their (flavor of queer) journey."

                                                                            I'm sure for many people these are choices freely made. However, I have also seen pressure applied to faculty in general to study or teach a certain thing, and I suspect there is selection bias: certain kinds of scholarship topics are more likely to land you a job, and if you are out or visibly queer, hiring committees might have employment-relevant opinions about what you personally "should" be studying.

                                                                            I guess this is probably in the domain of marginalized groups being expected to be ambassadors for all members of their (perceived) group and to spend significant time advocating.

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                                                                              [?]Emma Stamm » 🌐
                                                                              @emma@assemblag.es

                                                                              Dear friends, acquaintances, mysterious strangers, I'm thinking about developing a new online course. Among the following, which would you be most excited to enroll in? Note that all of them would have a philosophical/theoretical bent.

                                                                              Boosts appreciated, thanks! 🙏

                                                                              Psychedelics and Contemporary Philosophy:2
                                                                              Political Philosophy and A.I.:2
                                                                              Anti-Civilization Thought:7
                                                                              Technology and Friendship:12

                                                                              Closed

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                                                                                [?]Albert Cardona » 🌐
                                                                                @albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz

                                                                                I keep hearing about the "slopocalipse" coming to scientific publishing, and I can't but think: it was already happening before LLMs became "good enough" at writing academic prose. What hasn't been addressed is the root cause: the incentives. The publish-or-perish approach to science evaluation, for grants and positions.

                                                                                Want a solution? Limit publications to one per author per year. You can publish more when in collaboration, i.e., make it fractional. The end goal: make people think what brick they want to supply to the edifice of science. As a bonus, *reward* scientists when they publish *less than* one paper per year.

                                                                                And the business models based on journal APCs can all die a sudden death now.

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                                                                                  [?]Emma Stamm » 🌐
                                                                                  @emma@assemblag.es

                                                                                  Dear friends, acquaintances, mysterious strangers, I'm thinking about developing a new online course. Among the following, which would you be most excited to enroll in? Note that all of them would have a philosophical/theoretical bent.

                                                                                  Boosts appreciated, thanks! 🙏

                                                                                  Psychedelics and Contemporary Philosophy:2
                                                                                  Political Philosophy and A.I.:2
                                                                                  Anti-Civilization Thought:7
                                                                                  Technology and Friendship:12

                                                                                  Closed

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                                                                                    [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                                                    @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                                                    Wow. "Virginia State terminates six professors without due process.
                                                                                    Campus security escorted the professors —five tenured and one tenure-track— to their cars and issued no-trespass warnings. They have received no written explanation for their dismissals."
                                                                                    insidehighered.com/news/facult

                                                                                      [?]Martin Rundkvist » 🌐
                                                                                      @mrundkvist@archaeo.social

                                                                                      In 2015, five Swedish universities partnered up in an enormous, still ongoing research initiative called the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program.

                                                                                      For an acronym, they chose "WASP". This is mind-blowingly clueless, because it makes them sound either like racists or like an 80s metal band. 🙄 😁

                                                                                      kaw.wallenberg.org/wallenberg-

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                                                                                        [?]tools for commensality 🧿 » 🌐
                                                                                        @inquiline@assemblag.es

                                                                                        UT System Board of Regents to vote on new teaching restrictions just days after UT Austin collapses ethnic and gender studies departments

                                                                                        aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-regen

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                                                                                          [?]Michael Marek » 🌐
                                                                                          @mimarek@universeodon.com

                                                                                          From IGI Global Scientific Publishing:

                                                                                          Dear Prof./Dr. Marek, | hope this email finds you well. | am honored to inform you that your Open Access article, “Teacher Experiences in Converting Classes to Distance Learning in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” in the International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (I/DET), has been selected for recognition in the Most Impactful Papers of the Year Award for 2025. This award honors your exceptional contributions to the field of Education and to the advancement of Open Access Publishing.

                                                                                          Alt...Dear Prof./Dr. Marek, | hope this email finds you well. | am honored to inform you that your Open Access article, “Teacher Experiences in Converting Classes to Distance Learning in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” in the International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (I/DET), has been selected for recognition in the Most Impactful Papers of the Year Award for 2025. This award honors your exceptional contributions to the field of Education and to the advancement of Open Access Publishing.

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                                                                                            [?]Zoomers of the Sunshine Coast 🇨🇦 » 🌐
                                                                                            @SCZoomers@mstdn.ca

                                                                                            Your brain time-travels every time you approach your favourite coffee shop. That anticipatory lift you feel?

                                                                                            Scientists at McGill just watched neurons literally shift backward in time—from the reward to the cue.

                                                                                            This isn't a metaphor. It's measurable, visible biology.

                                                                                            🎧 buzzsprout.com/2405788/episode

                                                                                            📖 helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/y

                                                                                            📻 Available for Broadcast on PRX exchange.prx.org/p/606992

                                                                                            PRX Series: The Predictive Mind exchange.prx.org/series/60019-

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                                                                                              [?]Freezenet » 🌐
                                                                                              @freezenet@noc.social

                                                                                              AI Slop is Flooding the Scientific Community

                                                                                              Scientific journals are dealing with a flood of AI slop and with the release of Prism, the fear is that it's only getting worse.

                                                                                              freezenet.ca/ai-slop-is-floodi

                                                                                                [?]Emma Stamm » 🌐
                                                                                                @emma@assemblag.es

                                                                                                New LEPHT HAND out! Postmortem on the acid communism course, plus:

                                                                                                "We explore animal consciousness, interdisciplinary research, & the 'closet' of weird scholarship, asking how encounters that rupture established methods can open new forms of knowledge. The conversation turns toward meta-politics, examining non-communication, collective retreat, & para-academic practices as forms of resistance amid digital exhaustion & institutional collapse."

                                                                                                patreon.com/posts/from-weird-t

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                                                                                                  [?]Laurel Stvan » 🌐
                                                                                                  @LingLass@vmst.io

                                                                                                  I’ve been “cited” in Google Scholar as author of a hallucinated article. The surname, year, and one word of the title match work I have actually done. But the title and the DOI are completely fake.

                                                                                                    [?]Eli Roberson (he/him) » 🌐
                                                                                                    @thatdnaguy@genomic.social

                                                                                                    Oof. I've mentioned this before, but my institution went all in on external services to buy "not my fault" as insurance against things being their fault.

                                                                                                    This included storage. After shoving us to particular providers, they announced three months ago that the limits would be cut immediately to 1TB for each user, with a grace period to find other storage. I've pared down from 15 TB to 5 TB. 4.x of that is cold storage.

                                                                                                    This will reduce me to a two copy backup that are co-located.

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                                                                                                      [?]Emma Stamm » 🌐
                                                                                                      @emma@assemblag.es

                                                                                                      Here's my list of established para-academic educational & research organizations:

                                                                                                      docs.google.com/document/d/1q8

                                                                                                      Related post: elftheory.substack.com/p/para-

                                                                                                      I only add to the list when I stumble across things or when people make suggestions. I haven’t done any intentional research; I don’t even know what search terms I’d use, since “para-academic” hasn’t been enshrined & “alt-academic” has multiple conflicting meanings. Feel free to share & make suggestions, thanks!

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                                                                                                        [?]Florian 'floe' Echtler » 🌐
                                                                                                        @floe@hci.social

                                                                                                        Hello ! Thanks to my new DFF grant, I'm now looking to hire a PhD student to join me at AAU in Aalborg 🇩🇰 to work on "usable decentralization", i.e. on making distributed and federated cloud services accessible to the everyday user. For more details, see link below, and please don't hesitate to DM me with questions!

                                                                                                        vacancies.aau.dk/phd-positions

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                                                                                                          [?]Everyday.Human Derek » 🌐
                                                                                                          @EVDHmn@ecoevo.social

                                                                                                          @everyday_human




                                                                                                          I have a clean driving record.
                                                                                                          I’m still paying for insurance so I can keep my case open please help if you can point me somewhere.

                                                                                                          It feels good to let others know the trooper finished the report.
                                                                                                          The insurance company should have had it in December. I wonder what a good number to start with . I’m autistic and demasked I will not be taken advantage of by corporations.

                                                                                                            [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                                                                            @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                                                                            Update. Of course teachers sometimes make false accusations of even without relying on imperfect tools. Now that they're on the lookout for -generated submissions, the rate might increase.

                                                                                                            New study: "When given a mixture of original and general abstracts, blinded human reviewers correctly identified 68% of generated abstracts as…generated by ChatGPT, but incorrectly identified 14% of original abstracts as being generated."
                                                                                                            nature.com/articles/s41746-023


                                                                                                            @academicchatter

                                                                                                              [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                                                                              @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                                                                              Update. More examples of this fear coming true.

                                                                                                              Professor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers
                                                                                                              rollingstone.com/culture/cultu


                                                                                                              @academicchatter

                                                                                                                [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                                                                                @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                                                                                Update. More examples of this fear coming true.

                                                                                                                AI Detection Tools Falsely Accuse International Students of Cheating
                                                                                                                themarkup.org/machine-learning


                                                                                                                @academicchatter

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                                                                                                                  [?]Dr Pen » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @DrPen@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                  This is a very concerning very real threat to news and facts you can trust.

                                                                                                                  If the WH are manipulating real news photos to dog whistle deep racism and portray citizens as somehow hysterical/desperate, then who can be trusted?

                                                                                                                  Ai fake news and misinformation are the number 1 online threat to democracy and rule of law. We must teach this as media literacy from a young age.

                                                                                                                  theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

                                                                                                                    [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                                                                                    @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                                                                                    New survey from the American Council of Education (): "Seven in 10 senior higher education leaders [in the US] say they are concerned about government interference in academic freedom and institutional autonomy."
                                                                                                                    acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/Pul

                                                                                                                    Serious question: Who are the 30% who are not concerned?

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                                                                                                                      [?]tools for commensality 🧿 » 🌐
                                                                                                                      @inquiline@assemblag.es

                                                                                                                      yet another case of "don't comply in advance, assholes"--turns out it was both illegal and unnecessary (as well as shortsighted and immoral) to comply with EO's scrubbing DEI in higher ed. who knew!

                                                                                                                      apnews.com/article/dei-educati

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                                                                                                                        [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                                                                                        "When data disappears: The impact of cancelled federal studies on student financial aid research."
                                                                                                                        pellinstitute.org/news-impact/

                                                                                                                        "In March 2025, the U.S. Department of Education made a quiet yet profoundly consequential decision to abruptly terminate major research contracts and lay off dozens of staff and contractors, [undermining] the nation’s ability to access credible, comprehensive data on college affordability, student success, and postsecondary outcomes."

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                                                                                                                          [?]oatmeal » 🌐
                                                                                                                          @oatmeal@kolektiva.social

                                                                                                                          CAMERA’s MISSION: Erase witnesses in every language, now Hebrew media too

                                                                                                                          just announced they’re expanding their censorship operation across Hebrew, English, Spanish, and Arabic media to work in “full cooperation” fighting “media bias against Israel” and shaping “global public opinion regarding Israel.”

                                                                                                                          This is the same organization caught in 2008 coordinating efforts to “infiltrate” to “rewrite Palestinian history,” with members told to “stay away from any Israel related articles” until gaining administrator privileges. “We will go to war after we have build our army,” one organizer wrote.

                                                                                                                          Journalist Jonathan Cook lists CAMERA among “Zionist watchdogs” that “created what the late Edward Said called ‘the last taboo in American public life’, moving rapidly to shut down any signs of critical debate about Israeli policies.”
                                                                                                                          Robert I. Friedman wrote in The Nation that CAMERA was formed after Israel’s 1982 Lebanon invasion “to keep the U.S. press in line” using “McCarthyite tactics.”

                                                                                                                          Their stated strategy: monitor and “correct distortions” in Israeli media “that negatively affect international coverage,” train thousands of students fighting “anti-Israel bias in academia,” and run programs combating “anti-Israelism in American school curricula.

                                                                                                                          They’ve targeted everyone from prominent Israeli journalists at Ha’aretz to historian Benny Morris (called a “fabricator” - who only later came out as a rabid and Jewish supremacist), and even pressured university libraries to remove books they find “offensive.”

                                                                                                                          CAMERA was created to claim victimhood while erasing witnesses to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The infrastructure built to suppress Gaza coverage will be used against anyone who threatens to expose .

                                                                                                                          Hebrew camera-he.org/%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%

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                                                                                                                            [?]ProPublica » 🌐
                                                                                                                            @ProPublica@newsie.social

                                                                                                                            Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With
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                                                                                                                            The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sent to national security experts at the agency.
                                                                                                                            propublica.org/article/trump-u

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                                                                                                                              [?]Mark Dingemanse » 🌐
                                                                                                                              @dingemansemark@scholar.social

                                                                                                                              New on the blog: Requiem for writing town ideophone.org/requiem-for-writ

                                                                                                                              On the co-working space we co-designed for our team in corona times, what we learned about interactional affordances, why surface realism is overrated, and how we created a sense of connectedness — with @Iris @mariekewoe @andreasliesenfeld @marlourasenberg and many others

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                                                                                                                                [?]Proto Himbo European » 🌐
                                                                                                                                @guyjantic@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                If you are listing your data collector/secretary position as a "senior research analyst," you are not helping. Please stop.

                                                                                                                                I'm hoping this is just a mixup and the wrong title was paired with this undergrad-level position.

                                                                                                                                ad blurb: Senior Research Analyst, Psychology (University at Buffalo)

                                                                                                                                Alt...ad blurb: Senior Research Analyst, Psychology (University at Buffalo)

                                                                                                                                Duties list: - Data Collection: Data collection involves conducting assessments with participating families. - Assessments: Assessments involve interviewing adolescents and their parents on sensitive topics, including substance use, collecting heart rate data and hair samples, and video-recording family interactions. - Other administrative tasks including checking data and assisting with administrative tasks such as project mailings, photocopying, maintaining the project database, and coding observational assessments. [Note the lack of any data analysis duties and the fact that this reads like an intern or undergrad lab worker position]

                                                                                                                                Alt...Duties list: - Data Collection: Data collection involves conducting assessments with participating families. - Assessments: Assessments involve interviewing adolescents and their parents on sensitive topics, including substance use, collecting heart rate data and hair samples, and video-recording family interactions. - Other administrative tasks including checking data and assisting with administrative tasks such as project mailings, photocopying, maintaining the project database, and coding observational assessments. [Note the lack of any data analysis duties and the fact that this reads like an intern or undergrad lab worker position]

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                                                                                                                                  [?]tools for commensality 🧿 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                  @inquiline@assemblag.es

                                                                                                                                  is publicly expressing concern about the Education Department working with

                                                                                                                                  insidehighered.com/news/quick-

                                                                                                                                    [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                                                                                                    @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                                                                                                    Early in the pandemic (April 2020) I started what became a long thread on in academic .
                                                                                                                                    twitter.com/petersuber/status/

                                                                                                                                    Starting today, I'm stopping it on Twitter and continuing it on .

                                                                                                                                    Here's a rollup of the complete Twitter thread.
                                                                                                                                    resee.it/tweet/125298113985535

                                                                                                                                    Here's a nearly complete archived version in the @waybackmachine.
                                                                                                                                    web.archive.org/web/2022090813

                                                                                                                                    Watch this space for updates.


                                                                                                                                    @academicchatter

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                                                                                                                                      [?]Charlie McHenry » 🌐
                                                                                                                                      @CharlieMcHenry@connectop.us

                                                                                                                                      ‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers reflect on how 2025’s science cuts have changed their lives theconversation.com/this-year-

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                                                                                                                                        [?]Jenica Lake » 🌐
                                                                                                                                        @MamaLake@beige.party

                                                                                                                                        Will you tell me about your PhD? I don't care if it's finished, I wanna know about the premise and research that's got you up at night.

                                                                                                                                        Yes, I will tell you in the comments:7
                                                                                                                                        No, I'm tired of talking about it:4
                                                                                                                                        It's a secret:3
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                                                                                                                                          [?]Adrian Fellhauer » 🌐
                                                                                                                                          @adrian_fellhauer@sueden.social

                                                                                                                                          The sad thing is that does not play the slightest role here. They're persecuting people who are merely opposed to the death of very many.

                                                                                                                                          theguardian.com/commentisfree/

                                                                                                                                            [?]Badass Britt :mastodon_lgbt: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                            @britt@mstdn.games

                                                                                                                                            Any of my academically inclined friends have tips for the final few days of review before an exam?

                                                                                                                                            I’m not struggling with basic definitions, facts, or numbers/percentages.

                                                                                                                                            I’m struggling with lists of (frankly, boring) information. For example, a block of info I need to remember with bullet points/facts related to — say — a law, or change in government policy.

                                                                                                                                            Any tips for helping me get this into my brain for Thursdays exam?

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                                                                                                                                              [?]Charlie McHenry » 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @CharlieMcHenry@connectop.us

                                                                                                                                              Grant cuts, arrests, lay-offs: Trump made 2025 a tumultuous year for science - In just the first weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidency…Officials appointed by the new president started firing thousands of researchers and other government employees. At the same time, it cut billions of dollars of US support for global-health programmes, including dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID). It arrested some scholars from outside the United States as it stepped up efforts to restrict entry into the country and limit political speech. Over the next few months, the US government took steps to exert unprecedented control over universities by withholding federal research funding. The administration cancelled tens of billions of dollars in research grants to universities to force the adoption of policies on hiring and admissions, policing of campuses, curricula and other factors. nature.com/articles/d41586-025

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                                                                                                                                                [?]Albert Cardona » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                @albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz

                                                                                                                                                Today in news that ought to be embarrassing: a group of senior professors, beyond retirement age or near, are gathering together to sue the University of Cambridge for "age discrimination", since age is a "protected characteristic" in the UK. One of them, in their 80s, says had to move to another UK university and recently secured a ~6 million grant, that Cambridge is now missing out on.

                                                                                                                                                I have nothing against exceptional professors staying on as emeritus with the support of their non-retired colleagues, recognising their potential for sustained contributions in mentorship, seminars, discussions, and access to key contacts in their fields, without any responsibilities towards teaching or supervising other than occasionally volunteering. But to seek to force an academic institution to retain a workforce of octogenarians, who are very set in their ways and often come across as unable to be wrong about anything, and to give them voting and effectively veto power, well, what could possibly go wrong. Everything.

                                                                                                                                                Retire from active duty and go on to write books, continue to attend seminars – nobody will close the doors to you –, engage in peer review, respond to requests for mentorship, advise on grant writing, proofread manuscripts from your colleagues, discuss with them experimental design or approaches to data analysis, and if you want, perform your own research by your hand rather than by directing a research team.

                                                                                                                                                There are many and great reasons why renewal is necessary. Like in ecosystems, the conditions change, and among the young some will be best suited, where the same old ways can't advance the field any more.

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                                                                                                                                                  [?]Dr. Divya 🍉 is offline » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                                                                  @divya@sunny.garden

                                                                                                                                                  We've got eight hours left: chipping away at our FINAL appeal for my beloved and best friend Ahmed, an art therapist who fled Gaza and has been stateless without the right to work in Egypt. He's finally getting his student visa!!!

                                                                                                                                                  UPDATED: 541/560 for his flight & living expenses before travel: tiny.cc/HelpAhmed

                                                                                                                                                  The bird: yet another study in a marvelous laughing dove that kept watch of me & Ahmed during my visit.

                                                                                                                                                  @palestine

                                                                                                                                                  A banner that is light green. In the background is a painted texture, with a black ink drawing of a laughing dove peering through a gap in a wall or fence. The title is dark green and says, "Help survivor Ahmed start his degree." In the bottom corner are some green paint strokes, over which the text reads, "Give: tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF. Accountability: tiny.cc/HelpAhmed.”

                                                                                                                                                  Alt...A banner that is light green. In the background is a painted texture, with a black ink drawing of a laughing dove peering through a gap in a wall or fence. The title is dark green and says, "Help survivor Ahmed start his degree." In the bottom corner are some green paint strokes, over which the text reads, "Give: tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF. Accountability: tiny.cc/HelpAhmed.”

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                                                                                                                                                    [?]tools for commensality 🧿 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                    @inquiline@assemblag.es

                                                                                                                                                    "“Never before in my time across multiple presidential administrations did we send out press releases essentially saying workplaces or colleges were guilty of discrimination before finding out if they really were,” said one attorney"

                                                                                                                                                    latimes.com/california/story/2

                                                                                                                                                    archive link: archive.ph/NIjFG

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                                                                                                                                                      [?]Sean 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                      @seanwbruno@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                      Not the best metric, but the sum of my grad school academics appears to be 33.5 GB in size. One person, 3 years of work, 10GB/year.

                                                                                                                                                      Screen capture of Basero writing data to a disk. Shows approximately 9.5GB of the 33.5 GB written. Black text on grey window. Orange status bar crawling from left to right indicating progress of about 30% complete. Speed of writing is estimated to be 1083KiB/s (0.2x).

                                                                                                                                                      Alt...Screen capture of Basero writing data to a disk. Shows approximately 9.5GB of the 33.5 GB written. Black text on grey window. Orange status bar crawling from left to right indicating progress of about 30% complete. Speed of writing is estimated to be 1083KiB/s (0.2x).

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                                                                                                                                                        [?]Gregor Kos » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                        @greg_montreal@mstdn.ca

                                                                                                                                                        “A long time ago” universities were running (and developing!) their own infrastructure before “corporatisation” made them clients of major corporations with complete loss of control (incl. their data!) and know-how. And all using mostly open standards for the benefit of all. These are finally small steps in the right direction. chaos.social/@melaniebartos/11

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                                                                                                                                                          [?]Dr. Divya 🍉 is offline » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                                                                          @divya@sunny.garden

                                                                                                                                                          Update: we did not even come close and I have to tell him we don’t have his rent this month. Last ditch attempt… 225/450 by hours ago…

                                                                                                                                                          Celebrating genocide this weekend? Keep a stateless genocide survivor housed.

                                                                                                                                                          Stopping genocide means sustaining Palestinian life…period. You’ve sustained art therapist, educator, and student Ahmed since exile, while he waits for his student visa to continue his studies and advance his art therapy research for children in Gaza. He still needs us.

                                                                                                                                                          docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

                                                                                                                                                          @mutualaid @palestine

                                                                                                                                                          A banner that is light green. In the background is a green painted texture, with a black ink drawing of a barn swallow. The title is dark green and says, "Help art therapist Ahmed stay housed." In the bottom corner are some green paint strokes, over which the text reads, "Give: tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF. Accountability: tiny.cc/HelpAhmed.”

                                                                                                                                                          Alt...A banner that is light green. In the background is a green painted texture, with a black ink drawing of a barn swallow. The title is dark green and says, "Help art therapist Ahmed stay housed." In the bottom corner are some green paint strokes, over which the text reads, "Give: tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF. Accountability: tiny.cc/HelpAhmed.”

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]Alx 🐈 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                            @alx@mastodon.design

                                                                                                                                                            Hello ,
                                                                                                                                                            I have a question. Because everyone is integrating these stupid chatbots for "summaries", I am very skeptical of having my work circulating, even just internally within the university cohort, because I don't want my stuff to be fed to LLMs.
                                                                                                                                                            Is there a way to export these files in a was that when people feeds them to their "assistants" the assistants' dataset gets "poisoned" and can scrap it properly?

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                                                                                                                                                              [?]Flipboard Culture Desk » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                              @CultureDesk@flipboard.social

                                                                                                                                                              A University of Oklahoma student was given a grade of zero on her psychology assignment, which was a reaction essay to assigned reading on gender roles in society. In her essay, she cited the Bible and referred to trans identities as "demonic." The student, Samantha Fulnecky, filed a religious discrimination complaint with the university, and Turning Point got involved. Now the grad student who graded Fulnecky's paper and who is herself trans has been placed on administrative leave. Here's more from @them@flipboard.com.

                                                                                                                                                              flip.it/diNunz

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]Dr. Divya 🍉 is offline » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                @divya@sunny.garden

                                                                                                                                                                FINAL 3 HOURS to cover rent for a genocide survivor & stateless refugee from Gaza!

                                                                                                                                                                Ahmed doesn’t deserve help just because his work—treating child trauma in Gaza—is noble. We owe everything to Palestinians and genocide doesn’t end, but rather continues, after exile.

                                                                                                                                                                215/450 tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF

                                                                                                                                                                @palestine

                                                                                                                                                                A banner that is light orange. In the background is a green painted texture, with a black ink drawing of the silhouette of a great cormorant sitting on some low rocks in water, with the rocks and their reflections also in black. The title is dark green and says, "Help art therapist Ahmed stay housed." In the bottom corner are some green paint strokes, over which the text reads, "Give: tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF. Accountability: tiny.cc/HelpAhmed.”

                                                                                                                                                                Alt...A banner that is light orange. In the background is a green painted texture, with a black ink drawing of the silhouette of a great cormorant sitting on some low rocks in water, with the rocks and their reflections also in black. The title is dark green and says, "Help art therapist Ahmed stay housed." In the bottom corner are some green paint strokes, over which the text reads, "Give: tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF. Accountability: tiny.cc/HelpAhmed.”

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                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                  @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                  This one is particularly shameful to me because my PhD is from Brandeis:

                                                                                                                                                                  https://www.brandeis.edu/online/academics/microcredentials/index.html

                                                                                                                                                                  Note the two "credentials" are AI for STEM and prompt engineering.

                                                                                                                                                                  Nobody has any business calling these things "credentials", or suggesting they are credentials by naming them "microcredentials". You can't go to your boss waving your prompt engineering microcredential and get a raise, or even a microraise for that matter. You can't access more competitive jobs after obtaining one of these microcredentials.

                                                                                                                                                                  If they were serious about credentialing people, these would definitely not be the first two made available. They couldn't be more transparently venal. This isn't about credentialing, it's an attempt to profit from the AI bubble.


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                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                    @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                    There is something really shameful to me about institutions of higher education shilling AI "microcredentials" while simultaneously contributing to making higher education inaccessible to the majority of people.

                                                                                                                                                                    They are offering you crumbs of an education, on which they hope to profit still, while hollowing out their own institutions.

                                                                                                                                                                    Eating the seed corn.


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                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Dr. Divya 🍉 is offline » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                      @divya@sunny.garden

                                                                                                                                                                      JUST 9 HOURS LEFT. As you eat in abundance & enjoy family on stolen land, remember Palestinians.

                                                                                                                                                                      Ahmed is exiled alone with no rights. He didn’t flee Gaza to survive, but to develop his therapy practice to treat children traumatized by the genocide.

                                                                                                                                                                      Keep him housed: 154/450 tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF

                                                                                                                                                                      @mutualaid @palestine

                                                                                                                                                                      A banner that is light yellow-green. In the background is a green painted texture, with a black ink drawing of a house sparrow sitting on a ledge next to a wall. The title is dark green and says, "Help art therapist Ahmed stay housed." In the bottom corner are some green paint strokes, over which the text reads, "Give: tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF. Accountability: tiny.cc/HelpAhmed.”

                                                                                                                                                                      Alt...A banner that is light yellow-green. In the background is a green painted texture, with a black ink drawing of a house sparrow sitting on a ledge next to a wall. The title is dark green and says, "Help art therapist Ahmed stay housed." In the bottom corner are some green paint strokes, over which the text reads, "Give: tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF. Accountability: tiny.cc/HelpAhmed.”

                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Dr Pen » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                        @DrPen@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                        Radical action via Simple Sabotage/Malicious Compliance techniques.

                                                                                                                                                                        It's scorchio.

                                                                                                                                                                        From Dan McQuillan
                                                                                                                                                                        danmcquillan.org/resisting_gen

                                                                                                                                                                        Dan McQuillan is a Senior Lecturer in Critical AI. He has a degree in Physics from Oxford and a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics from Imperial.

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                                                                                                                                                                          [?]petersuber » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                          @petersuber@fediscience.org

                                                                                                                                                                          Update. Well-put: "Supporters of [the firings of these professors] say they are justified because professors are straying from their syllabi. But that’s a dodge. If an instructor in Calculus 101 teaches 𝘏𝘢𝘮𝘭𝘦𝘵, the reaction would not be to ban Shakespeare instruction throughout the university."
                                                                                                                                                                          dallasnews.com/opinion/comment

                                                                                                                                                                          "If a university is a place where students and educators engage in free inquiry in the service of understanding, now has fewer places that meet that definition."

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                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Albert Cardona » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                            @albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz

                                                                                                                                                                            Latest horror from Elsevier: published scientific manuscripts littered with links whose ALT text says:

                                                                                                                                                                            "Learn more about common descent from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages"

                                                                                                                                                                            Like trying to discredit published research papers by pointing to AI-generated drivel?

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                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                              @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                                                              Discovered today that the online human resources portal of a university that shall remain unnamed has, at some point, become riddled with trackers. It's so bad that my web browser's ad blocker refused to load the portal at all unless I explicitly consented to allow the trackers, and once I was on the portal, none of its features would work until I disabled the ad blocker completely. I use this portal semi-regularly and this is the first time I've encountered this problem, so it seems like it might be a recent change.

                                                                                                                                                                              Regardless of time frame, this means the university at some point saw fit to install third-party trackers in web apps that have sensitive information like pay rate, hours worked, social security number, name and address, tax information, and more.


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