Cerstin Mahlow @CerstinMahlow@qoto.org

The current hype and anxiety about language bots is just one example of how "AI" and automation are affecting education. We just published a bumper themed issue of Learning, Media and Technology on AI, automation and datafication of education - editorial here https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2023.2167830 and a thread on all the papers over there https://twitter.com/LMT_Journal/status/1621529716615430146?s=20&t=DfzTbXS6V_GdddS5j218ig

Another opportunity for Learned Societies who berate APCs...

The MIT Press announces new initiative to flip existing subscription-based journals to a diamond open access publishing model
https://mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-press-announces-new-initiative-to-flip-existing-subscription-based-journals-to-a-diamond-open-access-publishing-model/

Update: moved this to my new writing site so there’s a new URL.

Every hashtag on every post on every platform should ALWAYS be pascal case. I wrote this to illustrate how screenreaders read hashtags based on their case.

It’s a small thing that all of us can do to build a more inclusive, accessible internet for all. Please take the time to use pascal case.

Read more:
https://markwrites.io/hashtag-accessibility-by-everyone-for-everyone

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #Usability #Readability #Hashtags #SocialNetworking #Blogging #UX

Geographie.

#IATE comprises about 7.5 million terms, with EU linguists continuously consolidating and enriching it. In 2022, they undertook 2.7 million operations, enhancing the quality of the entries and expanding language availability.
#EUAgencies #EUTerminology #Multilingualism

Impro6. #kaengurucomics

Wenn wir die Erdscheibe einfach umdrehen, erhalten wir jene kühle Seite, die vom Klimawandel noch völlig unberührt ist. Problem gelöst.

Ich werde das jetzt in Schwurblerkreisen verbreiten. Das wird lustig.

You may have already heard that the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach is building a digital archive of materials about Gebr. Klingspor’s typeface. On Fontstand News, this archive’s architects explain how it all came about.

In the richly-illustrated article, Leonie Martin and Laura Brunner (turbo type) explain their project’s background, process, and where this is all going to lead: https://fontstand.com/news/essays/a-digital-visit-to-offenbach/

Twitter killt die freie API und damit viele spannende Projekte.

Du hast einen Bot und brauchst eine neue Heimat? Wir bieten dir ein neues Zuhause!

https://bot.swiss.social/about

Available in #OpenAccess: «Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?
Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology»

#DigitalHumanities #DigitalPreservation
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110729214/html

“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.”

Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell, who died on this day in 1970, on how to grow old: https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/07/03/how-to-grow-old-bertrand-russell/

In light of recent developments regarding the #twitter API (it will no longer be free) and the likely ripple effects this will have on other websites and services, I humbly submit this updated version of an old #xkcd comic:

https://xkcd.com/2347/

Just in case anyone is feeling this way but doesn’t know how to express it: an academic career does at pretty much every stage require you to learn how to produce entirely new genres of writing, often on the fly—we often provide too little guidance & too few models for each one, with some strange expectation that folks will just figure it out.

Figured out research papers? Write a dissertation!

Finished the diss? Make it a book! Write a grant proposal!

Did those things? Write a statements of your research, service, & teaching philosophies for your dossier!

Case in point, just this semester—nearly 2 decades after I started grad school!—I wrote my very 1st letters evaluating tenure cases—another entirely new genre I’ve never once read, because I was always on the other side of that process.

So just: it’s not that you can’t write or think—it’s maybe that you’re being asked to think & write in new genres all the time

So. We all know what the spoons theory (#spoonie) is. You might even have heard of the derivative #fork theory as it pertains to mental health.

But Pina (a.k.a. ADHD Alien) has given people with #ADHD the perfect metaphor for our struggle with executive dysfunction: Buttons.

http://adhd-alien.com/2019/07/16/why-can-you-do-it-now/

Now for there to be a button emoji that isn't a generic circle or circle-in-a-circle. 🥺

Nous avons eu la chance de pouvoir discuter des enjeux de la préservation du jeu vidéoà la RTS. Merci beaucoup de nous avoir donné l'occasion de faire découvrir ce sujet.

https://www.rts.ch/play/tv/forum/video/forum-des-idees-les-jeux-video-un-patrimoine-a-preserver?urn=urn:rts:video:13750209

#textverdunkelung #neuigkeiten #frage

#Twitter geht einmal mehr rücksichtslos gegen die eigene Community vor, indem es seine kostenlose Schnittstelle abschaltet. Der Schritt gefährdet nicht nur zahlreiche Non-Profit-Projekte, sondern auch Wissenschaft und Journalismus. Ein Kommentar.

https://netzpolitik.org/2023/ende-der-kostenlosen-api-musk-zerstoert-was-twitter-gross-gemacht-hat/