#academicchatter

Just got accepted for an architectural history conference later in the year. Last time I spoke at this conference was in Auckland 2023 #SAHANZ #AcademicChatter

Obama and Yale faculty back Harvard as Trump cuts $2bn in federal grants- #HIgherEd #Academia #AcademicChatter #Universities #AmericanCoup #RepublicansDidThis https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/15/obama-yale-harvard-trump-cuts

This from a company making billions off the free labour of academics:

https://ukrant.nl/magazine/elseviers-stranglehold-on-academia-how-publishers-get-rich-from-our-data/?lang=en

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#academicChatter #elsevier

As if I needed more reasons to loathe Elsevier.

Lately I've received peer review requests from Elsevier journals. If I decline their request via the email link, it takes me to a website that has an angry red box that says "Action not allowed."

Ok, so I will email the editor to say I can't do it. That apparently goes to some IT support system, not the editor.

And today I got an email implying I was being unprofessional because I did not respond to their reviewer request.

#academicChatter 1/2

I haven't had to make a poster for an acedemic conference in years, what tools are people using these days? #academicchatter #astrodon

Sisyphus as an academic #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter

Today Im mostly looking at how to make the #ViewerJS #iframe at least partially responsive (have a better height re screensize maybe). So Im staring at SO a lot for hack ideas. This is their AI answer warning. Very interesting considering 'AI' takes everything we make but we don't want anything it gives back, at least not in the main tech forums. Uni's should take note of this, but probably dont even know.

#ai #GenAI #StackOverflow #academia #academicchatter

The program for grad students at Virginia Tech to help them become future faculty members with a broad perspective of higher education in the US and in Europe (#GlobalPerspectivesProgram) has been canceled. They were scheduled to visit Switzerland, France, and Italy mid May. As GPP2013 alumna I would’ve welcomed them at #ZHAW. Bummer 🫤

#AcademicChatter #GPP #USHigherEd

The emerging distinction between Harvard and Columbia is just so stark. Who would send their children to Columbia University? What kind of graduate student would accept an offer there? Is Columbia now mostly known for cowardly fealty? #uspol #academicchatter

https://www.rawstory.com/harvard-dei/

Always this struggle to find good data to interprete #XRD data.

Is there a non-#Paywall​ed database to get diffraction peaks for choosen crystaks?
I mean, X ray stuff is not a 'new' technology.
I assumed they did powder diffractrometry to any (solid) substance ever synthesized.

Any idea?

#followerpower #academicchatter #science

edit: Thanks Bubble.
https://rruff.info does the job.

Just realised that I started teaching 29 years ago today. And I still look at each new semester with a mixture of joy and trepidation. Best job in the world, in so many ways #AcademicChatter

Just chatted to a colleague who wondered whether there was any point in submitting their manuscript to a US press. Will they preemptively self-censor? Do they still have a viable business model? #AcademicChatter

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/mountain-small-things-killing-academia-warns-oxford-scholar

“We're supposed to have time to think, we’re supposed to be creative, we’re supposed to be the people who are coming up with new solutions…how can you do that if you spend all your day filling in forms?"

#AcademicChatter

Les vacances commenceront jeudi soir, mais la majorité des étudiant·e·s semble croire que c'est aujourd'hui.

#AcademicChatter

German academics be like #AcademicChatter

The NGI adopts the open social web for all its comms. Hosting and serving its own data, and federating fully. Shows what is possible for future internet if we want it. ALL universities should do this, to me its obvious.

The NGI is an important project and forum, Id urge you to take part.

#future #internet #eu #peertube #mastodon #academia #academicchatter

https://ngi.eu/news/2024/11/29/ngi-projects-adopt-mastodon-and-peertube-as-main-communication-channels/

“When our academics fear travelling to major conferences or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem.”

#science #conferences #academicchatter

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/14/australian-academics-refuse-to-attend-us-conferences-for-fear-of-being-detained

Harvard professors sue over Trump's review of $9 billion in funding - This is nothing short of an overt attack on #HigherEd in general and #Universities in particular. #Academia is under siege from the #Fascists in DC. #AcademicChatter https://www.reuters.com/legal/harvard-professors-sue-over-trumps-review-9-billion-funding-2025-04-12/

Another addition to my collection of science-y license plates. #academicchatter