@kjschmid ResearchGate has always confused me. Genuine potential to be a unifying, public repository for everyone's academic track record, and yet somehow, it always feels half baked, and almost predatory in its data harvesting. Everyone's on it and yet no one talks about it. Weird. #academicchatter@academicchatter
@gpollara@kjschmid@academicchatter yeah, similar here. I think the business case for an "academic LinkedIn" was never very strong, so they are increasingly pivoting towards publication, trying to position themselves somewhere between scihub, biorxiv and the journals. I'm not sure they've really found the sweet spot yet, and this collaboration with MDPI doesn't bode well...
@elonjet So I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy nut but why is he always going to Brownsville?It’s right on the border, like literally as close as you can get to the USA but you might as well be in Mexico. AFAIK none of his factories are located there. What I’m trying to say in my idiotic mind is that is he smuggling shit? I know I sound stupid for suggesting this for someone who is apparently the richest person in the world but ton of powerful people were willing to travel on Epstein jet.
@nadege@academicchatter
😂 Scientists are not leaving a right-fringe, antisemitic social, anti-social network named after the Alphabet's butt sequence - and you request us to leave the beloved scientists version of Facebook for no reason?
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@kraweel65@academicchatter 😂😂 I left twix so probably I don't realize how many still cling to it. Anyway, it isn't a request. Time to leave is the title. It does not say who. It's perhaps just about me. Like, if my post started with Back to the future, it wouldn't be a request for you to time travel (But you may if you want)
Today's #TeachWorldHistory image was from Giovanni Sercambi’s chronicle of his hometown of Lucca. This image reflects an experience of the Second Plague Pandemic. It provided an entry into discussing limits of sources, as opposed to their biases. Sercambi's illustration tells us how people thought of plague, but not how plague spread.
I put together an AP-style DBQ for my #TeachWorldHistory class last week using some of the plague sources. Just added it to a page with presentation I did on teaching the Second Plague Pandemic.
I cannot believe that I have not seen this scientific study before now. I have gone my whole life believing that parachutes save lives, but this controversial research has overturned consensus on this. I am now convinced that parachutes are a waste of money. To show my support for this idea, I will be jumping out of a plane without a parachute to show that it is perfectly safe!
@neilhimself Glad to learn you're over here in the fediverse and a very belated "Welcome Aboard!" Did Cat Mihos also setup over here? When I was trying to get a birthday autograph for my wife several years ago I had the opportunity to interact with her and started following her posts. I always enjoyed reading what she had to say.
The absolutely gorgeous Eisner-winning @neilhimself COMPLETE AMERICAN GODS is now on sale NEARLY HALF OFF. (Please support your local bookstore if you can) https://amzn.to/3QEXgHI
In case you forgot or have never heard it, @neilhimself has, hands down, the best #terrypratchett story I have ever heard. I was even priveliged to hear him tell it in person in 2022.
I don’t do TikTok and don’t understand Instagram so I miss out on BookTok and Bookstagram or whatever the zoomers call it. Is there #Bookstadon? If not, can we start it?