Look, the price of tuition today is a crushing burden that shocks the conscience. Amid this backdrop, there's no way for families not to look at college — or choice of degree — in terms of return on investment. 🧵 1/9
Wow. Ok. Normally I feel like it's a bit overplayed to individually comment on #MDPI or the whole #AcademicChatter conversation, but this is really a must-see:
A Special Issue where the guest editors are lead or senior author on 27 of the 28 papers published through it. Were they also their own reviewers!? Like... that sounds like I'm taking the piss, but... no seriously were they? https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/special_issues/Biologics_Botanicals
I guess this is a preview to an upcoming post. Look forward to it...
"MDPI’s largest journal [...] was delisted from the Web of Science in March 2023. What came next was both expected and staggering. The journal shrunk by 88% in comparison to its peak."
"IJERPH’s decline is a stark reminder that in the absence of an Impact Factor, other journal traits matter little."
Acta has launched a running call for proposals of special issues on topics of general sociological interest.
We encourage proposals that aim to mediate between Nordic and international sociology, e.g., by combining long articles with shorter articles and comments.
Finally got reimbursed for my travel expenses (accommodation, public transport, no meals allowed of course!) from visiting a conference in Edinburgh at the beginning of July! Isn't it great how academia makes us wait months before they pay us our money back? #sarcasm and also how we have to provide originals of every single bus ticket and our private credit card bill 😒 This was quite "fast", I've waited 3 months in the past #academicchatter@academicchatter
Another resource is @DisabledInSTEM's Accessibility Review Form. This disability resource is for students (although I would love a version for staff/faculty...).
It's relatively new but a great place to check for academic ableism, success stories, and students can (& should) add to it.
Anyone familiar with previous studies on #laughter in written online communication?Everything from emoji (😂) to textual representation of laughter sounds (haha)! All I can find examines (co-present) laughter almost exclusively as a by-product of humour. Thank you! #academicchatter#academicmastodon@linguistics@academicchatter
Letter of Intent from BRILL has come through 😍
In the process that led to the book proposal I found “From dissertation to book” (W. Germano) incredibly helpful. Any advice on how to make a #book out of your dissertation? Reading suggestions? Survival skills needed? #academicchatter@academicchatter@linguistics
I am looking a journal submission website of a SAGE journal run with Manuscript Central. The login option via ORCID is gone, instead one can log in with "Web of Science (TM)". What fresh hell is this? This was running perfectly (almost) with ORCID, why does one now need an account with Clarivate (which I don't want to)? Is MC owned by Clarivate? @academicchatter
@ingorohlfing@academicchatter Totally agree! There is nothing worse than having to remember a different password for every single ridiculous journal......orcid log in was/is great. Although recently I experienced one (Elsevier?) journal which seemed to offer orcid login, but then stated that you first had to create an account with them, including bl**dy password before you could link it to orcid 😱 #DoWeNotHaveEnoughToDoAlready? #academicchatter
✍ New publication formats 📖
Acta Sociologica introduces new publication formats to accommodate recent developments in social science publishing. Now, Acta publishes three kinds of research articles: Long articles, short articles and registered reports.
🧵 below 👇 @sociology@academicchatter #sociology#academicchatter
I'm increasingly convinced that the sheer mass of casual, informal writing that undergrads have done on a daily basis until they get to college has undermined their ability both to think critically about what others have written and to write with rigor themselves. Basic logic seems more and more a missing skill, and falacious reasoning increasingly fills the void. Please, someone convince me we're not on our way to the future as portrayed in "Idiocracy." :-( #AcademicChatter @academicchatter
(This will be a very long list by the end of the year if I keep it up. We'll see.)
Your statements are basically done after the first few deadlines. I always thought I'd customize extensively for each school.
Nope.
On a week like this (with so many apps due Sep 15), you just don't have time. You have to trust that you already put in the work with your base template. It's a mental shift from fellowship apps.
I'm getting better at customizing application statements quickly, without being too much of a perfectionist, but it's already time to move on to the next thing: crafting the job talk.
There's no breather. Which of course means you have to create moments to breathe, disconnect, and celebrate yourself.
10 years ago, teacher Twitter was extremely helpful to me. There's the #teaching hashtag here, which is nice, but are most people still on X? Or worse, Facebook?
Trying to build that side of my timeline back up. Boots appreciated along with recommendations of who to follow.
@brianb
Hi Brian. Not sure how #chemistry specific
you are hoping your community to be? Albeit, you might want to check out who is following
the @edutooters group.
Also, you can have a look to see who is participating in Miguels education community @mguhlin
Yesterday I was visiting the museum of cinema in #Torino. I was amazed to discover that Camille Flammarion was using the magic lantern during his scientific conferences:
“In 1866 I started using limelight projection devices in my astronomy lectures: their bright images were an effective complement every to illustrate astronomic principles… We started by projecting the 30 images from my publication The Wonders of the Heavens which were the entire content of my illustrated conferences.”
… the first PowerPoint presentation in human history!
Pausing for reflection with the delivery of this deck of cards on safety and academia from the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH). Do I recognize signs others are becoming uncomfortable in a conversation, and do I pay enough attention to those signals?
Excellent questions, and a very useful tool for both professional leadership and teaching.