* De Mirabilibus Peccatorum:
Quomodo Nugas Elegantissimas
Creare Possimus,
Cum Commentariis Superfluis
et Adnotationibus Non Necessariis,
Per Multos Umbras Doctrinae
et Ludicrae Sapientiae,
Ad Majorem Lectorum
Confusionem et Hilaritatem *
It's time for us professors who study #data#surveillance#infosec#internetgovernance#privacy to start hassling our university IT departments whenver they integrate extractive platforms into our professional workflow.
Feel free to repurpose my verbiage in your own emails.
“Inspired by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s metaphysics of monads, I will focus on a relational explanation of how simple subjects could constitute complex experiences, without them having to combine in virtue of their subjectivity. I call this view monadic panpsychism.”
What makes someone a cognitive scientist? Is it a degree in cognitive science? Or in one of its constitutive disciplines along with a research focus on the mind? Or publishing in cognitive science journals? Or something else? 🤔
Am I the only one who unequivocally thinks that philosophy has made progress? Perhaps I have a different definition of what progress means, but surely I can't be the only one?
The number of theories and arguments that philosophers uncovered, as well as the clarity and breadth of their analyses, is certainly progress.
Question: would it be fine to email a research project leader, express my interest in applying for a postdoc they offer, and ask if they have advice regarding application materials, like the cover letter? 😅
“We think philosophy is due an ethos change; one where the myth of the ‘lone genius’ is dispelled and where co-authoring is both encouraged and acknowledged.”
Academic Hive Mind ! Do you have ressource on the energetical cost of open data policies?
A colleague of mine pointed out yesterday the energetical cost of publishing data alongside articles. Storing this (huge amount of) data on servers will require building new ones, powering them, etc.
I am aware of the positive side of it, but we must think of the effect of how we do science on the climate.
So, I made a second Mastodon profile, on an instance focused on the arts and humanities! 📚
In the future, I want to turn it into a project. One idea was to use it to promote interesting papers and share opinions on them, and also to make those papers more accessible to a general, informed audience.
Do you have suggestions for what I should do with it? What would you like to see, and how can I help?
I'm trying to find out about people & institutions working in the emerging Plant Humanities. I'd like to be able to do an informational interview with someone in this field to see if it's where I'd like to head.
Truly humbled to have one of my papers included in the 50th Anniversary Special Collection of the Oxford Review of Education (ORE).
The ORE has published research by some of the most leading scholars in education. To have my work recognised alongside many whose contributions have shaped the field, and my thinking, is a real honour.
I've sat on this news for a while, gobsmacked. It was a lovely way to start the year.
My paper with Claire Noronha that was selected for the Special Collection: 'The myth of free and barrier-free access: India's Right to Education Act - private schooling costs and household experiences.'
After a successful search in the Fall we're hiring again! This is a wonderful department filled with colleagues I truly love. Please spread widely within your networks.
Full-Time Lecturer Position in Public Relations | UMass Amherst Journalism Department
How to respond to a reviewer who thinks using 'we' consistently throughout a manuscript (in methods and a little in discussion 'we found' etc) sounds unscientific? @academicchatter#academicchatter#academicwriting
Does anyone else take issue with, or have profound concerns about, platform science?
For clarity, it refers to the tendency the last decade for science to be organized into top down meta level networks (which at times, or more often than not, share a political and economic reality not to dissimilar to market based platform economics).
TIL that there's a term for an observation about inequities in science that I've been describing to a few people I talk to regularly - it's called "Parachute Science"
"There are often inequities in international research relationships, in which studies conducted in the Global South are led by scientists based in the Global North with limited involvement of local researchers and poor investment in local capacity building. This is a practice known as parachute science. "
From:
Global inequities in local science https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02064-2 (sadly behind a paywall 😢). Nature Ecology and Evolution doesn't even allow Open Access for such articles!?! 😡
"Parachute science is a term to describe the inequity in research relationships between Global North and South scientists. This is typically characterized by a lack of meaningful, long-term involvement of local researchers in research and of investment in building local research capacity (Asase et al., 2021; de Vos, 2022; Stefanoudis et al., 2021). Similar, often synonymous, terms include helicopter or neo-colonial science (Ahmadia et al., 2021). Such inequitable relationships are sometimes conducted with the best of intentions but may persist due to poor awareness and institutional barriers (Mwampamba et al., 2022)."