Anybody know anyone who controls an endowed guest professorship or annual lecture (series)? One that could be manned with a fun and lively Swedish archaeologist? Please put my name forward! I know French and German.
academia
Deeply disappointed to learn "dark academia" stands for combat training and high school feuds, instead of using forbidden magic to convert your citations into a more arcane format to avoid being cursed by your professor, or finding out Reviewer No. 2 is actually an eldritch being hiding in the basement.
Latest comic on the convenience of making less ethical choices
My new paper got published, about urban civic learning, alternative counter culture spaces and democratic cities. Open Access!
>> Hacker–maker urban spaces as infrastructures of incidental civic learning
Grew up in a lily-white small town surrounded by entitled, mediocre, uneducated men born at their empire's glorious peak. Even as they tumbled out of Reagan's, and Clinton's, shrinking middle class, they were as certain of their destiny as future millionaires as they were certain of their deserving this birthright in their very essence.
I fled.
Made my way to the wicked city and found my tribe, that global cadre of thinkers, of scientists and artists. Those who expect no handouts, who wait for nothing and no one, who create and invent and enrich and ennoble by the sweat of their brow. Passed though the Olympus of Berkeley on the way to the bucolic Ivory Tower.
And had to watch as they settled themselves, with all of their accents and skin tones and creeds, into ignominy and servility as arrogant demagogues for the status quo, as fuck chimps for their billionaire patrons, as apologists for every crime, cosplaying the ruling class and blaming everyone but the ruling class when the ruling class pushed them down an elevator shaft.
For which of these two categories of willful slaves I have more contempt is a question that depends on my mood from moment to moment.
The April issue of e-EPS is out!
Discover winners of EPS awards, interviews, calls for papers, major events, and fresh breakthroughs from across the physics community.
Enjoy your reading👇
https://www.epsmail.org//w/Sopfu7PLBDh8922cTgtF843g
#physics #physik #awards #EmmyNoether #europeanresearch #academia
I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y. A researcher made up a disease and published two evidently fake preprints about it (including sentences such as “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”), which were almost immediately picked up by LLMs and documented in their output. Worse, actual – supposedly serious – medical papers also started citing the preprints, demonstrating that academics relying on LLMs to do their work is a genuine problem! Not that I had my doubts but, if anyone did, this seems like the perfect demonstration of the problem. Article immediately added to the syllabus of the class I am co-teaching with Iris Ferrazzo on LLMs for Romance Studies/Humanities!
#LLM #GenAI #academia #research #ResearchIntegrity #humanities
Am I Okay? Will I Ever Be?
I'm not going to go over my entire comprehensive medical history in a way that may reveal any sensitive information about me, or go into detail regarding any stressful or other adverse events (if any) that may or may not have happened to me in reality. I would prefer to resolve my own health issues without the interference of those who don't know me very well, and I don't want anyone to think I'm making others do all the hard work for me. This is ultimately […]
https://untilted.weblog.lol/2026/05/am-i-okay-will-i-ever-be
#PersonalBlog #Blog #Weblog #Science #MentalHealth #Academia #mental #physical #health #nervous #system #anecdote #confession #ThisIsNotAWordpressBlog
Creativity is dead! Creativity never existed in the first place because it’s a concept we invented recently! This post has a video based on a seminar I gave last year, along with a comprehensive summary, downloadable audio, & transcript. Tons of production went into this, especially with the caption syncing (& practicing my podcast voice 😎 )
NEW: For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas.
Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas.
One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis.
https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Oil #Gas #Environment #Research #Science #Academia
I guess you have to go to the likes of Harvard to be spared bad AI takes by poor thinkers at commencement 🙄
Ronny Chieng Tells Harvard to ‘Destroy AI’ as Graduates Cheer
Ronny Chieng Tells Harvard to ‘Destroy AI’ as Graduates Cheer
The comedian and The Daily Show host gave the keynote address for Class Day 2026.
Dear researchers,
I am sick of #Elsevier and their antics (ridiculous APCs, inaccessible articles, unauthorised data-mininig, etc.) and want to avoid publishing with them as much as possible.
Can you suggest good journals in the following topics / fields (society journals welcome):
1. #microalgae
2. #molecularbiology
3. #crispr
4. #sustainability
#opensource #openaccess #academicresearch #academia
Please #boost so I can reach other academics.
Check out this project friends in the bat world have been working on:
"Bat Literature Project (BatLit)—a freely available, versioned, multilingual, and citable digital archive of bat research and bibliographic metadata...providing stable, open access to over 20,000 publications contributed by the global bat research community.'
I lean more and more toward switching to #Debian or #Ubuntu for my daily driver laptop. I just keep getting smacked with Word incompatibilities.
Re-reading a thesis for someone defending this week. It's a Word doc. I open it in #LibreOffice on #Win11. The images are all gone. Yes, the see images option in options is checked. They're all just invisible. Open the same doc in Word and it's fine.
There's no "open in Word" option on Linux. In #Academia, I find this to be biggest hurdle.
A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding.
One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle,” explains how the move would’ve stifled that breakthrough.
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-science-grants-russell-vought-omb?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #WhiteHouse #Trump #Science #Physics #Research #Funding #Academia
Free book! The Myths and Legends of the Bantu and Other Africans is now available for download to email subscribers, and will be free until the end of the month.
This is an entertaining book that brings you a wonderful world of legends, folklore, and amazing creatures that will fuel your imagination.
It might be of interest to #academia
Get it here
https://www.ododopress.com/non-fiction/myths-and-legends-of-the-bantu/
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The Fediverse is overflowing with incredible artists, engineers, designers, photographers, and brilliant minds in academia. With the job market on fire globally, let's make a habit of hiring from within our own community, please 🎨📚
Need a designer for a project? A photographer? A researcher? Post your gigs here. Let's create a close-knit support system to help fellow people weather the storm.
If you are hiring: look here first. Post your short-term gigs, full-time roles, and freelance contracts. Give people here a chance.
If you are looking: share your work, follow the hashtags, and connect. Let's take care of each other.
#FediHire #GetFediHired #Academia #MastoArt #art #Photography #Freelance #SoftwareDevelopment #programming #photography