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In einem Newsletter gefunden: barrierefreie Dokumente, die blinden und sehbehinderten Benutzer*innen erklären, wie sie Excel, Powerpoint und Word verwenden können, um barrierefreie Dokumente zu erstellen.Weil es eben auch behinderte Autor*innen gibt.

Q：什麼是AI-based piecewise linear regression？

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So, SpringerNature offers to print a poster based on an article "to frame and proudly display [it] on your wall at work or home". For just 89 USD, you get a poster with the author names and the journal cover (!). They don't even bother to make a poster with a unique image. Anyhow, who buys this? @academicchatter

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Johns Hopkins has a metropolis new student center at the same time funding cuts are coming in. And are the cuts just to #Humanities? No. #STEM is on the chopping block as well. So what are students doing besides enjoying their new mega student center?

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"We invite you to submit your research entitled "Hurdles to open access publishing faced by authors: a scoping literature review from 2004 to 2023." for our "Journal of Quantum Physics, Agriculture and Biochemistry". "

It's still possible to register for our @idaho workshop "Hurdles to open access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties", which will start in ca. one hour.

“Bluesky now platform of choice for scientists [who liked Twitter before it went downhill]”. Good for them. It’s nice here too.

“Part of what we do is we’re conservators, keeping a body of knowledge going. We want to innovate and we want to think new things about it, and, you know, we want to make it relevant to the present day, but we’re also trying to keep this knowledge alive.”

oatmeal: ""One people enriched, one peop…" - kolektiva.social

jfc, I just accessed a Wiley article. In the online viewer, they slipped an ad before the first page of the article. It is for an academic service, but it is still an ad. The added value here is one-sided. It does not appear in the downloaded PDF (yet). @academicchatter

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OSF is suspending submission of new preprints to their preprint server.

Just a friendly reminder as you prepare for your semester, there is a great collection of AI policies to peruse or add to for your syllabi: open.substack.com/pub/aiedusim

This writeup of the Harvard University-wide Accessibility Summit on June 13 typifies a big problem in the way our society, particularly universities, approaches accessibility - the article doesn't mention talking with disabled people at all. Perhaps some of the people mentioned are disabled, but it's not said explicitly. And given that most people working in university accessibility offices are abled, it can't be assumed that they are disabled.

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How #Oklahoma #Republicans plan to depoliticize public schools.usatoday.com/story/news/politi

Jeanine Finn just launched a survey on teaching with disappearing US govt data. pomona.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/f

that anyone can do it. For the case being, many people may think then that there are no differences between the knowledge and the know-how of a full-professor and those of a junior researcher or a PhD candidate when reviewing manuscripts for top tier journals. Best.

does not seduce me to invest my time and efforts in reviewing for free for a journal that charges readers and universities with substantial fees.All the four of us are all highly qualified professionals and, consequently, we want our job to be properly remunerated. This is my family business model as it is also your family business model and that of Emerald too. Indeed, you are very aware that when jobs are not properly rewarded, most people do get the wrong impression[...]4/6@academicchatter

Dear Hazel,

Dear Antonio (if I may),

Dear Antonio,

Dear colleague,

new blog post: "AI Technologies in Academia" chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.i doi.org/10.59350/hr4y6-kwq16

As we approach another semester, I just want to reshare this collection of syllabus AI Policies that I've been crowdsourcing for the last 2.5 years. There's nearly 200 to look at across different disciplines. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

🚨 New article👀In "Radical right support and the deepened rural-urban and educational divides among younger generations" Amanda Valldor shows that educational and rural-urban political divides are much more pronounced among younger generations than older ones. Younger groups exhibit stronger links between their social position and radical right support.

hi @academicchatter, #chemistry community, I have been looking at chem.libretexts.org/ and libretexts.org/ in general. It has a fair open license, but I cannot find the source somewhere.

Just finished reading through and collating themes from my student feedback from teaching Logic last semester. I know some people hate student evaluations, but I find reading the written comments so valuable. I am touched that students take such time to give sometimes quite granular feedback for a course that they will never take again. One does need a thick enough skin to deal with the negatives (I talk too fast and use quite complex language, which, yes). Even when students contradict each other, with the same aspect of the course described both positively and negatively, that's a valuable reminder that our students are a diverse bunch and what works for one may not work for another! @academicchatter

Even though I've had it at the top of my profile for the past two [bleeping] years, I've just now sent off the first post-dissertation draft of "The Prose Lives of Venantius Fortunatus" to Amsterdam University Press.

How come every peer review request I get is always for some fraudulent paper? Where are all the peers doing real reviews? Am I in a fever dream? 😪

About a month to go to apply for this:

"AI Summaries" have infested #ScienceDirect now with their inaccurate but confidently-formulated statements... Fortunately some people are fighting back, like @Iris who emailed them about it:

A new @idealab publication came out today in Behavioral Ecology! Using the freshwater gastropod Physella acuta as a model system, we conducted a split-clutch experimental design that also controls for confounding aspects relating to risk allocation. We found that high background risk induces lower responsivity to both low-risk and high-risk chemical stimuli. This may be because cue addition also provided tactile cues that could be considered risky by high background risk snails. Taken together, these results provide partial evidence for risk allocation in the freshwater gastropod Physella acuta. If you're curious, here is the full Open Access paper: doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araf078

My article Interlinked Computing in 2040: Safety, Truth, Ownership and Accountability ( ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1 ) has just won the journal's best paper award. @academicchatter

Latest post on LaborTech Blog about policing: medium.com/@labortechresearchn

I am doing some research on the nativity of Jesus of Nazareth. I am looking into the many sectarian traditions and scholarly opinions on this subject.I would like to get hermeneutic opinions and off the cuff opinions on some groundwork questions.1. What actual year do you think Jesus was born?2. How old was Mary when she was married?3. How did Mary conceive?4. What is the significance of his birthplace?5. What is the significance of the Magi who sought him after his birth?6. Why was it necessary or significant for an angel to tell Mary she was going to conceive?Where possible, links or citations would be useful for particular opinions or traditional explanations.#bible #jesus #theology #mary #miriam #virginbirth #nativity #incarnation #christ #christianity@theology@a.gup.pe @christianity@a.gup.pe @religion@a.gup.pe @academicchatter@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

This year, I am really feeling the extra pain introduced by bullshit generators, aka "AI", when it comes to evaluating research assignments. I keep second guessing whether things have actually been written by certain students or not. Especially those who've talked to me about how they've been using "AI" for their other projects. Le sigh 🫠

Does anyone have a PDF of the following handbook chapter that they would be willing to share? My institutional library does not have it and they are being flaky about requesting it.

Do we have a hashtag for funded PhD announcements? We have @plantscijobs , but I can see I'm one of the few people who posts to it. Is there any hashtag we've lighted on for PhD jobs in general? @academicchatter #AcademicChatter

"The problem is so widespread that the publication of fraudulent science is outpacing the growth rate of legitimate scientific publications."

It always was a matter of incentives, but the script has been flipped for the worse.

"Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."thecrimson.com/article/2025/8/

Five major US higher-ed associations have written an open letter to Jay Bhattacharya, director of the #NIH, asking that he "direct the reinstatement of all grants that NIH has terminated under agency directives found by a federal court to be unlawful."acenet.edu/Documents/Letter-NI

Wow. University and its president support DEI. Trump admin investigates them. Faculty write a resolution in support of the president and DEI policies. Trump admin investigates those faculty too.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/just

Registered for my first few grad school classes! MILIS degree HERE I COME! @academicchatter

Students learning

Ahem... does anyone know of a FLOSS-y suite of tools or website I can use to stand in for the corporate ed tech my school makes us use? I am mainly looking for:

"As I trudge across campus on snowy days, I am met with an obstacle at every crosswalk. The plows have piled up snow into asphalt-stained mounds right in front of curb cuts that lead down to familiar white stripes.

If the scholarly community allows this kind of practices this will only fuel the prevailing anti-intellectualism, eventually leading to the complete delegitimation of academic institutions. We should ensure that scholars and their associations associations severely respond to any engagement with censorship practices.

Really dispiriting to go along to a colleague's first lecture at #ANU , the first lecture of a course, and only about a third of students attend. What chance do we have to make a positive impact among students who are so disconnected? @academicchatter

Nature has become the most hypocritical for-profit publisher on the planet. They have never been about the idea that writing is thinking. They have long promoted that writting is to get them more papers more efficiently so they turn more profit. Corporate public relations is designed to sell the customer on the corporation and that's what this is.

PhD in hydrology position at University of Twente, the Netherlands, supervised by my friend Franzi Tügel:

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Are you an academic teacher or a researcher in solar system science or a related field interested in pointing your students to exciting PhD opportunities with us? Would you like to receive our Calls for applications (between one to four times per year) and notifications about new PhD project openings by e-mail so you can forward them to your students? Or are you a student who would like to receive such notifications?

Last month the #Republican dominated #Texas legislature passed a bill to ban speech and "expressive activity" at state universities at night. archive.is/DJnmz