Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.
Man Lying on a Pile of Money
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YOU COULD HIRE SO MANY FUCKING TENURE TRACK FACULTY FOR THIS. SON OF A BITCH.
Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · yesterdayOh. That's a heck of a subsidy.
why do pro-AI researchers seemingly hate doing research so much
Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · 24h agoThis is the future of scientific papers. Instead of a PDF, the paper is an AI agent that you can talk to, ask questions, run analyses. No more digging through supplements - just ask the paper directly: "what p-value cutoff was used in Fig 3B? Re-run at 0.01." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Unsettles" is an interesting word choice to see, as one of the full soft money researchers who will likely be out of work within the next year as a direct result of these changes.
Jeffrey Mervis@policyhound.bsky.social · 3d agoA deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA The UT crowd is chanting "Ted you suck!" As Ted Cruz jinxes the Longhorns on College Gameday
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m Eastern Register for the zoom link. I’ve heard they aren’t recording it and want to demonstrate interest via high attendance.
Liz Hearn@liz-hearn.bsky.social · last wk.If you care about Earth science in the US, please sign up for the NSF GEO virtual office hour Sept 15 with GEO directorate head Joydip Kundu! NSF leadership needs to hear directly that people care and are concerned about GEO. Maxxing out their Zoom tier sends a message. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-g...
Universities "have become too faculty-centric... we need good faculty, but they’re delivering a product to our customer. And you could argue our customer is either the student or the hiring companies that are hiring graduates. You could make an argument that they’re really the customer, ultimately"
Nate Schenkkan@nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 7d agoMore than any Chronicle of Higher Education profile of a professor who doesn't like academia, I think this interview is the one I'd recommend to understand where higher education is at in the United States www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
”About 60 percent (59.4) of respondents would not recommend their state as a desirable place to work for colleagues or graduate students“
Academe@academemagazine.bsky.social · last wk.New on Academe Blog:
New guidelines on the use of LLMs from @publishing.aas.org for referees here : journals.aas.org/referee-llm-... Headlines: Referees are responsible for peer review, and must do their own job, but LLMs can be used where declared where their use is declared and explained. 🔭🧪
Guidelines for Use of AI and LLMs in Manuscript Refereeing - AAS Journals
We provide guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including large language models, in refereeing manuscripts submitted to the AAS journals.
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whew. and also: jesus defector.com/what-gets-le...
What Gets Left Out Of Math's New Era? | Defector
The science fiction author William Gibson’s pithy observation that “the future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed” has had different shades of meaning since it was first formulated....
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Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Talarico: "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness"
Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
The Sparkling City by the Sea is the nation’s largest energy exporter. Costs could rise for all of us as it confronts an existential threat of its own making. Decades of overconfidence and complacence got it here. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/corpus-christi-water-crisis-energy/
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It should not be up to natural history museums to monetize their collections in order to justify their existence. defector.com/how-the-u-s-...
How The U.S.'s Oldest Natural History Museum Might Meet Its End | Defector
In 1858, William Parker Foulke, a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences—a group of naturalists committed to public education and outreach—was on vacation in the quiet Quaker community of…
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Yesterday I got to meet about 50 students starting school next week. They were a self selected group interested in history, but not necessarily History majors or minors. Michael’s essay resonates.
My take: “Students approach college “with energetic curiosity. They always do. Why? Because they are [about] to discover who they are as readers, as conversation partners, as people. They are figuring out what kind of work they find fulfilling, what they love to do.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/o...
🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm
Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
This is the standard union-busting trope, “Our workplace is a family and a union would disrupt that.” A few words are swapped tomake it about mentorship, but that’s it. And as a former unionized grad student who now supervises unionized grad workers, let me state the obvious: It’s nonsense.
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 3w agoOpinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
It's being treated as a policy victory that we have less of the world's smart young people coming to learn from us, participate in our society and economy. This is just so depressing to me, it feels like a complete victory for know-nothing ignorant bigotry over enlightened sensibilities.
Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 3w agoStudent visa slump ‘raises serious questions’ on university funding. Number of student visas granted falls by more than 40 per cent in three years. China, India, Pakistan and Nigeria all down year-on-year. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
It seems that there is another snowflake in the administration who is perfectly fine interfering with and damaging the most personal aspects of other people's lives, but can't deal with public comments on a website, even they are completely germane to the topic.
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 3w agoPublic comments about a proposal that would make science funding decisions open to political influence are removed from the record, but not by the submitters. A number mentioned that OMB Director Russell Vought's family has benefited from federally funded research. www.statnews.com/2026/08/25/r...
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
Struck by the percentage of people signing on who are men, if guessing by names means anything (90% plus?). Also the percentage who are losers (1000% at least).
roterote@roterote.bsky.social · 4w agoThere are dozens of academics signing this open letter to defend the American Eugenicist Nathan Cofnas from the consequences of his own actions. They are calling him a “whistleblower”
What drives me nuts about so much ed. admin. attitudes re: AI is that they don't seem to recognize that whatever value it might have as a tool now or in the future, it is in direct opposition to the core idea of learning basic skills. And without those, it is worse than useless — it is dangerous.
Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 4w agoIn case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
NSF is touting a dozen new solicitations announced this week as evidence that basic research still rules. But that's not what's really going on. www.science.org/content/arti...
Is NSF’s new call for research proposals good news? Scientists and staffers have doubts
The long-delayed 12 solicitations only cover some disciplines—and promise to give them much less money
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In the continuing onslaught of in-your-face AI, it is now almost impossible to open a scientific paper without an AI-summary coming up. Your first instinct may be “Ah that is useful”, but is it really close to the truth or what the author intended? (contd. - full "rant" on lnkd.in/p/euwbwNgY)
This dude refers to himself as a “thought leader” no less than 4 times in this. Which, to be fair, is definitely the kind of person who’d get caught using AI and then get Nature to publish his lame AI-generated excuses for using AI to write
Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 4w ago"Did I type the final piece? For the most part, no. Did AI generate almost all of its wording? Yes." But, www.nature.com/articles/d44...
i really have no words for how sad, distraught, and disgusted this makes me i honestly can't even bear to think about it
At Big Bend National Park, bulldozers begin clearing pristine desert land for border barrier work
A coalition of landowners, outdoor enthusiasts and business owners that say any work in Big Bend National Park would forever change the place often called "Texas' gift to the nation."
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"Every day, scientists are allowed to publish sentences like, 'Many assume there is a close connection between human history and culture (Donaldson 2019),'and yet English departments are the problem?" defector.com/humanists-ha...
Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...
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