Nathalie Tasler 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪

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Faculty Development, Academic Development, creative learning and teaching, SoTL, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Creativity, #creativeHE, OA, OER, ADHD & forever Punk https://nathalietasler.blog/ https://writingforhealing.blog/

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On a personal note Or rather collection of random notes from the last three days. I had a bit of a week... Three years ago I was once again at the  physio, once again lower back pain, and yes there is damage from a car crash, but she said: something isn't right do you mind if I check your…

On a personal note

Or rather collection of random notes from the last three days. I had a bit of a week... Three years ago I was once again at the  physio, once again lower back pain, and yes there is damage from a car crash, but she said: something isn't right do you mind if I check your abdominal area. Not at all. …

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· #AcademicSky · “Academics may find themselves in the unexpected position of cheering on Elsevier in its legal battle with Meta because victory for the Facebook owner would signal ‘open season’ on scholars’ rights to control how their work is represented, legal and publishing experts have said.”

‘Open season’ on scholars’ rights if Elsevier loses Meta fight

Loss for the publishing giant in its legal action over AI crawling will make it much harder for scholars to assert control on how their outputs are used, say experts

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Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

A piece of advice I always give to folks who attend my writing workshops: “When you’re stuck and can’t write, READ. Then write your notes of what you just read. Respond to the notes you wrote in a separate document (different to your notes). Now you have some fodder to keep the writing momentum”.

Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉@ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

any advice from writers for when you desperately need to start writing something but you can't because you're terrified of it being terrible

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

This week on Wonkhe: With "close to home" now the fourth most important factor in university choice, Mack Marshall and Jim Dickinson argue that DfT's failure to recognise students as a transport user group is becoming an access and participation problem

Better Connected needs to be better connected to higher education

With "close to home" now the fourth most important factor in university choice, Mack Marshall and Jim Dickinson argue that DfT's failure to recognise students as a transport user group is becoming an...

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Okay so here’s my actual Bluesky-is-dying hypothesis: The entire web is dying. Users aren’t going from BlueSky to another site (x/insta/threada/tiktok). Users are going to chatbots. I know traffic to news sites has cratered (like 90%). My hunch is traffic to all the social platforms is down too.

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Morning #UKSG2026 plenary about the Big 5 negotiations. I would love to see Jisc’s energies going into supporting collective funding and community-based publishing alternatives, alongside (preferably instead of!) inequitable negotiations with commercial behemoths. But that’s just me. 🤷‍♀️