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Paul Gribble 🇨🇦

@gribblelab.org

Professor, Western University, Canada 🇨🇦 https://www.gribblelab.org he/him

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Paul Rainey@paulbrainey.bsky.social · 2w ago

One faculty ad, 200 applicants, 600 papers before the first shortlist. Nobody can read that, so metrics do the reducing — and slowly a committee stops reading at all. An essay on what we lose when judgement is handed to citation counts and h-indices. 🧵 academicrenewal.substack.com/p/when-acade...

When academics stop reading

Metrics can help decide where to look, but they turn dangerous when they replace contact with the work itself.

academicrenewal.substack.com

Tim Bray 🇨🇦@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 3w ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116908359337948457 The usual paywall-dodgers work fine and the piece is absolutely essential reading if you're a software person. #GenAI

daniel:// stenberg://@bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3w ago

The current top story on the FT Magazine is pay-walled but features some mentions of #curl and yours truly... (the picture shows the start of it) https://www.ft.com/content/cec8df9e-b43b-4cd1-8feb-c07e804e8d33

If you are reading the digital version of this story, you have just used a small piece of software from a project called cURL. If you are reading it in print, but you have used a smartphone, laptop or tablet today, you have used cURL. If, somehow, you haven’t touched a browser or app, but you’ve used a modern car, printer, TV or gaming device, you’ve used cURL. You and the majority of humans on Earth use it several times every day, though only a tiny fraction of its users are aware of its existence. While online, you are constantly requesting packets of information from other machines. But these requests need to follow specific protocols over destination, routing, format, permission; cURL administers these details. First released in 1996, it is now a piece of the invisible plumbing of the internet, small but prevalent, part of the many thousands of lines of code that run constantly in the background of our digital lives. Its maintainers estimate that its component, libcurl, has been installed more than 20 billion times. Even its admirers are rarely conscious of it as they use it, just as it would be impossible always to consider the pumps that make water flow when we open a sink tap.
Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co · 4w ago

If students are simply uninterested in the core bargain of a class like this, it’s hard to know what to do. You teach the material because you think it’s important they know it; they don’t give a shit, but want the credential; and the university wants their money. Your main option is “pretend”.

Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 4w ago

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

Timothy O'Leary@timothyoleary.bsky.social · 4w ago

Dear peer reviewers everywhere: sometimes we feel pressure to find issues with a submission as a demonstration of diligence. But we have to recognise this is a mistake: picking random and sometimes incoherent holes in research add confusion, generates unnecessary work and encourages defensive

Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦@michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 4w ago

You also don't have to do an editor's job of deciding if a paper "fits" or is "impactful enough" for their journal, because you're a scientist and not a marketing agent for the publisher.

Timothy O'Leary@timothyoleary.bsky.social · 4w ago

Dear peer reviewers everywhere: sometimes we feel pressure to find issues with a submission as a demonstration of diligence. But we have to recognise this is a mistake: picking random and sometimes incoherent holes in research add confusion, generates unnecessary work and encourages defensive

Brosephina Ballerina@joparkerbear.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal