Cars should not come with ads or subscriptions, actually.

University nurseries are often among the first things management consider closing, and it's awful for families and employees ☹️

Maggie Chapman (she/her)@maggiechapman.bsky.social · yesterday

While many students are excited to start university, families in Dundee are facing the loss of the university nursery. My thoughts are with the staff losing their jobs and everyone affected. Universities are communities, and cuts like these hurt us all. Read more: www.thecourier.co.uk...

The chart keeps rising: airline profits on one axis, human suffering on the other. @jensorensen.bsky.social illustrates the truth about modern-day air travel: for the executives flying private, everything is working exactly as intended. inthesetimes.com/article/airl...

Going clothes shopping today for the first time in a long time was an unwelcome reminder of how much the fashion industry hates women's hips. Do you think those slash pockets are flattering? 🙄

Read this for all your debunking needs! The triune brain stuff has been irritating me the most lately, because it seems to have gained traction with some big figures outside of psychology.

Prof Nichola Raihani@nicholaraihani.bsky.social · 2d ago

🚨New post🚨 Three brain myths that need to die nicholaraihani.substack.com/p/three-brai...

I know disciplinary boundaries often get a bad rep and we have decades of treating the label of “interdisciplinary“ as designating work that is—presumably—superior, or more ambitious, complex, and insight-promising. 1/

Y’all, midwesterners have the best Interjection for almost any situation (akin to how allora in Italian is an interjection that can mean almost anything): Ope! Surprised? Ope! Made a mistake? Ope! Calling to someone at a party from across the room? Ope! Accidentally offended? Ope! It’s great.

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

There is a separate circle in Hell for people who email editors with request for updates/info on their papers and include the title/tracking number/any other identifiers as a *screenshot* #OverlyHonestEditor #AcademicSky

A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges.

Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges

iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…

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Relatedly: If you're a college professor, and you assume that all of your students can type quickly, efficiently, and accurately on a keyboard, you're almost certainly wrong.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d ago

I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

We've got the purrfect panel at Bark! Fest! Join Sarah Brown, PhD, Caroline Clark, and veterinary behaviourists Dr. Meghan Herron and Dr. Carlo Siracusa on Sep 18. Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #TheHiddenLanguageofCats #AProfessionalsGuideToFelineBehaviour #DecodingYourCat #books

If you're thinking "hm Escherich, does that name sound familiar somehow?" it does

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4d ago

The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.

This point here 👇

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d ago

There’s also something to how women are socialized to be suspicious of flattery — it’s how we transfer responsibility for men’s desire onto women’s bodies; we are taught to defend against that in service to our “innocence” or whatever — whereas men accept flattery as their due. Perfect marks.

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13

Reminder: two weeks are left to apply for the PhD and postdoc positions in my lab. See more info here www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo...

I consider myself an interdisciplinary scientist. A post on LinkedIn challenged the idea that we should mentor our students to be more interdisciplinary. Here are my thoughts on what that means in my new APS Presidential column. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Is Interdisciplinary Science Worth It?

"You don't want scholars answering to two or more disciplines. You want them to enrich and integrate their own discipline with ideas drawn from others."

psychologicalscience.org

Pigeons have been an important part of human life for millennia, but the origins of their domestication were unclear. Analysis of pigeon bones from Bronze Age Cyprus sheds light on our ancient bond 🏺 A #FestivalOfArchaeology thread on #NatureAndArchaeology 1/14 🧵

"the boss wants this money" the tagline of our times

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 5d ago

“the boss wants this money" from @wsj.com, a deep dive into the extortion operation run out of the White House gift link: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Why do we think this is? "Employer TPS contribution costs are set to fall [...], but many universities have continued with plans to change employment arrangements regardless." 🤔

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d ago

Another one bites the dust. All new Sunderland casual tutors employed from 1 August will be ineligible for TPS, and employed by the University's wholly-owned subsidiary. UCU estimates this will save SU £36,000 this year while it will see savings going forward due to lower TPS costs of £3M p.a.

our age of bros is collapsing

While the University of Exeter redundancy disaster staggers forward, a reminder that this is not about numbers in spreadsheets but people's lives. lizzywilliamson.substack.com/p/on-redunda...

On Redundancy

Four weeks ago, the university that I have been working at for 9 years announced massive, unjustified, reckless job cuts, predominantly targeting the humanities, arts and social sciences.

lizzywilliamson.substack.com

New Stage 1 recommendation (1) I am so eager to read about this research once it has been performed (2) note the way that a dissenting review was handled. Nice to see how others do it so that we learn in case we also need to! @pci-regreports.bsky.social rr.peercommunityin.org/PCIRegistere...

This is so intriguing! 21 fossil footprints capturing an exact moment in time - 1.4 M (!) years ago near Lake Turkana, Kenya. The tracks reveal a group of 8 mostly adult male 𝘗. 𝘣𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘪 travelling together. Researchers think they may have formed groups for safety (think hippo-filled lakeshores)!🦛

MPI-EVA Leipzig@mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · last wk.

Fossil #footprints in Northern #Kenya offer new insights into the body size and group dynamics of #Paranthropus boisei, a human relative that lived 1.4 million years ago. New study @pnas.org by an intl. team led by @kevinhatala.bsky.social. See: tinyurl.com/r83e4yb8 & www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Okay, fellow AI/sociotechnical researchers, I'm looking for a name for something but can't find anything in my lit searches: is there a term for the phenomenon where someone has false confidence in an AI output? ie a developer thinks their code is more secure, but it's actually less secure

Her mind! This from @karenhao.bsky.social should be one of those inspirational quotes that a crafter does in needlepoint. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Joke‘s on me because MOOCs failed at being remembered and but MOOC politics absolutely won the university.

What is so great about pedagogy as actually practiced in this here United Kingdom is submitting my exam questions for review the summer before the class happens, ie before I've tweaked any lectures. I'm then tied to teaching that content. Makes it really hard to adjust lectures on the fly. 🤦