On Emily Dickinson's birthday, peek inside her teenage herbarium – a forgotten masterpiece at the intersection of poetry and science, which was her first great work of composition

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry

An elegy for time and the mortality of beauty, composed with passionate patience and a sensuous cadence.

themarginalian.org

How effective have schools’ ICT resources been—not just in building students’ #digitalskills, but also in narrowing digital skill inequalities? Well... I bring good news, a challenge, and a hopeful twist. 🔍 More in our latest article (open access in Computers & Education!): doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Center-right political forces try to profit from far-right issues, end up overtaken by far-right party. As a Brazilian living in the Netherlands: hey, this sounds familiar.

The Netherlands underestimated the far right – and Geert Wilders’ victory is the result | Cas Mu...

Media complacency and outgoing PM Mark Rutte’s decision to campaign on immigration have created a political earthquake, says Cas Mudde of the University of Georgia

theguardian.com

This feed rules, definitely my favorite new pin rn. It helps you catch posts from follows that don’t post often.

how about giving people food, have we tried that?

Please Follow the Official AP News Account@apnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 3y ago

UK leader Rishi Sunak urges world to use AI and science to end malnutrition

this is a bloody great name for a climate report www.unep.org/resources/em...

If you are not already aware that the little owl antennae are called “plumicorns” I would like to be the one who shared that information with you.

Trying to understand what past-me was trying to convey through these hastily jotted down notes... and sometimes whole paragraphs??:

We're hiring! 3-year postdoc position at NIDI within the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) project. NIDI conducts leading, high-level scientific research in the broad field of population studies. The institute is part of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Spoke with Thomas Haenen, from the Radboud University Science Communications team about our latest research about how ICT infrastructure in schools matter for the translation of digital skills into learning outcomes. Available in English and in Dutch:

Improved ICT infrastructure leads to better math skills | Radboud University

Students who are more digitally skilled also perform better in math. New research from Renae Loh and others at Radboud University shows that in countries with better availability of ICT in schools, ma...

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📢 Fresh off the press at the European Educational Research Journal! Myself, Gerbert Kraaykamp, & Margriet van Hek find that students’ ICT skills translate to greater math performance gains in countries with higher levels of ICT access in educational environments. Open access: doi.org/10.1177/1474...

“When I see people watching the horrible tragedy that is happening here as if it were a Super Bowl of victimhood, in which you support one team and really don’t care about the other, empathy becomes very, very selective. You see only some pain. You don’t want to see other pain.”

‘I Feel a Human Deterioration’

The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has spent the last few weeks trying to make sense of the violence and loss around him. So far, he can’t.

nytimes.com

I think this is a really great thread that describes a significant problem and ways to deal with it. My take is that we make mistakes all the time, and we need to correct them, when they occur. Journal editors should make this a priority. My impression is that they generally do not. #sociology

Nils Petras@nilspetras.bsky.social · 3y ago

PREPRINT ALERT Have you ever feared a massive mistake hidden in your published analysis? In this preprint I uncover and correct a tragedy I found while re-analyzing open data by other researchers. Let me summarize this story, which taught me a lot about research and #openscience: psyarxiv.com/usjkn/

An invite to review arrives a few days after you submitted an article to the same journal, and you start questioning if this will affect your peer review process:

Our paper on digital resources and social inequality in education is now ✨extra official✨ having just got its volume and issue numbers with the European Sociological Review! Open access too: doi.org/10.1093/esr/... Relevant to sociology, education, and media and communications studies, I'd say!

I could not be less surprised by this. I am a data point. I've watched so many (and I mean TOO MANY) of my women colleagues experience the same. Women networks in academia are so fragile because there's never a sense of security or permanence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs

Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life...

nature.com

Want some examples of how techno-optimism can go wrong? Look no further than The Real World of Technology by Dr. Ursula Franklin. It should be required reading for anyone developing technology (or using it frankly).

I bet some of those meetings could have been an email.

Janine Gibson@janinegibson.ft.com · 3y ago

Good morning I'm afraid Chevron CEO Mike Wirth says you're already really quite behind on.ft.com/3tKw2rz

Hi, I'm Jaime and I've been working for 8 years for the Wikimedia Foundation. The following are personal views and do not represent in any way the position of the Foundation (I don't and cannot speak on behalf of it). However, you may have seen this question by Mr. Musk and I wanted to respond A 🧵:

Insightful talk “Do I Fit In? Ethnicity and Feelings of Belonging in School” by Sarah Graham, as she receives an honorary doctorate from Radboud University. Prompts thoughts on how belonging and minoritization additionally depends on group size, setting, and normative expectations.

If you need me, I’ll be making different versions of tables before I decide which looks neatest. 🙃

Reading through the proofs for a forthcoming paper that was written during lock-downs, being on almost the opposite end of the continent from my family, and dealing with visa woes... Uff. Past-Renae, you did good. You did good.

Congrats! 🎉 Really interesting to see meanings of merit contrasting like this. Might it also be reflected education policy/due to socialisation in school?

Sam Friedman@samfriedman.bsky.social · 3y ago

New Paper 🔔 We look at the contrasting meanings of merit that elites in the 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇰 deploy when justifying their success. Co-authored with @aaronsreeves @chellersgaard @antongrau 🧵 below… academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

This short note explaining why level 2 variance can increase in multilevel models when adding a predictor is really great www.statmodel.com/download/Lev...

Boiling flavour profile differences down to seasoning profiles?! Love it. Would be interesting to see differences in typical ingredients/mix of carbs protein veggies etc.

David Waldron@davidawaldron.bsky.social · 3y ago

Percent of recipes including herb/spice/seasoning by cuisine.

Hi #AcademicSky! 👩‍🔬 I'm a #Sociology PhD researching the origin and consequences of social class and gender inequalities in digital resources/skills. I love chatting about research, books, graphic design, media, technology, and food. #WomenInSTEM #HiSciSky #PhDSky