The final article draws the thread together, exposing a deliberate, interconnected system across continents, legal systems, and institutions.
This series is meant to support civil society organisations, trade unions, workers, activists, academics, small businesses, and journalists fighting back.
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The Big Tech Lobby Playbook
How Big Tech’s power has rewritten digital rules globally
https://www.somo.nl/big-tech-lobby-playbook/
Big Tech giants have developed a powerful playbook to shape laws and politics in their favour, all around the world.
Our Big Tech Lobby Playbook series explores their tools and strategies through 6 case studies from Australia, Brazil, India, the EU, Kenya and the US.
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#BigTech #SocialMedia #Lobby #Meta #X #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok #LeaveX #SaveSocial
The final article draws the thread together, exposing a deliberate, interconnected system across continents, legal systems, and institutions.
This series is meant to support civil society organisations, trade unions, workers, activists, academics, small businesses, and journalists fighting back.
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Gave yet another lecture. God, I’m boring.
Said all the same old things I’ve said before
With touches of “however-ing” and “therefore-ing”.
Dear God, it’s true, I’m just an ancient bore…
—Douglas Dunn, “Thursday”
published in THE NOISE OF A FLY (Faber, 2019)
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571333820-the-noise-of-a-fly/
I just received my first ever desk-reject from an academic journal.
The article:
- had a robust methodology
- was well written
- had clear and relevant findings
- was presented at a major conference
- took 3 profs and 2 grad students a year to research
This is pretty much what was expected, but it hurts to see it happening - a direct attack on the humanities in Georgia by removing the right to teach them from the state universities with a reputation for being more critically minded towards the government.
Gave yet another lecture. God, I’m boring.
Said all the same old things I’ve said before
With touches of “however-ing” and “therefore-ing”.
Dear God, it’s true, I’m just an ancient bore…
—Douglas Dunn, “Thursday”
published in THE NOISE OF A FLY (Faber, 2019)
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571333820-the-noise-of-a-fly/
THIS. This is why women quit #academia, why I couldn’t bring myself to take a faculty job. I couldn’t express it at the time but I knew I couldn’t keep perpetrating the same system. https://substack.com/home/post/p-187474741
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science to those who celebrate.
Especially to those of us who get up extra-early to have an hour of research time before all the admin and teaching work kicks in.
And to those with caregiver responsibilities. And those who are struggling with mental health.
To all of us, really.
"One year after the #Trump administration tried to cap reimbursements for indirect research costs, federal agencies have halted their plans."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2026/02/09/congress-courts-stymie-trumps-effort-cap
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #DefendResearch #Funding #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science to those who celebrate.
Especially to those of us who get up extra-early to have an hour of research time before all the admin and teaching work kicks in.
And to those with caregiver responsibilities. And those who are struggling with mental health.
To all of us, really.
A great prof (and fellow Mastodonian) @jlepawsky is co-leading a roundtable today at 11ET/12:30 NL time, and he has been pressured to TONE IT DOWN lest we upset the dismantlement project already in process. Thus, DEFINITELY DO NOT write to researchawards@mun.ca and ask for a link to attend. Cross-Canadian academic solidarity might make some powers and principalities VERY SAD.
A great prof (and fellow Mastodonian) @jlepawsky is co-leading a roundtable today at 11ET/12:30 NL time, and he has been pressured to TONE IT DOWN lest we upset the dismantlement project already in process. Thus, DEFINITELY DO NOT write to researchawards@mun.ca and ask for a link to attend. Cross-Canadian academic solidarity might make some powers and principalities VERY SAD.
What is the best way to cite this WHO's cancer statistics page?
https://gco.iarc.who.int/today/en/dataviz/bars?mode=cancer&group_populations=1&populations=900
I tried archiving it with Archive.org Wayback Machine, but the resulting URL does not open:
The print copes of Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal arrived today:
https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal
The #book is published by mediastudies.press, and is available #openaccess under the CC4r (Collective Conditions for Re-Use commitment), so you don’t need to pay to download and read a copy.
It's also feels particularly timely in light of recent discussions around #class and #representation including the Class Ceiling report that came out the other week:
https://www.riseassociates.co.uk/downloads/ClassCeiling-Digital.pdf
And the #BBC review by Anne Morrison and Chris Banatvala, which highlight how it remains London-centric and skewed towards #middleclass
https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/thematic-review-of-portrayal-and-representation.pdf
#culturewar #classwar #ClassCeiling #DefundCulture
#ArtsAndCulture #WorkingClass
#media #london #universities
#he #academic #academia
If I ever have the ovaries to leave #academia, this will be the main reason (all post-PhD):
2020: SWE Research Council - rejected!
2021: SWE Research Council - rejected!
2023: NOR Research Council - rejected!
2024: NOR Research Council - rejected!
2025: SWE Research Council + Bank of SWE + MSCA - rejected! (Seal of Excellence, yay!)
2026: MSCA - rejected! (that seal no one asked for again ...)
Some might say I should get the hint already
If I ever have the ovaries to leave #academia, this will be the main reason (all post-PhD):
2020: SWE Research Council - rejected!
2021: SWE Research Council - rejected!
2023: NOR Research Council - rejected!
2024: NOR Research Council - rejected!
2025: SWE Research Council + Bank of SWE + MSCA - rejected! (Seal of Excellence, yay!)
2026: MSCA - rejected! (that seal no one asked for again ...)
Some might say I should get the hint already
AI Slop is Flooding the Scientific Community
Scientific journals are dealing with a flood of AI slop and with the release of Prism, the fear is that it's only getting worse.
https://www.freezenet.ca/ai-slop-is-flooding-the-scientific-community/
#News #Technology #academia #AI #journals #OpenAI #paper #research #science
