Hello #fediverse,
I have a question. Because everyone is integrating these stupid chatbots for "summaries", I am very skeptical of having my work circulating, even just internally within the university cohort, because I don't want my stuff to be fed to LLMs.
Is there a way to export these files in a was that when people feeds them to their "assistants" the assistants' dataset gets "poisoned" and can scrap it properly?

#FediTips #AI #generativeAI #Academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter

Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon is looking for an Adjunct Instructor of Computer Science to teach Networks and Web Development for the spring 2026 semester.

https://lewisandclark.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Faculty/job/Undergraduate-Campus/Adjunct-Instructor-of-Computer-Science_R-004741

Please boost for reach.

#jobs #FediHired #GetFediHired #academia #ComputerScience #pdx #portland

Hello #fediverse,
I have a question. Because everyone is integrating these stupid chatbots for "summaries", I am very skeptical of having my work circulating, even just internally within the university cohort, because I don't want my stuff to be fed to LLMs.
Is there a way to export these files in a was that when people feeds them to their "assistants" the assistants' dataset gets "poisoned" and can scrap it properly?

#FediTips #AI #generativeAI #Academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter

Good new open access book out: '**Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons'** argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for scholarly communication...

#academia #academicchatter #OpenAccess #oa #free #freebooks

https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/h989r611r

Discriminating against child care (or any care work, for that matter) in #academia is rampant. For one, I acknowledge that female colleagues bear the brunt of this discrimination and we should all strive to make our communities inclusive, care for all of their members as human beings, and create a meaningful work-life balance.

But, as much as I appreciate funders of research grants acknowledging the structural gender gap in providing flat-rate extensions for care work (looking at you my, fellow cis male colleagues, who use parental leave for travelling or writing books), we have to call them out for doing so on the cheap! You cannot create a meaningful change by playing a zero-sum game, simply redistributing existing funds from “dads” to “moms” (solely read in a binary, biological terms of sex).

As small as this group might be, there are parental care givers out there, who do not identify as moms. Who work part-time, who are single parents, who continue to take informal parental leave etc. etc.

#careWork

Despite being extremely vocal against #LLM , I strongly suspect that too many juniors (not just students) are using it for reports and manuscripts. I have no problem in dedicating my time to edit a draft so that someone with less experience will improve their #academicWriting , but editing #AiSlop is really starting to annoy me.

How are other people in #academia (including juniors) dealing with this? How to tag (or self-tag) someone's own work?

#academicChatter #phdlife #higherEd

We @scientistrebellion_GER are currently showing our exhibit "Blind Spot Intervention" at the conference "Tough conversations in tough times" organised by the RIFS.

Join us at 3 for a session where we will give a guided tour of the exhibit, provide input on our actions, and read from @FerRacimo 's book "Science in Resistance".

Looking forward to more tough conversations today and tomorrow.
#climatecrisis #polycrisis #academia #activism #civildisobedience

What if the best crop protectors aren’t chemicals — but the viruses living inside fungi?

In this video, we explore how mycoviruses could become powerful, self-spreading tools for sustainable agriculture — reshaping plant health from the inside out.

https://youtu.be/CGxSWkF762g?si=NERFkJY2J1bHdxFw

#fungi #mycology #agriculture #ecology
#aspergillus #education #academia
#phd_life #phdone #forest #mushrooms
#virus #mycovirus #crop #food #mycovirus #Science #nature #Farming #fungus #plants #foraging #Health #biology

Update. The U of Virginia surveyed its community in October on how it should respond to the #Trump compact. The Chronicle of Higher Education got the results through a public-records request.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/uva-asked-its-community-to-weigh-in-on-trumps-compact-heres-what-they-said
( #paywalled)

" 'Nope. Nothing. Nada.' 'Not at all.' 'No'. 'NO.' 'NO!'… Those curt replies were broadly representative of the responses as a whole…The F-word is used nine times…There were nearly 200 references to #UVa’s founder, #ThomasJefferson, almost all of which were in service of the argument that the compact went against his vision of the university. 'Stand your ground,' one wrote. 'You know it’s what Thomas Jefferson would have wanted.' "

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #Universities #UVa #USPol #USPolitics

Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon is looking for an Adjunct Instructor of Computer Science to teach Networks and Web Development for the spring 2026 semester.

https://lewisandclark.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Faculty/job/Undergraduate-Campus/Adjunct-Instructor-of-Computer-Science_R-004741

Please boost for reach.

#jobs #FediHired #GetFediHired #academia #ComputerScience #pdx #portland

I'm wondering: If a published paper mentions that a study was approved by the ethics committee of University X, number XXXX, is there a way to find (and read) this ethics approval?

#metascience #ethics #academia

How to stop the revolving door of German academia 🎓

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03850-7

#IchbinHanna #wisszeitvg
#ecrchat #academia

"How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year."
https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-trump-upended-education/

"Decades of carefully built #infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack…The first blow came in early February. In a single week, #DOGE terminated more than 100 research contracts collectively worth over a billion dollars on paper…DOGE canceled an 11-year longitudinal study tracking youth with disabilities through high school into college and the workforce. #Data painstakingly collected over five years was effectively discarded overnight…Even core federal datasets were not spared."

#Academia #Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #Education #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

My stance at this point is that I don't trust ANYTHING written by ANYONE that is positive about #LLMs. If the supposed author is praising LLMs then it's likely that they use it and have used it to generate the text.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6

#AI #Academia #AcademicChatter

My former PhD student still had an article under review at a Taylor and Francis journal, which has finally been accepted (yay!) for the low, low article processing fee of 3,505 € (oof!).

I think we can sidestep this because his new postdoc position is at NTNU, which has a blanket OA publishing agreement... but the nerve of T&F to charge 3.5k€ for a roughly two-year-long review process... (of which they actually didn't do anything, volunteers as usual) 😑

#academia #publishing

Discriminating against child care (or any care work, for that matter) in #academia is rampant. For one, I acknowledge that female colleagues bear the brunt of this discrimination and we should all strive to make our communities inclusive, care for all of their members as human beings, and create a meaningful work-life balance.

But, as much as I appreciate funders of research grants acknowledging the structural gender gap in providing flat-rate extensions for care work (looking at you my, fellow cis male colleagues, who use parental leave for travelling or writing books), we have to call them out for doing so on the cheap! You cannot create a meaningful change by playing a zero-sum game, simply redistributing existing funds from “dads” to “moms” (solely read in a binary, biological terms of sex).

As small as this group might be, there are parental care givers out there, who do not identify as moms. Who work part-time, who are single parents, who continue to take informal parental leave etc. etc.

#careWork

BLACK-FRIDAY-DEAL!
20% Off!
Download now the free and #opensource software #JabRef
Of course it's free the rest of the year as well :)

#blackfriday #deal #javafx #academia #bib

What if the best crop protectors aren’t chemicals — but the viruses living inside fungi?

In this video, we explore how mycoviruses could become powerful, self-spreading tools for sustainable agriculture — reshaping plant health from the inside out.

https://youtu.be/CGxSWkF762g?si=NERFkJY2J1bHdxFw

#fungi #mycology #agriculture #ecology
#aspergillus #education #academia
#phd_life #phdone #forest #mushrooms
#virus #mycovirus #crop #food #mycovirus #Science #nature #Farming #fungus #plants #foraging #Health #biology

Despite being extremely vocal against #LLM , I strongly suspect that too many juniors (not just students) are using it for reports and manuscripts. I have no problem in dedicating my time to edit a draft so that someone with less experience will improve their #academicWriting , but editing #AiSlop is really starting to annoy me.

How are other people in #academia (including juniors) dealing with this? How to tag (or self-tag) someone's own work?

#academicChatter #phdlife #higherEd

i guess that's what i'm doing with myself now! I'm #writing one of those #academia #fantasy #novel thingies. With #lesbian and #transgender characters and an #apocalypse vibe that feels just about right in the current year.

also it's wish fulfillment which means happy endings and positivity and girls falling in love and solving their problems through hugging, kissing, and violence.

and the cost to you? nothing! though your sharing and commenting goes a long way to making this feel worthwhile.