Today I wore my Star Trek jacket to work for my Klingon class, because the weather is finally cool enough to wear a jacket. What surprises me is how few double-takes I got walking around campus all day and attending non-Trek-related meetings. I concluded that most people don't watch enough Star Trek and that my boss, the dean, is very tolerant of my idiosyncrasies. I think my students appreciated it. #StarTrek #AcademicChatter
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I am definitely feeling anxiety the past couple of days over my job situation. Last week I received rejection letters without interview for a couple of positions I assumed I would be well qualified for. What is the point of acquiring all this knowledge if it is so hard to find a way to utilize it?
I realize many of my peers are in the same boat, and I feel for all of them. It is tough out there, and it is not getting any easier. I am lucky to have amazing people around me to give me support. Next year appears to be another year of temporary contracts, though.
Academic masto-hivemind: One thing we'd like to do with our bachelor's and master's theses (in part as a response to AI, but also just because it's the right thing to do) is to have students submit a kind of "research notebook" that talks about their process: reading notes, narratives of research experience, interactions with colleagues or AI, etc.
Does anybody know of articles in pedagogy on this, or examples of this kind of thing? I'm failing at finding useful resources. 
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I am definitely feeling anxiety the past couple of days over my job situation. Last week I received rejection letters without interview for a couple of positions I assumed I would be well qualified for. What is the point of acquiring all this knowledge if it is so hard to find a way to utilize it?
I realize many of my peers are in the same boat, and I feel for all of them. It is tough out there, and it is not getting any easier. I am lucky to have amazing people around me to give me support. Next year appears to be another year of temporary contracts, though.
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Please donate to Wikipedia. As we all know, it is under threat (AI overviews, Musk attacks). In my opinion it's one of the greatest achievements of the democratic Internet and global human collaboration.
I donate a small amount every year but I've increased it this year.
#Wikipedia #openinternet #openeducation #academia #academicchatter
Nothing is so annoying as old issue reports with convoluted discussions (in a #RSE live).
I am beginning to understand why some software projects pile issues.
Ulrike Hahn
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I've been doing a lot of academic travel! And often on very big trains! So I wonder... What's the carbon footprint of all those flights I did NOT take? Here are the numbers: http://mcld.co.uk/blog/2025/my-academic-travel-carbon-footprint-trains-versus-planes.html #academicchatter #flyless
I've been doing a lot of academic travel! And often on very big trains! So I wonder... What's the carbon footprint of all those flights I did NOT take? Here are the numbers: http://mcld.co.uk/blog/2025/my-academic-travel-carbon-footprint-trains-versus-planes.html #academicchatter #flyless
Hi #AcademicChatter, what is a good paper to cite that highlights the publication bias for positive findings (at least in #Neuroscience or #Psychology, I don't know how widespread the problem is)?
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Abandoning these rankings is way overdue, IMHO:
"The higher-education sector should collectively — and vocally — agree that the current rankings are not fit for purpose."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03636-x
Lizzie Gadd @lizziegadd is spot on, as always!
From someone who actually replied to the scam mails:
"The inner workings of a paper mill"
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-inner-workings-of-paper-mill.html
Abandoning these rankings is way overdue, IMHO:
"The higher-education sector should collectively — and vocally — agree that the current rankings are not fit for purpose."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03636-x
Lizzie Gadd @lizziegadd is spot on, as always!
Tatjana Scheffler
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June 2nd to 4, 2026, the #WritingResearch community will meet in #Winterthur, #Switzerland, for the #SIGWriting Conference 2026. Hosted at #ZHAW School of #AppliedLinguistics
The website is online
https://www.earli.org/events/sig-writing-conference-2026
The call for proposals is open until *December 17, 2025* 24:00 AOE. It's a firm deadline!
We welcome submission as a paper, symposium, poster or demo, or roundtable. All formats are explained on the website, or just ask me :)
Plz boost!
Ross Mounce
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New diamond open access journal Replication Research welcomes reports of replication of previous works. #AcademicChatter
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/replicationresearch/index
June 2nd to 4, 2026, the #WritingResearch community will meet in #Winterthur, #Switzerland, for the #SIGWriting Conference 2026. Hosted at #ZHAW School of #AppliedLinguistics
The website is online
https://www.earli.org/events/sig-writing-conference-2026
The call for proposals is open until *December 17, 2025* 24:00 AOE. It's a firm deadline!
We welcome submission as a paper, symposium, poster or demo, or roundtable. All formats are explained on the website, or just ask me :)
Plz boost!
Bjørnar (he/him)
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Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
New diamond open access journal Replication Research welcomes reports of replication of previous works. #AcademicChatter
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/replicationresearch/index
Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...