Happy Halloween, punks! Let's all take a moment to remember the year I made my confused husband dress up as a paywall so I could be Open Access Hero.
#OpenAccess #OA #OER #libraryLife #HigherEd #Elsevier #library #Halloween #AcademicHumor
 
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
                            
                        
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Happy Halloween, punks! Let's all take a moment to remember the year I made my confused husband dress up as a paywall so I could be Open Access Hero.
#OpenAccess #OA #OER #libraryLife #HigherEd #Elsevier #library #Halloween #AcademicHumor
 
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
                            
                        
                        Happy Halloween, punks! Let's all take a moment to remember the year I made my confused husband dress up as a paywall so I could be Open Access Hero.
#OpenAccess #OA #OER #libraryLife #HigherEd #Elsevier #library #Halloween #AcademicHumor
 
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
                            
                        
                        A few recent open ebooks:
* Inclusive Teaching Online: Evidence-Based Strategies to Support  #StudentSuccess in  #HigherEd https://open.oregonstate.education/teachingonline/
* Advancing  #Accessibility: Practical Strategies for Instructional Designers and Educators https://edtechbooks.org/accessibility
*  #AILiteracy for Career & College Success https://pressbooks.montgomerycollege.edu/ailit/
* Learning With AI: A Student Edited Collection https://leeds.pressbooks.pub/learningwithai/
 #EdDev  #OnlineTeaching  #AIEd
Is there a database of wrong answers of ChatGPT that could be used to give my students the experience that AI sometimes makes stuff up?
Bonus point for wrong facts related to environment/natural sciences/biology.
When they get a wrong answer, the resulting discussion could be a very productive opportunity to learn critical thinking in modern times.
The situation is dire and we really need to counter the #AIHype before it is too late. My colleagues are split into a small group of AI-brainwormed (unfortunately we are almost forced to attend seminars with titles like "How AI can improve your teaching") and many totally desperate professors that do not know how to deal with the situation.
 @VaryIngweion 
 @capita_picat
 #TeachingInTheAgeOfAI  #Education  #HigherEd  #SciComm  #AcademicChatter
Is there a database of wrong answers of ChatGPT that could be used to give my students the experience that AI sometimes makes stuff up?
Bonus point for wrong facts related to environment/natural sciences/biology.
When they get a wrong answer, the resulting discussion could be a very productive opportunity to learn critical thinking in modern times.
The situation is dire and we really need to counter the #AIHype before it is too late. My colleagues are split into a small group of AI-brainwormed (unfortunately we are almost forced to attend seminars with titles like "How AI can improve your teaching") and many totally desperate professors that do not know how to deal with the situation.
 @VaryIngweion 
 @capita_picat
 #TeachingInTheAgeOfAI  #Education  #HigherEd  #SciComm  #AcademicChatter
This is the best thing I have read about #OpenAccess in years. It's a far-ranging journey into so much of what is wrong and could be better in academia and in our world. Plus Hothead Paisan.
Seriously, read it this weekend. https://matthewcheney.net/blog/into-the-fugitive-open/
This is the best thing I have read about #OpenAccess in years. It's a far-ranging journey into so much of what is wrong and could be better in academia and in our world. Plus Hothead Paisan.
Seriously, read it this weekend. https://matthewcheney.net/blog/into-the-fugitive-open/
Student journalism again going where mainstream commercial journalism is not, to the best of my knowledge. What is the effect on a higher ed institution when 90% of its board members' donations are to Rs?
https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/20/over-90-of-usc-trustees-political-donations-have-gone-to-republicans-thanks-to-one-member/
✊ In solidarity with Professor Eric Cheyfitz, and with gratitude for his scholar-activism.
We join widespread outrage at the Cornell administration's politically-motivated repression of Professor Cheyfitz.
Cheyfitz has been denied his right to teach his final classes; students have been denied their right to learn from him; and we have all been denied the principles of academic freedom and shared governance on Cornell's campus.
![The hierarchical corporate university lacks an ethical core.
Cheyfitz wrote in July 2025: "The hierarchical corporate structure is built to resist solidarity, the kinship of its workers (faculty, students, and staff)... [and] to stimulate one's tunnel vision. Keeping voices of resistance alive is crucial in a corporate structure that demands silence except when the managers speak."](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/414/517/228/755/092/original/eb72ad2072d5a5df.png) 
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
                            
                        
                        ![[Photo of Prof. Eric Cheyfitz]
In defense of academic freedom
Solidarity statement condemning Cornell's biased sanctioning of Professor Eric Cheyfitz](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/414/517/237/034/037/original/900542c30fdbdc8b.png) 
      
  
                            
                        
                        ✊ In solidarity with Professor Eric Cheyfitz, and with gratitude for his scholar-activism.
We join widespread outrage at the Cornell administration's politically-motivated repression of Professor Cheyfitz.
Cheyfitz has been denied his right to teach his final classes; students have been denied their right to learn from him; and we have all been denied the principles of academic freedom and shared governance on Cornell's campus.
![The hierarchical corporate university lacks an ethical core.
Cheyfitz wrote in July 2025: "The hierarchical corporate structure is built to resist solidarity, the kinship of its workers (faculty, students, and staff)... [and] to stimulate one's tunnel vision. Keeping voices of resistance alive is crucial in a corporate structure that demands silence except when the managers speak."](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/414/517/228/755/092/original/eb72ad2072d5a5df.png) 
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
                            
                        
                         
      
  
                            
                        
                        ![[Photo of Prof. Eric Cheyfitz]
In defense of academic freedom
Solidarity statement condemning Cornell's biased sanctioning of Professor Eric Cheyfitz](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/414/517/237/034/037/original/900542c30fdbdc8b.png) 
      
  
                            
                        
                        We don't talk about this enough but it is another factor affecting instructors' workloads, student learning in higher ed. If it feels like things never went "back to normal" it's cos they didn't
https://thesicktimes.org/2025/07/03/universities-get-an-f-on-long-covid-heres-how-they-can-support-their-students-and-reduce-covid-19-cases/
Student journalism again going where mainstream commercial journalism is not, to the best of my knowledge. What is the effect on a higher ed institution when 90% of its board members' donations are to Rs?
https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/20/over-90-of-usc-trustees-political-donations-have-gone-to-republicans-thanks-to-one-member/
A Majority of Frozen Federal Funding Has Been Restored, Harvard Says:
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/14/majority-federal-funds/
 #UVA has also rejected the feds' compact, the first public university to do so! Good news going into the weekend
https://www.wvtf.org/news/2025-10-17/the-university-of-virginia-declines-to-sign-compact-amidst-protests
Now Dartmouth also rejects the compact!
https://www.nhpr.org/2025-10-18/dartmouth-rejects-trumps-compact-saying-it-wont-compromise-its-academic-freedom
UNC professor reinstated to duties after administrators had removed him for... what you'd expect, tho it's also got a back story
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article312419982.html
 #UVA has also rejected the feds' compact, the first public university to do so! Good news going into the weekend
https://www.wvtf.org/news/2025-10-17/the-university-of-virginia-declines-to-sign-compact-amidst-protests
Now Dartmouth also rejects the compact!
https://www.nhpr.org/2025-10-18/dartmouth-rejects-trumps-compact-saying-it-wont-compromise-its-academic-freedom
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