Jennifer Guiliano and I are happy to share the December issue of Reviews in DH. We bring you projects from our open submissions that focus on women. We hope you enjoy. See you next year! #ReviewsInDH https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n12 #DigitalHumanities #AcademicMastodon

Jennifer Guiliano and I are happy to share the December issue of Reviews in DH. We bring you projects from our open submissions that focus on women. We hope you enjoy. See you next year! #ReviewsInDH https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n12 #DigitalHumanities #AcademicMastodon

🟥 9 December 2025, noon, Dam Square, Amsterdam: Higher Education strike.

We have a packed stage program, followed by a march through Amsterdam.

Stage program:

📢 Reality check
- Programs and students share how budget cuts are already hitting.
- Discussion: the right to demonstrate in higher education under pressure.

✊ Looking ahead
Organize the RUG, TU Delft secretariats, and Earth Sciences at VU explain:
- Why local organizing matters.
- What you can achieve together.

🟥 Political debate
- Politicians from D66, GroenLinks-PvdA, and SP take the stage.
- We challenge them to take a stand: how will they reverse the cuts?

Join us at December 9 at Dam Square!

🚄 Free train ticket for FNV members → claim via https://fnv.nl/ho and AoB members → https://www.aob.nl/en/actueel/staking/stop-sloop-hoger-onderwijs/

Register before December 8, 12:00 pm

#WOInActie #Strike #HigherEducation #HogerOnderwijs #TradeUnion #FNV #AoB #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #Staking #Education #GroenLinksPvdA #SP #D66 #RUG #TUDelft #VrijeUniversiteitAmsterdam #Amsterdam

"Research Groups Oppose Capping #NIH Funding of Publisher Fees."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/12/16/research-groups-oppose-capping-nih-funding

PS: These universities seem to be saying: "We accept the growth of the APC model. We just need help paying APCs." They don't take any responsibility for steering authors toward high-prestige, high-JIF, high-APC journals, and don't acknowledge their ability to change those incentives while upholding their historic standards of quality. They could say instead, "We will revise our research assessment (promotion and tenure) procedures to focus on the quality of research more than where it is published." Insofar as universities succeed at shifting those incentives -- admittedly a long game -- authors could submit work to no-fee or diamond OA journals, bypass APC-based journals, and face no blowback from their P&T committees. All researchers and research institutions would win, including those institutions that now want govt help in paying APCs.

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #APCs #Assessment #DiamondOA #OAintheUSA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #Universities

"Research Groups Oppose Capping #NIH Funding of Publisher Fees."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/12/16/research-groups-oppose-capping-nih-funding

PS: These universities seem to be saying: "We accept the growth of the APC model. We just need help paying APCs." They don't take any responsibility for steering authors toward high-prestige, high-JIF, high-APC journals, and don't acknowledge their ability to change those incentives while upholding their historic standards of quality. They could say instead, "We will revise our research assessment (promotion and tenure) procedures to focus on the quality of research more than where it is published." Insofar as universities succeed at shifting those incentives -- admittedly a long game -- authors could submit work to no-fee or diamond OA journals, bypass APC-based journals, and face no blowback from their P&T committees. All researchers and research institutions would win, including those institutions that now want govt help in paying APCs.

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #APCs #Assessment #DiamondOA #OAintheUSA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #Universities

Surprise: "Researchers believe their institution values publication in highly cited journals more than any real-world impact their work might have."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/12/12/social-scientists-policy-impact-undervalued-universities

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Assessment #Impact #Prestige #SocialScience #Universities

Surprise: "Researchers believe their institution values publication in highly cited journals more than any real-world impact their work might have."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/12/12/social-scientists-policy-impact-undervalued-universities

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Assessment #Impact #Prestige #SocialScience #Universities

Das Jahr geht rasant zu Ende, aber wir stehen bereits mit einigen tollen Ideen in den Startlöchern für ✨ 2026. Mitte Januar gehen z.B. unsere 🚀 Workshops rund um #OER und #KI weiter und das nächste 🤝 Netzwerktreffen KI in der offenen Hochschullehre steht auch schon an. Alle Infos und Anmeldung hier 👉 https://www.twillo.de/veranstaltungen/

#OERde #OpenEducation #FediCampus #FediLZ #CCLde #openscience #AcademiaEdu #AcademicMastodon #hochschuldidaktik

Das Jahr geht rasant zu Ende, aber wir stehen bereits mit einigen tollen Ideen in den Startlöchern für ✨ 2026. Mitte Januar gehen z.B. unsere 🚀 Workshops rund um #OER und #KI weiter und das nächste 🤝 Netzwerktreffen KI in der offenen Hochschullehre steht auch schon an. Alle Infos und Anmeldung hier 👉 https://www.twillo.de/veranstaltungen/

#OERde #OpenEducation #FediCampus #FediLZ #CCLde #openscience #AcademiaEdu #AcademicMastodon #hochschuldidaktik

I'm a bit late to the party and somehow missed this, but here's an open letter to Dutch Universities (both academic and of applied sciences) and their executive boards, to ask that they stop the uncritical adoption of AI technologies in higher education.

openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e

Please sign!

#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #GenAI #AI #StochasticParrots #HigherEducation #Netherlands #DutchAcademia

🟥 9 December 2025, noon, Dam Square, Amsterdam: Higher Education strike.

We have a packed stage program, followed by a march through Amsterdam.

Stage program:

📢 Reality check
- Programs and students share how budget cuts are already hitting.
- Discussion: the right to demonstrate in higher education under pressure.

✊ Looking ahead
Organize the RUG, TU Delft secretariats, and Earth Sciences at VU explain:
- Why local organizing matters.
- What you can achieve together.

🟥 Political debate
- Politicians from D66, GroenLinks-PvdA, and SP take the stage.
- We challenge them to take a stand: how will they reverse the cuts?

Join us at December 9 at Dam Square!

🚄 Free train ticket for FNV members → claim via https://fnv.nl/ho and AoB members → https://www.aob.nl/en/actueel/staking/stop-sloop-hoger-onderwijs/

Register before December 8, 12:00 pm

#WOInActie #Strike #HigherEducation #HogerOnderwijs #TradeUnion #FNV #AoB #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #Staking #Education #GroenLinksPvdA #SP #D66 #RUG #TUDelft #VrijeUniversiteitAmsterdam #Amsterdam

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

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

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

I'm a bit late to the party and somehow missed this, but here's an open letter to Dutch Universities (both academic and of applied sciences) and their executive boards, to ask that they stop the uncritical adoption of AI technologies in higher education.

openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e

Please sign!

#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #GenAI #AI #StochasticParrots #HigherEducation #Netherlands #DutchAcademia

Update. Well-put: "Supporters of [the firings of these professors] say they are justified because professors are straying from their syllabi. But that’s a dodge. If an instructor in Calculus 101 teaches 𝘏𝘢𝘮𝘭𝘦𝘵, the reaction would not be to ban Shakespeare instruction throughout the university."
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2025/11/25/professor-texas-used-to-have-universities/

"If a university is a place where students and educators engage in free inquiry in the service of understanding, #Texas now has fewer places that meet that definition."

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #Gender #Universities

Update. Five faculty from five institutions argue that "Colleges Must Reject Trump’s ‘Compact’ To Protect Our Democracy."
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-20/college-university-trump-law-professors-compact-opinion

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics #Universities

Update. Here's the announcement from the American Association of University Professors ( #AAUP), a co-plaintiff in the case.
https://www.aaup.org/news/win-aaup-v-trump-court-blocks-attacks-university-california-system

"Friday’s decision orders a stop to the Trump administration’s illegal weaponization of civil rights laws and federal funding to restrict free speech on UC campuses. During the hearing on the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction, the court noted the overwhelming evidence plaintiffs provided, which included numerous declarations from UC faculty and staff describing how the administration’s actions have chilled their rights of speech and association."

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #FirstAmendment #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics #UCalifornia #Universities

"Federal judge sides with #UCalifornia employees in free speech lawsuit against Trump administration."
https://www.dailycal.org/news/uc/federal-judge-sides-with-uc-employees-in-free-speech-lawsuit-against-trump-administration/article_e3b28762-0801-49c7-ae1e-4f50c56d76a6.html

"In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin ordered the federal government to cease threats of withholding federal funding, as well as to 'address Plaintiffs’ irreparable harm and to restore the status quo.' "

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #AAUP #Censorship #DefendResearch #FirstAmendment #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics #Universities