One good way of doing doors is to ask the person on the other side of the door what they care about. You can use their language. You do not have to start by imposing your framing. For some reason you seem to be suggesting that providing examples in a post is how you do doors, which is ridiculous.
So one additional wrinkle here is that sometimes as much as these people are part of the problem, the institutional rot they are railing against isn't only them. When they name real problems that go unaddressed for a decade or more, even if their behavior isn't great, blaming them isn't quite right.
But, yeah, there's a whole thing about how the utter abandonment of colleges of ed is a good signal of the abandonment of higher ed's commitment to the public good. One of our very best contributions is preparing good teachers, speech therapists, literacy experts, etc. But it doesn't generate $
If you organize right, you organize in terms the people you are organizing, and you bring them along with you. You don't start by imposing your framing on them.
We really traded away our most fundamental rights to “stop crime.” We got a surveillance state that is only escalating violence in our communities.
You persuade voters by organizing. Not messaging. Get on the doors and talk to people about energy costs, data centers, & extrene weather. Your framing isn't even going to break through the algorithm otherwise.
I don't want to do a whole long rant on this, so I'll just say: the reason fossil fuels & other aligned incumbents don't want to transition to clean energy is that it will *damage their material interests*. And folks, they understand their own material interests. Really well!
Screenshot of article which reads: Let’s talk about the value of solidarity. Recently, senior leaders at the University of California, Los Angeles, made overtures to work with the Trump administration after receiving a settlement proposal that required the university to restrict freedom of speech and expression on campus and to pay $1.2 billion to the federal government. The UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, along with the American Association of University Professors and other unions, sued the administration. The judge issued a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration, writing that the administration used a “playbook of initiating civil rights investigations of preeminent universities to justify cutting off federal funding, with the goal of bringing universities to their knees and forcing them to change their ideological tune.” (A ProPublica and Chronicle of Higher Education investigation detailed how the administration tasked lawyers to “rapidly ‘find’ evidence backing a preordained conclusion” at UCLA.)
Screenshot of article which reads: Last month, the Trump administration dropped its appeal of that ruling. While the case itself proceeds, this means that unions were the ones who protected academic freedom at UCLA, not the institution’s senior leadership. Faculty unions can provide some scaffolding to make it easier for faculty members to find ways to act together. But if you can’t join a union at your institution (seriously, join your union!), it can be just as important to join organizations like local chapters of the AAUP (which has already shown a willingness to fight government repression that directly contradicts their past actions during the Red Scares). United Academics of Maryland at the University of Maryland, College Park (affiliated with the AAUP), which is not an official bargaining organization, still worked collectively to win nearly $9 million for workers at risk of losing their jobs due to canceled federal contracts.
Unions are by no means perfect (anyone who's ever been in one can tell you). But I would rather be part of one and push for change than be trying to go it alone.
This is an insightful take on LLM's "co-authoring" papers, but I would take it even farther. The current output levels for *legitimate* scholarship is too high. We need to fundamentally rethink how much research we really need, how we should collaborate, and how results should be summarized.
Especially if you think not using it will put you at a competitive disadvantage.
We are at 12 load hours a semester, each load hours is 3 work hours, with mandatory minimum service requirements & some deans are trying to increase research requirements.
Did you want schools, health care, trash pickup? Taxes fund that.
A person I know is doing this type of fellowship this year. Spouse stayed put at home with child & in-person job; they just don't see much of each other. Not my idea of a good life but it works for them.
I can see how that helps address the issue at tge journal level. I don't see how it helps reduce the demands institutions are making for T&P, post-tenure review, etc. or convinces institutions to treat reviewing as a key part of our jobs.
I ran a simple model with new public data then used 1 prompt to make ChatGPT guess what the model would produce. With 10 seconds of "thinking," it was very close. The implications of this are catastrophic. The American Sociological Association should do something about this but it doesn't care to
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It can't be left to disciplinary associations when colleges & universities are demanding the output. We need to fix our own institutional pressures too.
We need to publish less and review better. This is a collective action problem.
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tldr: Without scholarly communication -- which is, after all, SCHOLARS COMMUNICATING -- science as a social system dies in darkness.
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They fall in love with the process, trust it too much, and start rubber-stamping the results. Some scientists already "co-author" literally more papers than they have time to read. What is this agent-driven process going to do to our ACTUALLY EXISTING SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM? Destroy it.
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“Fewer consultants. More workers.”
There, that’s your government reform slogan.
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Newer research suggests it's not the reading in low light, it's the not being outside in daylight. So read in bed at night but play outside in day.
As a disabled person, the primary impact of AI on the lives of disabled people that I have seen is a massive backlash that is turning back the clock decades in terms of our access to education as folks turn out of desperation to pencil-&-paper only. This tech isn't here for us. It's here for profit.
What I might hate most about AI is that it's turning back the clock decsdes on all the progress we've made in making education accessible for disabled folks.
For MA theses, we give 1.5 faculty load hours per semester (for typical courses, student credit hours = faculty load hours). We have a 12 flh per semester load.
Baumol’s Cost Disease, they used to call it. Now it’s known as Baumol’s Cost Immunization.
Next time you are in RI you need to go to PVDeli.
For real. I interpret data like this as showing us there are lots of students who believe--or have been told--their own voices and abilities are inadequate.
As it is with our clothing, so it is with our names. We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
