John McNutt

Book Talk: Aram Sinnreich & Jesse Gilbert, with Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) Join us for an insightful converation with Aram Sinnreich, Jesse Gilbert, and DJ Spooky as they dive into the world of data and technology.

📆 MONDAY FEB 23 📆

I’ll be in conversation with Paul “DJ Spooky” Miller and my coauthor @jesgilbert.bsky.social about our book “The Secret Life of Data."

Online and free, hosted by @isoclive.bsky.social.

Register here:
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#books #academia #data #AI

Transatlantic TikTok propaganda and the end of localised populism TikTok deportation propaganda is fast becoming the new border wall. States, platforms and algorithms are fusing into a single machine. This, says Mimi Mihăilescu is turning deportation into bingeable ...

Deportation has entered its TikTok era. Policy becomes spectacle. Enforcement becomes content. Local populism doesn’t travel. Spectacle does.

👇 Read my new piece in @ecprtheloop.bsky.social
theloop.ecpr.eu/transatlanti...

#TikTok #Propaganda #ICE #deportation #academicsky

Colleges, not the College Board, determine university-level writing Educators who teach first-year writing courses need to use their leverage to ensure students arrive on campus with skills that match expectations, writes Daniel M. Gross

Educators teaching first-year writing should use their influence to help ensure students arrive on campus with the skills universities expect, writes Daniel M. Gross: https://ow.ly/3LIQ50YcbOI #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

Don’t talk science, play science: translate your data into music to improve its reach Data sonification helps researchers to build connections and communicate their science to a broader audience.

A Nature Careers feature explores data sonification, which turns data into sound, and how it helps researchers to build connections and communicate their science to a broader audience. #Academicsky 🧪

An illustration depicting a person overwhelmed by a flurry of papers while walking on a large clock, with the title "How chasing a high-impact publication nearly broke me" displayed at the top.

"I have come to appreciate that success isn’t solely a matter of high-impact papers or the steep climb up the academic ladder. For me, it now means tracing my own path, one that is sustainable and isn’t defined by what others expect of me." #AcademicChatter https://bit.ly/3LOcuvI

Why did Jeffrey Epstein cultivate famous scientists? The Epstein files revive questions of whether the disgraced financier sought to merely cultivate famous scientists, or to shape science itself

"One disturbing explanation for Epstein’s support of science comes from his interest in genetic determinism. This idea, which dates to the eugenics era..Epstein had ambitions of founding a 'baby ranch' to raise children of women he impregnated"
#AcademicSky
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How to Publish in High-Impact Journals Nature, Science, Cell, Advanced Materials… — publishing in high-impact journals is difficult but not impossible. Here what the impact factor means, what high impact research is and how to write high-impact research papers that get accepted in top-tier journals.

Not confident that you'll be able to write for high-impact journals? Feel that your domain is niche and your colleagues are only publishing in specific, medium-impact journals?

My top tips on shooting for a high-impact journal: https://rpst.page.link/ZnMh

#ScienceSky #Academia #Postdoc

#academicsky

Academic writing reality check? ##HigherEd #AcademicSky #research #PhDchat #EdChat

Graphic: 'From publications to policy'. Text: 'The impact of research towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals'. Thin line art shows a globe, briefcase, paper airplane, open book, whale, fish, and a bird holding a branch.

Have you already explored our report 'From publications to policy: the impact of research towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals'?

Here, Ritu Dhand and Nicola Jones introduce the report and what it set out to achieve: spklr.io/63328Du6mQ

#SDGs #AcademicPublishing

U.K. Universities Decline New Elsevier Deal Sheffield, Lancaster and Surrey join Essex, Kent and Sussex in walking away from a proposed three-year deal with world’s largest academic publisher.

Three more UK universities have confirmed they are not taking subscriptions to Elsevier journals, with one Russell Group institution hitting out at the “financially unsustainable” terms of the nationally agreed deal.

#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #TransformativeAgreements

📣 New publication highlights the role of societal impact in #ResearchAssessment

📄 The @coarassessment.bsky.social has released a new #WhitePaper calling for societal impact to become a core criterion in research assessment, alongside #AcademicExcellence.

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4bAL3Qw
#ERA #CoARA

Copyright Kills Competition Copyright owners increasingly claim more draconian copyright law and policy will fight back against big tech companies. In reality, copyright gives the most powerful companies even more control over

Copyright policy should empower everyone—not just giant corporations. Let’s rethink copyright to truly promote innovation, opportunity, and creativity. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

If you are a techie and not sure what to say, tech is a huge enabler for the violence you are witnessing and you can speak to that.

Here's a calling tool that connects you w/ lawmakers and has a script to follow: fftf.link/ICEfunding

Making change requires all of us trying from the angles we can.

Even the lawmakers behind the TikTok ban have no idea what’s going on TikTok was supposed to be banned from the US 10 months ago.

Now that the TikTok deal is done, we've lifted a few articles out of the paywall for today in an effort to see how we got here.

First, here's @laurenfeiner.bsky.social on the TikTok ban that kind of wasn't.

A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

"If you give your data to any third party, you are inevitably giving up some control over it and people should be extremely cautious about doing that when it's their personal health information," EFF’s Corynne McSherry told @darkreading.bsky.social. www.darkreading.com/remote-work...

Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious

Though age verification mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful censorship and surveillance regimes that put everyone—adults and young people alike—at risk. Don’t believe it? Learn more here: EFF.org/Age

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now? EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, and every day many

Want to know how companies are guessing your age? Read all about it in our guide to age assurance technology. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

BREAM: Is the FBI investigating the ICE agent who shot Renee Good?

BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.

Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sen...

NEW: The Trump administration is directing USDA employees to investigate foreign scientists who collaborate with the agency on research papers for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.”

By @lisalsong.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social

FBI’s ICE Shooting Inquiry Examines Renee Good’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups Former department officials warned that such a broad inquiry raised the specter that forms of political protests could be criminalized.

Federal investigators are looking into Renee Good’s possible activist connections, raising worries of a broader effort to tamp down on protest as the White House looks to deflect blame away from the ICE agent who shot and killed her last week in Minneapolis.

Vote Contestation at the United Nations Human Rights Council The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) features a high share of contested votes on resolutions compared to the General Assembly. Scholars have identified various human rights issues that experience contestation
#sociology link

There's a reason Republicans don't allow federal gun violence research. They'd too clearly see the blood on their hands.

a man in a green shirt is sitting on a couch eating out of a brown bag Alt: a man in a green shirt sitting on a couch breathing repeatedly and rapidly into a brown paper bag

accidentally deleted 17 years of research data this morning

luckily it was stored on a server with plenty of redundant backup, so we got last night's backup restored. But my anxiety level was a little elevated for a couple hours in between those two events...

Screenshot of article published in "Current Directions in Psychological Science" journal titled "Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory."

Cool stuff: there is evidence of both top-down (i.e., goal-oriented) attention and bottom-up (i.e., reactive) attention systems, matching systems of cognitive control. And they interact: goals affect attention and attention affects goals.#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Content providers, distance learning, and the neoliberal university: Degrading resistance to the “most humiliating job in academic career” - Fernando Vianna, Egon B Calderari, Francis K Meneghetti, Se... In a context where higher education is permeated by neoliberal practices and ideas, distance learning emerges as the most prominent model, reshaping relations b...

#HigherEd

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Opinion: Without exemptions for commercial as well as academic data mining, the government’s AI for Science Strategy will fall flat, says Benjamin White #academicsky #AI
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uks-copyright-laws-will-hobble-its-ai-ambitions

Innovative Research Reveals Pathways to Enhanced Patient Care and Outcomes in Hematology New studies presented at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting explore innovative strategies for improving patient care in hematological disorders.

Innovative Research Reveals Pathways to Enhanced Patient Care and Outcomes in Hematology #USA #Orlando #Hematology #Research #Patient_Care

When the editor-in-chief asks you to review your own paper. #AcademicChatter