Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
I honestly don't understand why peer review takes so long. Yes, it is hard to find reviewers. This one paper of mine was sent to reviewers two months after submission. But that was mid-April. Why would someone say yes to review a paper and then let it sit for literally 8 months?! #academia
I love this.
I have never seen an episode and I intend to keep it that way, but kudos to @washingtonpost.com columnist @monicahesse.bsky.social for this masterpiece. It's one of the best-written columns I've read all year.
You don't have to read it - you deserve to read it. Here's a gift link: wapo.st/4r0oLwH
In Norwegian also.
Martin Luther sits at a writing desk, writing, and a heavenly sent dove is illuminating the room. This is a hand coloured part of a bible print from 1530. You may access a digital copy here: https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0011/bsb00113027/images/index.html
This ad about the importance of using the best lightning solutions for your workspace is brought to you from 1530 Wittenberg. The desk user M.L. recommends the illuminating dove to help you stay on task. #skystorians #academicchatter
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
This is a stunning opinion piece, and you really, really need to read it.
Rest in peace, Jane Goodall. 🌎🌱🦍
#Naturalist #Humanitarian #Philanthropist #Archeologist #Paleontologist #Scientist
#JaneGoodall
If ever there was a great force for good in the world, it was Jane Goodall. It's sad that we won't have her gentle voice here, reminding us to have empathy for our fellow creatures. I'm so grateful for all that she did. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Do I know anyone who is really experienced with NVIVO? Using queries and attributes and stuff like that? I have a few QUESTIONS :p
#nvivo #qualitativeresearch
incredible and depressing how fast the decade of progress under trudeau — as slow and flawed and not enough as it might have been — is being dismantled before our eyes
The latest episode of John Oliver’s show is on higher ed and scientific research, so well worth watching if you’re in either space. My favorite moment was when he showed Trump saying he would “make Harvard great…again…probably”
If every university president watched, we would be better off
I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.
Et mer en dobbelt så sterkt Frp bør være et alvorlig varsko. Høyresida i Norge går samme vei som i resten av verden, i mer ekstrem retning. Det krever seriøse mottiltak.
So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌
This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi
This is sick: The wannabe King of the World is actively trying to undermine other countries global warming efforts with tariffs, levies and other mechanisms to get them to burn more fossil fuels.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
Did you succeed?
Sarah, do you organize your vault using the PARA method as folders? I've set up mine using the method described here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSTy... - but today is the first day I am actually going to try to use a second brain!
A big challenge, as you identified, is doing this at scale.
Oh this, yes, exactly. And what to do with this.
Do you listen to the @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social podcast On the Reg? They have talked about obsidian and second brain some. I'm a little anxious about trying to integrate both the second brain methodology and the new software at the same time 😬
I just finally read the newsletter and squee-ed because my first plan for my sabbatical is to start using Obsidian as a second brain. And I am intimidated!! I want an little space to chit-chat about academics using Obsidian - I wonder if that already exists...
We can be concerned about multiple things at the same time. And I presume you, like myself, don't know what else these scholars are using their time & energy on. But more on principle: If inclusion of indigenous knowledge(s) & people had been taken seriously we likely wouldn't be where we are now.
The article was mostly not about decolonizing language. You are very quick to say indigenous scholars deserve a hell - really?? You're showing yourself. Did you even read the article?
I wrote our head of IT in the fall saying that faculty and students needed a way to block copilot..he said he would bring it up with Microsoft as it could only be done at an administrative level. Still no response. I wrote him and our union last week to say we should consider dropping Microsoft.
Could be spin or divide and rule. Many here are in those fields: openletter.earth/open-letter-...
