Renae SM Loh

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry An elegy for time and the mortality of beauty, composed with passionate patience and a sensuous cadence.

On Emily Dickinson's birthday, peek inside her teenage herbarium – a forgotten masterpiece at the intersection of poetry and science, which was her first great work of composition

How effective have schools’ ICT resources been—not just in building students’ #digitalskills, but also in narrowing digital skill inequalities? Well... I bring good news, a challenge, and a hopeful twist. 🔍
More in our latest article (open access in Computers & Education!): doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Congratulations!!

The Netherlands underestimated the far right – and Geert Wilders’ victory is the result | Cas Mu... Media complacency and outgoing PM Mark Rutte’s decision to campaign on immigration have created a political earthquake, says Cas Mudde of the University of Georgia

Center-right political forces try to profit from far-right issues, end up overtaken by far-right party.

As a Brazilian living in the Netherlands: hey, this sounds familiar.

This feed rules, definitely my favorite new pin rn. It helps you catch posts from follows that don’t post often.

how about giving people food, have we tried that?

Broken Record Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again) UN environment programme 。

this is a bloody great name for a climate report

www.unep.org/resources/em...

If you are not already aware that the little owl antennae are called “plumicorns” I would like to be the one who shared that information with you.

Samuel Johnson by Joshua Reynolds (1775) From Wikipedia: A portrait of Samuel Johnson by Joshua Reynolds showing Johnson pulling a book's cover back and concentrating intensely on its words. It also, Johnson felt, shows his weak eyes.

Trying to understand what past-me was trying to convey through these hastily jotted down notes... and sometimes whole paragraphs??:

We're hiring! 3-year postdoc position at NIDI within the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) project. NIDI conducts leading, high-level scientific research in the broad field of population studies. The institute is part of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Absolutely brilliant, Babs! Congrats!!

Improved ICT infrastructure leads to better math skills | Radboud University Students who are more digitally skilled also perform better in math. New research from Renae Loh and others at Radboud University shows that in countries with better availability of ICT in schools, ma...

Spoke with Thomas Haenen, from the Radboud University Science Communications team about our latest research about how ICT infrastructure in schools matter for the translation of digital skills into learning outcomes.
Available in English and in Dutch:

❗ Our results indicate that narrowing school ICT infrastructure disparities is key when it comes to addressing digital educational inequalities between countries. 💻

You might think 'hey well duh...' but prior research has mostly investigated country differences in terms of GDP. Our research pinpoints which specific aspect of the country ICT context matters.

📢 Fresh off the press at the European Educational Research Journal! Myself, Gerbert Kraaykamp, & Margriet van Hek find that students’ ICT skills translate to greater math performance gains in countries with higher levels of ICT access in educational environments. Open access: doi.org/10.1177/1474...

‘I Feel a Human Deterioration’ The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has spent the last few weeks trying to make sense of the violence and loss around him. So far, he can’t.

“When I see people watching the horrible tragedy that is happening here as if it were a Super Bowl of victimhood, in which you support one team and really don’t care about the other, empathy becomes very, very selective. You see only some pain. You don’t want to see other pain.”

I think this is a really great thread that describes a significant problem and ways to deal with it.

My take is that we make mistakes all the time, and we need to correct them, when they occur.

Journal editors should make this a priority. My impression is that they generally do not.

#sociology

Then you get a rejection a few days after you submit the review... with one peer review attached:

An invite to review arrives a few days after you submitted an article to the same journal, and you start questioning if this will affect your peer review process:

Screenshot of an academic article titled Student ICT resources and intergenerational transmission of educational inequality: testing implications of a reproduction and mobility perspective

Our paper on digital resources and social inequality in education is now ✨extra official✨ having just got its volume and issue numbers with the European Sociological Review! Open access too: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
Relevant to sociology, education, and media and communications studies, I'd say!

Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life...

I could not be less surprised by this. I am a data point. I've watched so many (and I mean TOO MANY) of my women colleagues experience the same. Women networks in academia are so fragile because there's never a sense of security or permanence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Want some examples of how techno-optimism can go wrong? Look no further than The Real World of Technology by Dr. Ursula Franklin. It should be required reading for anyone developing technology (or using it frankly).

I bet some of those meetings could have been an email.

Elon Musk answers to the Foundation Drive "Wikipedia is not for sale" asking "Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? [...] So, what's the money for?"

Hi, I'm Jaime and I've been working for 8 years for the Wikimedia Foundation. The following are personal views and do not represent in any way the position of the Foundation (I don't and cannot speak on behalf of it). However, you may have seen this question by Mr. Musk and I wanted to respond A 🧵:

Lecture hall with Sarah Graham standing behind a podium. A slide is projected behind her showing her working conceptual model linking ethnic diversity and school functioning.

Insightful talk “Do I Fit In? Ethnicity and Feelings of Belonging in School” by Sarah Graham, as she receives an honorary doctorate from Radboud University. Prompts thoughts on how belonging and minoritization additionally depends on group size, setting, and normative expectations.

If you need me, I’ll be making different versions of tables before I decide which looks neatest. 🙃

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No... is it that paper, Andreas!? Say it ain't so.

😂 and then the interpretation of it in a way people actually understand.