Wow, several initiatives are being proposed in the EU (also more tomorrow, I guess) in order to host scientists fleeing from the US (meaning from Trump and Musk, basically):

for example:
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2025/03/13/coupes-budgetaires-de-trump-aix-marseille-universite-pionniere-de-l-accueil-d-urgence-de-chercheurs-americains_6580305_1650684.html

Can someone share a copy of this paper, please? I'm not finding it in the usual places.

Anderson, M.M. "AI as Philosophical Ideology: A Critical look back at John McCarthy’s Program". Philos. Technol. 37, 44 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00731-1

Please boost!

In the category: how to make the #Fediverse and #Mastodon better, step by step...

The University of Twente (@utwente) has made it possible to enter and verify a Mastodon account on the personal profile page at the university!

The green checkmark, also on places that are important in the #academic ecosystem!

H/T @OpenSciTwente & @SchuberthF

Hi #fediscience!

Last month for the doctoral thesis here.

What advice do you have for the final phase of a #phd?

Colleague just got a clearly AI-written peer review. Citing non-existent papers and scolding her for the mistakes which aren't to be found in the manuscript.

I wonder what would be a good line of action? Shouldn't be citing a non-existent papers by a reviewer a reason for referee recusal and banning from #PeerReview at least at this publisher?

Universities must resist the fascist coup that is being perpetrated by the US regime. What they seem to be doing instead is capitulate without a fight. Here's what I wrote to my university's president the other day (fwiw), in response to his reassurance that "Cornell follows the law".

@SRTurtleIsland @brembs @ProPublica @holocaustmuseum @mastodonmigration @timothysnyder_ @breadandcircuses #university #uspolitics #fascism #resist #law #academic

Hcommons.social is a Hometown Mastodon server for humanities scholars and practitioners around the world:

https://hcommons.social

This server has additional features including much longer post lengths and local server-only post visibility options.

You can find out more about hcommons.social at https://hcommons.social/about or contact the admin @hello

Looking for more good content on the #Fediverse? Find other #Shovelbums with the #Academics of Mastodon #Archaeology List

https://stark1tty.github.io/Mastodon-Archaeology/

An extensive list of more #academic disciplines here:

https://nathanlesage.github.io/academics-on-mastodon/

Please spread the word!

#Archaeologist #Archaeodons #Prehistory
#AcademicChatter #PhD #Histodons #twitterMigration #introduction #introductions
#History #GLAM #Heritage

@archaeodons
@anthropology
@academicchatter
@phdlife
@histodons

#USDA #scholarship for students at historically #Black colleges suspended makes me question the future of #DEI, but also that of countless degrees in #HigherEducation, #GovernmentService. Various #academic #disciplines devalued and having risk in employment opportunity.

https://apnews.com/article/hbcu-agriculture-scholarship-suspended-black-colleges-8b345f2e0abc2a6b21eed5a7cf720584

#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert

Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?

Michael Snediker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Snediker
Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Michael_Snediker

Are there any other #queer and/or #disabled #medievalists on here I haven't yet connected with?

Feel free to boost, I am looking to connect.

#introduction I'm a #queer #academic #metadata #librarian in the trenches of #DigitalLibraries & #DigitalArchives fighting the infowars. Into building #community #preparedness staying #healthy. Burner who no longer goes to TTITD. Supporter of arts, humanities, #science with too many hobbies and interests. Fuck fascism up the nose. Love one another.

Back behind the lectern to teach the (probably) last round of my #academic #writing class, here, until I get the opportunity to set a new one.

Ah yes, Sabine Hossenfelder has hit the nail on the head as she rips through physics research financing:
“I was asked to keep this confidential"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFUDPqVmTg
And as the many commentors note: Not just physics. Science has become a grant-getting game, no longer a search for truth.
#Academic Chatter

I just discovered the existence of the #academic journal Frontiers for Young Minds, which invites researchers to submit a simplified version of their work at a level appropriate for a child to read and understand, and which includes children as reviewers for each article. I love this idea so much. A quick look at the articles suggests that they're doing a great job of balancing simple language and presentation while respecting that children can understand complex ideas if explained properly.

I would have loved this when I was a kid.

https://kids.frontiersin.org

I’m going to call it out… just stop putting lots of text one your slides. You know its bad, I know its bad, everyone knows its bad… so can we just not?

"Donald #Trump on Monday said he had ordered the firings of the boards of visitors for all of the #US military’s service academies, the outside advisory panels that help oversee #academic programs and student life...

The #purge has begun to extend to the nation’s service academies... the US #Defense Department had begun restricting access to some #books in its school systems."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/10/trump-military-services-academies-board-00203348

Small #academic story: once a year our PhD students give a talk and receive a collection of anonymous feedback from professors who attended their talk.
My wife (also colleague here) told me one review of his PhD student was particularly rude, with complaints about answers to questions taking too long and the that the talk has only technical and no scientific content.
To which I replied: "oh, that's my report!"

Then....