@erinnacland In other words, it looks like Harvard and Claudine Gay are only the beginning.

@erinnacland It looks like there's a concerted - and perhaps well-funded - effort on the right to weaponize plagiarism accusations against administrators they perceive as proponents of DEI. I'm expecting a steady trickle of these sorts of revelations about university administrators for the near future. https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1763192727762509855

Kneecapping the best university in your province because it operates in the dominant language of science is some real galaxy-brain thinking by the Quebec government. https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/catastrophic-quebec-reportedly-set-to-impose-higher-french-language-requirements-for-english-universities-1.6686201

My new article in Science and Public Policy. The article explicates numerous generational challenges and disadvantages faced by early career researchers in modern science. https://academic.oup.com/spp/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/scipol/scad064/7323635

@erinnacland @ElisabethBik @academicchatter

Here's a paradox I think about: While this is embarrassing for Hindawi/Wiley, at least they're acknowledging this. However, the reputational hit from publicizing this mass retraction might make such publishers seem *less* reputable than those that do nothing about peer review manipulation.

New gender just dropped

@ct_bergstrom This is a good thread summarizing an interesting paper. I guess an issue that is recurrent in science/higher ed is the responsibilties of institutions to redress ("de-bias"?) disparities earler in the pipeline, where it's impossible to target the stage(s) where biases arise.

@drjulie_b I will buy anything Lijla tells me to purchase.

@drjulie_b Lilja is the best dog on the internet. You chose each other wisely!

@erinnacland Coincidentally, this piece was just published in University Affairs. https://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/the-skills-agenda/discipline-specific-data-on-phd-program-outcomes-are-critical-for-the-future-of-doctoral-education/

@erinnacland But yes, I'd really like to see a current, in-depth, systematic study on the fates of PhDs ASAP. Presumably there's about 20 "major" PhD-granting institutions in Canada that should have the data on these issues.

@erinnacland Here's a pretty solid StatsCan analysis: "The total expenditure on wages and salaries of academic staff has changed little since 2000/2001 (the first year for which these data are available). This can be attributed to the increasing presence of the higher-paid teaching staff being offset by the diminishing numbers at the entry level (assistant professor)."

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/191125/dq191125b-eng.htm

@erinnacland Here's a relatively new report, focused on the Canadian history PhD job market: https://cha-shc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CHA-Task-Force-Report-Final.pdf

@erinnacland

This report is circa 2013.

I posted on the other site that to protect academic freedom and save money, universities need to invest in scholar-led publication initiatives that bypass the for-profit publishers.

Part of this is recognizing that #OA is entirely compatible with for-profit model that sucks resources out of unis while reducing average quality of work.

See this link for an example from philosophy, where Wiley is pushing editors to increase number of papers by factor of 10 to start.

https://dailynous.com/2023/04/27/wiley-removes-goodin-as-editor-of-the-journal-of-political-philosophy/

Dwyane Wade's revelation that he moved out of Florida because of hostility to his trans daughter is important, potentially making the issue real to people for whom it might otherwise be abstract/easy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/27/dwyane-wade-transgender-florida-desantis/

The difference between NPR and Twitter is that NPR is intentionally a non-profit.
#NPR

@katestarbird I like the hierarchy of games. The tight Miami-OKSt game on the big screen, with the blowouts relegated to the smaller screens.