Laura Kampf on how kids need to see makers making cool / real stuff (instead of only childproof and safe stuff) to get interested in making:
"They can watch professional ski jumpers and they are allowed to watch them. So they can watch us, too."
https://youtu.be/xQDn6vw1Iqo?t=856
How do we teach research to our students?
Showcase your prototype, get feedback, and share ideas with researchers from the world of Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval, and beyond.
Demos
Tampere, Finland | Sept 23–26
Deadline: June 12 (AoE)
Ethos and Artificial Intelligence: The Disappearance of the Subject in Algorithmic Legitimacy
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15489309
This paper explores how algorithmic systems simulate legitimacy without invoking human subjectivity.
Read it here → https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15489309
#AcademicTwitter #AIethics #DiscourseAnalysis #AlgorithmicAuthority #OpenAccess #PhilosophyOfAI #Epistemology #Humanities #DigitalHumanities
Been creating a small tool called QuickPoint — it helps get ideas down fast with minimal friction and a keyboard-first approach.
Please feel free to try it out (it's free!).
What use cases or situations does it suggest to you? Would it fit into your existing note-taking or teaching workflow?
Thanks for any thoughts or experiences!
#EdTech
#HigherEd
#AcademicTwitter
#Pedagogy
#NoteTaking
#DigitalTools
#WritingTools
#Accessibility
#ResearchTools
Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.
In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes
#AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia
"For decades, trying to compete with American institutions and companies has been difficult. The United States was a magnet for top researchers, scientists and academics. In general, budgets were bigger, pay was bigger, labs and equipment were bigger. So were ambitions."
#ScienceFunding #AcademicTwitter
#PhDLife
#PostdocLife
#STEM
#ResearchSupport #LifeInResearch
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/business/economy/trump-research-brain-drain.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HE8.S64a.e7lM7QXRW2kM
🚀 Call for Papers: GILE Journal of Skills Development (Vol. 5 No. 2) is now open! We invite research & perspectives on personal and workplace competencies that empower young people. No APCs, CC BY 4.0, double-blind peer review, DOAJ-Seal.
🔗 Submit by 31 Aug 2025: https://gjsd.gile-edu.org
#CallForPapers #OpenAccess #IDGs #SkillsDevelopment #AcademicTwitter #SDG4 #GJSD
🚨 Calling all PhD students, post-docs & research staff!
Antibodies.com is awarding £/$500 travel grants each quarter to help you attend your next big conference.
Present your research, grow your network, and let us support your journey.
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#ScienceFunding #TravelGrant #AcademicTwitter #PhDLife #PostdocLife
#STEM #ResearchSupport #ConferenceTravel #WomenInSTEM #LifeInResearch
“On today’s X, #AcademicTwitter is dead. And most scholars in the world do not want to be active on what the platform has become.” ~ @claesdevreese.bsky.social
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesk...
“On today’s X, #AcademicTwitter is dead. And most scholars in the world do not want to be active on what the platform has become.”
I spoke to @TimesHigherEd about where scholars have gone. To Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon and ....
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-dominance-over-bluesky-becomes-new-hub-research
“On today’s X, #AcademicTwitter is dead. And most scholars in the world do not want to be active on what the platform has become.”
I spoke to @timeshighered.bsky.social about Bluesky becoming a new hub for research
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi...
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesk...
16. Ten simple rules for developing good reading habits during graduate school and beyond.
#PhD #PhDlife #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Postdocs #Research #Science
bsky.app/profile/scin...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:quna2f4yibcqbobigh3cdodu/post/3lgn54fliv22i
This is the one of the main things I brought up about starter packs when they were wildly popular in the beginning as people rebuilt their social networks 🫣 #AcademicChatter
Hopefully people are more cognisant of this fact as we build #SciSky 🧪 with the lessons we've learned from #AcademicTwitter!
Thrilled to share my 1st paper in @nature.portfolio npj Biofilms & Microbiomes! We show how Parallel Factor Analysis reveals microbial subcommunities & pathways in gingivitis. Thanks to my coauthors!
Excited to share my debut research paper, "WHOIS Data Redaction & its Impact on Unsolicited Emails," now published on @ieee_bot #Access and available on #IEEEXplore! 📊
👉 https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3511269
#domains #GDPR #ICANN #WHOIS #IEEE #AcademicTwitter #PhdChat #Research #OpenAccess
#academictwitter #AcademicChatter Did you all note this instance mastodon.academy! The reasons to stay on Xitter are getting less and less!!Thanks @brembs
(edited to make clear I address fellow academics)
I'm glad to see how #AcademicTwitter seems to be reuniting on #bluesky these days.
I decided to remain on @Mastodon for the time being, as I believe its truly decentralized design is the more sustainable approach.
Yet, I will be using the opt-in interoperability solution provided by @bsky.brid.gy. I hope many others will do so, too.
"What Columbus 'discovered' was not a 'new world,' but another old world, rich in diverse peoples, histories, and cultures." - Colin Calloway, historian
https://kidsontheyard.com/articles/holidays/thanksgiving-history-myths/
#school #earlyed #students #academictwitter #parenting #thanksgiving #thanksgivinghistory #quote
I'm on the TU Eindhoven campus today to present our IJCAI 2023 work at the inaugural symposium of the Special Interest Group for Algorithms in the Netherlands (https://www.sigalgo.nl/). Looking forward to a day of networking and learning!
More info: https://latower.github.io/posts/2024/11/sigalgo/
#Algorithms #ComputerScience #ArtificialIntelligence #Kenniseconomie #AcademicMastodon #AcademicTwitter #AcademicLife #LifeInAcademia #Symposium #Research #Networking
