52 downloads and counting for my first preprint, Beyond Prescription: Naming Grief, Refusing Erasure! I’m continuing to refine the work while developing both an accessible zine and an advanced edition for readers inside and outside academia.
I look forward to engaging with thoughtful perspectives from those exploring digital culture and more-than-human ethics.
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https://zenodo.org/records/17214609
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📢 Save the Date: @OERcamp .global 2025 🌍
📅 Wann: 25.–26. November 2025 – 24 Stunden nonstop, online weltweit.
Seid dabei, wenn die weltweite #OER-Community sich verbindet!
Hier könnt ihr Sessions vorschlagen und gemeinsam Ideen rund um OER & OEP austauschen. Kostenlos & offen für alle.
➡️ Registriert euch schon jetzt & reicht eigene Beiträge ein: https://oercamp.de/veranstaltungen/global-2025/
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🤔 Was ist unter #OEP alles zu fassen? Beim @OERcamp in Hannover wurde zu unterschiedlichen Aspekten von der #OER-Community 💡 Gedanken und Ideen dazu gesammelt. Sandra Schön hat diese in einem 📄 Dokument strukturiert, das bis zum 26.10. gerne kommentiert werden darf. Hier könnt ihr in die Tasten hauen 👉 https://oercamp.de/2025/09/23/community-konsultation-beim-oercamp-2025/
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Update. #Brown just rejected the Trump compact. Here's the public letter from Brown President Christina Paxson.
https://www.brown.edu/sites/default/files/brown-response-federal-compact-10-15-2025.pdf
"Brown’s existing agreement with the federal government expressly affirms the government’s lack of authority to dictate our curriculum or the content of academic speech -- a principle that is not reflected in the Compact."
h/t #WilliamCross
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Update. #Dartmouth has not yet made a public statement rejecting the Trump compact. But two Dartmouth sources "who asked to speak anonymously…said they participated in a meeting with President Sian Leah Beilock in which…she said 'she would not sign the compact as written.'"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/dartmouths-president-balks-at-trump-compact-sources-say-as-feds-expand-offer-to-any-institution
(#paywalled)
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Update. More detail on the #Sorbonne objections to all university rankings, not just the #THE rankings.
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/universities/why-sorbonne-pulled-out-university-ranking
🚀 Exciting Opportunity Alert! 🚀
In early November, we will publish the official job postings for four new PhD positions that start on 1 May 2026.
We are especially looking for scholars who examine empires from a temporality perspective.
💡 Don’t miss out – keep an eye on our feed and hit “Follow” so you’re the first to see the details when they drop.
🔔 Stay updated!
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👀 Your PhD adventure starts here—watch this space!
Currently in a fascinating set of talks about commercialisation - I’ve typically woken up now we are into the examples rather than the operational side. I nearly ended up in this world once, but it never quite happened…
My involvement now is to try to help ensure our postgraduate researchers hold onto IP and get supported in developing it where appropriate…
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Auch in offen lizenzierten Bildungsmaterialien dürfen 🗨️ Zitate verwendet werden. Welche Punkte dabei zu beachten sind fasst Silvia in einem kurzen 🎬 Video zusammen: https://doi.org/10.5446/62503
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Update. If you've heard that Trump "offered" his compact to all US colleges and universities, and your institution didn't receive the Trump letter, here's why. Trump didn't use letters. He used this Truth Social post:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115362973187528235
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that, "A source at the Department of Education confirmed Tuesday that a Truth Social post from President Trump was intended to be an invitation to higher ed. 'We welcome any institution that wants to adopt these principles to sign the compact,' wrote the source, who declined to go on the record."
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/trump-welcomes-any-institution-to-sign-onto-compact-outlining-his-priorities
(#paywalled)
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Update. "Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-13/trump-invites-all-colleges-to-join-compact-after-mit-s-rejection
(#paywalled)
"The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter…Trump has said that colleges who reject the deal will face investigations into compliance with federal laws, but the extent to which federal research grants or student aid eligibility will be predicated on acceptance of the accord remains murky."
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Check this out 🚨 👆🏻 🚨 if you are interested in #TheoreticalEcology, #ComputationalEcology, #EcologicalModelling, #EcoModels, #AcademicMastodon, #ecology, #evolution and #ecoevo !
Everybody welcome to our #LunchboxModels #seminar series, especially #PhD students, #postdocs and #ECR ! 😊
Because, you know, all models are wrong, but some are delicious! 😋
Wir geben 💪 unser Bestes, das Teilen von Bildungsmaterialien möglichst leicht und einfach zu machen. Wie schön, dass es uns offensichtlich auch gelingt und wir so wertvolles Feedback aus der Community erhalten - Vielen Dank! 🥰
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Update. After #MIT said 𝗻𝗼 to the Trump compact (yesterday), the Chronicle of Higher Education asked the other eight targeted universities for their reactions.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-could-mits-rejection-of-trumps-proposed-compact-mean-for-the-rest-of-higher-ed
(#paywalled)
"Asked for reactions to MIT’s announcement, spokespeople for Brown University, Dartmouth College, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University had no new information to share. The other recipients — the Universities of Arizona and Pennsylvania — didn’t respond."
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Update. #MIT just became the first university to reject Trump's compact. Here's the letter from MIT President #SallyKornbluth to faculty, dated today.
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact
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Update. The Chronicle of Higher Education is tracking comments from the nine universities that received the Trump threat-bribe.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-white-house-sent-its-compact-to-9-universities-heres-what-their-administrators-and-faculty-are-saying
(#paywalled)
Summary: Large faculty groups at each institution urge administrators to reject the deal.
Administrators are saying little beyond the fact that they received the letter and are discussing what to do about it -- with one exception.
The exception is UTexas, where the chair of the Board of Regents, Kevin Eltife (a retired Republican State Senator), said Texas is "honored [to be] named as one of only nine institutions in the US selected by the Trump administration for potential funding advantages under its new 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'. We enthusiastically look forward to engaging with university officials and reviewing the compact immediately."
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Thanks to the EveryLibrary Institute (@everylibrary) for signing the #DefendResearch declaration and writing an excellent blog post to explain why.
https://www.everylibraryinstitute.org/standing_against_censorship_in_research
“We stand with our colleagues across higher education in rejecting the politicization of research and reaffirming the principle that knowledge must remain free and accessible. We owe it to future generations of researchers, scholars, and students to ensure that their work is never constrained by fear of suppression or distortion.”
PS: Disclosure: I'm a coauthor of the declaration.
https://defendresearch.org/
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Remember the academic dogma: decolonisation, politics, systemic analysis...all are for an intellectual entertainment to produce papers, not to be applied in real life.
#HE #HigherEd #university #surveillance #war #palestine #academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi
🎮 Wie lassen sich digitale Spiele für den Wissenstransfer in der Hochschullehre nutzen?
Das neue #OERdesMonats zeigt, wie Studierende der #Wirtschaftsinformatik in interdisziplinären Projekten eigene Educational Games entwickeln – von der Konzeption bis zur Evaluation.
Ein praxisnahes Beispiel für kreative Lehrgestaltung mit nachhaltigem Lerntransfer.
👉 https://www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/components/render/ddb73780-fd82-4130-b75c-8595152339f6
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