Anybody know anyone who controls an endowed guest professorship or annual lecture (series)? One that could be manned with a fun and lively Swedish archaeologist? Please put my name forward! I know French and German.
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I'm involved now and then in hiring our department's sessional instructors (adjuncts, in the southern North American dialect). While there are always a few applicants who really have no business even thinking they could teach the course (often the same who argue they are "uniquely qualified"), a good chunk have CVs that are as impressive or more than many tenure-track colleagues. This isn't surprising (we all know the score), just always more than a little discouraging.
Today and tomorrow colleagues and I are organising a two-day workshop on the use of LLMs for linguistics research at @UniKoeln: https://sfb1252.github.io/llm-workshop/. This was originally intended as a small, university-internal event, but we have found that there is a lot of interest from colleagues and students about this topic so we are delighted to have 15 poster presentations, in addition to four brilliant keynote speakers, and a concluding panel discussion. 1/🧵
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#duke #university is firing 10% of all staff across the board.
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Lovely people of Mastodon! You can now register for the Scientist Responsibility Summit. This interdisciplinary 1 day conference takes place in Berlin on Saturday, 11th Oct 2025. We will discuss the role of scientists in the context of the polycrisis with experts from different fields.
On-site attendance in Berlin is free but registration is mandatory.
You can register here: https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/scientistsresponsibilitysummit/ (it will also be livestreamed, no need to register for that)
📊First results from our #research project on the role of #Mastodon in #academia are in. n=346
1️⃣94.7% say they would increase their professional use of Mastodon if more academic peers from their field joined the platform
2️⃣71.4% report a lack of institutional support for using Mastodon
3️⃣66.1% indicate their professional Mastodon use would increase if their organizations were present on Mastodon
Stay tuned for more results.
There is something really shameful to me about institutions of higher education shilling AI "microcredentials" while simultaneously contributing to making higher education inaccessible to the majority of people.
They are offering you crumbs of an education, on which they hope to profit still, while hollowing out their own institutions.
Eating the seed corn.
#HigherEd #academia #USUniversities #microcredentials
They are offering you crumbs of an education, on which they hope to profit still, while hollowing out their own institutions.
Eating the seed corn.
#HigherEd #academia #USUniversities #microcredentials
If you hear about a job where it helps to have over 200 publications in academic and popular #archaeology, plus 20 years' experience as a journal editor, plus a solid record as a popular teacher, then please give me a nudge!
We’re so sorry to hear that Guppe Groups have shut down.
@FediTips/115164286964463451
Guppe was a really big influence on us when we first joined the Fediverse and served communities across the Fediverse.
Fortunately, conversations and communities can continue! Here are 3 ways how:
1/3 Keep the conversation going by hopping over to Newsmast Channels:
Bookstodon 👉 Follow @books & use #books
Histodons 👉 Follow @history & use #history
Academic Chatter 👉 Follow @academia & use #academia
Photography 👉 Follow @photography & use #photography
Latest comic on the convenience of making less ethical choices
Hey academics - if you have colleagues in the USA on a H1-B (or a J1 where the next step would be a H1-B): reach out! These are scary times, not just for people's work but also for their whole life (imagine suddenly having to leave the country you built a life in - or not being able to leave to see family).
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