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Mr. Jack<p>Come hang (virtually!) at my Queer Resiliency panel (based on my thesis article “Building A Better Gay Bar” on Nov 5th (6-7:30 PM). </p><p>Featuring Kurt Goodman, Monica Heart, and other speakers from the Pensacola queer professionals community!</p><p>DM me for the Zoom link! 🏳️‍🌈</p><p><a href="https://woof.group/tags/QueerAcademia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QueerAcademia</span></a> <a href="https://woof.group/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://woof.group/tags/QueerStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QueerStudies</span></a> <a href="https://woof.group/tags/BuildingABetterGayBar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuildingABetterGayBar</span></a> <a href="https://woof.group/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a></p>
Public Knowledge Project<p>The 1st Canadian Conference on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenScholarship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScholarship</span></a> is happening October 9 -10, 2025!</p><p>PKP, erudit.org, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CoalitionPublica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoalitionPublica</span></a> are pleased to be partner contributors to this event. </p><p>Livestreaming will be on!</p><p>Details: <a href="https://oscanada.github.io/en/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">oscanada.github.io/en/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OSCanada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSCanada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CanadaSky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanadaSky</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
Megan Lynch (she/her)<p>March 14, 1997</p><p>"Biology Departments Restructure"</p><p><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.275.5306.1556" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc</span><span class="invisible">e.275.5306.1556</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Botany</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
scholar_farmer<p>A blog post on that journey "From Draft to Done" in a scholarly context...</p><p><a href="https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">silencesandsounds.blogspot.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/draft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>draft</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/outline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>outline</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ScholarlyPractices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScholarlyPractices</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
Björn Brembs<p>TIL: apparently one of the main technical hurdles for universities to run their own <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> instances is to make the instance work with the institution's SSO (most often Shibboleth). It seems there would be a huge opportunity to facilitate the entrance of such major multiplicators into the Fediverse. cc. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Gargron" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Gargron</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a></p>
Dr Pen<p>Got any good recommendations for commercial/private ownership of educational technology? Or statistics / articles on how many schools or colleges use Moodle versus Blackboard or Canvas? Some examples of individual education record data being misused? Or other things I havent thought of. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/edtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>edtech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digitallearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitallearning</span></a></p>
Kai Arzheimer<p>Relatable <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PoorlyDrawnLines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoorlyDrawnLines</span></a></p>
Andy Baker<p>Careers in limbo after graduates discover university courses in Australia at Western Sydney University and University of Newcastle were never accredited by peak bodies such as Engineers Australia. James Cook University also features. More at...</p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-08/university-course-accreditation-class-action/105820008" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-10-08/uni</span><span class="invisible">versity-course-accreditation-class-action/105820008</span></a></p><p>&gt; Students have been left with HECS debts and careers that are "non-existent" after completing degrees that were not accredited. Class actions have been launched against two Australian universities.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a></p>
Public Knowledge Project<p>PKP was pleased to take part in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CRAFT_OA2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CRAFT_OA2025</span></a> Expert Panel, Diamond Dreams &amp; Data Streams: Shaping Sustainable <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> with Youngim Jung, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@marcbria" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>marcbria</span></a></span>, David Oliva Uribe, &amp; Urooj Nizami.</p><p>Did you miss it? The recording available!</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/LDuA6IBGCXA?si=saLZsutu1Vy8EmsE&amp;t=18224" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/live/LDuA6IBGCXA?s</span><span class="invisible">i=saLZsutu1Vy8EmsE&amp;t=18224</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DiamondOpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DiamondOpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DiamondOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DiamondOA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScholComm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScholarlyPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScholarlyPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
Kai Arzheimer<p>We've all been there <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/RedPenBlackPen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RedPenBlackPen</span></a></p>
Anna Pryslopska<p>This might be misrepresenting the coolness factor of Bayesian statistics somewhat.</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Stats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stats</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
Cerstin Mahlow<p>Our conference is preceeded by a «research school» for junior researchers (typically: PhD students). The RS starts in the afternoon of day 1, then two full days (day 2 and day 3), and ends around noon of day 4 (with transportation to the main conference).</p><p>What is a typical program for such a <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/ResearchSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchSchool</span></a>? I can also include tourist activities or some hiking (it‘s in Switzerland, after all), it takes place early June, so evenings have day light</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/ResearchSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchSchool</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Fedihelp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fedihelp</span></a></p>
Daniel Bellingradt<p>If the publication is open access, you have to download it. Read it later, or never, forget about it maybe, but feel good about adding the file to your computer. This is a silent agreement of all academics. Downloading is already working. Well done. Click the button. <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a></p>
scholar_farmer<p>Happiness is a set of proofs delivered! Out of my hair! Now to clean up that stack of drafts, notes, and this-and-thats. </p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Delivered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Delivered</span></a></p>
penworks<p>**For the benefit of those who are less techy or may not know about the ways we can deal with personal identity data.**</p><p>Personal digital ID - a hot topic in the UK atm. </p><p>Many people and companies are working on systems to provide secure ways to hold our personal identity info. Some include wider profiles like our job, interests, hobbies etc. Some are OPEN SOURCE and part of a diverse ecosystem of data interoperability (you can use the same data POD (personal online data). Bluesky is active this landscape with their 'ATProto' personal data approach, and the Fediverse with the more versatile 'ActivityPub' user profile. There is also the WWW3 standards Solid project, and other Open Social Protocols (listed on the Solid project wikipedia page linked below).</p><p>Of course, just like IT sysadmins who provided website CMS at universities a decade ago, the UK govt thinks it needs walled garden private enterprise to partner with. They will spend probably ten times the money going down that route (just like universities did). This is old fashioned and not what other large national/territorial entities will be doing.</p><p>From the Solid wiki page"</p><p>&gt;"Solid's central focus is to enable the discovery and sharing of information in a way that preserves privacy. A user stores personal data in "pods" (personal online data stores) hosted wherever the user desires. Applications that are authenticated by Solid are allowed to request data if the user has given the application permission. A user may distribute personal information among several pods; for example, different pods might contain personal profile data, contact information, financial information, health, travel plans, or other information. The user could then join an authenticated social-networking application by giving it permission to access the appropriate information in a specific pod. The user retains complete ownership and control of data in the user's pods: what data each pod contains, where each pod is stored, and which applications have permission to use the data."</p><p>These open source systems are robust and based on the idea that only you can own and control your data. Though the data may be held centrally on (for example civic servers or other server companies who provide a Slid POD) it cannot be accessed by them. Im researching into this a lot more in coming days :)</p><p>Links to read carefully if youre interested in what I'm talking about.</p><p>CAVEAT: Im not a tech expert at this so go easy if you'd like to correct any info here :)</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_project)" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(w</span><span class="invisible">eb_decentralization_project)</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/how-to-set-up-solid-pods-a-data-ownership-guide/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cmswire.com/digital-experience</span><span class="invisible">/how-to-set-up-solid-pods-a-data-ownership-guide/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://solidproject.org/get_a_pod" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">solidproject.org/get_a_pod</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.projectliberty.io/dsnp/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">projectliberty.io/dsnp/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/digitalid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalid</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/openid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openid</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/solid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solid</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/atproto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atproto</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/activitypub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>activitypub</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/dsnp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dsnp</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a></p>
Elizabeth Sudduth<p>If you've written an academic book, it's worth going here and seeing if Anthropic stole it. You get a few thousand dollars, which as we all know is not nothing for writing an academic book. <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <br><a href="https://secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">secure.anthropiccopyrightsettl</span><span class="invisible">ement.com/lookup</span></a></p>
Vincent Mousseau, MSc RSW<p>I’m exploring the possibility of spending time in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glasgow</span></a> early next year to host a small series of public talks and performances on Black <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> movement, care, and survival.</p><p>I’m looking for potential hosts or partner spaces (academic, community, or hybrid) open to critical and creative work at the intersections of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/BlackStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackStudies</span></a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abolition</span></a>, and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/performance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>performance</span></a> studies. Any leads or introductions would be really appreciated.</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/BlackAtlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAtlantic</span></a></p>
Debora Weber-Wulff<p>New rules on my part for requests for peer review:</p><p>1. If you write to me on a Saturday or a Sunday it is an instant decline.<br>2. If you insist on having the review within 7 days, I will decline.<br>3. If you already set up an account for me (probably the umpteenth one) on your editorial software, it is an instant decline.<br>4. Springer, Elsevier, and predatory publishers should not even bother asking.</p><p>You want me to work for free for you, but you don't care about my weekends or my current workload and your focus is on making money, not publishing science? Respect your peer reviewers if you are not paying for their time!</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PeerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeerReview</span></a></p>
Dr. Evan J. Gowan<p>Have you ever read a paper where it is painfully obvious that they purposely ignored your work, not even citing it, despite the obvious connection to it? They even cited a paper that commented on my paper, so they must have been aware of it. I am more amused than anything, but I was wondering if anyone else had such an experience. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
Dr Pen<p>Macron is now openly calling out bigtech extractive practices and commidification of the user. Good. We need a lot more of this. We need universities to lead this pressure everywhere. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digitalsovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalsovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Datasociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Datasociety</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://news-pravda.com/eu/2025/10/04/1744416.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news-pravda.com/eu/2025/10/04/</span><span class="invisible">1744416.html</span></a></p>