I think some conference organizers are desperate to find invited speakers.

That is still better than my recent invitation to a conference on petrochemical engineering…

An absolutely huge paper I led with 25 co-authors was published yesterday! It's about the future research directions of #DigitalTwin and came out of work we did on the Digital Twin National Strategy last year.

https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4068082

And a little birdie told me that it's available on Research Gate in case you want to read it.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390838474_The_Future_of_Digital_Twin_Research_and_Development

Best part of teaching a class on #emojis: Reading student term papers about emojis! #linguistics #amGrading #academicChatter

Just found a extremely helpful feature in @zotero :
It shows you that an article in there had been retracted. Thanks.

Habe eben ein extrem wichtiges Feature von #Zotero entdeckt: es zeigt dir, dass ein Paper in der Sammlung zurückgezogen wurde.

There is a difficulty in academia (or at least in philosophy) regarding standard taxonomies of a debate. As you gain expertise, you might become skeptical about standard taxonomies and you might come up with your own division of ideas and views on a given topic. However, when it comes to using your taxonomy in papers/grant proposals/etc., you quickly run into a dilemma: defend your taxonomy in detail, which might make your argument annoyingly reconstructive, or don't defend it in detail, and risk being evaluated as completely ignoring the standard taxonomy and as not knowledgeable enough.

How do you tackle these problems?

IHC received the maximum grade — Excellent — in the international FCT Assessment of Portuguese R&D Units!

Thank you for making us better!

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I really enjoyed @Felienne's narrative about narratives about Computer Science yesterday. She applied some of the ideas presented in the Glaciers, Gender and Science paper (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132515623368) to her experiences in the Computer Science / Programming Languages communities. She's also starting a reading club to brainstorm the meaning (and the name?) of the field of "Computer Science".

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Fertig Digital Skills — Hallo AI Literacy

Einladung zum Projektabschluss vom swissuniversities-Projekt „Digital Skills im Hochschulkontext“ von #ZHAW #PHZH #BFH #UniNe

26.6.2025
14:00 Projektvorstellung und Podiumsdiskussion
17:00 Apéro riche
ZHAW Angewandte Linguistik, Theaterstrasse 15c, Winterthur

Kommt und diskutiert mit uns, wo die Reise hingeht mit KI in Hochschulen für Studis, Dozierende und Mitarbeitende

https://www.zhaw.ch/de/linguistik/ueber-uns/veranstaltungen/detailansicht/event-news/from-digital-skills-to-ai-literacy-abschlussevent

As if I needed more reasons to loathe Elsevier.

Lately I've received peer review requests from Elsevier journals. If I decline their request via the email link, it takes me to a website that has an angry red box that says "Action not allowed."

Ok, so I will email the editor to say I can't do it. That apparently goes to some IT support system, not the editor.

And today I got an email implying I was being unprofessional because I did not respond to their reviewer request.

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I haven't had to make a poster for an acedemic conference in years, what tools are people using these days? #academicchatter #astrodon

The program for grad students at Virginia Tech to help them become future faculty members with a broad perspective of higher education in the US and in Europe (#GlobalPerspectivesProgram) has been canceled. They were scheduled to visit Switzerland, France, and Italy mid May. As GPP2013 alumna I would’ve welcomed them at #ZHAW. Bummer

Les vacances commenceront jeudi soir, mais la majorité des étudiant·e·s semble croire que c'est aujourd'hui.

“When our academics fear travelling to major conferences or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem.”

#science #conferences #academicchatter

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/14/australian-academics-refuse-to-attend-us-conferences-for-fear-of-being-detained

BREAKING: TU Delft Strike programme was just released!

Date: 24 April 2025
Main location: The field between Pulse and the Library
From 12:00: Free fries, speakers, music, and collective action!

Here’s what the day will look like:
08:30–12:00: Picket lines, banner making & walkouts
11:30: Coordinated walkout from all faculties
12:30: Stage programme with speeches and live music
13:15: March to Delft city centre
15:00–16:00+: Science fair & public mini-lectures

More info: https://linktr.ee/tudelft_strikes

Striking is your legal right.

No lectures. No meetings. No business as usual.

See you on April 24!

A whole bunch of interesting presentations and panels on digital technology, archiving, the Black web, and more are coming up:

https://discussions.thenexus.today/topic/41/some-interesting-events-coming-up

"Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, has pledged to 'end the imposition of woke ideology in the allocation of federal funds for university research' should his party win the Canadian federal election on 28 April."

Scholars allocate most research funding in Canada, even if the federal government sets priorities and establishes envelopes. Regardless, Poilievre's position is anything but reasssuring.

https://www.science.org/content/article/canadian-election-top-conservative-candidate-vows-end-woke-ideology-science-funding

Huh. First time I've seen this. A student I've written for in the past is applying to a master's program. Along with the usual cover letter, writing sample, etc., applicants are required them to submit two letters of recommendation themselves.

Is this a thing? I mean, I trust this particular student, but running admissions this way would seem to make any recommendations the committee receives totally useless.

I greatly appreciate everything that Christopher Eisgruber says in this interview, but, more than that, it's increasingly a relief to hear someone in a position of authority willing to be sane in public.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/podcasts/the-daily/princeton-university-trump.html

cc @academicchatter #academicChatter