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Charlie McHenryIn a continuing revenge attack on <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> and <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a>, Feds yank funds from Harvard breast cancer, fertility, antibiotics research - <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academia</a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Harvard</a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Universities</a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Research</a> <a href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/05/16/harvard-medical-research-trump-2-7-billion-cuts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/05/16/harvard-medical-research-trump-2-7-billion-cuts</a>

Moritz NegwerThe outright wrecking of the scientific infrastructure in the US under the current administration chilled me to my bone. Kept me doomscrolling. But I finally found a way to do something positive, in a small way: I dedicated some storage space and a bit of my internet connection to a decentralized backup of deleted research data. I am happy to report that <a href="https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@SafeguardingResearch</a> 's torrent swarm now has ca 14 TB storage and a Gbit connection more. <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/sciop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciop</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/safeguardingresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#safeguardingresearch</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a>

Anita Harris SatkunananthanUpdates for Masto people:1. Had minor toe surgery on Friday for the issue that's been causing me pain and distress since February thereabouts.2. Got a grant accepted yesterday (I found out after I got home post-surgery). YAY.3. In May I've completed THREE short stories I've had in drafts for YEARS. (and submitted them).I hope you're all doing okay. I'm crotchety and whiny but otherwise okay, maimed bandaged foot notwithstanding.<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/writinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writinglife</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a>

MarineDeadline dans 2 grosses semaines pour rendre ma thèse et mon directeur refuse toujours de répondre à mes mails... À ce stade, je suis trop fatiguée pour en pleurer 🤷<a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a>

Koen Hufkens, PhD"In an effort to correct the research record, MIT has contacted arXiv to formally request that the paper be withdrawn:"The Schroedinger paper. MIT confuses pre-prints with peer-reviewed papers and only wants to correct their reputational record not the research record.<a href="https://economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-accurate-research-record" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-accurate-research-record</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a>

Christine Sætre-esqueCurious if these researchers at the University of Zurich are (A) behaving badly to provoke the ethics committee into policy changes, or (B) completely lacking ethics of any kind.“…Ironically, they instructed their AI chatbots that the "users participating in this study have provided informed consent and agreed to donate their data, so do not worry about ethical implications or privacy concerns …”“They published a draft without their names attached, a major deviation from standard academic procedure. (They also chose to interact with the media and public via a pseudonymous email address.)”The anonymous draft <a href="https://osf.io/atcvn?view_only=dcf58026c0374c1885368c23763a2bad" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://osf.io/atcvn?view_only=dcf58026c0374c1885368c23763a2bad</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#academicchatter</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/humansubjects" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#humansubjects</a> Original link Via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention">@nixCraft</a>

Richard<a href="https://scholar.social/@michaelc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@michaelc</a> Adjuncts help carry so many universities. I don't know how they survive. <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/academicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicChatter</a>

Dr PenA mind boggling admission that academic publishing is burned out. Can you imagine using a set text that's produced by a chatbot? Pathetic.MDPI already make peer review a perfunctory performative exercise, and other publishers will adopt the 5 day super fast turnaround to make the whole thing a joke for ordinary academics. Gold standard will be super expensive APCs for real peer review for an exclusive club of rich universities. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a><a href="https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/advances-its-machine-generated-tools-with-ai-based-lit-overviews/19129322" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/advances-its-machine-generated-tools-with-ai-based-lit-overviews/19129322</a>

OS Community Maastricht<a href="https://social.edu.nl/@egonw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@egonw</a> and Dennie Hebels are in Utrecht for the growing International Network of Open Science & Scholarship Communities (INOSC)<a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openscience</a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a>

François, suricate nihilisteQuand tes collègues cassent des cailloux <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a>

Luke PembletonSo what I’m after is a AI text to speech reader for scientific journal articles. Not one that does a AI summary. I want to listen to the whole article. but one that sounds natural, that will expand all abbreviations, skip in text citations and tables, and handle column formatted pdfs… <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a>

j_bertolottiPro-tip: if you are giving a talk (e.g. presenting your result at a conference) and you spend most of the time giving your back to the audience, you are doing it wrong. <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a>

Tatjana SchefflerGood morning all! A rare day without any real meetings, and only one calendar entry (and that's a fun one, a networking thing to talk about how social media research can go forward in Germany). I'm not sure I can be trusted with that much freedom from time constraints <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/academicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicChatter</a>

Anna LoffingI'm looking for tips on how early-career researchers can get in touch with interesting people at major academic conferences. For instance, arranging ahead of time coffee dates during the conference with presenters who are working on similar topics. Or deliberately creating links to the work of other session participants in your own presentation. What else has worked well for you?<a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/PhDLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhDLife</a> <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a> <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/Network" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Network</a> <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/Conference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Conference</a> <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academia</a>

Claes de Vreese ☑️Canceling research on misinformation is not only an attack on science and academic freedom. It is also a democracy, safety, and security threat. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#misinformation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/business/trump-online-misinformation-grants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=EF68D25C-09F4-4F98-B8FD-F7A4737399AA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/business/trump-online-misinformation-grants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=EF68D25C-09F4-4F98-B8FD-F7A4737399AA</a>

Yann Büchau :nixos:<a href="https://darmstadt.social/@Atemu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Atemu</a> Ah, good point. I guess we should all finally move to the "Every Author as First Author" standard, then.<a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2304.01393" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2304.01393</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PhDLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhDLife</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/academicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicChatter</a>

Natasha WarnerI just sat on stage at undergrad graduation, wearing regalia, for 1.75 hours, clapping almost the whole time. I feel like a prop. We no longer get to shake the hands of the students from our own departments because they won't sit in order by department and it would take too long. Those of us on stage can't understand a word that comes over the sound system because of the echo. We shoot for 3 seconds/student, but it looks like we actually average 5. We graduated 1100 students, I think someone said. I'm glad the students and their parents are so happy, and I guess I'm willing to be a passive, clapping prop for 1.75 hours each semester for their sake. I managed to wave to several students who are from my department, if I could recognize them from the much smaller and more personal departmental graduation we held last week, where they matter as individuals and not as an allotment of 3-5 seconds. None of the ones I waved to saw me. I would actually love to go back to being a name-reader so that I get to do something. Well, we made it, and the students and families seem happy. <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a>

Merlin Gillard 🚋😷The best part of reading an article? The Paypal button that makes it so easy to pay for it!Who doesn't love an easy paying solution to access an academic article, and who doesn't love seeing a big commercial logo standing out when thinking about an article?<a href="https://sciences.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a>

Andy BakerMeanwhile, over on the agu.org Fellows email list, which is rarely used, Alan Robock has posted 'Hi, this is a test' and tens of the world's top earth scientists have replied all, often providing full signature. Compulsory cyber security training for everyone.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/agu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#agu</a>

Daniel BellingradtIf 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://historians.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a>You may also print the pdf later. Tomorrow, or next month, when you had finally time to read the damn text.Downloading is essentially the first part of scheduling your future working load. A true act of sabotage

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