Who wrote about sign theory and data? Or in other word: in how far is data iconic, symbolic or indexical?
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Re: #AcademicMastodon + #OpenScience. I'm initiator of Delightful #commons for people to keep curated directories. Similar to Awesome on #github except only for open resources.
There's 2 lists I want to bring to attention. First one, the #ActivityPub #fediverse experience. It needs more open science entries 
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/
2nd list needs co-maintainers with #academic background because this list requires quality and rigour I can't deliver:
delightful.coding.socialdelightful fediverse experienceDelightful curated lists of free software, open science and information sources.
Generally speaking*, avoid standing behind things.
Desks, computers, lecterns, we want to connect with audiences and having a literal barrier between you and them hampers that connection.
*There are exeptions to every 'rule'
Out now: our study on #academic staff engagement on #Mastodon
Summary
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15582839
While Mastodon is valued for its ethical positioning, continued engagement hinges more on social and institutional dynamics than on technical features alone
Ethical concerns drive adoptionPeer presence matters more for staying than joiningAcademic institutions could be game-changers by leading adoption instead of waiting for grassroots growth
ZenodoPROJECT SUMMARY: Exploring Academic Staff Engagement on MastodonThis research project explores the role of Mastodon in academic communication. Sparked by a shift away from X/Twitter due to concerns over misinformation and harassment, Mastodon has become a growing space for scholarly exchange. Despite this trend, little is known about how academics engage with the platform. We conducted this study to understand academic staff's perceptions, motivations, usage patterns, and the platform’s potential benefits and challenges. The project employed a mixed-methods approach, resulting in a three-part study comprising (1) a literature review, (2) a quantitative survey, and (3) qualitative interviews. In this project summary, we briefly present the main results.
Video showing the damage to the residence of Dr. Tehrani, President of Iranian Azad University in #Tehran after Israeli terror attacks.
This means any Israeli #scientist or #academic aee "legitimate targets" of Iranian retaliation against #Israel.
#Iran #Israel #IranUnderAttack #StopIsrael
Video shared on Blue Sky:
https://bsky.app/profile/faab64.bsky.social/post/3lrhrkxss2s2e
Bluesky Social · Farhad ☮️🆓🇵🇸 (@faab64.bsky.social)Video showing the damage to the residence of Dr. Tehrani, President of Iranian Azad University in #Tehran after Israeli terror attacks.
This means any Israeli #scientist or #academic aee "legitimate targets" of Iranian retaliation against #Israel.
#Iran #Israel #IranUnderAttack #StopIsrael
Dropping a link to a bsky post. Anyone still remember the #colossalbio #direwolf PR stunt?
It looks like there are SEO'd AI posts popping up smearing one or more of the researchers who publicly spoke out against it.
https://bsky.app/profile/devoevomed.bsky.social/post/3lrgkk3gjqk2a
Something to keep an eye on for sake of #research and #academic integrity.
Bluesky Social · Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 (@devoevomed.bsky.social)Four AI-generated "articles" have now disparaged me, "Colleagues and experts in the field have expressed concerns about the consistency and scientific integrity of his work"
https://gripeo.com/02/vincent-lynch-is-unreliable/
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Datasci.social is a Mastodon server for researchers & practitioners in human-centric data science, broadly defined (network science, social data science, computational social science, geospatial data science).
You can find out more at https://datasci.social/about or contact the admin @mszll
Mastodon hosted on datasci.socialdatasci.socialCommunity of researchers & practitioners in human-centric data science, broadly defined, like network science, computational social science, geospatial data science.
STOP PUTTING STUFF ON A SLIDE AND THEN NOT TALKING ABOUT IT!!!
If its not important then why is it there?
If it is important then why don’t you mention it!
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The actions come as #Trump & his top aides seek to bend #academic institutions to their #ideological beliefs. The #State Dept’s public *diplomacy* office is run by #DarrenBeattie, a political appointee who was fired from a job during the first Trump admin after he gave a talk at a #WhiteNationalist conference. He has made social media posts on white grievances, including one saying “competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work.”…
How long does it take you to understand new graph of figure when you read it in a paper?
5 mins?
10?
Need to go away, have a cuppa, and come back to it?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01516-y
I tend to discuss these thoughts in the context of #academic #aristocracy.
Why should the „real“ academic scientist be treated differently from any artist?
IMHO the only way of neutral treatment of people‘s research - artistic, scientific, or autistic - is a basic income.
Particularly the discussion about #Citizenscience or #paraacademics has to be shifted to the social impact of economic job constructions.
Put into the light of presidential fake productions the scientific progress in AI implementations puts the world on track to absolute #idiocracy. Idio not ideo.
Due to outsource thinking to academic institutions I‘d rather say “no thanks to #thinktanks.”
www.nature.comYour time is valuable. Don’t give it away just for ‘exposure’Academia relies on unpaid labour — but researchers should think carefully about what kind of work they’re willing to give to for-profit organizations for free, says Dritjon Gruda.
Can Obsidian replace Word or LaTeX for a thesis? I tried, but how far can Markdown + the Longform plugin + Zotero take you?
Published as a new post on my blog :)
For #Peer #Review #Week this year (in September), the global #academic community will be thinking about the effects of #artificial #intelligence. #AI https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/10/rethinking-peer-review-in-the-ai-era-announcing-the-theme-for-peer-review-week-2025/
The Scholarly Kitchen · Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era: Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2025 - The Scholarly KitchenWe are pleased to announce the official theme for Peer Review Week 2025, to be held from 15–19 September 2025.
Pre-order That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film by Payton McCarty-Simas! Explore 7 decades of the cyclical rise and fall of the cinematic witch in American culture and her relationship to feminist movements over time. #Academic #sff https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page/that-very-witch-that-very-witch-fear-feminism-and-the-american-witch-movie
What do you think about this thought experiment?
Established academic publishes an article introducing a new term. And that term was used a year earlier by a PhD student in a media article explicitly based on their PhD research.
And both articles include not only the same term new term, but also some phrases verbatim?
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I’m going to call it out… just stop putting lots of text one your slides. You know its bad, I know its bad, everyone knows its bad… so can we just not?
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