Get your #PyConUS ticket (special discount for #students, #academics and #teachers): https://us.pycon.org/2025/attend/information/
Then register for #HumbleData workshop: https://us.pycon.org/2025/events/humble-data/
Get your #PyConUS ticket (special discount for #students, #academics and #teachers): https://us.pycon.org/2025/attend/information/
Then register for #HumbleData workshop: https://us.pycon.org/2025/events/humble-data/
In #Germany, as part of coalition talks for a new govt, conservatives and Social Democrats have drawn up plans to lure up to 1,000 #researchers, acc/to negotiation docs from March seen by Reuters that allude to the upheaval in #US higher learning.
Reuters spoke to 13 European #universities & #research institutes that reported seeing an increase in US-based employees considering crossing the Atlantic, as well as half a dozen US-based #academics pondering a move to #Europe.
The threat to #academics' livelihoods at universities including #Yale, #Columbia & #JohnsHopkins has given #Europe's political leaders hope they could reap an #intellectual windfall.
A letter, reviewed by Reuters, signed in March by 13 European countries including #France, #Germany & #Spain, urged the #EU Commission to move fast to attract #academic talent.
#Reservists from Unit #8200, #Academics Urge #Ceasefire Deal, Halt to #Gaza War
Mounting #dissent within #Israel’s military and academic institutions highlights deepening divisions over the Gaza #war.
Academic freedom in the US is under threat – universities of the world, unite! | Andrew Graham https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/universities-lies-truth-columbia-harvard-princeton #Trumpadministration #Universities #Worldnews #Academics #Education #USnews
In the land of academia, so vast,
Trump's targeting universities, so fast,
But fear not, there's hope,
With strategies to cope,
Together, we'll make this storm past.
#GuardianLimerick #Academics #Europe #Education
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/07/trump-universities-us-funding-europe
How do you feel when, at the Q&A for a talk and time is short, and the chair decides to take two questions at a time?
https://www.europesays.com/1965122/ Wharton announces new major, concentration in artificial intelligence #academics #AI #AppTopNews #ArtificialIntelligence #beats #News #top #Wharton
I just responded to a request for a PDF of my #HungerGames book chapter for a high school honors student. Nothing compares to the delight of knowing someone wants to read your work. If you can’t access a scholarly essay, be sure to ask the author. I bet it will make that person’s day. It always makes mine. #scholarship #HigherEd #academics
NYU canceled talk on USAID cuts for being ‘anti-governmental’, doctor says
University called Dr Joanne Liu, ex-head of Doctors Without Borders, after planning to speak on Gaza and federal cuts #gaza #compliance #academics #fascism #genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doctor-nyu-usaid-gaza-presentation-canceled?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation #MoralCowardice #academics #fascism
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/climate-of-fear-montreal-doctor-says-nyu-cancelled-her-presentation/
US #academics. Who in your institution is most directly enforcing "compliance" blocking speech, thought, programming in accordance with racist/sexist/genderist aims of the admin?
You want to know how saving US data of #science / #knowledge works? Example: @curatedjenny asks about a #Smithsonian podcast.
@lavaeolus with @SafeguardingResearch work hard: https://mastodon.online/@SafeguardingResearch@fedihum.org/114245681648466006 and #secure it: https://mastodon.online/@lavaeolus@fedihum.org/114247086021398297 Great work, follow them for more! @academicchatter
Dear Colleagues: The Time for Boldness Is Now
In a letter to fellow faculty, Nolan L. Cabrera argues that self-censorship is not a strategy for self-preservation. #resistance #AntiFascism #academics
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/03/27/letter-faculty-self-censorship-and-boldness-opinion
”Even if there’s a nuclear war, or almost any imaginable natural disaster, the earth would still be the best location for mankind to live. Going to Mars is crazy.”
- Minna Palmroth, professor of computational astrophysics, Helsinki University
#space #mars #academics #elonmusk
#LawrenceBritt #CharacteristicsOfFascism Numbers 1 and 11...
1. Powerful and Continuing #Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of #patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. #Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums
by Max Matza, 3/27/2025
"US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, which operates more than 20 museums and research centres visited by millions yearly in Washington DC and New York City.
"The order directs the vice-president to 'eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology' from the institute's museums, centres and the National Zoo in Washington.
"It also directs the interior secretary to restore federal properties, including parks, memorials and statues, which 'have been improperly removed or changed in the last five years to perpetuate a false revision of history'.
"The move is part of Trump's effort to shape American culture, in addition to politics."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjy1jmvvwzo
#ChristoFascism #ChristianRight #USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Fascists #TurdReich
**“Turning right”? An experimental study on the political value shift in large language models**
“_Our findings reveal that while newer versions of ChatGPT consistently maintain values within the libertarian-left quadrant, there is a statistically significant rightward shift in political values over time, a phenomenon we term a ‘value shift’ in large language models._”
Liu, Y., Panwang, Y. & Gu, C. “Turning right”? An experimental study on the political value shift in large language models. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 179 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04465-z.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Rightwing #Politics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLMS #Academia #Academics @ai
Yale scholars flee U.S. for University of Toronto “They're tearing down our entire government here. They're ripping it to pieces. They're targeting vulnerable populations, and they're promoting tax cuts as their only solution to every social problem. Jason Stanley, professor and author #fascism #trump #authoritarian #academics #yale #education #freedom https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/03/26/fascism-scholars-trump-critics-leave-yale-canada
European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/europe-universities-us-researchers-trump-administration-science #Trumpadministration #Highereducation #USuniversities #Universities #USpolitics #Academics #Worldnews #Research #Science #Belgium #Europe #USnews #France
The Imperative of Solidarity in Response to Assaults on #Legal Services, #Universities, & Independent #Media
“If #journalists, #lawyers, & #academics are going to be able to play the role that they need to perform as bulwarks of #democracy & the rule of #law, they & their employers must begin to think & act in collective terms.“
https://www.justsecurity.org/109439/collective-law-firms-universities-media/