On the #enshitification of #academic#publishing. Where scientists burn the candle at both ends, paying to read and publish their work, in what is the ultimate grift.
Here's the problem... we often say we want to move away from glam publishing. But how many of those retraction were in the top journals, and how many in Hindawi, MDPI and Frontiers? For me, the papers I trust enough to bother to read are in the journals I trust. Not quite the Natures or the sciences, but the trusted disciplinary journals. Th we genome biologies and molecular cells. But this feeds journal based judgements.
👌 Academic and small business owner here. This couldn't be more on point.
Academics lack key business skills which I argue are required even within #academia but are never taught with systemic management dysfunction as a result.
A tenured professor in liberal arts enrolled in our MBA program (just graduated!). She took our “launch your business” course with other student entrepreneurs. It was really cool and would love to see others around campus study business topics, esp. accounting, finance, OB, OD, etc.
@DrSuzanne@academicchatter@koen_hufkens
As a faculty member in physics at SFU, the program is so focused on research that has immediate commercial application that it’s not much use to my students.
Hello #AcademicFedi and #AcademicMastodon
I have a question for you (which might sound a bit provocative, but it's an actual genuine question).
What is really the value of Auto-ethnography?
I notice a new trend in some PhD group chat (Humanities) of students resorting to this method for their research. I'm personally puzzled, because beyond some reflexivity, how can a n=1 sample being any representative? Also, isn't it a very individualistic take on research?
@LouisGough@academicchatter I'm with you on the illusion of 'objectivity' especially in the social science, but that should also be a discussion beyond auto-ethnography (though the latter might be a good starting point)
@alx@academicchatter Absolutely! I cringe at the notion of "objectivity" wherever it appears! I think that's why I like the idea of auto-ethnography (I've not done one myself), because it sounds to me like an immediate and explicit rejection of the possibility of "objective" research (a rejection that SHOULD occur in all areas of research, in my view).
That said, I'm sure there's examples of auto-ethnographers claiming objectivity out there!
How are #altmetrics services adjusting for the decline of #Twitter, especially #AcademicTwitter? Are they giving Twitter mentions less weight? Are they tracking mentions in other social-media platforms? If so, which platforms? Where do they think academics are going? Do they have good data?
@egonw@petersuber@academicchatter yeah I'm waiting to see if/how AltMetric responds. They can track any website you alert them to for links to papers, so maybe each Mastodon instance would be equivalent? But something like Bluesky with fewer instances might be more feasible...
@JoranJongerling@academicchatter I just hope it doesn't happen :-D Also most of those inactive projects tend to be small (stat help for clinical investigators) and few are highly time sensitive, so it is usually easy to prioritize if there are conflicts.
I currently co-teach one class each year in two language mutations for ~250 students total + some practicals. The class was new last year, so still modifying and building up materials and infrastructure, and it is a huge time sink.
@modrak_m
Hahaha 😂...yeah I've used that "hope it doesn't all come back at the same time" strategy too 😄.
And that does indeed help with prioritizing 😊.
And thanks for sharing Martin! Very interesting to hear how someone else combines (a lot of) teaching and research and manages there time when doing so 😊. Helps a lot! 😊
To those wondering how my Halloween Pavlovian toss the students a candy bar when they speak experiment went: pretty much the same in both classes.
First 2 students were all “what is going on?” w/ 1 even doing the Pip from LoTR gazing up into the Heavens. The 3rd student then tested the theory that talking generated candy. Once that proved successful, the floodgates opened up. #academia#academicchatter#academicmastodon@academicchatter
@beatnikprof@academicchatter Sounds like a bad idea. Most students probably dont want the candy....those that do will just come to expect it. Dont feed the rhinos.
We have looked to MOOCs, OERs, open access publications, and online education generally to widen access to higher education for those disadvantaged by the digital divide as well as for learners worldwide who are not affluent enough to access f2f higher education.
@SteveMcCarty@edutooter@academicchatter@OnlineEducation Steve McCarty, It’s the tools that we have in our daily possession that allow us to have daily access to Higher Education. Ideas have not changed that much from allowing general public access to published books at Carnegie Mellon Libraries, University Repository Library Depositories, Public Broadcast System (PBS/NPR) via TV & radio, World Wide Web/Internet via personal computers & SMART phones. New tools improve general public HE access.
"... what is the point of asking scientists to write documents that can be easily created with AI? What value are we adding?"
The point never was to add value, it was to f-ing gatekeep you fool.
If things were fair, projects were selected based a cut-off value. The remaining (sizeable) pool would then be used to draw grants through lottery. Those on tenure track get a participation badge when ranking in this pool.
@moritz_negwer@academicchatter The fact that your project management plan will now be written by ChatGPT will not be a win. As mentioned here:
"Nevertheless, when the project is finished, you might well have managed to produce great science, although this could easily differ from that outlined in your original proposal. And that’s OK."
Actually, this is not OK. If you do (high risk) science you should account for this - as it influences projects but also people's careers.
@academicch@psychology@linguistics Interesting the bit arguing that public apologies may be doomed from the start. Also, I wasn’t aware of the taxonomy of apology strategies in psychology, but it looks to me it resembles very closely the one proposed in linguistics by Blum-Kulka and colleagues.