Got my first request to peer review a paper. For a very decent journal.

Interesting stuff also.

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

#Onlinevortrag unseres #DHELab:

Digitale Edition der Kopierbücher aus #Pestalozzi|s Institut in Yverdon

Mit Dr. Rebekka Horlacher (Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich/Universität Zürich)

Fr 25.4.2025 | 12:00 – 13:00 Uhr | Online

Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen, es ist keine Anmeldung nötig!

https://bbf.dipf.de/de/aktuell/termine/dhelab-vortrag-2025-04

#DigitalHistory #DH #academicchatter #histed #histodons #archivistodon #Bibliothek #library #archives #FediCampus #Editionen #Bildungsgeschichte #NFDI
@Textplus

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It shows you that an article in there had been retracted.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.

News from the @DORAssessment page:

Brief report about a project aimed to test the effectiveness of multimedia formats for educating researchers about scholarly metrics
https://sfdora.org/2025/04/07/introducing-two-educational-videos-on-the-h-index-the-pedagogical-potential-of-multimedia-for-teaching-about-scholarly-metrics/

The team used multiple strategies to develop content and format of the videos. I found it an interesting brief read for the planning of educational resources.

If you have not heard about problems with the #hIndex: Another reason to watch. #AcademicChatter

I've reached the point of marking where I'd really rather throw darts at a board than read another assignment.

(This is particularly pathetic since I have only 4 assignments to mark today -- late assignments from two students. The joys of being on leave!)

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?

Let me tell y'all the impact of my social media. This is not just me on here playing around. I have gotten speaking engagements, workshop requests, grant collaborators, writing partners, accountability group, awards, nominations, and on and on. #AcademicChatter #MySTEMIsForTheStreets NoireSTEMinist.com

Now starting at ICT.OPEN: a panel discussion on the Future of Education in the Era of Generative AI. As a freshly-minted assistant professor with increasingly many teaching responsibilities, I am keen!

https://ictopen.nl/programme/the-future-of-education-in-the-era-of-generative-ai

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#Utrecht
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#ComputerScience
#Education
#GenerativeAI
#AI

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

Thank you for making us better!

@histodons
@histodon
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@litstudies

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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#WomenInComputing
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#Glaciology

Yesterday at ICT.OPEN I also attended a panel discussion on "Bridging the Gap between Research and Industry through Application-Oriented AI Innovations"

It was mostly academics in the room, but I had an interesting chat with Dr. Floor Campfens and my colleague Dr. Anna Lukina afterwards, where we talked about the research done at RIWO, and of course our research at TU Delft.

#ICTOpen
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Yesterday, on the first day of ICT.OPEN 2025, the program kicked off with a keynote presentation by Prof.Dr.Ir. Alexandru Iosup about "massivizing" our algorithms.

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I'm back at NWO's ICT.OPEN, the conference that "brings scientists from all ICT research disciplines and industries together to learn, share ideas, and network."

https://ictopen.nl/

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

The US government's attacks on higher education do not only affect US institutions. The Swedish newspaper DN reveals that project funding at four Swedish universities was stopped, a fith received a warning. These universities cooperate(d) with US universities.

Ministern till forskare i USA: ”Se här! Välkomna hit, vi har akademisk frihet” https://www.dn.se/sverige/ministern-till-forskare-i-usa-se-har-valkomna-hit-vi-har-akademisk-frihet/

#AcademicChatter @academicchatter

Just got accepted for an architectural history conference later in the year. Last time I spoke at this conference was in Auckland 2023 #SAHANZ #AcademicChatter

Obama and Yale faculty back Harvard as Trump cuts $2bn in federal grants- #HIgherEd #Academia #AcademicChatter #Universities #AmericanCoup #RepublicansDidThis https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/15/obama-yale-harvard-trump-cuts