Philosophers! I am now eligible to act as a supervisor for Marie Curie fellowships at the University of Vienna. If you’re interested in applying for one, you can find the details here: careers.univie.ac.at/en/research-...
So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.
Job opportunity! 🚨
Curator or Associate Curator of Maps and Geography @bplmaps.bsky.social
#maps #jobadvert #geography
Many medievalists and early modernists have fond memories of the Keele Palaeography Summer School - it lives on! Now in the convenient location of central Birmingham, organised with help from @ies-sas.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social Booking open now!
palaeography.uk/study/short-...
JOB
Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
Very pleased to be speaking at his Royal Society conference 'Science as a Global Public Good, March 16th-17th. Hybrid event, organised by @michelamassimi.bsky.social and Geoffrey Boulton.
I'll be talking on "What could a human right to participate in science be?"
royalsociety.org/science-even...
JOB ALERT! 📜📚
Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin?
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In my talk for The Royal Institute of Philosophy this evening - Social Equality: Then and Now - I compared the views of RH Tawney, GDH Cole, Harold Laski and Arthur Lewis with positions in debates about equality in recent decades. Available online March 9th.
Another job on the same project at Sheffield: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN628/r...
Absolute shocker of a rights grab - academics may want to push back hard
Reform has said it plans to scrap the Equality Act – what would it mean for Britain? What would this mean for you or a loved one?
If you wish to write on this, then please email us at editor@centralbylines.co.uk
3-year jobs in IR at @politicsoxford.bsky.social, including #HistIR 👇
Governments will never completely snuff out human curiosity and search for knowledge. The question is whether they wish to encourage and take joy in it, or see it as a threat that needs to be suppressed as much as they can.
Happy Valentine's from your manuscript
My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity
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Movie description of the B horror move Death PhD. Gawdawful movie.
Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.
The 3 forms of academic content assetization we explore are:
- universities enclosing educators' content for use in platformized learning programs
- edtech companies building databases of academic assignments and manuscripts
- publishers licensing academic papers to AI companies for LLM training.
New OA article just out on "assetizing academic content" led by @jkom.bsky.social with me, @keanbirch.bsky.social & Klaus Beiter, exploring how academic materials are turned into value-generating digital assets by HE institutions, edtech platforms, and AI companies link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Fellowship Opportunity!
Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History
University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL341/j...
We have a vacant position as Associate Professor in Political Science (International Relations). Deadline April 29. Please apply or distribute. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Still remember being publicly criticised by the then head of REF for writing a column saying that the REF was a form of collective punishment that the university sector imposes on itself. I think the room was with me though.
Today is the 5th anniversary of the release of the infamous #Lawyercat video, which I posted roughly thirty minutes after the start of the second impeachment trial. Who would have thought it would have such a lasting impact on the world! Happy Lawyercat Day for all who celebrate!
The Epstein files are turning into one of those accidental historical archives of preserved records like the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Manuscript (fragments from 32BC–640AD found in an Egyptian rubbish dump). But instead of shopping lists, bills and horoscopes it’s the elite manipulating the system.
Exaggerated claims and low levels of reproducibility are commonplace in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, due to an incentive structure that demands “newsworthy” results. My overall argument here is that in addition to methodological reform, greater modesty is required across all levels - from individual researchers to the systems that govern science (e.g., editors, reviewers, grant panels, hiring committees) - to redirect expectations regarding what psychological and brain science can effectively deliver. Empirical work and the reform agenda should pivot away from making big claims on narrow evidence bases or single tools and focus on the limitations of our individual efforts, as well as how we can work together to build ways of thinking that enable integration and synthesis across multiple modalities and levels of description. I outline why modesty matters for science including the reform agenda, provide some practical steps that we can take to embrace modesty, rebut common misconceptions of what modesty means for science, and present some limitations of the approach. Ultimately, by presenting a more sober view of our capacities and achievements, whilst placing work within a wider context that respects the complexity of the human brain, we will bolster the fidelity of scientific inference and thus help in a small way to generate a firmer footing upon which to build a cumulative science
"I outline why modesty matters for science including the reform agenda, provide some practical steps that we can take to embrace modesty..."
Ramsey (2021): psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-...
Blue-tinted photo of civil rights activist Malcolm X, with the quote: "I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."
"I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such, I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."
— Malcolm X #BlackHistoryMonth
📣 Call for papers: Impact special issue 2026
For the special 2026 digest issue of Impact, we are seeking papers focusing on SEND and inclusive practice.
Abstract deadline: 16th February.
Find out more: https://submittable.pulse.ly/cqj4at1auy
#EducationResearch #SEND #InclusivePractice
Hi Guylaine, Of course. We moved to zoom, i will dm the link.
I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History
Due by February 23rd
munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...
