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Good morning to you, too!
I was asked to rank a bunch of polygenic risk score (PRS) studies, which are all in genetic epidemiology, whereas I am in STS. Yes, I wrote one commentary on the rhetorical structure of PRS study reports. No, that does not mean I can do PRS, or reasonably assess PRS studies. 2/2
Out of a morbid curiosity, I participated. I was asked to rank all sorts of vague qualities of studies (novelty, innovativeness, etc.). The studies I was asked to rank, were - so the invite claimed - matched to my expertise based upon my publication record. They were not. Not even close. 1/
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.
Plezier kan een daad van verzet zijn, een politiek wapen, betoog ik in Leuk! Laat het je niet afpakken door mullahs, Trumps of Netanyahu’s.
www.uitgeverijtenhave.nl/boek/leuk/
Curious to see how those flavours find their way into your words :-)
Constructive intersections with John Law's "Making a mess with Method" [https://methods.sagepub.com/hnbk/edvol/the-sage-handbook-of-social-science-methodology/chpt/making-mess-with-method1]
*who*, not that
For all, predefined lists of projects are available for students to choose from, but also for all of them one can depart from this and pursue one's own topic and find a supervisor that allows that. 2/2
Here it depends on the programme. Some MSc programmes are two years, others are one year. MA programmes are nearly all one year. The long programmes have a whole year for a Master's thesis, the shorter ones usually 2-3 months. 1/2
So, mathematical witch trials?
So I believe that they believe that the prose does not matter. I also believe that it matters a lot, also to them...4/4
Those who say that all they need from a paper are the tables and the figures, clearly align themselves with the first view. The qualities of the text are invisible to them. Which is not the same as irrelevant. 3/
I've written a bit about the distinction between writing as reporting and writing as research. In the first, knowledge-making is imagined to happen before the writing and in the latter, knowledge-making and writing overlap. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 2/
I've been thinking about this. There have been a number of replies pointing out exactly this in different words. And I agree with all of them. I think it has to do with the imagined disconnect between the knowledge represented through a text and the text itself in some fields. 1/
Where does Trust in Numbers flip into Distrust in Numbers? And do those who trust numbers so much they start to distrust numbers, no longer trust their own number-trusting? Or are they blind to their own distrust of number-trusting?
Well, tbh, it is mine, but it served mostly as a prop for a conference on Technological Refusal. I have noticed that my thinking processes have been shaped by the immediate editability of text so much that I have difficulty doing without it. It is no longer on my desk - but it is still standing by.
Anna hat Max gebeten, ihr beim Bau einer Legoburg zu helfen. Weil er aber alle ihre Steine anlutscht bevor er sie zu einem Raumschiff zusammenbaut, will sie doch nicht mehr das er mitspielt. Ich vertrete Max und erkläre dem Erzieher, dass Anna Max weiter mitspielen lassen muss.
Exactly! We recently made this case for nutrition science specifically (paper annoyingly not OA): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
NL has publicly available pay scales. Associate profs salaries start at 78k€ (bottom of scale 13) and end at roughly 100k€ (top of scale 14) www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/salarisschalen
While I'd be happy to accept that title, this is part of a thread summarising others' positions, and it is not my own.
Next academic year's teaching will consist of group conversations around a fireplace, with a glass of cognac.
Einstein is an Al with a computer. He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework — automatically.
There are many interesting and challenging questions about AI and education, but what to do about a student who makes use of this sort of service is really not one of them.
They do. Most of them, actually, so much that a next scheduled conversation will centre only that.
I'll do more of these over the coming weeks. This isn't research per se, more like stakeholder consultation, but I try to approach it as if it were: curious about what people think, what they do, and which reasons they offer for both.
^^^ Some seem to be under the impression that this is either my position or one I support. It is not. Sadly, it is one I hear regularly and which also came up in the meeting I discuss in this small thread.
This is definitely not my view :-(
Everyone in this group is in biomedicine & health sci.
