Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not.
The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...
Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...
As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think itโs great that an administration committed to destroying โthe internal globalist enemyโ which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Canโt see any potential downside here at all.
Maarten Paulusse
This International Worker's Day, let's once again recall that commercial academic publishing runs on unpaid labour (by multiple people, not just authors).
But also: "For the Dutch universities alone, the amount paid to commercial publishers is estimated to be about โฌ50 โ 60 million annually." ๐คฏ
Die Zeiten sind ernst und die deutsche Wissenschaft sollte sich ihnen gezielt stellen.
Der Aufruf "Wissenschaft gegen Faschismus", schlรคgt vor, vom 1.-7. Juni explizite Beschรคftigung mit Faschismus und Faschisierung in Lehre und Forschung einzubauen. Machen wir mit! wissenschaft-gegen-faschismus.de
Yet another good text by my former colleague Lisa Herzog:
"The text is not the product"
Periodic reminder of the starter pack with the most thought provoking people in bsky.
(And the periodic reminder to suggest people to add. Especially bsky newcomers.)
go.bsky.app/H61xswq
Es ist ein krasser Widerspruch, einerseits Deutsche zu mehr Arbeit aufzufordern, und andererseits zu versuchen, hunderttausende Beschรคftigte aus dem Arbeitsmarkt loszuwerden.
#Syrien #Bundeskanzler #Exodus
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Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...
