Sir Terry Pratchett was one of two people who I quoted directly in my dissertation. This line from Feet of Clay was the motto for my introductory chapter:
"This is where we’ve filled ourselves up with so many questions that they’re starting to overflow and become answers."
It resonated with me, because this is what doing research often feels like for me.
#Teachers and #academicmastodon :
Does anyone have a good substitute recommendation for using live google docs in the classroom, something that is privacy-conscious?
I often use a live #Google Doc, and sometimes a spreadsheet, having students work on tasks as a class.
Getting away from Google, Microsoft, etc. is the goal here but also preserving student #privacy. Even better if no login is required at all.
Aside from something like an Etherpad, most of the options seem to lead back to the big companies. Firing up my own #Etherpad instance might be an end goal but I won't get to that until summer...
Any suggestions? Please feel free to boost.
TALKING HeaDS - March 2025
Join us for an afternoon of #healthdatascience, #drinks, and #networking!
25 Mar, 15:00–17:00
Panum, University of Copenhagen
RSVP: https://heads.ku.dk/calendar/2025/talking-heads/talking-heads-mar2025/
Shout-out to my colleagues from Leiden University, University of Applied Sciences Leiden, and mboRijnland, who are striking today in Leiden and The Hague.
They are protesting the announced budget cuts on higher education, and represent the start of a staggered Higher Education strike that will continue at least for the coming five weeks or so.
Coming soon: EASE Editorial School for Journal Editors. Part I begins online Wed 19 March, Part II in the Autumn.
Part I:
19/3: Journal structure & management, Duncan Nicholas
26/3: #PublicationEthics, Joan Marsh
2/4: #PeerReview processes, Serge Horbach
9/4: Journal visibility, promotion, indexing, Are Brean
£80 for EASE members
£160 for non-members
(low-income country discount)
Register:
https://ease.org.uk/ease-events/training/ease-editorial-school-for-journal-editors/
Waking up to more deluge of crazy from the US, not only in #uspolitics but the crazies in #Bigtech. I'm almost ready to quit academia bc I'm so tired of all the #genai hype and bs. I didn't get into academia to endlessly sing the praises of text or clip art image generators. It was bad enough when learning analytics hit (what bs that was). I love human communication and collaboration, bring humans back to education! Why is everyone so under the #AI spell?
Fremde Materialien in #OER einbinden?
Offene #Lehrmaterialien bieten Flexibilität – doch wie gelingt die rechtskonforme Einbindung? Unsere Vorlagen & Werkzeuge helfen mit:
Anleitungen zur Lizenzierung Vorlagen für eigene OER Tools zur Integration externer Inhalte
Mehr dazu: 
https://www.twillo.de/oer/web/vorlagen-und-werkzeuge/
#AcademicMastodon What is a good introductory book for qualitative methodologies? With more focus on social sciences (Interviews, thematic analysis, etc.).
Hello #Fediverse @academicchatter
I need your help for a privacy-focused local-host (run offline from my computer) transcription software.
I am (luckily?) collecting more interviews than I planned and transcribing manually is becoming a giant task, so it would really be helpful to have an automatic assistance.
Any suggestions?
Sachunterricht in einer digitalen Welt
Ein interaktives #H5P-Buch zur Planung und Gestaltung von #Sachunterricht unter Bedingungen der #Digitalität. Mit Unterrichtsbeispielen, didaktischen Unterstützungen und Reflexionen zum digitalen Phänomen „Spotify und seine Vorschläge“.
https://www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/components/render/64acf699-0f0b-4eb9-9b00-25799357a6e0
#OERde #CCLde #OpenEducation #hochschuldidaktik #DigitalesLernen #FediLZ #FediCampus #AcademiaEdu #AcademicMastodon
Just had my first academic paper peer-reviewed and accepted with minor revisions.
So excited to finally get my work out there!
Won't be published till the second half of the year, but still stoked! 
Can anyone tell me what the availability/uptime and usability for Codeberg is these days?
Edit: here's a link to https://codeberg.org/
I am considering migrating all my open source projects there but have heard there were issues in the past.
I've been talking to my students a lot this week about things like:
* How do you all talk with each other these days?
* What social media apps are in and out?
* Where do you get your news?
I'm doing this mostly bc I have a few ideas for projects to raise awareness among students about EVERYTHING, but also bc I'm just always interested in this stuff. I probably do this once a semester.
So here's what I've learned:
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#kurzerklärt: Creative Commons #NC-Lizenzen sollen kommerzielle Nutzung verhindern, schränken aber zugleich die Nachnutzbarkeit erheblich ein. Die unklare rechtliche Lage sorgt dafür, dass viele Institutionen auf die Nutzung verzichten. Welche Alternative sich anbietet, erklärt unser neues Video. 
I love Mastodon, but ability to search for posts e.g. linking to an article on Bluesky but not on Mastodon is a major limitation of its academic use. (I know this was much discussed during the 2022 migration, but not much has changed since…) #AcademicMastodon
How to sell your #science without selling out: A five-step guide to communicating your science ethically and accurately.
Now in #Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00209-w
The mood is *rough* this morning.
In US #Academia, even if you are lucky enough to live in a state where things should be "safe," the sudden cuts to research funding, trickle-down effects of slashes to things like USAID ---- it's catching up, quick.
Not just in the sciences.
And when "forbidden term" lists start circulating and your teaching focuses on half that shit???!??
Go hug an academic today. And a student.
Heck, you can even hug an administrator. I'll allow it, just this once.
On Monday morning, universities & hospitals will wake up with way less money to pay bills with than they had on Friday, due to a late Friday NIH memo from the Trump administration slashing NIH grant "indirect costs."
@STAT explains what indirect costs are, how this will decrease American scientific dominance, & whether this is illegal:
Breaking: The Trump administration slashes indirect costs on NIH grants to 15%.
This will "grind our scientific complex to a halt," said a UCSD virologist.
"We’ll be working in the dark," said a UC Berkeley dean—literally: This money goes toward electric bills.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/07/nih-slashes-indirect-costs-on-all-grants-to-15-percent-trump/
