December 26, 2022
Steven Mintz, writing for Inside Higher Ed on selfish colleagues in the humanities: [I]f I were to point to a single factor that is most consequential, I’d draw attention to a dramatic shift in humanists’ professional identity. For better and worse, many and perhaps...
December 24, 2022
From the statement: The crucial role of software in research is becoming increasingly apparent, as is the urgent need to sustain it and to invest in the people who develop and maintain it. Research software sustainability is vitally important for the reproducibility...
December 22, 2022
Wired, reporting on an AI doctoral student’s recent paper: The Abdallas examined the CVs of 135 computer science faculty who work on AI at the four schools, looking for indications that the researcher had received funding from one or more tech companies. For 52 of...
December 22, 2022
James Nguyen H. Spencer, writing for The Chronicle [paywalled], on a public-financing scheme for U.S. higher education: Wall Street and Silicon Valley invest in companies expecting financial returns from these expenditures; moreover, they invest in multiple companies...
December 20, 2022
From the inaugural post from a new blog, courtesy of the OASPA Interest Group of Fully OA journal organizations: The aim of the group – and now of this blog – is to provide unity, not by creating a single voice, but by bringing together a diversity of different voices...
