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Tweet Feb 17, 2023

Many are claiming the state has 'no business interfering in public universities' & that doing so violates academic freedom. State interference can certainly destroy academic freedom, but the blanket 'no state interference' principle is no less of a t

by David Decosimo

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Article Dec 13, 2022

The rise and fall of peer review

by Adam Mastroianni

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Tweet Oct 26, 2022

My somewhat cynical take on bullies in academia is that they’re a feature, not a bug. I touched on this with an earlier tweet, but the qualities we commonly associate with “top scientist” in academia are extremely present in the kinds of people who b

by Sarah Kendrew

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Article Jun 13, 2022

The open database for university spinouts

by Nathan Benaich

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Book Feb 1, 1982

Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels

by J. Hillis Miller

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Tweet Mar 29, 2023

There's a crisis of academic casualisation and precarity at the LSE. Insecure and short-term contracts are rife. We're social scientists, so we decided to research how serious the problem is. Here's a thread with our key findings, 28-page report + co

by LSE UCU

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Tweet Mar 17, 2023

I don't have a lot to add to the @nature story about @eLife. It reported accurately about the efforts of Randy Schekman and a few dozen editors to derail what we are doing, gave them a chance to explain their motivations, and us a fair opportunity to

by Michael Eisen #912238

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Tweet Feb 17, 2023

You may have seen Rufo gleefully reposting a report from an organization called the @NASorg (I'm sure the name's similarity with the other NAS - National Academy of Sciences - is purely coincidental, wink wink) It's on the "takeover of the academy b

by Emilio M. Bruna

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Article Feb 14, 2023

A Left-Leaning College Didn’t Want to Offend, So It Closed Down Her Art Show

by Michelle Goldberg

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Tweet Feb 10, 2023

Now that I'm back in academia -- we really need to crackdown inside academia on "professors" who are really professional expert witnesses using up a position and a salary at what is supposed to be a non-profit (the university). (1/5)

by Tim Wu

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Article Jan 30, 2023

How a theoretical physicist’s passionate approach to simple math got him the Padma Bhushan

by MOHANA BASU

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Article Jan 23, 2023

On academic activism: a French perspective

by Nathalie Heinich

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