I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

"Les coûts de la Science Ouverte" : appel à communications en vue d'une journée pluridisciplinaire organisée à @univlorraine.bsky.social le 17 novembre 2026 #recherche #scienceOuverte #openScience

"Sit down and hear our voices sing We’re sick of all this battling Can you hear us now, can you hear us now?..." Our collective discussion on the adult gaze is out! We learned a lot while collaborating on this topic and hope that it sparks further discussion. academic.oup.com/ips/article-...

At times I’ve caught a suspicion that some university employees think that professors can just do their cute little research in the evenings and spend their days doing meetings and emails—the real work

Si une entreprise peut imposer une clause de « silence à vie » à ses ex-employés, alors il faut redoubler de vigilance sur les partenariats académiques, et bannir d'urgence toutes les entreprises qui en jouent. Liberté de la presse et liberté académique sont deux faces d'une même pièce.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Certaines réponses au fil de Dietterich sont effarantes, venant de la part de chercheurs (tl,dr : je ne vérifie pas les citations, c'est une perte de temps, j'écris des centaines de papiers). Quand on dit que l'AI générative peut entraîner un effondrement de la recherche, le risque me paraît réel...

Dites, collègues, jusqu'à quand allons-nous accepter la dégradation continue de nos conditions de travail et de conditions d'études de nos étudiant.e.s ? #ESR #Universites

I know it's been said a million times but honestly, honestly, the US-Israeli war on Iran is genuinely one of the most fucked up things I have seen in international affairs in my life. It is genuinely shocking to me, in a way I think it would be bad to lose sight of, just how bad this has been.

I’ve been getting a lot of peer review requests lately and many of the papers are about Turkey. For the record, I’m Turkish but I’ve never conducted research on Turkey. So, note to editors (or anyone suggesting my name): being Turkish doesn’t automatically qualify me to review these articles.

when I was in undergrad I felt that professors who ran discussion-based classes were lazy. but now that I’m a professor I realize it’s much harder to facilitate a generative discussion than to lecture.

Proud to have contributed this interview piece to the just-published MORPHSS special issue on openness in HSS. We profile three initiatives in anthropology that are doing openness in the key of generative reuse rather than reproducibility. journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...

Being asked to do more with less is one of those internet era maxims that seems to imply ingenuity, but is actually just the managerial slogan for squeezing uncompensated labor out of workers unwilling or unable to leave their current employment.

This is the final stretch to participate in the RED #astrobiology school! Applications will close on Monday, the 14th at noon (Paris time). red-astrobiology.fr @cnes.fr @euroastrobiology.bsky.social @upecofficiel.bsky.social (meme par Théo Govekar à nouveau !)

Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com: 1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science. 2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Happy to share our article (with @jvilasispamos.bsky.social and Florence Allard-Poesi) on research impact and assessment, which lays the foundation for the Research Impact Observatory at @upecofficiel.bsky.social #ResearchOnResearch #ErasmeUPEC academic.oup.com/rev/article-...

« Rester différenciants » est devenu un projet en soi, sans autre but qu'être différent des autres. Mais à quoi sert d'être « différenciant », sinon à se préparer à ce que certains chutent et ferment, et espérer « faire la différence » pour être dans le groupe des survivants ?

New article 🥳! Richard Fosu and I have a new piece in @jisb.bsky.social! Open access! We examine UN docs on #YPS to reveal how ideas of youth are constituted by institutional actors. We pay close attn to discursive contestation over the norm of youth inclusion within YPS. doi.org/10.1080/1750...

Donc Pierre-Edouard Fournier, qui a 12 articles rétractés, est en charge de faire respecter la loi et l'éthique au sein de l'IHU ainsi que de faire rétracter les articles qui doivent l'être. Bref, le changement n'est toujours pas pour maintenant. www.mediterranee-infection.com/communique-i...

🌟call for research participants🌟 i'm looking for people who are (or have been) fans of #eurovision to join an online focus group about how fans think about & interact with the politics of the contest. more details on the study & how to join below. please sign up & share with your eurofan pals!

this just started and i'm already losing my mind and screaming Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan” just fucking shoot me

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

The kids are alright (his parting words are perfect)

Graphic Recording for the 9th EACAS Conference on "Actioning Change Through Education: Transforming Human-Animal Relations in Times of Crisis", which took place in Berlin this weekend. 🐺🐘🐮🐦 @eacas.bsky.social #animalstudies #animalrights #ecoliteracy #graphicrecording #wolf #elephant #cow #bird

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...

Petit résumé de la situation à Istanbul par les locaux: Le maire est en prison ; L'avocat du maire est en prison ; L'avocat de l'avocat du maire est en prison (no joke)

Sous le mandant de Carole Delga, la Région Occitanie s'est largement désengagée de son soutien à la recherche. Mais là c'est le comble. Dire que le congrès de l'Association Française de Sociologie "n'est pas un évènement scientifique" est du pur Trumpisme. La Région a peur de quoi? La vérité.

Scenes from #İstanbul, thousands gather for the first night rally taking place in Şişli tonight. CHP leader Özgür Özel announced that they will be holding a rally in different districts of Istanbul every Wednesday.

New #Postdoctoral Job! I'm recruiting for multi-country project on research #metadata & evaluation - UK, Germany, France, and Canada. Funded by SSHRC under Open Research Area 8 initiative. More info: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... #research #metascience #researchevaluation #universities #metrics

Turquie : une mobilisation colossale dans un contexte économique et politique dégradé

🇹🇷 Opposition leader #özel plays hard ball against @ec.europa.eu #TürkiyeEU "Those who play democracy at home in Europe but support autocracy in Turkey- turning it into a refugee hub and using the Turkish army as a shield for Europe- should know that this government will be gone next year." #EurSky

BBC journalist Mark Lowen, who was in #Turkey to report on the protests, was deported earlier today. Turkish authorities detained him for 17 hours and then deported him for “being a threat to public order." www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility. 1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken. A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.

Following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, a boycott movement has emerged. Amidst all this, public attention is also on creators, once again highlighting how the creator economy is deeply embedded in national contexts.

📢 Ankara’da polisin protestoculara müdahalesinin ardından onlarca eylemci gözaltına alındı

According to the CHP leader Özgür Özel, 1m 653k party members and 13m 210k non-party members (solidarity votes) voted in the CHP presidential primary, all in favour of the imprisoned Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu.

Now that Ekrem İmamoğlu has been formally charged and he has been stripped – temporarily, we are told – of his Istanbul mayoralty, what happens next? A thread 🧵

In Turkey, university students are leading the demonstrations. Keep in mind that they haven't seen any other government than the AKP governments, which have repeatedly repressed civil society and peaceful protests. These students are now protesting both despite and because of that.

Scenes from #Ankara on day 4 of the #Turkey protests. Thousands have gone on the streets again today despite the ban on demonstrations and harsh crackdowns.

[ #VeilleESR ] Proposition de création d’une commission d’enquête afin d’étudier les stratégies d’influence et d’implantation des idées racistes, identitaires et néonazies dans l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche.

En Turquie, des centaines de milliers de manifestants protestent contre l’arrestation du maire d’Istanbul, selon l’opposition

A self-coup happening in Turkey! Istanbul mayor and the man to beat Erdoğan--Ekrem İmamoğlu--is arrested. Social media restrictions and ban on demonstrations in place... Threatened by surging opposition, Erdoğan is taking advantage of geopolitics & going full authoritarian! 1/2

Très intéressant, parce que si le critère d'utilité de la liberté académique est "facteurs de compétitivité, de croissance, de souveraineté", alors on peut raisonnablement penser que plein de recherches ne sont pas concernées, et qu'il faut donc supprimer la liberté académique.

Frightening to see how fast institutions can pivot from “we need more funding for fundamental research and education” to “hey a war might be good for business”

#AcademiaÉvalue 🧐 10 mars 2025 #VeilleESR "Plusieurs membres de comités d’évaluation de la vague E commencent à témoigner de façon officieuse de ce que les rapports #Hcéres qui nous ont été envoyés ont été modifiés : ce n’est pas la conclusion qu’ils ont écrite." academia.hypotheses.org/60680

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

Con @ariadnamf.bsky.social estamos organizando una sesión informativa en español para los y las interesadas en participar en #AoIR2025 — especialmente dirigido a colegas de universidades en LaTam. Se pueden registrar aquí forms.gle/fhqyrPdrRzWL... Agradecería que compartan la invitación!