Data wrangling is undervalued, and the consequences can be huge. Rosemary Tate & Roger Halliday call for a culture shift in data science, including “data amnesty” & editorial reform. Read more on our Real World Data Science site: realworlddatascience.net/foundation-f... #DataQuality #RWDS

Shana tova’ - Happy New Year 🍯🍎

#academicSPAM another example for the collection, following up on something "sent" to me on the 10th of March. Signed off with "A brief confirmation from you—regardless of your decision—would be greatly appreciated and will help us avoid further follow-ups. "

...on the topic of #academicSPAM this is one of many that purport to an email on the 10th of March. I wonder if the phrasing used in these even works?

NEW POST: "Reblog: How To Convince Students To Use Effective Study Strategies?" by @drckt.bsky.social www.learningscientists.org/blog/2023/6/...

📣Our Real World Data Science platform is back The world of data science has been a dizzying place lately, so we paused to take stock. Now we’re back - ready to rejoin the conversation with renewed clarity & purpose Read our editor's blog & call for ideas realworlddatascience.net/the-pulse/ed...

Back to #parkrun after a few weeks of university open day visits (requiring a different type of stamina 😂)

Wise words from @catherinedevries.bsky.social on the crappy first draft open.substack.com/pub/catherin... #research #academia

Last year we ran a survey on UK HE redundancies. Based on 349 responses, the UNIVERSITIES DEGRADED REPORT uncovers awful conditions, targeting of marginalised groups, & far more cuts than estimated. People's stories matter. We can hold leaders to account. Please share widely tinyurl.com/48nzf7ew

We don't win awards very often, but we won a Policy Impact Award the other day for our work :). www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

The dept of computer science at Brunel University of London was recently awarded #AthenaSwan silver! Proud to be part of the team - read about it in the press release www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

On hunger as a weapon of war, a murderous attack on a Jewish museum - and the blindness of hatred. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not read the article but how exactly are universities being irresponsible over public money? Is this informed by actually looking at how much universities and their staff do? 😡

Easter #parkrun done #41 🏃‍♀️

Universities call in clowns to stave off circus?

Another Saturday brings another #parkrun. This one is #40 🏃‍♀️

Today is Day One of humanity’s Idiolithic Era.

KLAXON 🚨: Indie SAGE has come out of retirement to release a new short report standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the sciences! DEI is not just the right thing to do, it *improves* the quality of the science. Please read and share. independentsage.org/wp-content/u... 1/2

Chilly but sunny #parkrun wonderful event as always 😊

Sunny #parkrun makes for a great start to the weekend and a welcome distraction from everything else 🏃‍♀️#academiclife

Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?

In a first for any research council we know of, EPSRC shared their data with us and the Alan Turing Institute to delve into what it shows about equity and diversity in application processes. 📖 Read about our findings: rss.org.uk/news-publica...

Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for. www.bbc.com/news/article...

As predicted here for many months, the number of universities now making active redundancies has now risen to 90. It rise to 100 very soon. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Frustratingly sad state of affairs www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New paper alert! This paper introduces "Critical-Questions-of-Thought (CQoT)", a novel method to enhance Large Language Models' (LLMs) reasoning by using critical questions from argumentation theory at test-time, thus giving the models "more time to think". 🧵 #research #genAI #explainableAI

Parkrun #36 done !

Really enjoying this podcast episode podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... about the how research begins from @rebeccaroache.bsky.social

4th candle of Hanukkah #raspberrypi

New article: jpaap.ac.uk/JPAAP/articl... #CompassionateUniversities #Wellbeing

I've started a Brunel University of London starter pack go.bsky.app/QWo9ohQ Please let me know anyone that's missing and I'll add 👍

Meetings

Louder for those in the back. Plus, it inevitably reproduces every kind of social bias, leading students to parrot racist and sexist tropes.

Another Saturday and another #parkrun . A healthy antidote to all that is going on in the world.

Dr Jess Wade has written, and worked on this, quite extensively and provides clarity for many of the arguments that put us into this position, and clarifies our complicity: "I don't understand how scientists and engineers have been okay with it for so long." 🧪 elifesciences.org/interviews/f...

What’s missing? www.theguardian.com/science/2024... #edi

Reproducible Medical Manuscripts in Quarto 📚🩺 @minecr.bsky.social shared invaluable insights during her webinar for R/Medicine: www.youtube.com/watch?featur... Learn more on the Quarto blog: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... #RStats #QuartoPub #Quarto

Pitch perfect. 😂 #academia #HigherEducation

Come work with us! Our Department of Digital Humanities 🧮📝 @kingsdh.bsky.social looks for 12 (!) new Lecturers/Senior Lecturers who are experts in fields such as Digital Methods, Computational Creativity, Digital Labour, Digital Economy etc. Help spread the word! 👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/lin...

Interested in data and in contributing to an experimental data governance project for a Serpentine art exhibition with Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst? We are looking for a 'Data Trustee in-training' from humanities, sociology, law, data science .. 👉 proud-paprika-325.notion.site/Data-Trustee...