Alex Bronzini-Vender reviews Elise Stefanik's new book, 𝘗𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘐𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢’𝘴 𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/elise-stefanik-goes-woke
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"Stefanik…has assembled here the most serious version of the Trumpist case against 'woke' academe. The problem is that the most serious version of the Trumpist critique turns out not to be serious at all…In Stefanik’s telling, the woke academy has poisoned itself with the conflation of discomfort with harm, arbitrary line-drawing between legitimate ideas and hateful ones, and the fetishizing of subjective experience. And Stefanik’s antidote, it turns out, is more conflation of discomfort with harm, arbitrary line-drawing between legitimate ideas and hateful ones, and the fetishizing of subjective experience."

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#OEGlobal26 is exploring the innovations in open practices that uphold and uplift knowledge as a public good.

Thinking of submitting? Here’s what you need:

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Completed Part 1 of the @digiresacademy's program, including delivering my very own session on the Academic Wheel of Privilege by @FORRT.

Full slides on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19055973

A bit more on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alelazic_awop-sample-slides-ugcPost-7442626627278233600-_fIZ

Grateful for the DRA community for creating this space. On to Part 2! 👀

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🚀 Bei uns ist Einiges los im April: Von Tipps für die Konsistenz in KI-generierten Videos über ansprechendes Design mit Canva hin zur Bildgenerierung mithilfe von KI.

🤗 Außerdem eine herzliche Einladung zum Netzwerktreffen KI zur Frage: Wie können KI-Chatbots bei der Qualitätsförderung von offenen Bildungsmaterialien unterstützen.

Infos und Anmeldung 👉 https://www.twillo.de/veranstaltungen/

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@DenisMeuthen , PI of the @idealab , contributed to an opinion paper 📜 in Trends in Ecology and Evolution ( @TrendsEcolEvo ) . In this paper, we hypothesize that niche processes (niche choice, niche construction, niche conformance) and epigenetic variation are causally and bidirectionally linked. Studying this bidirectional causal relationship will deepen our understanding of the proximate mechanisms underlying individualization and elucidate how epigenetic variation arises, persists, and contributes to evolution. You can access the full paper here: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0169-5347(25)00370-2

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Yesterday has been a great day: first, the referendum in Italy, then this landed in my inbox: "Proceedings Cumulus Nantes 2025 NOW ONLINE".
I have a short paper in it about a topic I hold dear: Ethics.

The title is "Information as an Experience: A Visual Design Approach to Ethics for Building Relationships between Researchers and Participants" and it's about design, research, and what "getting informed" actually means.

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