⏳ 1 week left to submit your proposal to OEGlobal 2026.

If you care about knowledge as a public good — this is your moment.

We’re seeking bold ideas, grounded practice, and collaborative visions.

🎓 Theme: Innovating open practices to uphold and uplift knowledge as a public good.
📍 MIT Samberg Conference Center, Cambridge MA + Online
📅 Oct 7–9, 2026

Deadline: April 7
🔗 https://twp.ai/ImxKeR
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Our recent paper 📜 ( see https://fediscience.org/@idealab/116284938212580094 ) was well received in national and international press. We were featured not only by the press department of Bielefeld University ( https://aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2026/03/25/why-no-individual-is-like-another/ ) but also by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space ( https://www.research-in-germany.org/idw-news/en_US/2026/3/2026-03-25_Why_No_Individual_Is_Like_Another.html ) and by the American popular science magazine Nautilus ( https://nautil.us/the-science-behind-being-one-of-a-kind-1279329 ).

#genetics #epigenetics #ecology #nautilus #evolution #plasticity #AcademicMastodon @academicchatter

#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:

• Focus on relevance, clarity, and learning outcomes
• 500-word abstract
• 100–200-word learning outcomes
• Select a track + format + how you will attend

🪇 That’s it!

Don’t overthink it — share your work with the global open community.

Deadline: April 7 👉 https://twp.ai/ImxKxt

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I reached the rank of Asst. Prof in Tenure Run! 🎓

I published 22 papers and paid $12,500 in APCs to publishers. My grant money is gone and I am exhausted. 💸

How far can you make it? Play now at https://forrt.org/TenureRun/
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My best rank yet, once I realized the fancy p = p-hacking… and that it was speeding me up too much. 😅

#academicchat #academicmastodon #tenurerun

RE: https://spore.social/@solarpunkcast/116302566353555016

Highly recommend checking this out and participating, if you can. Also please check out Solarpunk Now! podcast if you haven't already - some really thoughtful and well-researched treatments of a wide range of topics all related to solarpunk.

#solarpunk #academicChatter #AcademicMastodon #sustainability

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
(#paywalled)

"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."

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

#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:

• Focus on relevance, clarity, and learning outcomes
• 500-word abstract
• 100–200-word learning outcomes
• Select a track + format + how you will attend

🪇 That’s it!

Don’t overthink it — share your work with the global open community.

Deadline: April 7 👉 https://twp.ai/ImxN0A

#OpenEducation #OER #OpenAccess #AcademicMastodon

⛵️ Not sure you can travel?

OEGlobal 2026 is:

✔ In-person
✔ Hybrid
✔ Fully online
✔ 5-minute asynchronous lightning talks

There are many ways to participate.

Submission deadline: April 7 –> https://twp.ai/ImxN0y

#OEGlobal26 #OpenEducation #PublicGood #HowTo #Hybrid #OER #OpenAccess #AcademicMastodon

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! 👀

#OpenScience #TrainTheTrainer #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #Education