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600 job cuts. Closure of 42 degree courses. Nottingham University is selling its King's Meadow and brand-new Castle Meadow Campus which "for as little as £14.4 million despite bosses spending around £80m on the ill-fated project." #highered #academicsky www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

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University of Nottingham set to cut 600 jobs in major cost-cutting move

The university hopes the move will stop it from running out of cash

Nottinghamshire Live

Andy Tseng 13h ago

🤦🏻‍♂️ #StandUpForScience #ScienceMatters #ResearchSky #AcademicSky #USPol

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Nicolas Clairis 20h ago

Nous avons donné une présentation de Where To Publish (https://wheretopublish.github.io/) au Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL) hier. La présentation est disponible en français à ce lien: https://pod.inserm.fr/video/2459-grt-integrite-scientifique-where_to_publish/ Merci encore au Groupe de Travail Intégrité Scientifique pour l'invitation à présenter la base de données. Petit à petit on va faire bouger les choses! #openAccess #scientificPublicationSystem #publishOrPerish #AcademicSky

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Dr Ian McCormick 1d ago

"Based only on their accent, lower-working-class people were judged to be on average 14% less intelligent, 4% less friendly and 5% less trustworthy than upper-middle-class people." #language #HigherEd #AcademicSky #edchat #DEI #linguistics www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2...

Working class and ethnic minor...

Working class and ethnic minority accents in south east England judged as less intelligent | Blog | University of Essex

Working class and ethnic minority accents in south east England judged as less intelligent

Scott McGrath 1d ago

Yikes! #AcademicSky 🧬💻

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Dr Ian McCormick 1d ago

* Immanuel Kant's 438-word sentence * #German #linguistics #language #philosophy #writing #HigherEd #AcademicSky #religion

Julie Cruse 2d ago

What if your experience — the one nobody did anything about — could help someone else? Take the anonymous survey at buff.ly/3Qn8xeQ. 20 responses can support a class action lawsuit. 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

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Andy Tseng 2d ago

Not so sure about this - I've known quite a few funny scientists. You know who you are! #Science #AcademicSky #ResearchSky

It’s official: scientists aren...

It’s official: scientists aren’t funny. But it doesn’t have to be this way

It’s a world of bottom quarks and arsole compounds – so why is science still so serious? Levity can make it all a lot easier to understand, says science writer Helen Pilcher

The Guardian

Gabriele Pollara 2d ago

This is both hilarious in its hypothetical accuracy on what makes a cool Nature paper nowadays, but also utterly frightening. Imagine overlaying this prompt with some more details and maybe data for half the desired story.... 😨 #AcademicSky

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)2d ago

I don't have words for how angry I am. Instead of handing over money to the Student Loans Company & technofascist slop and surveillance companies, the Treasury and taxes should support the common good, including not punishing people for having the audacity to get an education. #academicsky

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