What does it take to become successful in academia? Publish early in a top journal, co-author with a well-known (and highly cited) scholar, and be affiliated with an elite institution. That's what the statistics say.
Sarah Lang breaks them down and reflects on her decisions, which went completely against this advice (including starting a research blog!) 👇
“Industrious” Chinese and British “drunkards and scoundrels”:
In 1908, maritime labour debates were shaped by sharp stereotypes. In the pages of The Seaman, Chinese sailors were cast as a “yellow peril” and British workers as unreliable drunkards. Michelle Watzig shows what these stereotypes reveal about the status of British seamen in the early 19th century 👇
Introduction: Competition on the Labour Market ‘A Carnival of Calumny’1—that was how The Seaman, the journal of the National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union, described the situation facing its readers in the early twentieth century. The journal was dominated by a campaign claiming that Chinese seamen, who earned lower wages than European seafarers, were the main … Continue reading ‘Industrious’ Chinese and British ‘Scoundrels’: Stereotypes of Asian and British Seamen in the 1908 Issues of The Seaman
"At its core the reproducibility crisis is a crisis of trust. The findings scientists publish and tout as facts, are often not replicable by others."
Nate Breznau argues that the reproducibility crisis is, at its core, a structural one - and that there is a solution: Diamond #OpenAccess weakens profit driven publishing, supports more ethical research, and improves the knowledge base of generative AI 👇
I discuss why diamond open access is necessary to reduce perverse incentives in science, and to improve the outputs of Gen AI. Over the last two decades awareness of a Reproducibility Crisis penetrated all scientific disciplines. Studies recently showed that 90% in STEM and 95% in psychology were aware of this Crisis1,2. At its core … Continue reading The path toward ethical science is paved with diamonds
"They call it efficiency. We call it violence."
In this episode, Leona Ogrisek and Philippa Kaufmann take a look at Australia's practice of offshoring asylum seekers to the island of Nauru. Listen to the student-led podcast, which the producers envisage as part of the fictional "Capital Crimes" podcast series about systemic violence.
🎧 https://humanitariansea.hypotheses.org/610
#SeminarBlog #HumanitarianSeas #Australia #Asylum #dehypoPodcast #hypoverse
Sociologists tend to be politically left-leaning. Is this a problem?
Read Nate Breznau's thoughts on politics and the scientific method, and why following the scientific method does not preclude ethical problems 👇
In the Tuskegee Experiment, the scientific method was followed carefully. But the scientific method alone does not guarantee that humans are safe from, and or have equal access to participate in, science. The participants were deceived and treatment for their disease was withheld. Unethical and abusive.
Switzerland is often portrayed as a neutral and "raceless" society - but in reality, racism in Switzerland was simply invisible after 1945. Racial knowledge defined who was deemed assimilable and who was excluded, while the Swiss state ignored and eliminated racism from contemporary awareness and history, writes Nicolas Blumenthal 👇
https://migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179
#MigrantKnowledge #GHIWashington #HistoryOfMigration #Migration #Switzerland #hypoverse
After Kamala Harris’s defeat by Donald Trump in the 2024 election, many people concerned with equality in the United States have been asking: “What now?”
Rachel Marie Davis examines feminism in Trump’s second term. She looks at how feminists responded to Trump over the past decade, which strategies failed to connect with the wider public, and what progressive leaders can learn from these experiences 👇
Rising seas threaten the Pacific Islands with a sovereignty crisis that is unprecedented in international law. Rejecting being framed as "climate refugees", Pacific Islanders insist on their agency as nations fighting for survival rather than as victims awaiting rescue.
When territory disappears, what happens to statehood?
https://humanitariansea.hypotheses.org/449
#PacificIslands #RisingSeas #InternationalLaw #Sovereignty #hypoverse
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El agua es vida: With the anarcho-capitalist government of Javier Milei taking over the federal government in Argentina, struggles around water intensified. As the national Israeli water company Mekorot is increasing its presence in Argentina through agreements over water management, indigenous populations and urban activists are starting to mobilize 👇
https://trafo.hypotheses.org/63869
#Argentina #TransregionalActivism #WaterSovereignty #Trafo #hypoverse
By Miriam Bartelmann. Mekorot, the national water company of Israel, is increasing its presence in Argentina through agreements over water management in ten provinces. This includes all provinces along the Andes, where struggles around water are linked to the extraction of resources. These struggles are often led by Indigenous populations and urban activists affected by water shortages and pollution through extractivist corporations. United by the opposition to the loss of autonomy over water, groups connect transnationally, learning from the experience of water apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories and resist the loss of sovereignty over their water resources.
When political repression intended to isolate and break individuals instead produces solidarity, resistance, and moral authority: Klára Pinerová examines the prison experience of Czechoslovak political prisoners from the 1950s to post-Communism as both a tool of repression and a foundation for collective identity and memory politics with the emergence of the "heroic victimhood" narrative.
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