SusanneApr 23, 2025

🎮 Call for Researchers!
Jennifer Ann’s Group, an Atlanta-based nonprofit, is seeking collaborators for studies on how video games can PREVENT teen dating violence.

💜 Since 2006, we’ve used digital media to promote healthy relationships.
Now we’re looking to partner with researchers (students, faculty, or independent scholars) interested in trauma-informed, game-based, and prevention-focused research.

🧠 We do not have funding available at the moment, but would work with you to secure some. (We are US-based, looking to branch out internationally)

📧 Contact: [email protected]
📎 Flyer attached!

#AcademicMastodon #ScholarSocial #Research #PhDLife #CommunityResearch #CBPR #OpenScience #TraumaInformed #VideoGamesForGood #TeenDatingViolence #ViolencePrevention #FeministResearch #SocialImpact #DigitalMedia #GameStudies #NonprofitResearch #ResearchCollab

SteveApr 21, 2025

New blog post: Teaching Against the Interface: Reclaiming Pedagogy in Platformed Learning

In a world of default settings and rigid platforms, how can educators reclaim space for pedagogy?

I explore how systems like Canvas shape teaching — and how we might resist.

Read here: https://www.e-learning-rules.com/blog/0022_teaching_against_the_interface.html

#HigherEd #EdTech #OnlineLearning #Pedagogy #CriticalEdTech #CanvasLMS #DigitalPedagogy #Femedtech #ScholarSocial #EduTooters

Teaching Against the Interface: Reclaiming Pedagogy in Platformed Learning

A reflection on how digital platforms like Canvas shape the practice of teaching, and how educators can resist default pedagogies through critical, dialogic, and emancipatory practice.

ckohtalaAug 18, 2023

I presented at the fedi's Summer School / Solstice School in July and it was useful + fun; we also started talking about our favourite miniatures + diorama projects - which led to a call for a future fedi #DioramaCon.

after the presentation went for a walk and lo + behold - in the window of the local vinyl shop was a diorama of the local vinyl shop 😍

(will repost this with photos of said diorama when I empty the camera)
#ScholarSocial #SolsticeSchool #SummerSchool #AcademicFedi #makers

ckohtalaAug 18, 2023
what is your favourite / the most useful thing you've read and taken from Howard S Becker's Tricks of the Trade?
#STS #AcademicFedi #ScholarSocial
@phdlife
Claus AranhaAug 5, 2023

The #scholarsocial talk went pretty smoothly, even though a splitting headache today made me kinda prepare most of the slides in the last minute...

Thank you @kidskylark for the awesome moderation! I hope you get to speak next year 😃

Here is the cool paper that I mention in the talk. If you couldn't come, start here! https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453

The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities

Biological evolution provides a creative fount of complex and subtle adaptations, often surprising the scientists who discover them. However, because evolution is an algorithmic process that transcends the substrate in which it occurs, evolution's creativity is not limited to nature. Indeed, many researchers in the field of digital evolution have observed their evolving algorithms and organisms subverting their intentions, exposing unrecognized bugs in their code, producing unexpected adaptations, or exhibiting outcomes uncannily convergent with ones in nature. Such stories routinely reveal creativity by evolution in these digital worlds, but they rarely fit into the standard scientific narrative. Instead they are often treated as mere obstacles to be overcome, rather than results that warrant study in their own right. The stories themselves are traded among researchers through oral tradition, but that mode of information transmission is inefficient and prone to error and outright loss. Moreover, the fact that these stories tend to be shared only among practitioners means that many natural scientists do not realize how interesting and lifelike digital organisms are and how natural their evolution can be. To our knowledge, no collection of such anecdotes has been published before. This paper is the crowd-sourced product of researchers in the fields of artificial life and evolutionary computation who have provided first-hand accounts of such cases. It thus serves as a written, fact-checked collection of scientifically important and even entertaining stories. In doing so we also present here substantial evidence that the existence and importance of evolutionary surprises extends beyond the natural world, and may indeed be a universal property of all complex evolving systems.

arXiv.org
Mx. Vero MLISNov 19, 2022
So long and thanks for all the fish 🐬 /q it’s been real tweeple 🫡
#TheAgeOfTwitter is falling, here’s to a prosperous fair just respectful peaceful age of #Fediverse #Fediversity #scholarSocial 🥂/genuine /hopeful #toneTags
Lynne JackierNov 18, 2022

@scholar.social please review this. I'm concerned that bad actors are manipulating Mastodon to harrass people here as they come over from Twitter.

#ScholarSocial
#harassment
#Twitter
#AccountSuspension
#racism

NothingAndTrashNov 13, 2022
So since #scholarsocial isn’t accepting new members, what’s a good alternative #instance for #academics?
NothingAndTrashNov 12, 2022
Does anyone know when #scholarsocial will be accepting new members?
Show threadMegNov 8, 2022

@Kinniska Maybe they're getting slammed with trolling? And I'm sure there are a ton of academics still trying to get in.

This and other academically oriented servers are going to have to scale up fast, or it will defeat the purpose of academics coming here in the first place.

I also worry that the massive influx of academics is more about anxious egos rushing to the megaphone than wanting to find interesting discussions.

#academia #ScholarSocial