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!) 👇

https://epigrammetry.hypotheses.org/6257

#Academia #hypoverse

Hello #fediverse! Thanks to my new DFF grant, I'm now looking to hire a PhD student to join me at AAU in Aalborg 🇩🇰 to work on "usable decentralization", i.e. on making distributed and federated cloud services accessible to the everyday user. For more details, see link below, and please don't hesitate to DM me with questions!

https://www.vacancies.aau.dk/phd-positions/show-vacancy/vacancyId/895183

#HCI #academia #getfedihired #decentralization #AAU #Aalborg #Denmark #selfhosted #selfhosting

📲 Sarah Carrim speaks with Omer Bartov about academic silence, #gaza, and the costs of speaking publicly about ongoing mass #violence

Bartov reflects on the pressures shaping scholarly speech in the #US, the uneven application of legal and moral frameworks, and what the world’s response to Gaza reveals about whose lives are recognized and protected

#law #warcrimes #media
#genocide #debate #academics #society

Video credit: Not to Forgive, but to Understand #podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGaiRH1syDA&list=WL&index=59&t=40s

❤️

#Photo #LumixS1R

21 days in the cancer centre

sz_duras:

‘everyday life is (always already )alienating. The documents the hospital gave me, spoke to me about 4 or 5 times, contained every warning except an acknowledgement of my personal stress. Twenty days of stress…’

https://sz-duras.medium.com/21-days-at-the-cancer-centre-bc9fc6b907bf

Wole Soyinka: The Changing Mask of Fear:

“the nature of fear and its impact on individuals and society. He explores how fear is used for positive motives as well as negative and how it's changed over time. He outlines that there is a new era of fear.”

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-reith-lectures-archive-1976-2012/id445833633?i=1000095094995