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OK, this is significant, I think. Humanities Commons now has a Mastodon instance, at https://hcommons.social/about
There are lots of groups of scholars creating their own instances. Could it be one of the first steps towards public/non-profit institutions taking back control of another part of the scholarly communications chain? I hope so.
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If you work in higher ed, please check out this report by Ashley Farmer, Ashanté Reese, and me. It aims to bring transparency to the negotiation process for tenure track jobs, drawing on stories from over 300 faculty.
48,000 TAs, grad workers, and student researchers are voting to authorize a strike with results expected tomorrow
If they go on strike, it will be the biggest strike in the history of higher education https://twitter.com/CaliforniaLabor/status/1585723890071834624
“What’s more, 17,000 of these workers are striking for their very first contract. They’re fighting for fair pay, affordable housing, workplace equity for international scholars and working parents and other basic measures of dignity. https://t.co/9nQX0oB6tV”
Peter Webster
Stephanie J Lahey, PhD
Smaran
Altha Cravey
Sarah T. Roberts
John McChesney-Young