One of my favorite Twitter accounts was always Matthew Christopher's Abandoned America. Matthew closed up shop on Twitter and moved to Mastodon as @AbandonedAmerica. You should follow and support his work not only because we need more mid-size original content accounts here, but because his photos are FANTASTIC.
https://mastodon.social/@AbandonedAmerica/109452123378940711
A TLS, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 The new bestseller from the acclaimed author of Justice and one of the world's most popular philosophers "Astute, insightful, and empathetic...A crucial book for this moment" Tara Westover, author of Educated These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fuelled populist protest, with the triumph of Brexit and election of Donald Trump. Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the polarized politics of our time, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalisation and rising inequality. Sandel highlights the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind. He offers an alternative way of thinking about success - more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility, and more hospitable to a politics of the common good.
Welche Bedeutung hat Mastodon für eine dezentralere Informationsinfrastruktur & welche Rolle spielt es in der #Wisskomm? Darüber sprechen http://chaos.social/@fuzzyleapfrog & http://scholar.social/@lambo am 17. Nov (Donnerstag!) ab 11:45 Uhr hier im Live-Stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2QlcYSF3wgFaFNWwepviHQ
Mehr dazu: https://tib.eu/wissenschaft-im-fediverse
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“As president of @STSeasst , I send my warm thanks and respect to those who have had the courage to speak up about abuse in STS environments. This is an important moment for the community to listen carefully and to reflect upon how we want to treat each other and be treated 1/2”
In Germany, U of Hannover and @tibhannover invite applications for a
"Professorship in #AI for #ScholarlyCommunication".
Working with @soeren_auer and many colleagues on Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Technologies.
Please consider applying and please share widely.
See description here:
https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/5678
Hello!
This Mastodon sever is for folks whose primary reason for engaging on here is to talk about higher education policy, governance and management, student access and outcomes, and related topics.
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We don't have to agree. Disagreement is generative. We can have strong views. But let's be constructive and good to each other.
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