The final article draws the thread together, exposing a deliberate, interconnected system across continents, legal systems, and institutions.

This series is meant to support civil society organisations, trade unions, workers, activists, academics, small businesses, and journalists fighting back.

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#CivilSociety #Union #Journalism #Academia

Why are we kidding ourselves? Or am I missing some key information about how great 'AI' is in L&T at university? How is this 'the future'? What is it about smart sounding chatbots (even if they were accurate and reliable) that is so good it replaces human skill, effort and knowledge? How have bigtech AI companies fooled academics so easily?

#ai #genai #academia #academicchatter

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!

vacancies.aau.dk/phd-positions…

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

PhD Position in Decentralized and Federated Cloud Computing ( HCC )

PhD Position in Decentralized and Federated Cloud Computing ( HCC ) We invite applications for a fully-funded 3-year PhD position on the topic of us...

^{Aalborg University}

How to fund #research with less bias and lower costs? Use more lotteries!

"Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced cost"

nature.com/articles/s41467-025…

Give that this is only one of many such reports over the last decades, surely, this has become the standard by now? Oh, wait...

"taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself"

nature.com/articles/d41586-025…

Looks like #academia really is evidence-resistant 🫣

Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding

With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.

^{Schweiger, Gerald}