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Just a reminder that adding “young” (or “old”, for that matter) in a job ad is discriminatory. Why not write down something that the candidate can actually work on improving instead, and that has something to do with the job you’ll ask them to do?

#JustSaying #Academia


Funding research, fighting divestment

"Details about oil majors contributing hundreds of millions of dollars to top universities to build relationships that could help the industry avoid taking climate action were inside thousands of pages of documents unveiled Tuesday by Democrats on the House Oversight and Accountability and the Senate Budget committees.

Of the files released Tuesday, many show the extraordinary lengths energy giants have gone to in order to maintain public support for the oil industry — a major employer that’s also one of the nation’s top corporate climate polluters.

Companies have acknowledged, then flat-out ignored, stark warnings about the fate of the planet in relation to their activities."


Big Oil document dump spotlights industry influence in academia

@academicchatter

#academia #climate #AcademicChatter


@adredish
A major issue is when to let go of data taking hundreds of terabytes of space, and no one in the lab remembers what exactly it is, and the associated metadata and documentation (a wiki page) was lost some time ago or no longer makes sense. One never has time to go through these.

I do not have a good solution. The solution I'd want is an annual review of data, tied with the 5-year cycle of data servers (that's how long they're expected to last).

#academia


Hcommons.social is an academic server for humanities scholars and practitioners around the world:

:Fediverse: https://hcommons.social

It runs on Hometown Mastodon, a special version of Mastodon with additional features.

You can find out more at https://hcommons.social/about or contact the admin @hello

#FeaturedServer #Humanities #Academic #Academics #Academia #Research #Researchers #Hometown #HometownMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse


University protests against Israel's war in Gaza are spreading across the U.S. After multiple Columbia University students were arrested last week for refusing to leave an encampment, arrests were made at Yale University today.

Daily Beast has a recap of what's happening, including new protests at New York University and the University of Michigan: https://flip.it/2MJY.s

For more stories on the Mideast crisis, follow @israel-hamas-war-thenewsdesk

#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #News #Academia #HigherEd #Protest