By John Warner. Taking a trip of a lifetime and leaving someone to mind the store. More...
26 mars 2018
26 mars 2018
Informed Dissent
By Barbara Fister. I went to a brown-bag lunch with some folks today talking about how to use a new software platform developed to keep notes about advisees and keep track of both problems and promise. It will replace a lot of emails and phone calls and dropped balls, but it also feels a bit like a benevolent Panopticon. More...
26 mars 2018
Winner Take All (But the Blame)
By Barbara Fister. As hard as it is to be shocked by anything anymore, the deeply reported story about how a politically-motivated marketing company used personal data of over fifty million unwitting people gathered through a Facebook app, collecting psychological profiles to merge with vast amounts of personal data is still pretty astonishing. Kudos to The New York Times and the Guardian’s Observer for their work. More...
26 mars 2018
From Schooled Skepticism to Informed Trust
By Barbara Fister. It’s one thing to teach students about disinformation. It’s another to convince them information can sometimes be trusted. More...26 mars 2018
'Get News. Not too Quickly. Avoid Social.'
By Joshua Kim. In his NYTimes piece For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned., Manjoo relates the benefits of moving towards a diet of paper newspapers and magazines, while forgoing Facebook and Twitter. More...25 mars 2018
Should Academic Centers Be as Contentious as Academic Departments?
By Joshua Kim. The downsides of playing nice.How are traditional academic departments and academic centers different. More...
25 mars 2018
Committee Work: A Tale of Two Academics
By Joshua Kim. Why a traditional academic must constantly so “no," while an alternative academic looks for opportunities to say “yes”. More...
By 25 mars 2018
Dear Survivor. #Enough.
We haven’t met. My name’s Anne and I live in Western Massachusetts. I’m an artist and educator, and I’m into local politics and community organizing. I make cute hats and I teach kids, and I’ve been an autobio cartoonist since I was 16. I have tattoos and cats, and I’m a roller derby official, and I love Iceland. I look younger than I am, but I don’t get carded at bars any more. I dye my hair. I work at a museum. More...
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