By Andy Thomason. A Democratic member of Congress is digging into the funding of a handful of researchers who have questioned the prevailing view on the causes of climate change, The Washington Post reports. More...
1 mars 2015
1 mars 2015
AAUP Condemns Proposed Closure of U. of North Carolina Poverty Center
By Andy Thomason. The American Association of University Professors is urging the University of North Carolina system’s governing board to reject a working group’s recommendation to close an independent center on poverty issues. The association on Tuesday released a statement saying it would be “greatly disappointed” if the Board of Governors approved a recommendation to close the UNC School of Law’s Center on Poverty, Work, and Community. More...
1 mars 2015
‘World’s Largest University’ Is Scamming Students, Investigation Reveals
By Andy Thomason. A website that calls itself the “world’s largest university” is scamming students in the Middle East and elsewhere with promises of generous financial aid and degrees that turn out to be fake, an investigation by Al-Fanar Media reveals. More...
1 mars 2015
Understanding the New Higher-Ed Landscape: Chronicle Sessions at SXSWedu
By Jeffrey R. Young. Big challenges face higher education these days, and plenty of talk about new models and approaches. At this year’s South by Southwest education conference, in Austin, Tex., The Chronicle is organizing a morning of sessions to share some of the trends and challenges we’re seeing, and we invite audience members to share their big ideas.As part of the event, we’re borrowing a page from the TV show Shark Tank. We’re inviting several academic and start-up leaders to make a three-minute pitch about an innovative project or product they think will deal with a key problem facing higher education. Read more...
1 mars 2015
Meet the 26-Year-Old Behind Academic Twitter’s Most Popular Hashtags
By Steve Kolowich. It didn’t take much for Glen Wright to figure out that academics on Twitter are just like everyone else.“#AcademicWithCats—let’s get it started people!” wrote Mr. Wright, a Paris-based researcher, from the account for his blog, Academia Obscura.
Many academics spend their days reading and purveying dense, largely humorless tomes, or buried in lab work or archives, and have a reputation as a serious tribe. Cats and Twitter, however, are great equalizers. Read more...
1 mars 2015
The Believers - The hidden story behind the code that runs our lives
By Paul Voosen. Magic has entered our world. In the pockets of many Americans today are thin black slabs that, somehow, understand and anticipate our desires. Linked to the digital cloud and satellites beyond, churning through personal data, these machines listen and assist, decoding our language, viewing and labeling reality with their cameras. This summer, as I walked to an appointment at the University of Toronto, stepping out of my downtown hotel into brisk hints of fall, my phone already had directions at hand. I asked where to find coffee on the way. It told me. What did the machine know? How did it learn? A gap broader than any we’ve known has opened between our use of technology and our understanding of it. How did the machine work? As I would discover, no one could say for certain. More...1 mars 2015
Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe
By Laura Kipnis. It’s been barely a year since the Great Prohibition took effect in my own workplace. Before that, students and professors could date whomever we wanted; the next day we were off-limits to one another—verboten, traife, dangerous (and perhaps, therefore, all the more alluring). More...1 mars 2015
Big-Data Project on 1918 Flu Reflects Key Role of Humanists
By Jennifer Howard. A deadly virus arrives in America, carried by travelers from abroad. Health officials scramble to contain the threat, imposing quarantines and other strict measures even as they seek to reassure the public.It sounds like the Ebola outbreak of 2014. But this scenario played out almost a hundred years ago, during the Spanish-influenza pandemic of 1918. Now a team of humanists and computer scientists has combined early-20th-century primary sources and 21st-century big-data analysis to better understand how America responded to the viral threat in 1918. More...
1 mars 2015
For Better or Worse, Universities Make Greater Use of Smaller Lab Animals
By Paul Basken. First they helped save some chimpanzees and cats. Now they’re coming for the mice and the rats.Researchers with the activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, in an article published on Wednesday in the Journal of Medical Ethics, said moves by lab scientists away from using large animals were obscuring the growing use of rodents and other small animals. More...
1 mars 2015
A Climate Crusader Melts, Exposing a Profitable Link to Harvard’s Name
By Paul Basken. Years of using a Harvard nameplate to flog his insistence that polar bears are doing fine, and that sunspots might explain planetary warming better than the Industrial Revolution does, may finally have caught up with Wei-Hock Soon. More...
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