Link: A history of four scientists’ fight against harassment in fieldwork
Kayla Webley Adler of Marie Claire magazine has just published an article recounting the history of the SAFE13 study about sexual harassment and assault in f...
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Combating ‘ivory tower’ syndrome
There is much in this editorial by Andrew Hoffman that merits broadcasting more widely: “Why academics are losing relevance in society – and how to stop it”....
Why don’t we rise up against academic bureaucracy?
I was recently pointed to a 2015 article in Times Higher Education that discusses the problems of meaningless bureaucratic work in academia: “Bureaucracy: wh...
Changing the currency of academic science
John Ioannidis is well known as a critic of the way science has usually been practiced. I’ve linked to his work before (“Link: John Ioannidis and the scienti...
When humanities and science intersect
I haven’t linked to the “scientism” conversation that has been unfolding between Steven Pinker and a number of specialists in the humanities this summer. It’...
Professing in the real world
Education professor Sam Wineburg has a provocative essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education espousing a public impact agenda: “Choosing Real-World Impact O...
Quote: Benno Schmidt on academic freedom
From today’s Wall Street Journal: “Benno Schmidt: Mitch Daniels’s Gift to Academic Freedom”
Writing more accessibly is the watchword
Rachel Toor writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education in favor of academics finding a more polished approach to their prose: “Becoming a stylish writer”.