A thread on an issue that was missing from the previous thread, and that needs to be addressed: grantmanship, and how it blatantly wastes public research money (1/9)

I'm serious. STEM without the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities will produce more "innovative" tech bros who giddily reinvent rent, roommates, taxes, and now...roller skates. With complete, straight-faced, sincerity. This is a problem. And I have a list (So, thread 🧵)

Did you know that the References are the part of a paper most often overlooked? 😳 It's not only damaging science but also making desk-rejection more likely. Here's a 9-point references checklist for you to bookmark! A thread. 🧵 #PostDoc #newPI #PIchat — ✅1: Did you read

A little while back I asked for some help on here for the best resources on analysis for my doctoral qualitative research seminar. Many asked to see the final product. Here you go! docs.google.com/document/d/1PJ…

REPORT LAUNCH: 'Risking Lives: Smart Borders, Private Interests and AI Policy in Europe' from the DATAJUSTICE project. Read it here: datajusticeproject.net/wp-content/upl…

I JUST SUBMITTED MY DISSERTATION!

Consider our #OpenAcess chapter on #museum #makerspaces aimed at children (& parents) #DigitalParenting

🥁GIF IT UP will return this October with new collections to explore🔍animation tutorials to follow online and in-person, a new partner and a special prize category. Save the date📅, spread the word📢check out entries from previous editions📺➡️giphy.com/gifitup #GIFITUP2023

📢📢📢 **CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS** conference+edited volume Contested Monuments with Paul Basu and @sophialabadi Please see details, including conveners' emails, below. #conference #book

Yesterday I was at Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário Porto for the workshop on #DataReflexivity at the ecrea_eu conference. Thanks to the organizers PillePV MartinaSMahnke Joëlle Swart and David Mathieu. It was really nice being together and sharing ideas @annettemarkham.bsky.social + @mastodon.social on such a poignant topic!

Utrecht University Utrecht University in the Netherlands has withdrawn itself from the World University ranking World University Rankings provided by Times Higher Education. As this has generated quite some reactions - praise, questions, some doubts, I want to provide some context. Hence a thread 🧵1/16

Our Flexible Grants for Small Groups - offering up to €8,100/£7,000 for small groups of scholars working across the #socialsciences & #humanities- is now open for applicants. Share widely! Deadline 5pm BST, 30th November 2023. More Information here👉isrf.org/funding-opport…

We scrapped our #Museum capital project. - it was taking ages to deliver - seemed complicated - and we’ve only demolished a few houses Under our new plan ‘keeping things in other people’s lofts’ we won’t build anything or collect stuff. Just leave it scattered about ! 🧵👇

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It is not every day one can brag about having written something in a language one can hardly read. Two chapters in Norwegian about our experiments with museum things that have lost their stories and how to use digital space to talk about things.

porslinsravsmuseum.se presents itself. What happens when one creates artistic project which is satire of a museum. Amazing idea that we did not know we needed. 🦊🦊🦊

Walter Benjamin's rules for writing

I remember asking, when I was a govmt adviser on archives, how we were planning to make digital archives survive future software and hardware changes. No answer. There's just an assumption that 'the future' will always know how to access Word files. Crazy.

raa.se/omvarld-och-in… Museums live in a data loopand have to cope with monsters. In the autumn, I spoke of monsters, data and museums. The site is in Swedish, but the talk was in English.

Next up in our SI on Data reflexivity (guest-edited w/ Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke, PillePV & David Mathieu) for Convergence Journal: ‘Repairing what’s not broken: algorithm repair manual as reflexivity device’: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…