Koen Hufkens, PhD
Koen Hufkens, PhD  ·  2 months ago
Scathing piece on Benevolent Dictators For Life (BDFL) by @pluralistic and how they go off the rails. I can't but think about academia. Getting tenure, defacto, is gunning for being a BDFL.

If a PI finds themself "... beset by people demanding that you confront your privilege, perhaps what's changed isn't those people, but rather the amount of privilege you have."

You can easily find yourself on the wrong side of history.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/10/bdfl/

#academia#AcademicChatter
@academicchatter

UniversityofGroningenLibrary
UniversityofGroningenLibrary  ·  4 months ago
🌟Hello #AcademicMastodon🌟

I'm Hannah and currently working on the research project to understand the role of #Mastodon in #academia during my internship here.

If you haven’t done so already, please consider participating in the project. I would love to hear from you:

🔗https://rug.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9M1VEyMQ8k4xv94

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has already participated in the survey! It is really insightful to read your opinions and experiences.

#AcademicChatter#OpenScience#Plushtodon#SocialMedia

Dr Pen
Dr Pen  ·  6 months ago
Revised version of **Creating a city for all of us: a role for the Fediverse in archiving civic urban memory**. Accepted to Digital Society journal, so should be published fairly soon I hope.

I discuss the Fediverse as a solution to civically owned urban memory archives. I use Mastodon as an example to highlight a few key tech challenges as well as to illustrate moderation approaches.

https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/te2ms

#fediverse #urban #memory #civic #learning #archives #academicchatter #urbanism