Solidarity with my colleagues at Erasmus University, who are on strike today. They are protesting the announced budget cuts on higher education.

“Homines [mihi crede,] non nascuntur, sed finguntur.” ("Humans are [believe me] not born, but are made.")
- Desiderius Erasmus

Just sayin'

https://www.fnv.nl/nieuwsbericht/sectornieuws/fnv-overheid/2025/04/hoger-onderwijs-rotterdam-actie-bezuinigingen

(Plz join TU Delft in our strike on 24 April.)

"10 Jahren Bündnis freie Bildung - Was ist in dieser Zeit alles passiert?"

Dieser Frage sind einige langjährige Mitglieder in unserer neuesten Podcastfolge nachgegangen.

Welche Aufgaben das Bündnis zukünftig übernehmen möchte und wie ein Bündnis-Future-Song klingen könnte?

Hört einfach selbst :

https://www.o-e-r.de/podcast-zugehoert-114

Join TU Delft's strike against budget cuts on higher education and scientific research.

See you on 24 April 2025!

#OER-Workshop am 29.04.2025
Einführung in die Erstellung offener #Bildungsmaterialien – mit Fokus auf Lizenzierung, Urheberrecht und praktische Nutzung in der Lehre.

14–16 Uhr: Grundlagen | 16:30–18 Uhr: Q&A

Anmeldung via info@twillo.de

Mehr Infos: https://www.twillo.de/oer/web/workshop_29042025/
https://www.twillo.de/oer/web/workshop_29042025/

Zitieren in #OER ist durchaus erlaubt - aber wann ist denn ein Zitat ein Zitat ? Antworten darauf gibt's in einem #kurzerklärt-Video: https://doi.org/10.5446/62503

Strike prep in progress.

A warm welcome to our next English speaking workshop: #OER Basics and Fundamentals for Higher Education. For more information  https://www.twillo.de/oer/web/workshop-oer-basics-and-fundamentals-for-higher-education/

A #SciComm toolkit for scientists: How to prepare for #media interviews, how to share your #research on #SocialMedia, how to handle harassment, and more.

Aimed at climate researchers, but relevant to any communicating scientist:

www.rmets.org/sites/defaul...

I'll be honest, I don't intend to submit academic papers to US-based journals and conferences anymore.

1. Self-censorship of science at US universities and scientific organizations is in full swing and I see virtually no institutional resistance (although some individual scholars are protesting). I don't expect to get a fair hearing with human rights-oriented empirical legal research in peer review any longer.

2. The way this is going I would expect even currently neutral journals to fold within the usual timeframe of a paper review process. I don't feel like burning a paper in the hopes of getting it published before the door closes.

3. I prefer to submit my research to journals backed by institutions that support human dignity, diversity and the freedom of scientific research.

We've all seen where this went in Europe during the 1930s. I hope the US will learn from our history, but I am not optimistic right now.

FYI the Max Planck Encyclopaedia of International Law is now available #OpenAccess for one year: https://opil.ouplaw.com/home/MPIL

Looking to learn about international legal buzzwords like human dignity, tariffs or the use of force? Try the MPIL.

Wer offene Videos aus dem wiss. Kontext veröffentlichen und mehr zum @TIB_AVPortal erfahren mag, kann sich ganz einfach ein individuelles Onlinetreffen mit dem Experten Matti buchen: https://www.tib.eu/de/lernen-arbeiten/tibgefragt/audiovisuelle-medien-publizieren#book-me-now

Has anyone calculated/estimated what Trump's war on science will mean for (for-profit) academic publishers? Given the political and financial turmoil I see no way how academics from US institutions can publish the same volume of new articles like they did before

#science
#academicpublishing
#academicmastodon

#arXivFools approaches once again, and I'll be doing my annual update of the list of arXiv joke papers: https://www.ellipsix.net/arxiv-joke-papers.html

Any academics who may see this, feel free to send me links tomorrow!

You're a scientist? How do you present yourself on #SocialMedia?

New #SciComm research shows: Participants rated #scientists who shared their failures as more benevolent and open, and as having more integrity, than those who only shared their successes.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10755470251322902

Wir freuen uns sehr über Verstärkung im Team twillo

David Stöllger kümmert sich künftig um den #twilloHub – unsere Initiative zur technischen Vernetzung von OER-Infrastrukturen. Neugierig, was der twilloHub bietet? https://www.twillo.de/oer/web/twillohub-oer-laenderuebergreifend/

Kennt ihr schon unseren YouTube-Kanal? Dort informieren wir rund um OER! Dieser Beitrag ist Teil einer Playlist, die wir zusammengestellt haben. Engagement Global und Mr. Wissen2Go haben diese informativen Videos über OER erstellt.
https://www.youtube.com/@Open-educational-resourcesDe
Abonniert uns!

Kennt ihr unseren #YouTube Kanal?
Mr. Wissen2Go und Engagement Global haben tolle #Videos gedreht und wir haben eine #Playlist daraus gemacht.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7W9FHtJ-hl2oOYwDxlSqVxtzhcXogJCL

Unser #OER des Monats thematisiert #Rassismus in der #Dermatologie. In den Lehrmaterialien werden Krankheitsbilder auf nicht-weißer Haut gezeigt, wodurch bei den Studierenden Lern- und Reflexionsprozesse gefördert werden sollen. Zudem werden historische Verbindungen offengelegt, die in vielfältiger Weise in der Medizin fortwirken. https://www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/components/collections?id=3adf3849-909a-465d-a485-b40b8c1c1066

Power to the people of the University of Twente, who are on strike today, protesting the announced budget cuts on higher education!

https://www.utwente.nl/nl/oput/25-maart-UT-staking/

I know it's happened many times to many other folks like me, but here's a note to people in the sciences coming from an interaction I just had:

Please don't expect to just add social scientists/humanities folks like me to your grant projects at the last minute to satisfy a requirement for ethics or whatever. We're not widgets you can just plug in.