Ethics in Bricks
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“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” - Howard Zinn
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"Academic" is just a fancy job title for Elsevier's content creators.
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"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors" Link: https://t.co/SpKI7fHFWS
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Sorbonne University decides to withdraw from THE World University Ranking: https://t.co/uCEVfKucKd Why would universities do this? I wrote a blog about it recently on social science space, available here: https://t.co/TS8pQtl6SH
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University rankings have little meaning, are highly subjective, promote a competition frame, and thwart our academic freedom, as commercial ranking organizations dictate what constitutes “a good university.” - https://t.co/YSzt6QAcbD
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"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." - Hannah Arendt
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University rankings have little meaning, are highly subjective, promote a competition frame, and thwart our academic freedom, as commercial ranking organizations dictate what constitutes “a good university.” - https://t.co/YSzt6QAcbD
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University rankings have little meaning, are highly subjective, promote a competition frame, and thwart our academic freedom, as commercial ranking organizations dictate what constitutes “a good university.” - https://t.co/YSzt6QAcbD
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University rankings have little meaning, are highly subjective, promote a competition frame, and thwart our academic freedom, as commercial ranking organizations dictate what constitutes “a good university.” - https://t.co/YSzt6QAcbD
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Study finds that the use of analytics and automation may decrease (!) effectiveness of some departments. https://t.co/g7sLTxeMAH
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20 things that women should stop wearing after the age of 30. 1-20: The weight of other people's expectations and judgments.
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If you have more than you need, build a longer table - not a higher fence.
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Three months of confusion. One revelation: God was listening the whole time. Get the rest of the story on my page.
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Interesting that this seems to go against my earlier repost in an academic setting. Worth looking into.
A study tested whether identical (!!!!) CVs were rated differently by academics if only the gender in the CV was changed. Findings: 👩🎓Women got overall worse grades than men. 👨🎓Men were rated as having higher leadership potential than women. Source: https://t.co/WJEdZ8UD9M
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"Our desire not to be inferior to others in terms of performance, combined with the idea that we can freely choose to go the extra mile, can lead to self-exploitation. We force ourselves to go beyond what is good for us — until we burn out." - Berend van der Kolk (@quantifiedsoc)
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Academia- Reading a book only to realize you need to read 10 more Can you relate?
Academia: reading an article, only to realise you need to read 10 more articles.
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Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction [.] and the distinction between true and false [.] no longer exists.”
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