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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Metrics Rules: UT Says Faculty at Flagship Bring In Twice as Much Money as They Cost – Teaching – The Chronicle of Higher Education
U. of Texas Says Faculty at Flagship Bring In Twice as Much Money as They Cost – Teaching – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Bloomberg Sows the Wind
But will he reap the whirlwind? By evicting the Wall Street Occupiers from Zuccotti Park in a nighttime military-style raid, Mayor Bloomberg has garnered global headlines for the Occupy Movement yet again: There is a high likelihood that the Occupy … Continue reading
Journal ranking biased against interdisciplinary research « The Citation Culture
Paul Wouters, professor of scientometrics and director at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University, has a nice post on a paper that was presented by Ismael Rafols at the recent 4S meeting in Cleveland. The bottom … Continue reading
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Carl Mitcham Interview on Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
CSID Senior Fellow Carl Mitcham interviewed by William Davis about interdisciplinarity, STS, and philosophy. It’s a nice introduction to the new Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. Interdisciplinarity and Pedagogy: Disciplining Collaboration in Academia. William Davis interviewed Carl Mitcham. « … Continue reading
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There is no ambiguity in the law here?
From Mayor Bloomberg: There is no ambiguity in the law here – the First Amendment protects speech – it does not protect the use of tents and sleeping bags to take over a public space. via Full Text: Bloomberg Statement … Continue reading
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Questionable Science Behind Academic Rankings – NYTimes.com
Questionable Science Behind Academic Rankings – NYTimes.com –a hilarious account of the ‘science’ of metrics….
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On the steering effect of metrics
From Professor Paul Wouters’ presentation on ACUMEN at the recent 4S meeting in Cleveland: Evaluation systems produce quality and relevance as much as they measure it. The whole prezi is full of such claims. Professor Wouters is preaching to the … Continue reading
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Economic Inequality: Back to the Future
The World Top Incomes Database illustrates just how different post-WWII calls for “austerity” were from those of today (h/t Paul Krugman). Hint: shared sacrifice. Top 1% Income Share (US)
A scary-brilliant way to talk about research impact
Sounds like a crop futures report (or worse): On the research intensity side, the report shows that overall the UK has experienced positive but slower growth in the volume of articles published relative to the world average, with article output … Continue reading
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The Crisis of the EMU and Catastrophic Risk Management
European officialdom (and to some extent the European public) is wildly swinging between panic and denial in the throes of their debt crisis. The swings are now occurring on a daily basis, something unprecedented in the early stages of this … Continue reading
Greece and Italy Seek a Solution From Technocrats
Might I suggest that they look somewhere else? Greece and Italy Seek a Solution From Technocrats – NYTimes.com.
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Escaping Neo-Liberalism: Degrowth economics
If the South is to attempt to create non-growth societies, it must rethink and re-localise. Southern countries need to escape from their economic and cultural dependence on the North and rediscover their own histories – interrupted by colonialism, development and … Continue reading
Fracking Compound found in Wyoming Aquifer
… the chemical compounds the EPA detected are consistent with those produced from drilling processes, including one — a solvent called 2-Butoxyethanol (2-BE) — widely used in the process of hydraulic fracturing. The agency said it had not found contaminants such … Continue reading
Anthropogenic Weather Disasters Also on the Rise
It’s time to add another billion-dollar weather disaster to the growing 2011 total of these costly disasters: the extraordinary early-season Northeast U.S. snowstorm of October 29, which dumped up to 32 inches of snow, brought winds gusts of 70 mph … Continue reading
Rising Attrition in American STEM Education
Studies have found that roughly 40 percent of students planning engineering and science majors end up switching to other subjects or failing to get any degree. That increases to as much as 60 percent when pre-medical students, who typically have … Continue reading
Is it ‘Occupy’ or ‘#Occupy’?
This isn’t just a grammatical question (though I do not disparage grammar, as long as we treat it for what it is: a quest for rules, not a set of commandments). Y’all please correct me if I’m wrong (this is … Continue reading
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Measurement and Its Discontents – NYTimes.com
Fellow philosopher Robert P. Crease has an interesting article — not to mention a really cool image — in the New York Times. Measurement and Its Discontents – NYTimes.com.
#Occupy Charts
While we shouldn’t expect charts to explain everything (anybody who has constructed one knows how much interpretation lies buried within), they can start a discussion. With that in mind, I think the two charts below reveal critical aspects of American … Continue reading
The America Invents Act’s impact on universities
To Protect Your Next Bright Idea, Mind What You Say and When You Say It – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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A Newly Unfolding Story of an Older History
… this post by CSID fellow David Taylor is continued from Part 1. In 1994, Jerome Rothenberg writes, “… a poetics without a concurrent ethnopoetics is stunted, partial, therefore faulty at a time like ours that can only save itself … Continue reading
A Primer on Field Philosophy
Our concept of field philosophy could use some elaboration. Our tack has been to define it in contrast with applied philosophy. We have, I think, made three points. First is the question of audience. Applied philosophy assumes a disciplinary audience–(applied) … Continue reading
Gay Elucidation or HomoExplication?
Science is not an island. It does not exist in a vacuum. Even though the outcomes of scientific studies should be unimpressed upon by societal or even moral influence, the discussion of results gained are not. Science is done by … Continue reading
#Occupy as a Subversive Brand
Everybody I speak to, interview or discuss background with [at the G20 summit in Cannes] keeps dropping the words “Occupy Wall Street” into the conversation. In fact if #OWS were a global brand, like the designer apparel shops that line … Continue reading
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Exchanging Serenity for Searching
Look unflinchingly into the face of your mortality, put away your idols, unprotect yourself, succumb to the lives of others, trust and embrace them, and live your life. That is how society is built. http://cor omandal.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/to-unprotect-ourselves-for-the-sake-of-bigness-and-of-love/
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Leveraging Your #Occupation
Yesterday, approximately 5,000 #OccupyOakland protesters shut down Oakland’s port, the fifth-busiest in the country, for several hours. The march was planned through what is emerging as the systemic organization of the #Occupy movement: consensus decision making at daily general assemblies … Continue reading