Dr. Mikaila

Did you want schools, health care, trash pickup? Taxes fund that.

A person I know is doing this type of fellowship this year. Spouse stayed put at home with child & in-person job; they just don't see much of each other. Not my idea of a good life but it works for them.

I can see how that helps address the issue at tge journal level. I don't see how it helps reduce the demands institutions are making for T&P, post-tenure review, etc. or convinces institutions to treat reviewing as a key part of our jobs.

I ran a simple model with new public data then used 1 prompt to make ChatGPT guess what the model would produce. With 10 seconds of "thinking," it was very close. The implications of this are catastrophic. The American Sociological Association should do something about this but it doesn't care to
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It can't be left to disciplinary associations when colleges & universities are demanding the output. We need to fix our own institutional pressures too.

We need to publish less and review better. This is a collective action problem.

“But for now, we
are alive at the end of the world,
shell-shocked by headlines and alarm
clocks, burning through what little
love
we have left.”

@theferocity.bsky.social

tldr: Without scholarly communication -- which is, after all, SCHOLARS COMMUNICATING -- science as a social system dies in darkness.

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They fall in love with the process, trust it too much, and start rubber-stamping the results. Some scientists already "co-author" literally more papers than they have time to read. What is this agent-driven process going to do to our ACTUALLY EXISTING SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM? Destroy it.
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“Fewer consultants. More workers.”

There, that’s your government reform slogan.

Participate in a Study on First-Generation College Students' Graduate School Aspirations Overview of the Study To better understand the graduate school pipelines of First-generation, low-income college students, Alexis Rei and Dr. Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur of Rhode Island College have decided to survey first-generation, low-income graduate students and college seniors about their graduate school aspirations. The survey should take about 11-18 minutes to complete. Who do we need Graduate students or college seniors (graduating Fall 2025 or Spring 2026) who are: -First-generation college students (Neither parent went to college/achieved their BA from an institution in the United States) -Received the Pell Grant throughout undergraduate -If an undergraduate senior: Applying to graduate schools with the intent to enroll for the Fall of 2026 Benefits and Compensation There are no direct benefits or compensations provided from taking the survey. Scan the qr code to take the survey (picture of a qr code)--survey URL is also in the post text. Contact Information For any questions regarding the study, please feel free to contact us at the emails listed below: Dr. Arthur: marthur@ric.edu Alexis Rei: arei_9708@email.ric.edu

Contribute to research on first-gen students' graduate school aspirations! Seeking students who were first-gen & received the maximum Pell grant in undergrad who are now in graduate school or in their senior year of undergraduate. Take the survey at ric.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... & share widely!

Newer research suggests it's not the reading in low light, it's the not being outside in daylight. So read in bed at night but play outside in day.

As a disabled person, the primary impact of AI on the lives of disabled people that I have seen is a massive backlash that is turning back the clock decades in terms of our access to education as folks turn out of desperation to pencil-&-paper only. This tech isn't here for us. It's here for profit.

What I might hate most about AI is that it's turning back the clock decsdes on all the progress we've made in making education accessible for disabled folks.

For MA theses, we give 1.5 faculty load hours per semester (for typical courses, student credit hours = faculty load hours). We have a 12 flh per semester load.

Baumol’s Cost Disease, they used to call it. Now it’s known as Baumol’s Cost Immunization.

Next time you are in RI you need to go to PVDeli.

For real. I interpret data like this as showing us there are lots of students who believe--or have been told--their own voices and abilities are inadequate.

As it is with our clothing, so it is with our names. We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.

There’s no third option.

And we need to focus more 9n quality and less on volume of production.

I use EndNote for this.

I’m given to understand the technology can and has been harnessed to useful effect. Ok. But in aggregate it is also increasing the relative volume of garbage that editors and reviewers must now contend with. With limited time and resources, that leads invariably to inefficiencies. Not good! (2/2)

Admins really don't understand how hard it is to work under these conditions. So sorry you are dealing with this.

Someone I know who had shingles young was able to to get an Rx for the vaccine beliw age.

I'd be happy to talk about our system of tracking, which is complicated, contractual, & of limited utility to research-heavy institutions but works ok.

My question is how many/few of the people who think they work there bc principles will quit due to their principles after the cave.

Term limits for legislators have been shown to increase the power & influence of lobbyists.

Far too many administrators think choice is a bad word that exists only to please faculty & don't understand the vital role of student agency & interest in learning.

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If looking for non-steroid options, Azalastine spray exists.