Mahmoud Elsherif

A Merry Krampusnacht to all! 🖤❤️🖤

Newly released photos show Rosa Parks at the Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965 Newly uncovered photos of the Civil Rights icon taken during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march have been release to the Rosa Park Museum.

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Seven decades after Rosa Parks was thrust indelibly into history for refusing to give up her bus seat in AL - new photos of the Civil Rights Movement icon have been made public for the first time, and they illustrate aspects of her legacy that are often overlooked.

Disagreement in Science: Missing Women by David Klinowski

Male scientists are more disagreeable🤷‍♀️
#econsky #academicsky
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Thank you @olivia.science ❤️
"From the so-called male geek trope that dominates Global North/Western perceptions of technology to the actively anti-feminist stances such demographics espouse: programming has a sexism problem. Herein, we touch on how and why programming is so gendered in the present"

welcome global north, to what everybody in the global south knows

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This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened!

Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement.

Nominations close 18 January 2026.

#AcademicSky #Research

the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.

hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity

so it begins

I am allowed to fail students for AI use, and I do, and I say I will, repeatedly and emphatically. As a result, I wind up having to fail very few students for AI use.

Effective Altruism inevitably operates as a kind of fascist cult: it is a mode of thinking that liberates its followers from any direct moral responsibility for their actions.

Insanely stupid and short-sighted choice. I didn't even know they were still trying to run this racket. You put more universities in danger with this shit you idiots!

BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 and get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

One of the most serious problems in academia is that there are basically no consequences for sloppy peer review. What can the journal do? Ban them from reviewing again (the horror!)

#rstats
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca

as awful as this is, these examples kinda make me feel giddy and validated, given how i normally feel about our current peer review practices. my personal experience unfortunately has never been consistent with academics' general regard of peer review as a net benefit despite its flaws.

We have a new revision on our preprint "Practice what you preach: Designing student assignments that advance open and reproducible science"! We had some of the nicest (but still critical) peer-review comments I've ever received, so that was refreshing.

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The fact that academics are using LLMs makes it so hard to care about reading or writing anything new. Our timeline is the worst

Fifty higher education providers at risk of exiting market in England, MPs told Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 months

"Exiting the market" is such a soulless way of describing threats to people's livelihoods and the loss of training and opportunity for so many
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In our new tutorial, @meanwhileina.bsky.social and I walk you through meaningful hypothesis testing using a less known form of calculating Bayes Factor.

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People transitioning to Bayes often wonder how to decide if an effect is meaningful or not. Here you go... 1/🧵

📢 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our new “Research Fellows” program! 🎉

If you’ve contributed to a Replication Game, published in our Discussion Papers series, or helped organize one of our events — you’re invited to join the roster of I4R Research Fellows.

ChatGPT is racist

“We have the brightest and the best. Let’s keep it that way.”

@rupahuq.bsky.social MP and academic stands with UCU members voting for fair pay, secure jobs and a stronger future for higher education.

Vote. Share. Mobilise. We can do this.

We're balloting!
And it's important that you vote in both ballots as the two are linked.
All three unions at Leicester are balloting so we stand the chance of striking together!

SNP minister told to intervene in Edinburgh University crisis to protect 1,800 jobs SNP ministers have been warned they must intervene in the University of Edinburgh's dispute with staff amid fears 1,800 jobs could be lost.

Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...

Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx

To broaden the conversation, we are now collecting perspectives across fields.

If you work in research, we would be grateful for your input.

📋 Survey: erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Why I declare a conflict of interest and you should not - Theory and Society Academic publishing is both an indication of scientific contribution and a currency for career advancement. This dual role gives rise to a normative scientific conflict: Does the structural incentive ...

Our new paper is out in Theory and Society:

“Why I declare a conflict of interest and you should not.”

We examine whether the structural pressure to publish should itself be understood as a conflict of interest—and what that means for research culture.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Women at NASA, starting with one of my favorite #WomenInSTEM photos
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