Gotta pay the sportsball coaches somehow, right?
I was gonna say that we donât even have that excuse, but then I remembered that GSU bought out the community college I teach part time at, and so, yeah⌠
I mean, I guess⌠but seems to me that the âweâ way of thinking about academia has long covered over a whole host of exploitative practices by those professors with power over undergrads, grad students, younger professors, etc. Since it was âself-governingâ there were few guardrails on that kind of thing, and plenty of people took advantage when they could. 
He does address that.
The reality was inevitably less egalitarian and communitarian than this picture suggests, in all sorts of ways. Senior professors had too much power and inevitably, some of them abused it. And, given the times, lots of bad behaviour was tolerated that would not be now.
For good and ill, this has all been swept away, at least in Australia. Multiple layers of management are filled by people who have either left the academic life behind them or were never part of it. The university in this view, is not a community but a business enterprise, even if its ownership structure is rather opaque.
And itâs not like the bad parts have entirely gone away (although I have seen some egregious examples dealt with), but heâs asking whether the idea of collegiality had to go out with the bad.
Yeah, I saw⌠still. I think heâs downplaying the very real problems that existed in academia. Whatâs coming to replace it isnât better by any stretch, butâŚ
Also true.
I think perhaps we can start looking at the current crisis as at least a chance to be rid of the old exploitative system and try to rethink what academia could be. If there are high ideals there, maybe we try and live up to those.
I donât knowâŚ
Use AI to convert course readings into podcasts? Why not!
(Well, for one thing, would students even bother to read them, then?)
I suggest listening for a bit at the bottom of this page to the podcast that another new Google tool made of a chapter on Deconstruction. Itâs pretty hard to distinguish from two actual people talking about Deconstruction.
https://cwi.pressbooks.pub/lit-crit/part/gap-structuralism-and-deconstruction/
âThe Publisher Defendantsâ Scheme has three primary components,â the complaint states. First, the publishers have âagreedâ (a claim that is key to an antitrust suit) not to compensate scholars providing peer review services. Second, the publishers have agreed to require that scholars submit their manuscripts to only one journal at a time. And third, that the publishers have agreed to prohibit scholars from âfreely sharing the scientific advancements described in submitted manuscriptsâ while those manuscripts are under peer review, a process that can take months.
In the âpublish or perish world of academia," the publishers have "essentially agreed to hold the careers of scholars hostageâ the complaint, filed by named plaintiff Lucina Uddin, a UCLA neuroscientist, on behalf of a potential class of academic authors, states. The filing goes on to call the peer review process âa schemeâ agreed to by publishers to bolster their profits.
âThrough the Scheme, the Publisher Defendants have sustained profit margins that far exceed the most successful corporations in the economy. For instance, in 2023, Elsevier alone generated $3.8 billion in revenue from its peer-reviewed journals, with an operating profit margin of 38%,â the complaint states. âIn 2023, the Publishing Defendants together received over $10 billion in revenue from their peer-reviewed journals. These astounding revenues and profits margins are sustained through collusion, and unlawfully divert billions of taxpayer dollars every year from science to the Publisher Defendants.â
ETNA - Electronic Transactions in Numerical Analysis was established in 1992 to address these very problems. The website is looking spiffier these days.
It can be done.
Where are Methods, Results and Discussion? What did they do to Methods, Results and Discussion!?!
scoffs in postmodernism
I thought this was interesting. I have no frame of reference for this, though. Iâm one of those small number of people mentioned in the video that basically taught themselves how to read. I learned to read when I was 4, according to my parents. I literally have no memory of a time when I couldnât read, so I have no idea how I learned it. My parents read a lot to me, and I guess I followed along and figured it out. I suspect Sesame Street and the Electric Company helped out.
I love her videosâŚ
