New report from SPARC and Becky Yoose on library vendor data privacy (or lack thereof) š zenodo.org/records/1388...
Yeah, if you want to call someone out for being a sex oest, āsukebeā is the way to go.
In this thread, I am going to list all of the articles of the American Library Association Library Bill of Rights that this action violates. (There are a total of 7 articles, and this decision clearly violates at least 5 of them.)
The problem with āfree speech culture,ā as opposed to free speech law, is that it is fuzzy and malleable and can be manipulated like this to say āRichard Spencer talking was essential to healthy and productive debate but kids protesting Gaza is disruptive, intimidating, and discriminatory.ā
have driven more than one person, including myself, for emergency mental health care during a PhD program. I hope further studies tell us more about the constellation of factors that cause this to happen so often, because I suspect it is more than just publish/perish and competitive job market
New data on PhD student mental health: "By the 5th year of studies, the likelihood that PhD candidates needed mental-health medications had increased by 40%, compared with the year before study" This is why, when giving advice to students, I always mention self care www.nature.com/articles/d41...
PhD students in Sweden accessed mental-health services at increasing rates as their studies went on.
"The Surveilled Student" by Danielle Keats Citron www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/articl...
Cool, Cornell isnāt just deporting protesters, they are also happily admitting to generally surveilling and punishing student anti-genocide activists and āscrutinizingā the behavior of faculty in class. Healthy university, youāve got there! cornellsun.com/2024/10/02/a...
So frustrating every time someone who I know genuinely cares about academic freedom cites this bullshit organization.
This is FIRE, folks. A bunch of "free thinkers" who always seem to land on fashy talking points (what a remarkable coincidence!), and who use free-speech discourse to launder Right-wing bigotry.
So much sigh