Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened
They gave local news away for free. Virtually nobody wanted it.
When 2,529 people were offered a free subscription to their local newspapers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Philadelphia Inquirer, only forty-four accepted—less than 2 percent—according to an academic study set to be published this year in the American Journal of Political Science. Dan Hopkins, a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted the […]
Kicking off our Fediverse research — The Fediversalist Papers
Our DIIF-funded research on Fediverse governance and administration officially begins this month, so we’ve made an informal federated blo...
Shifting your research from X to Mastodon? Here’s what you need to know
Since Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter/X and subsequent changes to that platform, computational
social science researchers may be considering shifting their research programs to
Mastodon and the fediverse. This article sounds several notes of caution about such
a shift. We explain key differences between the fediverse and X, ultimately arguing
that research must be with the fediverse, not on it.
Vol. 126 (2023): Teaching (About) Socialism | Radical Teacher
Child Safety on Federated Social Media
The Fediverse, a decentralized social network with interconnected spaces that are each independently managed with unique rules and cultural norms, has seen a surge in popularity. Decentralization h...
Child Safety on Federated Social Media
Grasshoppermouse: Should scientific publishing move to Github and friends?
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning
Why sdoes/s did Google Brain exist?
I forgot about the Titlecase API - BrettTerpstra.com
I made a little web service back in 2015 and somewhere in the following 7 years I forgot about it. I’ve been adding title-casing to various projects and plugins and keep writing new code for it…
A different approach to digital technology in schools
It's 2017 in NZ, and our schools aren't producing enough confident, informed digital participants. Sure, they can play games like a boss, but that's just digital consumption.
Introducing the GitHub Classroom CLI extension for the GitHub CLI | GitHub Changelog
Introducing the GitHub Classroom CLI extension for the GitHub CLI
A Reading List About the Neuroscience of Reading - Longreads
"Reading makes us human."
Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data
Emily M. Bender, Alexander Koller. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2020.
Towards Automated Science Writing
This morning, trawling the Computer Science sections of Arxiv, as I do most mornings, I came across a recent paper from the Federal University of Ceara in Brazil, offering a new Natural Language Processing framework to automate the summarization and extraction of core data from scientific papers. Since this is more or less what I […]
Introducing Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast
pCJR · Introducing Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast There’s a famous scene from the final season of The Wire—y’know, The One With the Newspeople—where cub reporter Alma Gutierrez, new to the show’s (thinly) fictionalized version of the Baltimore Sun, receives a crash course in the paper’s lofty lexical standards: “Gutierrez!” her editor shouts across […]/p
Echo Chambers, Rabbit Holes, and Algorithmic Bias: How YouTube Recommends Content to Real Users
To what extent does the YouTube recommendation algorithm push users into echo chambers, ideologically biased content, or rabbit holes? Using a novel method to e
Our White Paper on Social Annotation in the Classroom : Hypothesis
Hypothesis has just published its first research white paper: “The Value of Social Annotation for Teaching and Learning: Promoting Comprehension, Collaboration and Critical Thinking With Hypothesis,” authored by Dr. Remi Kalir.
There's more to linking than crediting sources — Paolo Amoroso's Journal
Published links to the original sources of the media, quoted text, or other content shared online are increasingly less common. Not that ...
What’s the best student laptop? We asked students
From kindergarten through college, kids weigh in.
Sleep loss leads to the withdrawal of human helping across individuals, groups, and large-scale societies
Helping behavior between humans has been one of the most influential forces sculpting modern civilizations, but what factors influence this propensity to help? This study demonstrates that a lack of sleep dictates whether humans choose to help each other at three different scales: within individuals, across individuals, and across societies.
Markdown in Academic Writing
A piece of writing aiming to be academic must be 'clear, concise, focused, structured and backed up by evidence'. We believe that Markdown writing tools make it easier to focus on content and thus support the main aim of academic writing. iA Writer has a couple of tricks up its sleeves that other apps do not.
Celebrating Nearly 40 Million Annotations : Hypothesis
We’re just about to reach 40 million annotations! Here’s to all the annotators out there: We share this milestone with each of you. Read all about it — and find out what else we've been up to lately.
Trans Researchers Want Google Scholar to Stop Deadnaming Them
The academic search engine’s policy on name changes is out of step with other search tools and publishers.
No more paywalls for public research, says White House
It ends a one-year embargo option for publishers.
Disorganized Attachment in Adulthood: Theory, Measurement, and Implications for Romantic Relationships - Ramona L. Paetzold, W. Steven Rholes, Jamie L. Kohn, 2015
Disorganized attachment has been studied extensively in the developmental attachment literature, particularly with regard to infants and children. It has not be...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The university is punishing workers, not rewarding them
We should focus on raising wages and benefits — not cutting them.
Email Innovation Timeline
by Elizabeth Feinler and John Vittal
The Verge’s 2022 back-to-school gift guide
Everything your student needs to succeed.