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@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social · Feb 25, 2026
I’ve been asked to sign a declaration of solidarity with academics at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, in response to legislative measures in Georgia that will cut student admissions and limit academic freedom. Does anyone have any good English-language resources about what these changes entail and how they are being receive? #AcademicChatter #Georgia #ISU #IliaStateUniversity
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@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 21, 2026
Professor Agatha "Agy" Nimble, the Pro Vice-Chancellor Education. She enters the room lightfooted, a winning smile on her face. She is the never-say-no Anglican Bishop, caring, soft-voiced, immovable. Professor Nimble does not teach anymore. But she runs her own workshops on how to transform your teaching. She absolutely loves every comment, idea, criticism made by a participant. She prepared a slide before the session, listing all the interesting things that participants have said and learnt during the day. She is the author of the University's "Teaching The Magical Way" strategy and heads the curriculum transfomation process. She may or may not believe in it herself, but she knows that she would find it easy to implement, if only she could clone herself sufficuently many times to place herself in each of our roles. Her workshop has shown us how to do it. She is very empathetic and she forgives us that we don't see the way yet. She will not change the plan. #AcademicChatter
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@anna@mathstodon.xyz · Feb 16, 2026
Incredible dedication to indexing in Kleinberg & Tardos. #Algorithms #Algorithmics #ComputerScience #Books #ProfessorLife #Textbook #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter
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@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social · Feb 11, 2026
Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. It’s important to remember that actively working towards a welcoming safe environment for everyone in science isn’t just the decent thing to do (I’d argue it’s the bare minimum), it also means we do better science! Take, for example, this study showing underrepresented groups innovate more than their peers (but their work is not taken up by the wider community): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915378117 #AcademicChatter #WomenInSTEM
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@blitter@mastodon.catgirl.cloud · Jan 31, 2026
Can anyone recommend me some (online available ;) ) CS textbook that explains Elias-Fano encoding (and SELECT queries on it specifically) in a readable manner? The original papers are annoying and my advisor just told me "it's popular enough that you can just ask your favourite LLM about it" and hell no #csacademia #csresearch #cs #academicchatter #shadowlibrary #bookrecommendations #bookrecs #llm
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@aarblaster@mastodonapp.uk · Jan 29, 2026
My university wasn’t listed in @ResearchOrgs@mastodon.social and guess what, proposing the addition was simple. If an org you know has a mistake or is missing take the 5 minutes to suggest a change. And hello to ROR id 01y7y4033 — the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art #AcademicChatter #RADA Https://ror.org/01y7y4033
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