This Thursday 14th, Dutch universities will protest against the new government's planned budget cuts. The universities are encouraging staff and students to join the protest in Utrecht. You can read a comment from the Tilburg University vice-president here ("We were, and still are, pissed off...")

Just seen something referring to academics as "unpaid content creators for Elsevier" and I am dead ⚰️.

@academicsunite @academicchatter

1/ When surveys ask academics to self-describe their political leanings, we get the familiar result that the vast majority lean left. When an algorithm analyzes their #Twitter posts, we still find a left-leaning majority but we also find more centrists and conservatives than the surveys do.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/actually-there-are-more-conservatives-on-the-faculty-than-you-think-study-finds
(#paywalled)

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