Just seen something referring to academics as "unpaid content creators for Elsevier" and I am dead ⚰️.
60157 author: xtaldave@xtaldave.net
22 Sep 2024 06:44
tags: #Macademia #Science #academia
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8334 author: petersuber@fediscience.org
29 Jul 2024 17:20
tags: #academia #paywalled #politics #socialmedia #twitter
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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)