Hundreds gather at the University of Melbourne as staff strike for improved pay and working conditions.
Read more: nteu.au/branch/UniMelb #HigherEducation #UnionPower #unimelbstrikes #HigherEd #AcademicSky
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Hundreds gather at the University of Melbourne as staff strike for improved pay and working conditions.
Read more: nteu.au/branch/UniMelb #HigherEducation #UnionPower #unimelbstrikes #HigherEd #AcademicSky
@vthc.org.au @alisonbarnes.bsky.social
Strike at University of Melbourne today as staff begin a week of industrial action for improved pay and conditions.
Staff working conditions are student learning conditions!
More: nteu.au/branch/UniMelb #HigherEducation #unimelbstrikes #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Important read for the day ⤵
"In 2024, Larry Richardson had built a Google Scholar h-index of 11 over a short stretch of time, highlighting his promising trajectory as an up-and-coming scholar. The only problem was that Larry turned out to actually be a cat" #AcademicSky #ScienceSky
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A pre-university student was sitting next to me on a recent flight. He spoke enthusiastically about the universities he had visited on open days and told me which one was his first choice. I asked why he had chosen that particular university.
“Impressed with the facilities,” he said.
ICYMI: “Nobody’s OK.” A former NIH program director describes fear, lost expertise and political pressure on science. Staff started documenting it.
For the people still inside the university who miss the part of themselves college erased.
This is for you too.
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🌀Reality Architecture Division
𓆩ꨄ︎𓆪Archive Reference
#GoldenHorseCB
#Systemic-Humanism #Semantic-Reduction
#t-S.G.I
#Mythology/t-six 🪶
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#Cyberpunk #steampunk #solarpunk #gothiccyberpunk #gothic #philosophy #AcademicSky #mythology #minoan #ancientgreek #GreekMythology #EgyptMythology #AncientEgypt
$174 BILLION in disrupted federal funds. The Lost Funds project maps cuts and freezes affecting research, schools and communities. Check your state.
Aotearoa Apprenticeships: the first century
New Zealand’s apprenticeships history is fascinating. Read on at www.samyoung.co.nz/2026/10/aote...
#Apprenticeship #NZ #Trade #AcademicSky
New paper out now in Genome Medicine! 🎉
Which in vitro model best reflects human inflammatory disease? We profiled >150K PBMCs using #scRNAseq across 11 stimuli to map intra- & intercellular responses across 21 cell subsets. 🧵👇
doi.org/10.1186/s130...
🧪🧬🖥️ #SingleCell #AcademicSky
Save this for the next time someone tells you academia is "a calling."
📚 Your PhD thesis isn’t a book!
How do you turn academic research into something people actually want to read?
Using my book Covidocracy, I share one important lesson about publishing beyond academia.
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Symbiotic #rhizobia form nitrogen-fixing partnerships with #plant roots. This study by @albinteulet.bsky.social & @dromius.bsky.social uses structural modelling to predict how secreted proteins may mimic plant factors in a strategy shared with pathogens.
🧪 #AcademicSky #symbiosis
plos.io/4j6bWj0
Michigan faculty -
You can talk with your students about checking voter registration status. Show them how to find their early voting locations, absentee drop boxes, and day-of polling location. They can also see what their ballot looks like.
View it as part of gen ed.
#academicsky
What are the #epigenetic mechanisms regulating cellular proteostasis? This study shows that a subunit of the COMPASS histone methyltransferase complex controls ultradian proteostasis gene expression through methylation at #proteostasis gene promoters.
🧪 #AcademicSky
plos.io/4emgONz
I am so energized after a regional history conference packed with former students, working and prospering in the field. Said goodnight to one at the closing reception.
"Goodnight, Dr. Cebula," he answered.
"You can call me Larry. You graduated years ago."
"I cannot," he laughed.