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Small schools across the United States are facing budget shortfalls and low enrollment—leading some to shut down in the middle of students’ higher-education experience.

#higher education #academia

These days, it seems, just about all organizations are asking their employees to do more with less. Is that actually a good idea?

#future of work #collaboration #flexibility

#peer review

Tsai, W., & Ghoshal, S. (1998). SOCIAL CAPITAL AND VALUE CREATION: THE ROLE OF INTRAFIRM NETWORKS.

#social capital #social networks #innovation #organization

Cross, R., Borgatti, S. P., & Parker, A. (2002). Making Invisible Work Visible: Using Social Network Analysis to Support Strategic Collaboration.

Visualizing social network among expert groups helped them to change their collaboration practices.

#social network analysis #metaknowledge #knowledge work #organization

Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects.

Decisions to interpret or to publish results will not be based on statistical thresholds. People will spend less time with statistical software, and more time thinking.

#p-value #statistics

Our jobs have become prisons from which we don’t want to escape

One possibility is that we have all got stuck on a treadmill. Technology and globalisation mean that an increasing number of good jobs are winner-take-most competitions. - - Securing a place near the top of the income spectrum in such a firm, and remaining in it, is a matter of constant struggle and competition. Meanwhile the technological forces that enable a few elite firms to become dominant also allow work, in the form of those constantly pinging emails, to follow us everywhere.

#work

Hameleers, M., & van der Meer, T. G. L. A. (2019). Misinformation and Polarization in a High-Choice Media Environment: How Effective Are Political Fact-Checkers?

#misinformation #selection bias #selective exposure

Simply holding meritocracy as a value seems to promote discriminatory behavior.

Remember: it’s almost always about luck as well.

#academia #professional life #luck

Kearney, M. W. (2019). Analyzing change in network polarization.

#political polarization #twitter #polarization

Well... The dataset was large.

Measures of transparency are at risk of remaining empty signifiers if no critical and unbiased engagement emerges from their instalment. The key argument that this paper has thus developed is that uncoupling the value of transparency from the practical matter of how that transparency takes shape and how it is likely to be engaged with ultimately paints a limited picture. Measures toward algorithmic accountability are most effective if we consider them a property of socio-technical assemblages of people and machines. Within such assemblages, the value of transparency fundamentally depends on enlisting and maintaining critical and informed audiences.

Kemper, J., & Kolkman, D. (2018). Transparent to whom? No algorithmic accountability without a critical audience.

#critical data studies #critical algorithm studies

Academe could not function if every scholar refused to serve on committees, evaluate manuscripts and grants, write recommendations, and perform many other uncompensated and often undervalued tasks. We need to say yes — and to do so often. Ultimately, that’s why saying no is so important. Saying no to some requests enables us to say yes to others. Each productive yes depends on many an artful no.

#academia

Normal scientific paradigms base their progress in part on the stabilization of certain analytical categories that are then taken for granted and used continually over time. And yet social scientists face the problem that the very nature of what they study changes over time, leaving basic categories potentially unsettled.

Karpf, D., Kreiss, D., Nielsen, R. K., & Powers, M. (2015). The role of qualitative methods in political communication research: Past, present, and future.

The Sketch that clarified a lot of things.

Brown, A. L. (1992). Design Experiments: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Creating Complex Interventions in Classroom Settings.

Kreuter, F., Haas, G.-C., Keusch, F., Bähr, S., & Trappmann, M. (2018). Collecting Survey and Smartphone Sensor Data With an App: Opportunities and Challenges Around Privacy and Informed Consent. Social Science Computer Review.

#computational social science #sensors #privacy #mobile phone

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