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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟‍♂️

My dear fellow researchers in #America.

If you are in the midst of finding a new #academic home and securing new #research #funding the Academy of Finland is preparing a funding call of at least €50 million in budget to cover the period from 2026 to 2030. Stay tuned!

aka.fi/en/about-us/whats-new/p

Research Council of FinlandRCF preparing call for universities to invite foreign researchers to FinlandThe Research Council of Finland (RCF) is planning a new funding call to help universities recruit international experts to Finland. The call would be part of the RCF funding scheme that strengthens university research profiles, the so-called Profi funding, which has been part of the RCF’s competitive funding portfolio since 2015.</...
#science#PhD#PostDoc
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PrivacyDigest

#Harvard says no chance it will comply with changes feds demand

The #Trump administration has been using federal research funding as a cudgel. The government has blocked billions of dollars in #research funds and threatened to put a hold on even more in order to compel #universities to adopt what it presents as essential reforms. In the case of #Columbia University, that includes changes in the leadership of individual #academic departments.

arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Image of older brick buildings with a river and bridge in the foreground.
Ars Technica · Trump Administration puts $2.2 billion of Harvard’s research money on holdBy John Timmer
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DoomsdaysCW

#Harvard professors sue #Trump administration over funding cut threats

by Katie Cole, April 14, 2025, #WBUR

"The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors sued the Trump administration Friday over what they call an 'unlawful and unprecedented' attempt to use federal funding cuts to restrict #FreeSpeech.

"The #DepartmentOfEducation announced in late March that it would review $8.7 billion in federal grants and contacts given to Harvard, alleging that the school failed to prevent #antisemitic discrimination on campus.

"The Trump administration then unveiled a broad set of demands on April 4 the university must agree to in order to keep getting federal funding, including cutting all diversity, equity and inclusion programming, and modifying any programming and departments that 'fuel antisemitic harassment.' The administration gave Columbia University a similar set of demands in March, which the school agreed to.

"The lawsuit by the professors' group, filed in #Massachusetts federal court, alleges that the administration's federal funding review violates the #TitleVI of the #CivilRightsAct, which prohibits discrimination in programs that receive federal funds. The court filing says the law requires specific procedures to cut federal funds and that the Trump administration has not taken any of those steps.

"The group said in a press release that the administration's actions are in effort to create a chilling effect among universities and faculty to stop speech that the president does not like.

" 'Eliminating discrimination and protecting all students is important,' said Nikolas Bowie, a Harvard law professor and the secretary-treasurer of the school's #AAUP chapter, in a statement. 'But Trump is defying the Civil Rights Act, terrifying students, and illegally holding hostage grants for hospitals and scientific research so he can accomplish his real goal of punishing academics for our politics.'

"The lawsuit says that the actions by the administration have 'already caused severe and irreparable harm by halting #academic #research and #inquiry at Harvard.'

"This is the second suit that the Harvard AAUP chapter has filed against the Trump administration this year. The first was a joint suit with other chapters, including one from Columbia, over federal efforts to deport #MahmoudKhalil and students that engaged in #ProPalestinian #activism."

wbur.org/news/2025/04/14/harva

The Harvard crest on the facade of Langdell Hall at the Harvard Law School. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
www.wbur.orgHarvard professors sue Trump administration over funding cut threatsThe suit by the Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors, filed in Massachusetts federal court, alleges that the administration's federal funding review violates the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The court filing says law requires specific procedures to cut federal funds and that the Trump administration has not taken any of those steps. 
#SilencingDissent#CharacteristicsOfFascism#Fascism
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René Mayrhofer :verified: 🇺🇦 🇹🇼

If you are an #academic in the #US with a position comparable to tenured or associate professor and a solid research track record in a field related to computer science (treat this in a very broad manner) and are interested in relocating to beautiful, liberal, safe, #Austria, then please reach out to me. We'd love to welcome new colleagues in the Austrian academia!

A couple of us are collecting profiles to potentially match with organizations that are looking to fund such opportunities. Full caveat: I don't yet have concrete positions confirmed, but am trying to get the funding bodies into position to do so.

Please boost!

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Luís de Sousa

The Computer Science Department of the #InstitutoSuperiorTécnico has opened a new position for Assistant Professor in the research field Information Systems. Essentially, that will be a new colleague of mine.

Foreigners moving to Portugal to start such a position qualify for income tax benefits, making this position rather palatable by local standards.

Get in touch if you need to know more.

#Técnico #AcademicLife #Academic #Job

diariodarepublica.pt/dr/detalh

Ícone do Diário da República
Diário da RepúblicaEdital n.º 676/2025Concurso documental internacional para recrutamento de um professor auxiliar na área disciplinar de Sistemas de Informação, do Departamento de Engenharia Informática, do Instituto Superior Técnico.
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ocean

Just submitted my first ever #academic #book review. I am very proud of myself! I spent so much time on it, because it will be published, and am satisfied with the result.

The seduction of using #ai / #LLM 's is always present but even with how bad my writing is, I edited edited edited all without the help of ai slop.

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El Duvelle

#Academic Publication question: say you are writing a review that involves really old papers (i.e. published <1950). Most of the papers you're citing were quite hard to obtain, but you managed to get access to them somehow so you have a scanned version of all of these.

Is there a legal / official way to provide a folder with all the cited papers together with your review once it's published? And by legal I mean a way that the journal that you're publishing in will be happy with?

If these were old enough they would probably fall into the public domain but I don't think they're old enough for that (this says copyright expires from the death of the author +70y: copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-dur)

copyright.govHow Long Does Copyright Protection Last? (FAQ) | U.S. Copyright OfficeBrief answers to questions about duration of copyright, and renewal of copyright.
#ScientificPapers#Academia#AcademicPublication
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Luke Johnson

4/ Of course, taking up an #academic position at a US institution this summer demonstrates an impeccable sense of timing and self-preservation.

But this has been on the cards for a few months now, although it’s only now I have my visa that it feels “real” enough to announce.

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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 **Triumph and Betrayal: Assyria's Path to Empire, 935-745 BC**

“_This book re-examines the historical question of Assyria’s expansion, presenting a novel reconstruction of the early Neo-Assyrian period with the latest data (including new Assyrian kings), detailed regional studies synthesising the newest historical and archaeological findings, and interpretative essays outlining new historical factors._”

Edmonds, A. 2025. Triumph and Betrayal: Assyria’s Path to Empire, 935–745 BC. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi.org/10.1515/9783111593715.

#OpenAccess #OA #Nonfiction #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #History #NeoAssyrian #Assyria #Empire @bookstodon

De GruyterTriumph and BetrayalWhile the study of Assyria as ‘the world’s first empire’ has never been more popular, the events of the foundational early Neo-Assyrian period (935–745 BC) remain only poorly understood and explained. This book re-examines the historical question of Assyria’s expansion, presenting a novel reconstruction of the early Neo-Assyrian period with the latest data (including new Assyrian kings), detailed regional studies synthesising the newest historical and archaeological findings, and interpretative essays outlining new historical factors. The resultant history is unprecedentedly complex, containing newly discovered succession conflicts, difficult compromises with neighbouring powers, local dynasties appointed to Assyrian governorships, self-serving high officials, and sudden reverses in policy. In place of circular structuralist arguments for the Neo-Assyrian expansion, it presents a new model emphasising internal political conflict, and competing visions for Assyria’s future. This book is intended for historians and archaeologists of Assyria, for whom it will provide a new basis for research, and also for scholars of neighbouring disciplines and laypersons interested in what happens to an ancient state before it becomes an empire.
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 **Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years**

“_Wetter conditions likely facilitated mammalian dispersals between Africa and Eurasia, with Arabia acting as a key crossroads for continental-scale biogeographic exchanges._”

Markowska, M., Vonhof, H.B., Groucutt, H.S. et al. Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-088.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Geography #Arabia #Climate #Academia #Academic @geography

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