Post AZiCyjAaTJaTWHGfMu by tetrislife@qoto.org
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(DIR) Post #AZhsIoiXSQiLTmt1Ky by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-12T23:47:12Z
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"Urban forest restoration by trial and error is costly, and resulting failures are both discouraging to practitioners and condemning of future funding approval. Instead, we propose an evidence-based approach developed with partners and practitioners, informed by, ecologists and applied through practice oriented principles."#KiriWallace, #BruceDClarksonhttps://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2019.1637352#Aotearoa #NZ #research #ecology #NativeReplanting #UrbanForest
(DIR) Post #AZhszXqc3SA7bw2NCC by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-12T23:54:59Z
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I wonder if Kiri Wallace or Bruce Clarkson have accounts in the fediverse?@KorimakoEcology
(DIR) Post #AZhtDIZldCWcIhiSrg by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-12T23:57:29Z
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Imagine if every university had its own #fediverse server. So for example faculty at a uni in Aotearoa could be @name@staff.uni.ac.nz. This could even be integrated with the uni's institutional repository, so that every time a researcher adds an article to it, a post is automatically added to their account with the title, abstract and link for the article. Could be interested into the official blogs a uni often provides to faculty and postgrads too.#Aotearoa #NZ #research #academia #AcademicPublishing
(DIR) Post #AZhugY4BDV8uhCS89o by LizEllisPhD@mastodon.social
2023-09-13T00:13:57Z
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@strypey I tried suggesting this to our uni comms team and they just went ‘there’s no moderation on that site’. Give ‘em another five years…
(DIR) Post #AZhuo76BMkPrNDzqtM by harmonygritz@mastodon.social
2023-09-13T00:15:15Z
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@strypey Academia is like a general hole in the #fediverse that I'm surprised isn't getting more attention.I asked yesterday in our Academic Senate why official campus accounts were still betting on Twitter. It was clearly, to staff, the wrong question, but to faculty, the right question.Regardless of what academic folk do as individuals to network, the scholarly sharing community needs the official outlets to be kinda respectable for basic street cred.One would think.
(DIR) Post #AZhv2NtLj70DVhnbG4 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-13T00:17:55Z
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@LizEllisPhD> I tried suggesting this to our uni comms team and they just went ‘there’s no moderation on that site’'You want the uni to have it's own website? But there's no one who moderates the whole internet'. #FacePalmThis is how badly 2 decades of DataFarming has distorted people's thinking about web publishing.
(DIR) Post #AZhvGfbEgaxWU68e24 by musicman@mastodon.social
2023-09-13T00:20:28Z
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@strypey this seemed like the vision 15 years ago, but so many "open source" folks were into "open" twitter api and the "linuxy" Mac (still a problem) that there wasnt the head space. the way most people have reacted to the pandemic by literally having learned nothing, I really can't say I have much hope for the twitter exodus. it does feel different, but I'm not going to get excited
(DIR) Post #AZhvjQswTNY9FL8Sfo by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-13T00:25:42Z
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@musicman> this seemed like the vision 15 years ago, but so many "open source" folks were into "open" twitter apiI can forgive this. A lot of the big DataFarms were still more engineer-run at that point and the walls around their gardens were more like waist-high hedges than the prison walls they've become. Heck, I was still taking "don't be evil" seriously back then 😁
(DIR) Post #AZhwXN5Os76VwWm7vM by musicman@mastodon.social
2023-09-13T00:34:40Z
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@strypey unfortunately, the "next" generation is going to learn this all over again with AI/ML. I guess I am literally hopeless but I am not dejected about it. this is merely my observation of the world after 40 years
(DIR) Post #AZiCyjAaTJaTWHGfMu by tetrislife@qoto.org
2023-09-13T03:38:50Z
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@strypey ID should be separate from services. In the age of Git hosting services making an #SSH certificate required to interact with them via Git, it should be worth a try getting academics to use #GPG keys like some computer practitioners do.
(DIR) Post #AZiR0AuqCGzfDiUFqy by KorimakoEcology@ecoevo.social
2023-09-13T06:16:01Z
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@strypey No they're both on Twitter though.
(DIR) Post #AZjsdrNJA0nI7RuTMe by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-13T23:00:30Z
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@tetrislife> it should be worth a try getting academics to use GPG keys like some computer practitioners doSure, but first the app interfaces for using cryptographic keys might need to brought into the 21st century. I'll admit it's been a few years, but last time I tried to use PGP regularly it was such a nightmare I gave up.
(DIR) Post #AZjt0HhDymdg7jv0O8 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-13T23:04:32Z
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@LizEllisPhD Also if this is literally what they said...> there’s no moderation... then it's just factually wrong. Every server in the fediverse had some kind of moderation, and those that are moderated poorly tend to end up disconnected from the ones with better moderation.
(DIR) Post #AZjt7FP4tyoJ2Ykc52 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-13T23:05:42Z
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@KorimakoEcology> they're both on Twitter thoughHas anyone sent them a message there encouraging them to get into the fediverse?
(DIR) Post #AZlHrvyFDdSbcGWyEi by LizEllisPhD@mastodon.social
2023-09-14T15:17:49Z
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@strypey I know, I know and they are still on Xitter! They are genuinely clueless
(DIR) Post #AZmMps8nBIMC5VGDWy by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-15T03:48:11Z
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@LizEllisPhD> they are still on Xitter!Xitter, love it! 😂 Can I use that? I've been calling it Titter for years, but I need to get with the times...
(DIR) Post #AZmNGVFyN860vsJlRI by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-15T03:53:02Z
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@LizEllisPhD> won't use anything other than linkedin, Xitter and faecesbookGah. This is like people calling themselves computer technicians but never learning anything other than Windows.> IT struggles to keep the system over-all running and so a lot of front facing stuff like websites don't get updatedYe shall know them by their fruits. These are fruits of the PMC managerialism that's infected uni governance for decades;https://davidgraeber.org/papers/anthropology-and-the-rise-of-the-professional-managerial-class/
(DIR) Post #AZmcPbcTaBmKaMds24 by LizEllisPhD@mastodon.social
2023-09-15T06:42:34Z
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@strypey no joke, they are sacking junior researchers and lecturers because our ‘overheads’ aka management salaries are so high. IT are restricted to what head of comms says can be used and because we have to undergo ‘restructuring’ every 18 months or so PLUS keep up with constantly cycling from old sharepoint to new sharepoint, they’re actually proper exhausted. It’s a shitty system.
(DIR) Post #AZo8sMJ70GcFDsbajo by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-16T00:21:10Z
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@LizEllisPhD> they are sacking junior researchers and lecturers because our ‘overheads’ aka management salaries are so highIt's horrific, isn't it? In Aotearoa uni admins are canning whole humanities departments, and firing faculty left and right, while engaging in huge capital works to give campuses a facelift. Academics are unionised, but their unions seem totally unprepared for dealing with corporate management styles, and unable to campaign effectively against this gross mismanagement.
(DIR) Post #AZoA54s1FEn8rUYsEK by paezha@mastodon.online
2023-09-15T21:25:38Z
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@LizEllisPhD @strypey I suggested the same to my uni comms team and they were all like: "we continue to monitor the situation to assess the optimal mix of social media options to ensure that the institution reaches the next level" or something like that.
(DIR) Post #AZoA55nnmP0pkhb1IO by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-16T00:34:27Z
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@paezha> I suggested the same to my uni comms teamThese are clearly not the right people to talk to. But if they're in charge of the IT team, as they seem to be at @LizEllisPhD's institution, that's a barrier to progress in a multitude of ways. In either case, I'd suggest building bridges with the IT folks, and collaborating on ways to treat the comms muppets as damage, and hack around them.@lightweight might have some more detailed suggestions.
(DIR) Post #AZoDNm5darSHypXRuS by lightweight@social.fossdle.org
2023-09-16T01:11:33Z
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@strypey yes, the best thing to do is bypass the gatekeepers. Luckily, all you need is about $5/month for a VPS (Cloud-based virtual Linux server) and a couple keen undergrad comp-sci types, and you can have one running - use your own domain, to start with (but give it a suitably named subdomain, e.g. yourinstitution.random.domain), to make other folks sit-up and take notice. Then start using it. @paezha @LizEllisPhD
(DIR) Post #AZoRYSChGiyaqdpKM4 by pls@mastodon.ph
2023-09-16T03:49:52Z
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@strypey you mean like the SMTP based emails that were in Ateneo since the 1990s?
(DIR) Post #AZowHsdepQt0UT0xlY by LizEllisPhD@mastodon.social
2023-09-16T09:34:51Z
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@strypey humanities basically worked together & agreed a reduction in hours to save staff. Where I am, which prides itself on community & coproduction, nothing. Me, the most junior person in the whole faculty had to organise a coproduced & collaborative response. The fucking profs who are protected because of their amazing 'leadership' qualities, did sweet fuck all. I'm looking forward to them shitting bricks when they can't recruit researchers to do all the bloody work. Cunts.
(DIR) Post #AZowZdRg3UUwa8sRRw by LizEllisPhD@mastodon.social
2023-09-16T09:38:04Z
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@strypey @paezha @lightweight It's kinda moot. I'm looking to get out ASAP (new info has emerged that they do need qualitative health sociologists at my grade, so my supposed redundancy isn't so cut and dried).
(DIR) Post #AZpf8b4JHRe5KRQcz2 by arinbasu1@social.arinbasu.online
2023-09-16T17:53:28.803519Z
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This is an amazing epiphany, I’d love to see this vision realised. But the hard reality is that in general awareness of even the term #Fediverse across university campuses is abysmally low, let alone realise its potential. They have courses on promoting things on x or Facebook and everything is about LinkedIn, but the moment you mention Mastodon they look askance as if that does not exist.
(DIR) Post #AZq5ib4VLMzaZVLWs4 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-16T22:55:17Z
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@pls> you mean like the SMTP based emails that were in Ateneo since the 1990s?I'm not sure what you mean.
(DIR) Post #AZq7YZlNYNmVWfkXho by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-16T23:15:53Z
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@LizEllisPhD> humanities basically worked together & agreed a reduction in hours to save staffAt Otago they did this at least once (my partner at the time was a postgrad and junior lecturer in one of those departments).> Me, the most junior person in the whole faculty had to organise a coproduced & collaborative responseGood stuff. Keep it up!
(DIR) Post #AZq7rA6p9vQxSmdw4O by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-16T23:19:15Z
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@LizEllisPhD> The fucking profs who are protected because of their amazing 'leadership' qualities, did sweet fuck allLike the unions, most tenured staff have not adjusted to the realities of managerialism. They're still trying to operate as if they're part of a democratically governed institution, rather than a cut-throat corporate environment, where management structures the organisation m to trap everyone else in a war of all against all.(1/2)
(DIR) Post #AZq85JzPDlByA1vPP6 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-16T23:21:49Z
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@LizEllisPhDThis is why I'm constantly shilling Graeber's piece. It's step 1 (and maybe a bit of step 2) of educate, agitate, organise. I'm not involved in tertiary education, so I'm not really in a position to do 3, but I'm hopeful it will come. If highly educated academics can't organise successfully against the corporate takeover of their institutions, who can?(2/2)
(DIR) Post #AZq91ele7uLNOmIzce by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-09-16T23:32:21Z
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@arinbasu1> general awareness of even the term Fediverse across university campuses is abysmally lowEducate, agitate, organise!
(DIR) Post #AZrZHqacGzW5naqcJE by LizEllisPhD@mastodon.social
2023-09-17T16:01:17Z
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@strypey ironically this has pushed me to look for new work including a leadership role, something which is anathema to me, but, they are a great values based organisation. As a result I have had to examine my un/dis-leadership perspective and a colleague pointed out that in co-ordinating a coproduced response to the redundancies involving everyone at risk and those not at risk, where we have examined the absolute shite approach (imagine the laziest, back-or-a-fag-packet solution to financial...
(DIR) Post #AZrZkCKR2d97KUnW9w by LizEllisPhD@mastodon.social
2023-09-17T16:06:18Z
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@strypey they don't see it yet, but they will absolutely be sacrificed on the altar of inflated managerial wages. My immediate boss has her head so deep in the sand she's coming out near Uluru