I built a Quarto extension that adds accessibility features to Reveal.js presentations: keyboard nav, screen reader support, dyslexia-friendly fonts, high contrast, slide change visual/audio cue and more.
Feedback more than welcome.
github.com/mcanouil/qua...
#Quarto #RevealJS #Accessibility
Morning #UKSG2026 plenary about the Big 5 negotiations. I would love to see Jisc’s energies going into supporting collective funding and community-based publishing alternatives, alongside (preferably instead of!) inequitable negotiations with commercial behemoths.
But that’s just me. 🤷♀️
Listening to Jonathan Gray set the scene with a pretty clear argument:
“In practice research needs to be messy and heterogeneous...because that is the way it—research—actually is. And also, and more importantly, it needs to be messy because that is the way the largest part of the world is: messy, unknowable in a regular and routinized way.”
#STS #PhilSci #Methodology
Any excuse to fire up gdal!
As we have repeatedly tried to explain to a government intent on punishing universities, graduate outcomes will always be poor if you underpay every sector. (Nb y axis starting at 50)
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com, along with @sarahoconnorft.ft.com, has been doing some of the best work on graduate labour market woes. In this excellent piece, he underscores that erosion of the graduate premium in the UK is more down to weak productivity than HE intake or financing. 1/2
Jay (first author of our Sullivan Review paper) in their thread discusses one of the lesser known parts of the Review:
its offensive against established principles surrounding ethical review, research governance, and community involvement
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I have published today in @tibg.bsky.social a critical response to the UK Government-commissioned "Sullivan Review" of sex and gender in data and research collection
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'
📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.
Very excited to be able to share this for the first time!!!
So amazing to have been part the Atlas of Finance team and to have been at the @bcsmaps.bsky.social award ceremony today - with a special private viewing of some the treasures from the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk vast map collection!!!
I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs.
This tax will kill us.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Starmer's appointment of Minouch shows he understands exactly what the economy needs (more bashing LGBTQ rights and violently suppressing the peaceful protest of a genocide).
“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...
📣Warwick Antiracism Archive Launch! Come discover our new resource on knowledge b/w generations of student antiracist activists at Warwick. 20/06 2-4pm in R0.12. Register & details: link.outsavvy.com/antiracism led by
@uncomfiest.bsky.social
w/ support from Anna Numa Hopkins & 6 student researchers.
Are you researching in #OpenStreetMap and #Feminism? Do you create #dataviz using #Rstats?
If so, @ccamara.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy and @twm.bsky.social are looking for you! They are seeking a Part-time Research Assistant
+info:
portal.unitemps.com/Search/JobDe...
📆 deadline: 17/06/2025
#job
The proposed policy is abominable, and something we oppose in its entirety. The University's knee-jerk reaction has caused immense stress to trans colleagues and the University's 'apology' does not go nearly far enough in expressing a commitment to being a safe employer for Trans comrades.
Now I see why none of the recycled press releases masquerading as journalism included a map!
Then it would have to be admitted that the courses you take at *oxbridge* and the books you read are much the same at many other universities and this is of course the most politically unpalatable option possible for oxbridge all the educated mps and journalist...
Lib dems demand someone who should be irrelevant ask someone no one should have to care about to correct something which should never have happened makes 2017 sound unfortunately prescient
📴 Digital Disconnection, CDI-TV Livestream Today with Alessandro Gandini @afrontiercity.bsky.social | Tune in: 17:00 GMT - tinyurl.com/bdx2uw76
Apply for 1 of 12 PhD studentships in Data Visualization, start Oct 2025.
diverse-cdt.ac.uk
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Diversity in Data Visualization @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social & @citystgeorges.bsky.social
Funded by EPSRC @ukri.org
Artificial Societies: Confronting Social Engineering after the Techlash hybrid symposium. Part of the Sociological Review Seminar Series.
6 Mar livestream @cdi-warwick.bsky.social buff.ly/0kKfgSJ
7 Mar event buff.ly/QsnXR9J
@michael-dieter.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social
📢 CDI-TV Double Line-Up 📢
05.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT
Digital Disconnection feat. Alessandro Gandini
06.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT
Reality Engineering feat. Noortje Marres, Matias Valderrama Barragan & Greta Timaite
Join Onsite: Warwick Media Lab (FAB 1.16) | Online: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cdi
And of course with such 'a small pool' of talent there's no chance of reviewers giving quid pro quo scores to applications they could reasonably identify...
I imagined something really really bad.
It’s much, much worse
😍
Proud that the centre where I work, the @cimethods has left #X and is now on the #fediverse
You can read more about us here: https://fediscience.org/@cimethods/113862330159542917
