Universities are the cash cow of publishers like Elsevier. Universities pay with: 1) money, 2) free labor, 3) data.
But this can change!
Read how we can fix this in our open-access book Fixing Academia (chapter 9): fixingacademia.wordpress.com/chapter-9/.
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Elon Musk, Feb 2025: "America should mind its own business rather than push for regime change all over the place"
Elon Musk, Jan 2026:
"Congratulations, President Trump!
This is a win for the world and a clear message to evil dictators everywhere."
"Today, the volume of data and information, proliferating without end, is pulling science away from thought on a massive scale."
- Byung-Chul Han
“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”
- Howard Zinn
Thanks!
Great account.
Narcissus anno 2025.
"Academic" is just a fancy job title for Elsevier's content creators.
“Our desire not to be inferior to others in terms of performance, combined with the idea that we can freely choose to go the extra mile, can lead to self-exploitation. We force ourselves to go beyond what is good for us — until we burn out.”
- Berend van der Kolk (www.goodreads.com/quotes/12497...)
The existence of university rankings is entirely a solution to the problem noted here, in Yes Minister - which remains the greatest political education it is possible to receive.
Indeed. Measuring intellectual life with league tables is like judging poetry with a stopwatch 🤷🏽♂️🎓⏱️
University rankings have little meaning, are highly subjective, promote a competition frame, and thwart our academic freedom, as commercial ranking organizations dictate what constitutes “a good university.”
- www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
- Hannah Arendt
University rankings have little meaning, are highly subjective, promote a competition frame, and thwart our academic freedom, as commercial ranking organizations dictate what constitutes “a good university.”
- www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...
"Imagine a machine that could give us any desirable or pleasurable experience we want, by stimulating your brain to induce pleasurable experiences that you could not distinguish from the real world. Would you prefer the machine to real life?"
- Robert Nozick
I am very excited and thrilled to announce here on LinkedIn that I successfully, proudly and humbly returned from the toilet.
20 things that women should stop wearing after the age of 30.
1-20: The weight of other people's expectations and judgments.
If you have more than you need, build a longer table - not a higher fence.
"Our desire not to be inferior to others in terms of performance, combined with the idea that we can freely choose to go the extra mile, can lead to self-exploitation. We force ourselves to go beyond what is good for us — until we burn out."
- Berend van der Kolk
"Our desire not to be inferior to others in terms of performance, combined with the idea that we can freely choose to go the extra mile, can lead to self-exploitation. We force ourselves to go beyond what is good for us — until we burn out."
- Berend van der Kolk
"To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the lone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those that idiots possess."
- William Blake
"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
- Mary Wollstonecraft
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
