The Institute for Human Sciences now has a education program called Library School, a journal entitled Utopian Scholastic, and a progressing imprint under the name Language Arts. There's more in the works...
A collaged cover of Utopian Scholastic: A Journal for Good Vibrations. Volume 8, issue 8, MMXXVI. The title of this volume is listed as Echoes and is published by the Institute for Human Sciences in Utrecht.
We are pleased to present volume 8 of Utopian Scholastic, the journal of the Institute for Human Sciences, here on the issue of Echoes.
Listening to the past, feeling time, doesn't mean going back in time: it means experiencing a moment of past time in the present.
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The #OxFOS recordings are now available, so you can go and watch @danrdmnn.bsky.social and @kirahopkins.bsky.social talk around open access :)
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Ah I wasn't there yet - my time was 2008-2020. Do you remember where you played?
I was once an onion: danonion.bandcamp.com
photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
"I'm writing a novel."
I was reading more on polycrisis in relation to universities: doi.org/10.1007/s100... (Tagging @danrdmnn.bsky.social as I recall he mentioned also mentioned polycrisis at #OxFOS26.) The global minority could learn from indigenous people's techniques for resisting polycrisis. (We won't, but could.)
The talk is about the people I met in Austin who know kindness and sincerity. It's about the people I met in Portugal who dream without hesitation. It's about the people in the Netherlands who come from all over because they believe in the possibility of a better University.
Here's me giving a talk at Oxford University yesterday at the Forum for Open Scholarship called A Poetics of Infrastructural Salvage.
It's about ways to open a university for more people and more forms of knowledge.
Two people standing at a lectern at Oxford University delivering a brilliant talk
Brilliant discussion rethinking governance in publishing and research from @kirahopkins.bsky.social and @kjsanders.bsky.social at The Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship #OXFOS26
I'm really looking forward to @deevybee.bsky.social's keynote on the future challenges for open research on Wednesday! (Which follows on from a session featuring Rowan Wilson, @danrdmnn.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, and I looking at community-led approaches to the extant challenges!)
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
It's Ramadan and I am thinking deeply of spirit. And I think a lot about what some call "doomerism" as actually a lot of unprocessed grief mixed with a longing for meaning and purpose in life.
New report urges broader definition of “open research" to include arts, humanities and social science practices.
@morphss.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social
Only people truly without souls could think they might be able to engineer something that resembles them. Incredible to misunderstand the value of an inner voice and an entire art form in one swing.
What happens when we build a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape?
On this episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast, @SamuelMoore.org & @HJoseph.bsky.social discuss PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET & reimagining open access.
🎧 Tune in ➡️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/pub...
I have been of the opinion for about five years now that we are all mostly clinging to the *idea* of social media. But that it has not existed, as we mean it, since Jack sold Twitter. The minute capital lined up to fold social media into its technocratic political consolidation, it stopped existing.
All the “leaders” who think that what they are doing now is safeguarding the long-term health of their institutions really should be asking themselves what someone is going to write about them in a century. It’s not just an abdication of morality — it’s a baaaad look.
Everybody thinks 'https:// stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
Regular reminder that research assessment reform is, above all, a labour issue.
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
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"There are some things we ought not to do even though people will pay us to do them" - Joseph Weizenbaum, the creator of the ELIZA chat bot in 1965, advising computer scientists on AI. Cited in McCray's README, p. 93.
Read & Let Read doi.org/10.31274/jls... (@aj-boston.bsky.social)
The second, Wikipedia is Resilient Because it is Boring by Josh Dzieza
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