mastodon.bida.im is part of the decentralized social network powered by Mastodon.
Un'istanza mastodon antifascista. autogestita, italofona con base a Bologna. Rispettosa di privacy e anonimato.

Server stats:

864
active users

Learn more

#academies

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

European science academies change from X to Mastodon

A major research policy organization in Europe that has recently left X/Twitter and is now active on Mastodon is ALLEA, the European Federation of #Academies of #Sciences and #Humanities.
allea.org/allea-ceases-activit

ALLEA justified this move as follows:
"Our commitment to academic freedom and science as a global public good is at the heart of our activities, and X's current policy is not in line with our #mission."
twitter.com/ALLEA_academies/st
ALLEA is active on Mastodon at: eupolicy.social/@ALLEA

allea.orgALLEA Ceases Activities on X/Twitter - ALLEA

Research on #academies & council maintained #schools suggests that the policy of shifting schools into Academy management is not serving the needs of #students, measured by schools' #OFSTED grading.

However, given the economic structure of privately-run academies there is a group that are clearly benefiting (financially)...

Everywhere you turn the #Tories have moved to enrich a small coterie of chums & 'fellow travellers' - #Torycorruption takes many forms

theguardian.com/education/2023

The GuardianCouncil-maintained schools in England outperforming academies in Ofsted ratingsBy Mabel Banfield-Nwachi

More evidence that the #academies system here in #England is creating little fiefdoms for power hungry asshole adults. Oh, so there'd been some vandalism and kids had been using their phones. There are more progressive ways to prevent negative behaviour and you could just ask kids to hand over their phones before going to the loo during lessons if it's such an issue. FFS.

Parents express anger after Stoke school installs locked barriers outside toilets
itv.com/news/central/2023-02-1 #Education

Hello @histodons @digitalhumanities @admin @earlymodern @renaissance

Reposting my #introduction as my mastodon data was unfortunately lost -- please re/follow or boost if you detect common interests! Director of research data center and digital historian @CUBoulder. Known to post about #ResearchData #OpenScience #DigitalHumanities #EarlyModern Central/Northern European #DigitalHistory #Societies #Academies #ComputationalBibliography #Bibliodata #GLAMs. Sometimes #Hockey.