going back
/I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one-way street, isn't it?
Agatha Christie
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
articles of interest - Nov 20
/***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
An AI ready to argue with you based on your morals MIT
We urgently need an academic institute focused on algorithmic accountability New York Times
Free O’Reilly ebook on how to build real-time data pipelines with Kafka and Spark Memsql and O'Reilly
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Uptick In Teen Depression Might Be Linked To More Hours NPR
How Instagram Is Changing the Way We Design Cultural Spaces Smithsonian Magazine
Last Year, Social Media Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries MIT Technology Review
What Your Twitter Says About You & Your Mental Health, According To New Research Elite Daily
Facebook adds trust indicators to news articles in an effort to identify real journalism The Verge
How One Woman's Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her Wired
How Brands are Experimenting with Video on Instagram Stories Video Strategist
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Publishers are wary of Facebook and Google but must work with them - It’s complicated Economist
Not every article needs a picture: It is dumb to keep forcing images into every story online The Outline
***INTERNET
Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing' The Guardian
Spam is Back The Outline
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
FCC votes to loosen media ownership rules CNBC
Entercom Finalizes Merger With CBS Radio, Becoming No. 2 Radio Operator in US Bliiboard
Bad news from Mashable, BuzzFeed, and Vice shows times are rough for ad-supported digital media Nieman Journalism Lab
***JOURNALISM
The Washington Post’s new feature Counterpoint will use AI to show you opinion articles with a different perspective than the one you are reading Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Do Facebook and Google have control of their algorithms anymore? A sobering assessment and a warning Poynter
The Washington Post on Reddit surprises users with its non-promotional, ultra helpful presence Harvard’s Nieman Lab
‘Plagiarism-Infested Sports Section’ discovered at California newspaper iMediaEthics
Welcome to your local library, which also happens to be a newsroom Poynter
Reporters Committee appeals to D.C. Circuit Court for information on FBI impersonation of journalists, arguing FBI's initial search for relevant records was inadequate Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The Washington Post Is A Software Company Now Fast Company
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
Why We Need to Teach More Business Skills in the J-School Classroom PBS Media Shift
***FAKE NEWS
Drudge Linked regularly to Russia propaganda in 2016 Washington Post
Russian troll describes work in the infamous misinformation factory NBC News
Fixing Misinformation is a Misguided and Insufficient Strategy Medium
Should Facebook Notify Readers When They’ve Been Fed Disinformation? Fast Company
Today’s biggest threat to democracy isn’t fake news—it’s selective facts Quartz
Journalists share tips for discerning which news is 'fake' The Daily Times
'Way too little, way too late': Facebook's factcheckers say effort is failing The Guardian
‘Breakthrough’ for enlarged prostates? Northwestern’s aggressive PR pitch lacks data and context Health News Review
At Snopes a Peek Down the Right Wing Rabbit Holes The Daily Beast
***PERSONAL GROWTH
I Used to Be a Human Being Becoming (my blog)
Yes, You Have Implicit Biases, Too (opinion) The Chronicle of Higher Education
***WRITING & READING
'OK’ Is a 4-Letter Word The Chronicle of Higher Education
‘The Right to Tell People What They Do Not Want to Hear’ The Chronicle of Higher Education
***LANGUAGE
Mon Dieu! Ma Déesse! The Chronicle of Higher Education
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Q&A: AP’s new race reporter on how her beat is everywhere Columbia Journalism Review
Evaluating Job Satisfaction of Latino Journalists in Multimedia Newsrooms University of Texas, El Paso
Homeland Security official resigns after comments linking blacks to ‘laziness’ and ‘promiscuity’ come to light Washington Post
This Is Where Hate Crimes Don’t Get Reported (visual graphics) Propublica
***FREE SPEECH
Sheriff threatens to bring disorderly conduct charges against the driver of a truck displaying a profane anti-Trump message Houston Chronicle
A University’s Free-Speech Committee Pledges Transparency — Then Closes Its Meetings to the Public The Chronicle of Higher Education
Williams College president: Don’t ignore the real threats in the debate over free speech Washington Post
On overseas satellite campuses, academic freedom is more often promised than practiced The Fire
***LEGAL ISSUES
‘The Slants’ trademark registered today, six years after the application was first filed Washington Post
Trump's Tweets Could Undercut Feds' Silence in Public Records Case: In a FOIA case about the "Russia dossier," Judge is considering what President Trump may or may not know when he tweets National Law Journal
The newspaper ad that changed everything CNN
***TECHNOLOGY
A New Gene-Editing Therapy Would Benefit Kids Most—Here’s Why They Won’t Get It Yet MIT Technology Review
UC Berkeley professor's eerie lethal drone video goes viral San Francisco Gate
***RELIGION
The Enduring Appeal of Creepy Christianity National Review
Ex-members say church uses power, lies to keep grip on kids Associated Press
Newsmax's 100 Most Influential Evangelicals in America News Max
Assaults against Muslims in U.S. surpass 2001 level Pew Research Center
'We are heavily armed,' Tampa church warns Fox 13
Amy Julia Becker: I'm a Christian, but please don't call me evangelical Tulsa World
Victims 'told not to report' Jehovah's Witness child abuse BBC
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Washington Post Magazine's in-depth profile of televangelist Paula White and her role as pastor to President Trump Washington Post
Church leaders hold a rally in Alabama against Roy Moore’s candidacy for US Senate Daily Mail
Poll: Majority Of Evangelicals Would Support Satan If He Ran As Republican Candidate BabylonBee
86 Alabama Baptist pastors sign letter against sex abuse AL.com
A diverse group of Christian theologians release a Declaration to challenge the corruption of Christians in the US Religious News Service
***THE BIBLE MUSEUM
$500-million Museum of the Bible opens amid controversy Tulsa World
How to go to the Museum of the Bible: Tickets, transportation and all the info you need Washington Post
D.C.’s Newest Museum Has a Provenance Problem The Chronicle of Higher Ed
D.C.’s new Bible museum says it wants to avoid politics. But its opening gala is at the Trump hotel Washington Post
***ART & DESIGN
89-Year-Old Japanese Grandma Discovers Photography, Can’t Stop Taking Hilarious Self-Portraits Now Japan Inside
Aesthetics & the Sciences of Mind Philosophy Now
Can a Social-Justice App Be Art? The New Yorker
***MUSIC
A simple twist of faith: Reconsidering Bob Dylan’s “Christian period” Salon
8 Famous Guitar Tones That Were Recorded Straight Into Reverb News
An Interactive Map of Every Record Shop in the World Open Culture
Charles Manson was not a good songwriter BongBong
***FILM
A twitterbot that generates hypothetical Hallmark holiday movies BongBong
***STUDENT LIFE
Ohio State isn’t the first college where students are accused of cheating via GroupMe Inside Higher Ed
Student sues university for ADA violations over service dog in sorority house CNN
Grad Students Are Freaking Out About the GOP Tax Plan Wired
7 Tips For Dating Outside of Your Political Preference Study Breaks
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
He quit JetBlue by sliding out of a plane. Now he has advice for the rogue Twitter employee Washington Post
How making other people’s coffee prepared me for a job in PR MuckRack
News internships (Summer 2018), Associated Press
Summer 2018 Intenrship Institute on Political Journalism in Washington, DC.
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT.. ON CAMPUS
What the Weinstein Effect Can Teach Us About Campus Sexual Assault New York Times
Notre Dame’s new practice of allowing “alternative resolutions” instead of the traditional Title IX hearings has worried campus advocates for survivors Inside Higher Ed
Student speaks out following rape investigation at Hudson Valley Community College News 10
Sexual Harassment and Assault in Higher Ed: What’s Happened Since Weinstein The Chronicle of Higher Ed
A new website generates too-real “apologies” for men accused of sexual misconduct Vox
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT.. IN THE NEWSROOM
CJR Survey: Reporting Sexual Misconduct in Newsrooms Columbia Journalism Review
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Why Some Survivors Of Sexual Harassment And Assault Wait To Tell Their Stories NPR
Pentagon discloses data on sexual assault reports on military bases Reuters
Supreme Court Ruling Could Limit Workplace Harassment Claims, Advocates Say NPR
The myth of the male bumbler The Week
When It Comes To Sexual Harassment Claims, Whose Side Is Human Resources On? NPR
Reckoning With Sexual Harassment NPR
They were sexually harassed at work. They reported it. Here’s what happened Washington Post
Social Media Posts May Complicate Prosecution Of Sexual Assault NPR
***HEALTH
They’re probably taking your blood Pressure Wrong NPR
‘Breakthrough’ for enlarged prostates? Northwestern’s aggressive PR pitch lacks data and context Health News Review
Skipped breast cancer treatments common HarvardKennedy School Shorenstein Center
***SCIENCE
Flat Earthers Now Have Their Own International Conference Because Science And Logic No Longer Matter Digg
Why Stupid Things are Smarter Together Digg
***PSYCHOLOGY
The Serial-Killer Detector The New Yorker
***CRITICAL THINKING
To think critically, you have to be both analytical and motivated Arstechnica
Get Students to Reflect on the Logical Fallacies in Arguments Teacher Boot Camp
***PHILOSOPHY
Why philosophy is so important in science education Quartz
***ETHICS
An AI That Argues With You Based On Your Morals MIT
A Note About Racked’s Ethics Policy Racked
More than 50 tech ethics courses, with links to syllabi BongBong
***RESEARCH
Survey finds high levels of research misconduct in Middle East Times Higher Ed
Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review PNAS
The Replication Crisis in Economics Wired
Impact of Social Sciences – Metrics, recognition, and rewards: it’s time to incentivise the behaviours that are good for research and researchers The London School of Economist and Political Science
You’re a Researcher Without a Library: What Do You Do? Medium
***HIGHER ED
Higher ed's nuanced strategy gives it options for navigating tax reform debate Inside Higher Ed
We urgently need an academic institute focused on algorithmic accountability New York Times
Are Academics ‘Asleep at the Wheel’? Op-Ed on Tech’s Influence Draws Scholars’ Fire The Chronicle of Higher Education
For-profit colleges in America relaunch themselves as non-profits Economist
Wheaton’s endowment reaches $450 million, avoids potential new tax Wheaton
Still no word from San Diego Christian; inewsource responds anyway inewsource
Moody Bible to Close Spokane Campus, Cut Chicago Faculty Christianity Today
***HUMANITIES /STEM
How the Humanities helps our veterans The San Diego Union-Tribune
Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom The Chronicle of Higher Education
How studying humanities can help you get a job The Week
***TEACHING
Do Professors Need Automated Help Grading Online Comments? Inside Higher Ed
Yagoda on Last-Naming Professors The Chronicle of Higher Education
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Faculty Members at One More University Push Back at Online Programs The Chronicle of Higher Education
Another Bad Year for History Jobs Inside Higher Ed
Students do not trust teaching by foreign lecturers who speak English with unfamiliar accents Inside Higher Ed
The Dangers of Tweeting at Conferences The Chronicle of Higher Education
Professors are losing academic freedom Washington Post
This Transgender Professor Just Won A $1 Million Jury Verdict In A Major Case Against a University BuzzFeed
I Used to Be a Human Being
/In the last year of my blogging life, my health began to give out. Four bronchial infections in 12 months had become progressively harder to kick. Vacations, such as they were, had become mere opportunities for sleep. My dreams were filled with the snippets of code I used each day to update the site. My friendships had atrophied as my time away from the web dwindled. My doctor, dispensing one more course of antibiotics, finally laid it on the line: “Did you really survive HIV to die of the web?”
But the rewards were many: an audience of up to 100,000 people a day; a new-media business that was actually profitable; a constant stream of things to annoy, enlighten, or infuriate me; a niche in the nerve center of the exploding global conversation; and a way to measure success — in big and beautiful data — that was a constant dopamine bath for the writerly ego. If you had to reinvent yourself as a writer in the internet age, I reassured myself, then I was ahead of the curve. The problem was that I hadn’t been able to reinvent myself as a human being.
Andrew Sullivan writing in New York Magazine
build the world
/How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. Anais Nin
hearing and listening
/Hearing captures the words a person speaks; listening captures the meaning and the feeling beneath those words.
I Know because the People around me Think they Know
/If I think I understand because the people around me think they understand, and the people around me all think they understand because the people around them all think they understand, then it turns out we can all have this strong sense of understanding even though no one really has any idea what they're talking about.
Everyone has a compulsion to be right, meaning that they want the people around them to think they're right, and this is easily achieved by mouthing the things that the people around you say. And people who are more capable tend to be better at finding ways to interpret new facts in line with their community's preconceptions.
I like to live in communities that put a premium on getting things right even when they fly in the face of social norms. This means living with constant tension, but it's worth it.
Steven Sloman quoted in Vox
articles of interest - Nov 13
/***JOURNALISM
Journalists boycott Disney films in solidarity with the L.A. Times CNN
Public radio rethinks its approach to journalism Columbia Journalism Review
Disney Backs Off L.A. Times Ban Following Backlash Hollywood Reporter
Here's why your local TV news is about to get even worse The Conversation
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Trump wants to punish CNN by breaking up the AT&T/Time Warner deal Recode
Gannett announces management reorganization Talking New Media
***FAKE NEWS
One Way to Fight Fake News: reading laterally Chronicle of Higher Ed
When fake news will be made by pros Monday Note
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
What should this student do? His bosses want him to p-hack and they don’t even know it! Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
What should this student do? His bosses want him to p-hack and they don’t even know it! Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
How a data scientist protects his children from the dangers of the tech world The Next Web
Discussion of why Ethics in AI is still a mess, and what practical steps might change the picture Wired
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Apple (AAPL) revealed which emoji Americans use the most Quartz
Snapchat redesign is in the works amid weak growth in users and ad sales LA Times
ESPN will produce a daily version of SportsCenter exclusively for Snapchat Recode
***PRODUCING MEDIA
In $25 billion video game industry, voice actors face broken vocal cords and low pay The Washington Post
Instagram is also a huge source of Russian propaganda on social media (Pinterest’s not safe either) Nieman Journalism Lab
Trump's Official Portrait and the Language of Lighting Petapixel
***PERSONAL GROWTH
How to Spot a Liar Becoming (my blog)
Why Canceling Plans is So Satisfying The Cut
***WRITING & READING
Ph.D.s Are Still Writing Poorly, Part 1 Chronicle of Higher Ed
Does English Grammar Allow you to use an Accusative as part of the Subject of a Sentence? (“me and [name]”) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
Would language be better if it were polished to perfection? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
For Dostoevsky, epilepsy was a matter of both life and literature PBS
How a young Ernest Hemingway dealt with his first taste of fame The Conversation
***GENDER
The Perpetrators Of America's Worst Mass Shootings Have One Glaring Thing In Common Digg
Study finds male Ph.D. candidates submit and publish papers at significantly higher rates than female peers on the same campus Inside Higher Ed
Transgender issues sharply divide Republicans, Democrats Pew Research Center
Gender and citation impact in management research Science Direct
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
On diversifying data journalism The Bureau Investigates
To Help Combat Racism, Kansas State U. Will Cancel Classes (for 2 Hours) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
What’s Fueling the Free-Speech Wars? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
Court demands that search engines and internet service providers block Sci-Hub Science Magazine
Taylor Swift's Attorney Rebuked Over Letter Demanding Article's Retraction WBGO
The History and Philosophy of Copyright (video) PetaPixel
Court Rejects Gossip Site’s Fair Use Defense Technology & Marketing Law Blog
A $10 million defamation suit filed by a Stanford University professor against a critic and a journal Retraction Watch
Lisa Bloom Says Bill O'Reilly Is Libel-Proof Hollywood Reporter
Facebook Defeats Lawsuit By User Suspended Over ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***RELIGION
Religious Employers May Not Be Able to Take Away Your Birth Control After All Life Hacker
Here's why this Houston megachurch is flying Russia's flag outside Houston Chronicle
Clergy spouses: Privacy, isolation concerns abound Times Record News
Religion a part of national identity in Central, Eastern Europe Pew Research Center
Key takeaways about Orthodox Christians Pew Research Center
New Museum Invites Visitors To 'Engage' With The Bible NPR
Tennessee Baptist church fights conference shunning over hiring of female pastor USA Today
Buddhism Is More ‘Western’ Than You Think New York Times
A suggestion for younger evangelicals: Lose the label (commentary) Religion News
Baptist convention denounces racism, but not the Confederate flag Baptist News
***RELIGION AND MASS SHOOTINGS
Praying In Response To Mass Shootings NPR
Churches Rethinking Security in the Wake of Texas Shooting NPR
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
No, Christians Don't Use Joseph and Mary to Explain Child Molesting Accusations (opinion) Christianity Today
***MUSIC
What music do psychopaths like? More Bieber, less Bach Washington Post
***HEALTH
A Link Between Alcohol and Cancer? It’s Not Nearly as Scary as It Seems New York Times
Genetically Altered Skin Saves A Boy Dying Of A Rare Disease NPR
The Gross Inequality of Organ Transplants in America New Republic
How Conjoined Twins Are Making Scientists Question the Concept of Self The Walrus
Why Working Women With Migraines Suffer in Silence Splinter News
***PSYCHOLOGY
Christmas Music Could Harm Your Mental Health IFL Science
Psychology's Renaissance Annual Review of Psychology
Brain Scientists Look Beyond Opioids To Conquer Pain NPR
***PHILOSOPHY
The Examined Life: Know Thyself #1 Wireless Philosophy
How Philosophy Makes Progress Daily Nous
On Putnam's Regulative Ideal of Decency Digressions Impressions
***ETHICS
Naming abusers online may be “mob justice” but it’s still justice Quartz
***RESEARCH
Dealing with error and bias in academic research PsyArXiv
Academic journal publishing is headed for a day of reckoning The Conversation
'Null' research findings aren't empty of meaning. Let's publish them Stat News
Why developing countries are particularly vulnerable to predatory journals The Conversation
Publish and perish and buyer beware Otago Daily Times Online News
Reviewing Better Medium
***HIGHER ED
UW-Superior Suspends 25 Programs: Faculty Say They Were Not Consulted Before Programs Were Suspended Wisconsin Public Radio
Congressional committee discusses bill designed to define anti-Semitism; some say it is too broad to be effective on college campuses Inside Higher Ed
When College Classrooms Become Ideologically Segregated, Everyone Suffers NBC News
How Student Concentrations Are Changing at Harvard The Crimson
***TEACHING
Will They Remember Writing It? Helping instructors design a meaningful writing assignment Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Syllabus at Duke barred staffers of campus paper from class on hedge funds Inside Higher Ed
The rise of the campus meme Daily Californian
Tips For Writing Your College Admissions Essay The Onion
***STUDENT LIFE
After 10-Hour Hearing, Clemson U. Students Vote Not to Remove Black Leader Chronicle of Higher Ed
Survey shows declines in new international students after years of growth Inside Higher Ed
OSU students caught cheating via "GroupMe" app Local 12
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Paid journalism internships with December deadlines Student Press Law Center
Program to bring interns of color to nonprofit newsrooms Inn.org
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Trainers, Lawyers Say Sexual Harassment Training Fails NPR
College let teachers quietly leave after alleged sex abuse, and pushed students for silence Boston Globe
***ACADEMIC LIFE
What’s to be done about the numerous reports of faculty misconduct dating back years and even decades? Inside Higher Ed
do the exceptional
/Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. – Robert Cody
How to Spot a Liar
/When an international team of researchers asked some 2,300 people in 58 countries to respond to a single question — “How can you tell when people are lying?” — one sign stood out: In two-thirds of responses, people listed gaze aversion. A liar doesn’t look you in the eye. Twenty-eight percent reported that liars seemed nervous, a quarter reported incoherence, and another quarter that liars exhibited certain little giveaway motions.
It just so happens that the common wisdom is false.
Why do we think we know how liars behave? Liars should divert their eyes. They should feel ashamed and guilty and show the signs of discomfort that such feelings engender. And because they should, we think they do.
The desire for the world to be what it ought to be and not what it is permeates experimental psychology as much as writing, though. There’s experimental bias and the problem known in the field as “demand characteristics” — when researchers end up finding what they want to find by cuing participants to act a certain way. It’s also visible when psychologists choose to study one thing rather than another, dismiss evidence that doesn’t mesh with their worldview while embracing that which does.
Maria Konnikova writing in the New York Times
happiness depends
/Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. –Leo Tolstoy
Desensitized to Lying
/When you’re exposed to a strong smell, at first the smell is extremely noticeable, but eventually you stop noticing it as much. With time, any stimulus — a loud noise, a strong perfume, etc. — is likely to provoke a smaller response. The same goes with lying.
We get desensitized to our own lying as the areas of our brain that correlate with negativity become less active. This makes it easier for us to lie in the future.
“The first time you cheat — let’s say you’re cheating on your taxes — you feel quite bad about it,” Tali Sharot, a University College London neuroscientist. But then the next time you cheat, you’re less likely to get that negative feeling. That makes it easier to lie again. And the cycle escalates from there.
Brian Resnick writing in Vox
making a mistake
/He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles
Fearing Outsiders
/"It’s what we call an over-exclusion bias," Mina Cikara, a Harvard psychologist who studies intergroup conflict, said. When you start fearing others "your circle of who you counted as friends is going to shrink. And that means those people outside of the bounds get less empathy, get fewer resources." It also means you become more vigilant and obsessed with marking who is an insider and who is not. "You want to draw those boundaries brighter, so you don’t make any mistakes about who you want to share your resources with or who you want to trust," she says.
Brian Resnick writing in Vox
The happiest people
/The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have.
articles of interest - Nov 6
/***JOURNALISM
Why I Believe in the Future of Journalism as a 10-year-old Reporter Newsweek
Miami demands media stop showing photos of firefighters fired in noose incident Miami Herald
Why it's important to name the shooter Poynter
Plaintiff in Russia dossier suit argues BuzzFeed isn't a real news organization Money Magazine
More in U.S. getting news from multiple social media sites Pew Research Center
It's a journalist's duty to keep collected information safe. Here are some ways to get started Poynter
***FAKE NEWS
Learning To Spot Fake News: Start With A Gut Check NPR
Twitter Sidestepped Russian Account Warnings, Former Worker Says Bloomberg
Dilbert vs. Trump: Why False Facts Have Power Tech News World
***PRODUCING MEDIA
How On Earth Did Email Newsletters Become Popular Again? Medium
How Vimeo Is Preparing For The Future Of Video Storytelling Fast Company
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Particle physics reveals there is more to wonder about one of the Seven Wonders of the World Science News
Who’s the 2017 World Series champ? Big Data! What the Astros did to win the analytics arms race Tech Republic
Intelligence collection and analysis is a mess in the US intelligence community The Hill
What the founding fathers of Apache Spark are saying and doing about its future ZD Net
The Kaggle 2017 State of Data Science and Machine Learning report Kaggle
A new system that automatically produces code optimized for sparse data MIT
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Do social media threaten democracy? Economist
Representatives From Facebook, Twitter And Google Testify About Russia's Election Influence NPR
Once considered a boon to democracy, social media have started to look like its nemesis Economist
Why Is the U.S. So Susceptible to Social-Media Distortion? (opinion) New Yorker
How Russia Weaponized Social Media With 'Social Bots' NPR
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Our attitudes are shaped much more by our social groups than they are by facts on the ground Becoming (my blog)
Why we pretend to know things Vox
This Is Why We Default To Criticism (And How To Change) Fast Company
***WRITING & READING
7 Pieces of Expert Writing Advice Daily Jstor
***LANGUAGE
The Randomness of Language Evolution The Atlantic
Why You Still Should Learn a Language in the Age of Pixel Buds Daily Jstor
***GENDER
Looking For A Home When Your Name Is Hispanic And Finding Discrimination Instead NPR
Pop Art Posters Celebrate Pioneering Women Scientists: Download Free Posters of Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace & More Open Culture
Gender Bias in Peer Review Scholarly Kitchen
Orange County High-School Students Rebel Against Confederate Mascot The Daily Beast
***FREE SPEECH
Rethinking free speech on campus - Free to be crude and mean Economist
University of Oregon president pens powerful reflection on being shouted down The FIRE
Free speech at American universities is under threat Economist
***LEGAL ISSUES
Taylor Swift’s Team Issued a Defamation Threat Against a Website With 76 Twitter Followers Spin
'Cosby Show' Producer Sues BBC for Using Clips in Bill Cosby Doc Hollywood Reporter
***ART & DESIGN
Professor's artwork uses US flags to make KKK-style hoods CNN
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
FCC Releases Proposed Order to Modify Media Ownership Rules Comm Law Blog
***RELIGION
The NFL Allows Churches To Show Regular Season Football Games: Understanding when and how you can show NFL games in your church Plagiarism Today
Meet the Woke Young People Trying to Make Christianity Cool Again Vice
'It's Our Right': Christian Congregation In Indonesia Fights To Worship In Its Church NPR
The racism in Gen. Kelly’s Civil War comments runs deep in the strand of evangelicalism that helped elect Trump (opinion) Religious Dispatches
What does the revival of Protestantism Mean for the Developing World Economist
Church shootings are so common that there’s a database for them Quartz
Religious leaders and former gang members join forces to reduce crime CBS News
Why evangelicals are deeply skeptical of gun control laws (opinion) Chicago Tribune
Younger evangelicals have never been in a moral majority. This changes how they see politics Economist
***RELIGION AND MUSIC
How Bob Dylan found God, and his fans found another boxset to buy ABC News (Australia)
Review: Thinking Twice About Bob Dylan's Gospel Phase With New Bootleg Box Rolling Stone
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Can We Still Rely On Science Done By Sexual Harassers? Wired
How Human Resources Handles Sexual Misconduct NPR
Finding the Words We Need to Talk About Sexual Assault and Harassment Daily Jstor
Sexual harassment: Who suffers, and how Journalism Resources
***HEALTH
The Limits of Behavioral Economics in Medicine New York Times
***SCIENCE
There is “much more to scientific impact than citations” Nature
How To Win An Argument According To Science Daily Jstor
***PSYCHOLOGY
Carl Jung Psychoanalyzes Hitler Open Culture
“Psychologists really are trying to turn their field around Science News
How One Psychologist Is Tackling Human Biases in Science Nautil.us
Sleep protects against learning fear The Naked Scientist
What eyes and odours reveal about sexual attraction Economist
***CRITICAL THINKING
The work of 213,284 kids was analyzed. These are the writing and critical-thinking skills that stumped students Washington Post
5 Tips for Critical Thinking: What can you do to critically think better in day-to-day situations? Psychology Today
***PHILOSOPHY
Death: A Free Philosophy Course from Yale Helps You Grapple with the Inescapable Open Culture
How Alvin Plantinga Paved the Way for Christian Philosophy's Comeback Christianity Today
***PRODUCTIVITY
Google Calendar on the web gets a fresh new look Tech Crunch
***ETHICS
Dealing with Unethical or Illegal Conduct in Higher Education The Scientist
Tiny human brain organoids implanted into rodents, triggering ethical concerns Stat News
***RESEARCH
Prominent scientist sues critic of his work for $10 million Mashable
Do We Need An Adoption Service for Orphan Data? Discover Magazine
Who owns patient data in clinical research? Collabrx
Academic journal publishing is headed for a day of reckoning The Conversation
***HIGHER ED
As ed-tech companies gather more data, they struggle to find its best uses Inside Higher Ed
Evaluating the evidence on micro-aggressions and trigger warnings Economist
Can Design Thinking Redesign Higher Ed? Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country The Atlantic
GOP tax overhaul would eliminate tax breaks used by colleges and students Inside Higher Ed
College apologizes for ‘House of Cards’ email Columbia Tribune
200 universities just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list Quartz
Christian Writer Banned From Liberty University Campus After Criticizing Trump Ally NPR
Anthony Scaramucci spoke at Liberty University Salon
***HUMANITIES /STEM
‘Digital’ Is Not the Opposite of ‘Humanities’ (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
There Is No Such Thing as ‘the Digital Humanities’ (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Study English Lit to acquire 'marketable' skills? That's a bad argument (opinion) LA Times
***TEACHING
How students to steal professors’ passwords on campus and to change grades Inside Higher Ed
In a Volatile Climate on Campus, Professors Teach on Tenterhooks New York Times
Dropping The F-Bomb In Class? Teachers Weigh In NPR
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student Newspaper publishes Letter from the Editor in Protest of Treatment by Administrators Indiana Daily Student
***STUDENT LIFE
Georgetown students vote not to take action against pro-heterosexual-marriage campus group Washington Post
Six Myths About Choosing a College Major New York Times
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Senior faculty members on three campuses face disciplinary action or resign over harassment allegations Inside Higher Ed
Professional Development beyond Citations and the Standard Process Scholarly Kitchen
After threats of dismissal, a tenured professor is cleared of plagiarism charges Durango Herald
Abusers and Enablers in Faculty Culture Chronicle of Higher Ed
Matching your tasks to your Energy
/When considering how to best match your tasks to your energy it’s helpful to consider all the different kinds of work you do, and when would be the best time to do them. Even if you know that you’re naturally a morning person, for example, that alone may not help you best arrange all of your activities, since you can’t do everything first thing. Are you writing? editing? coding data? researching citations for a literature review? creating slides? preparing lecture notes for class? For each activity, consider when you would be best able to do that work well.
You might not know the answers to all those questions yet — so simply observing when you are intuitively drawn to do certain kinds of work, and how difficult or easy it is to complete the task at different times of day, can help you design your schedule to better match your tasks to your energy.
Natalie Houston writing in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
getting older
/The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. Madeleine L'Engle
articles of interest - week of Oct 30
/***TECHNOLOGY
U.S. Will Curb ‘Sneak-and-Peek’ Searches Microsoft Sued Over Bloomberg
Amid GMO Strife, Food Industry Vies For Public Trust In CRISPR Technology NPR
Gene editing takes another step forward Economist
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Most employed data scientists gained their skills through self-learning or a MOOC.. not a traditional CS degree Tech Republic
A survey of CIOs on Machine learning plans and obstacles Enterprisers Projects
Supervised learning without training wheels Economist
Inside the automated brain: what AI sees when they’re watching us Quartz
“Best-Ever Algorithm” for Huge Streams of Data Quantam Magazine
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Day in the Life of a Snapchat editor Digiday
How Russian Propaganda Spreads On Social Media NPR
The Worst Tweeter In Politics Isn’t Trump Harvard's Nieman Lab
With Huge Fines, German Law Pushes Social Networks To Delete Abusive NPR
CNN’s three month-old daily Snapchat show The Update avoids the “bells and whistles and flashes” Harvard's Nieman Lab
***SOCIAL MEDIA: TWITTER
Twitter Says It Will Ban Ads From Russian News Agencies After Interference In 2016 Election NPR
Some Guidelines for Using Twitter Chronicle of Higher Ed
How to Spot a Twitter Bot Life Hacker
***SOCIAL MEDIA: FACEBOOK
Does Facebook Use Your Phone's Microphone To Eavesdrop On Your Conversations? Digg
America doesn't trust Facebook The Verge
Facebook's Blind Spot: Connecting The World, For Better Or Worse NPR
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
The FCC just ended a decades-old rule designed to keep TV and radio under local control The Washington Post
Myspace Looked Like It Was Back. Actually, It Was A Pawn In An Ad Fraud Scheme BuzzFeed
***JOURNALISM
The Most Revealing Moment in the New Joan Didion Documentary New Yorker
Journalism’s New Patrons: California nonprofit targets individual donors Columbia Journalism Review
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
LA Weekly is being sold to Semanal Media, a mysterious new company LA Times
How Jeff Bezos Reacts to 'Negative' Amazon Articles in Washington Post Fortune
How leading American newspapers got people to pay for news Economist
News personalization could help publishers attract and retain audiences—in the process making political polarization even worse Nieman Reports
***FAKE NEWS
The media's definition of fake news vs. Donald Trump's Politifact
The Fact-Checking Army Waging War on Fake News PBS Media Shift
How Snapchat Has Kept Itself Free of Fake News Bloomberg
Facebook Stumbles With Early Effort to Stamp Out Fake News Bloomberg
Italy Takes Aim At Fake News With New Curriculum For High School Students NPR
***WRITING & READING
The BuzzFeed Style Chronicle of Higher Ed
Journaling with a Helping Hand Study Break
An Artificial Intelligence Bot Writes Stories of the Macabre Atlas Obscura
***LANGUAGE
A history of slang charts the change in taboos Economist
Sir Thomas Browne’s Vulgar Errors Jstor
The Survival of British English Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
The Sad Story of A.A. Milne and the Real-Life Christopher Robin Jstor
New Documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold Now Streaming on Netflix Open Culture
The Man Whose Snowy Day Helped Diversify Children’s Books Jstor
Literature: What is it Good For? Study Break
***GENDER
A pernicious and underappreciated source of gender bias may be affecting faculty hiring Sage Journals
Even when women speak less, they are perceived as talking more Applied Psycholinguistics
Measuring the implicit biases we may not even be aware we have The Conversation
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Majority Of White Americans Say They Believe Whites Face Discrimination NPR
Black Clemson student government vice president alleges racism is behind impeachment trial Inside Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
University of California to open free speech center in Washington DC San Francisco Gate
Sessions’ Justice Dept. Is Wading Into Another Campus Free-Speech Case Chronicle of Higher Ed
After a Year of Tumult, Evergreen State Revises a Policy on the Use of Campus Space Chronicle of Higher Ed
Senate hearing explores free speech on college campuses Inside Higher Ed
Congress unlikely to push federal mandate on campus free speech Education Dive
***LEGAL ISSUES
U.S. Solicitor General Will Argue Against Gay Couple in Supreme Court Case involving Refusal on religious grounds to Bake a Wedding Cake for a Same-sex Couple National Law Journal
Google Responds to Lawsuit Accusing YouTube of Censoring Conservatives Hollywood Reporter
Judge tosses libel lawsuit against AP by Russian oligarch tied to Manafort Politico
***RELIGION
5 facts about Protestants around the world Pew Research Center
After I Adopted Two Black Babies, I Realized My Church Was Full Of Racists Splinter
Buzzfeed takes the time to dig into Megachurch and gets this complex story right Get Religion
The real reason Muhammad Ali converted to Islam Washington Post
Indiana court rules sex offenders can go to church with children: What questions does this raise? Get Religion
George Washington’s church to remove plaque honoring him Daily Mail
How could The Los Angeles Times dodge faith in a story about Kershaw family, mission work? (opinion) Get Religion
Satanic church shames district over corporal punishment New York Post
How the prosperity gospel is sparking a major change in the world's most Catholic country Washington Post
***MARTIN LUTHER
How Martin Luther Changed the World The New Yorker
The Nazis Exploited Martin Luther’s Legacy. This Berlin Exhibit Highlights How Religious News Service
Could the Reformation Have Happened Without Luther? (podcast) The Pietist Schoolman
500 Years Later, Some Issues That Martin Luther Raised Remain NPR
Martin Luther’s ‘dream’ church? It wasn’t in Europe Religion News Service
What to Do about Martin Luther? Context
How Did Martin Luther Become So Popular? Sojourners
3 Ways to Remember the Reformation The Pietist Schoolman
***ART & DESIGN
You draw the chart on how life has changed in the last 60 years BBC
The Washington Post’s augmented reality app to carve a pumpkin Washington Post
Source’s guide for making charts Open News
***MUSIC
How Advertisers Get Away With Using Fake Versions of Your Favorite Songs Pitchfork
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student newspaper takes a close look at school's sexual-misconduct procedure: Finds the university's president is the final arbiter in all cases The Daily Texan
***STUDENT LIFE
Isolation, loneliness for college students persists in a partisan era on college campuses Inside Higher Ed
Georgetown students have filed a discrimination complaint against a campus group promoting heterosexual marriage Washington Post
Clemson Student Vice President who Refused to Stand during the National Anthem is Impeached- will Face Trial New York Times
Millennials it Turns out are Loyal and just as boring as previous workers Economist
Millennials are doing better than the baby-boomers did at their age Economist
Fascism Reached My College Campus, and Now I Can't Look Away The Daily Dot
Opioids on College Campuses New York Times
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
A Look At Workplace Policies Meant To Prevent Sexual Harassment NPR
Suicide, investigation and a lawsuit follow booze-fueled UC Davis School retreat Sacramento Bee
***SOCIOLOGY
List of featured speakers for sociology conference, most of them men, sparks debate and backlash Inside Higher Ed
***HEALTH
Troubling Legacy Of Tuskegee Study, Henrietta Lacks Still An Obstacle In Medical Research NPR
A Paper Claiming Wi-Fi Is Linked To Autism Has Been Accused Of Pseudoscience BuzzFeed
Scientists And Surgeons Team Up To Create Virtual Human Brain Cells NPR
***SCIENCE
A statistical fix for the replication crisis in science The Conversation
Criticizing a scientist’s work isn’t bullying Slate
***NEUROSCIENCE
Algorithm can identify suicidal people using brain scans The Verge
Why it’s time to lay the stereotype of the ‘teen brain’ to rest The Conversation
***RESEARCH
The Cookie Crumbles: A Retracted Study Points to a Larger Truth New York Times
Physicists cozy up to double-blind peer review Physics Today
What it would be like without peer review The Times Literary Supplement
The Publishing Trap! A Table game of scholarly communication The London School of Economics and Political Science
Predatory conferences ‘now outnumber official scholarly events’ Times Higher Ed
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Play has a positive impact on creativity Becoming (my blog)
We're Not As Good At Remembering Faces As We Think We Are NPR
Self-awareness as a leader in higher education does not mean being proud of your faults Chronicle of Higher Ed
***HIGHER ED
A Broadening Battle Over Archives to Share Papers Inside Higher Ed
Four stubborn money myths about private college education News OK
Supposed campus guidelines on costumes not always what they seem Inside Higher Ed
Why we shouldn’t rely on data and algorithms to fix the humanities Chronicle of Higher Ed
Senate Hearings Explore Free Speech on College Campuses Inside Higher Ed
John Grisham: A Candid Conversation on the Villain in his new Thriller: For-Profit Colleges Chronicle of Higher Ed
Christina College founded by Tim LaHaye can't explain $20 million in expenses CBS-8
Patriotic Education Course at Christian liberal arts college Inside Higher Ed
Liberty U. President Says Trump Could Be ‘Greatest President Since Abraham Lincoln’ Chronicle of Higher Ed
Gay and in Love at an Evangelical College New York Times
***TEACHING
Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Encourages Conversations About Teaching Chronicle of Higher Ed
What’s the Ideal Mix of Online and Face-to-Face Classes? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
The University of Arkansas system is considering changing its tenure policy to allow professors to be fired for "disruptive conduct" Chronicle of Higher Ed
A faculty strike in Ontario highlights the potential of digital picketing Chronicle of Higher Ed
What to Say After a Student Dies Chronicle of Higher Ed
Professors Are Complicit in Football Players’ Brain Damage (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Pernicious Silencing of the Adjunct Faculty Chronicle of Higher Ed
3 Dartmouth Psych Profs accused of serious misconduct are on leave Washington Post
Play and creativity
/Play has a positive impact on creativity because— in addition to helping us both mind-wander and diversify— it stimulates positive emotion, which research shows leads to greater insight and better problem solving. Barbara Fredrickson of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, found that positive emotions increase our cognitive resources by expanding our visual attention. When we feel good, we gain the ability to pay attention to a wider range of experiences. We see the big picture rather than getting bogged down in the details. In other words, if you feel stuck in a rut or you can’t think yourself out of a problem or don’t see a way out of a situation, play may be a way of getting “unstuck” and coming up with innovative ideas.
Just as joy and fun can make you more creative, creativity in turn enhances your well- being. The more creative you become, the more joy you invite into your life. Nikola Tesla wrote, “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”
By naturally tapping into your inner creativity, you reconnect with the joy you had as a child playing. You engage in a positive feedback loop that continues to replenish you with joy and creativity. It makes for an adult life rich with delight and inventiveness.
Stanford psychologist Emma Seppälä writing in the Washington Post
faithful
/God doesn’t require us to be a success – only faithful