Ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Stephen Goforth
“If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—"
“Sir?”
“—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
***JOURNALISM
Americans and the News Media: What they do — and don’t — understand about each other American Press Institute
In The Quest For Comment, Hurry Up And Wait NPR
Do journalists deserve some blame for America’s mass shootings? Quill
You’re probably not quoting enough women. Let us help you. Columbia Journalism Review
Doxxing, assault, death threats: the new dangers facing US journalists covering extremism The Guardian
What should count as breaking news in text alerts? NPR
With its Facebook Watch news show, Alabama’s Reckon wants to make a national audience care about local news Harvard’s Nieman Lab
As Newspapers Disappear, Local Governments Become Less Fiscally Responsible, Says New Study Forbes
What Research on ‘Measurable Journalism’ Tells Us About Tech, Cultural Shifts in Digital Media PBS Media Shift
NPR (yet again) writes uncritically about ketamine for mental illness NPR
Tiny Alabama Town tries to stop Media from attending City Council meetings without Council Approval—gets national attention, backs down Jackson County Sentinel
Meet the victims of violence against journalists Quill
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
'LA Times' New Owner Plans To Compete With 'New York Times,' 'Washington Post' NPR
More suitors line up as Tronc sells California newspapers New York Times
***FAKE NEWS
‘The real horror is not knowing what to believe’: Scenes from the Fake News Horror Show Columbia Journalism Review
Nine takeaways from Knight-supported research on restoring trust in news Medium
Can a Chrome plugin help solve the fake news problem? Columbia Journalism Review
Telling the difference between factual and opinion statements in the news Pew Research Center
How To Tell Whether A News Source Is Credible Action 4 Media Education
Wikipedia vandalism could thwart hoax-busting on Google, YouTube and Facebook Poynter
Quiz: How well can you tell factual from opinion statements? Pew Research Center
***TECHNOLOGY
MIT Engineers Build Magnetic 3D-Printed Structures That Can Change Shape Near-Instantaneously Digg
Blockchain visually explained Flowing Data
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Pedestrian Lane for ‘Smartphone Zombies’ Opens Up in China NBC New York
How to Pose for a Photograph New York Times
Instagram Will No Longer Alert Users About Screenshots Teen Vogue
A state-by-state breakdown of Facebook users impacted by the Cambridge Analytica scandal Business Insider
If You’re A Facebook User, You’re Also a Research Subject Bloomberg
Facebook’s Perennial ‘Potential’ in Local Street Fighting
***PRIVACY
Increased amounts of data and surveillance are transforming justice systems Economist
It is hard now to avoid street-level surveillance Economist
Police can bypass encryption and monitor anything Economist
***INTERNET
The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results LifeHacker
***BIG DATA & AI
A python library that lets programmers and software developers easily integrate object detection with as little as 10 lines of code Towards Data Science
DeepMind AI learns to reconstruct scenes from images Axios
The promise and peril of big-data justice-can algorithms accurately predict where crime will occur? Economist
The world may soon be awash in advanced, lethal drones Public Integrity
***PERSONAL GROWTH
5 internal contributions to anger Becoming (my blog)
Gossiping Is Good The surprising virtues of talking behind people’s backs (opinion) The Atlantic
How to Avoid a Life of Regret LifeHacker
***WRITING & READING
‘New York Times’ Gets Rid of Copy Editors; Mistakes Ensue The Chronicle of Higher Ed
Princeton Graduate wins Harvard Thesis Prize, kind of: Plagiarism hits the Ivy Leagues Archinect
***LANGUAGE
Imposter syndrome and pansexual among new words added to oxford English dictionary Independent
What does it mean to “bear arms”? Big Data Chimes in Economist
Inside Amazon's painstaking pursuit to teach Alexa French Wired
‘Fudging’ in Flight: Dubbed Movies on Airplanes Chronicle of Higher Ed
How language shapes the way we think (video) TED talk
***LITERATURE
88 books to enjoy this summer: the TED reading list TED
***GENDER
The US gender gap in math is starkest in the richest, whitest school districts Quartz
10 New or Lesser-Known Female Theologians Worth Knowing Christianity Today
Domestic Violence Expert Resigns From NFL Players Association Commission NPR
Canada moves to make its national anthem gender-neutral CNN
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
A Hidden Strength of Minority-Serving Colleges: Meeting Students Where They Are The Chronicle of Higher Ed
Harvard records show discrimination against Asian-Americans Reuters
I am raising my daughter to speak three languages: A stranger demanded I 'speak English' to her LA Times
***FREE SPEECH
No Consensus on Free Speech Inside Higher Ed
Snowflakes and Free Speech on Campus Inside Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
How a Legal Brawl Between Two Rich Guys Could Change How We Think About DNA Gizmodo
Librarian sues Equifax—gets surprise win VT Digger
Twitter and the First Amendment in court Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***RELIGION
Charitable giving in US tops $400 billion for first time AP News
A growing social movement is trying to bring scientific rigour to philanthropy Economist
Teaching Children To Ask The Big Questions Without Religion NPR
An all-white church intended to give its building to a black congregation. The plan fell apart. Washington Post
Why many white evangelicals are not protesting family separations on the U.S. border Washington Post
***SOUTHERN BAPTISTS
Wave of scandals confront Southern Baptists CNN
Georgia Baptist church expelled from Southern Baptist Convention over racial discrimination charges The Tennessean
Pence Speech Riles Some As Southern Baptists' Moderates Gain Strength NPR
A Lot of Southern Baptist Leaders Are Upset at Mike Pence’s Convention Speech Relevant Magazine Relevant Magazine
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Sessions cites Bible to defend immigration policies resulting in family separations CNN
Evangelicals Push Back On Sessions' Use Of Bible Passage To Defend Immigration Policy NPR
What the Bible really says about government (opinion) The Week
Religious Groups Criticize Trump Immigration Policies NPR
***MEGACHURCHES
The rise and fall of a Seattle megachurch through the eyes of an anthropologist KUOW
***GOOD NEWS
'Our valedictorian:' Wake County family buys massive billboard space to congratulate son WRAL
Man on mission to mow lawns for free in all 50 states stops in Nashville Fox 17
Note to Daddy: Young sisters send balloon to Heaven, receive incredible answer KHOU
Woman saves pregnant mother, 3-year-old boy from drowning in pool The Indy Channel
***ART & DESIGN
New design tools on the block UX Design
What to consider when choosing colors for data visualization Data Wrapper
***FILM
The Problem With DC Action Scenes (video) Nerdwriter1
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
After Tronc: Here are 5 corporate rebranding disasters you probably forgot about Fast Company
Best YouTube Videos of All Time, Ranked Thrillist
The ad industry’s top buzzwords in 2018 Quartz
***STUDENT MEDIA
If restaurants ran like college papers, diners would starve to death JournoTerrorist
***STUDENT LIFE
This College Student Gave a Presentation on Wakanda That Fooled His Professor io9
Teen sex and drug use at lowest rates in decades, CDC finds CBS News
Google Wants to Play a Bigger Role in Your College Search—Here’s What You Need to Know The Chronicle of Higher Ed
Younger generations make up a majority of the electorate, but may not be a majority of voters this November Pew Research
Fire Dept Rescues College Student who Climbed Tree (and didn’t know how to get down) Fox 6
Leaked Memo From Conservative Group Cautions Students to Stay Away From Turning Point USA The Chronicle of Higher Ed
You people are the worst! Millennials now blamed for bad tipping USA Today
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Cut these 5 outdated things from your resume Moneyish
Lawsuits and #MeToo changed internships — for the better Quill
10 smart women give advice to this year's interns Pardot
Recent Film Grads, Welcome to the Gig Economy Video Strategist
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
What happens when complaints by angry students go viral and how the university responded The Chronicle of Higher Ed
Scholars heard the NYU professor was under a Title IX investigation. They threw support behind her The Chronicle of Higher Ed
A student filed the lawsuit this week against a Florida fraternity alleged to have shared videos taken without permission Washington Post
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Suicide rates are increasing in almost every state Axios
U.S. Abortion Attitudes Remain Closely Divided Gallup
Suicide Rates In The U.S. Are Climbing Faster Among Women Than Men NPR
Georgia Court Green Lights Snapchat Speeding Selfie Lawsuit The Newspaper
Facebook Plans to Team Up With 15 Community Colleges. What Will That Entail? The Chronicle of Higher Ed
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Millionaires Now Own Half of World's Personal Wealth Bloomberg
***ENVIRONMENT
To avoid humans, more wildlife now work the night shift The Conversation
***HEALTH
Why eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist Quartz
Does Vitamin D Really Protect Against Colorectal Cancer? NPR
What consumer DNA data can and can’t tell you about disease risk Science News
Why STDs are soaring in America Economist
Depression and suicide risk are side effects of more than 200 common drugs Vox
Viruses love what we’ve done with the planet Quartz
***HEALTH RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY
How AI is improving the speed and precision of medical treatments Economist
Two studies: Some CRISPR-edited cells may lead to tumors Stat News
New medical device auto-deploys treatment during heart attacks to halt heart failure MIT
Errors Trigger Retraction Of Study On Mediterranean Diet's Heart Benefits NPR
***FAMILY
7 facts about American dads Pew Research
The Dangers of Distracted Parenting: parents should worry less about kids’ screen time—and more about their own The Atlantic
***PSYCHOLOGY
Many Common Drugs May Be Making People Depressed NPR
The Lifespan of a Lie: Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment? Medium
Alternate Rom-Com Endings if the Heroines had Therapists The Bella Donna Comedy
IQ scores are falling and have been for decades CNN
A new study ranks US states in order of psychopathy Quartz
***NEUROSCIENCE
We now know what a spiritual awakening looks like inside the brain Big Think
Brains May Teeter Near Their Tipping Point Quanta Magazine
***PHILOSOPHY
The Philosopher as Bad Dad (opinion) New York Times
Personalism is the philosophy we need (opinion) New York Times
A philosopher thinks technology could make anarchists’ dreams come true Quartz
***HISTORY
History gets a conservative twist in Michigan social studies standards Briggemi
***RESEARCH
Publishers can ensure that citations of zombie publications are caught Nature
Deciding what to replicate Pedermisager
What happens when researchers make mistakes Associated Press
***HIGHER ED
Some want to get rid of college majors – here’s how that could go wrong The Conversation
Many States Get Mediocre Grades in 2 Studies of Degree Attainment by Race and Ethnicity The Chronicle of Higher Ed
A small college had removed much of its website—including the names of all faculty and the president’s name Ottawa Citizen
Sweet Briar College Is Placed on ‘Warning’ by Accreditor The Chronicle of Higher Ed
Elon University sued over treatment of donor’s son The Times
***HIGHER ED & FINANCE
Is Congress about to cut nearly $15 billion from student-aid programs? (opinion) Hechinger Report
Beyond Tuition: How Innovations in College Affordability Are (Or Aren’t) Helping Students EdSurge
Michigan Christian university wins suit against abortion-pill mandate Free
***TEACHING
GPAs don’t really show what students learned: Here’s why Washington Post
UCSD Instructor Faces Backlash After She Belittles Student on Class Forum The Chronicle of Higher Ed
***TEACHING ONLINE
What Do Online Students Want? 3 Findings From a New Survey Offer Some Clues The Chronicle of Higher Ed
EdX introduces support fee for free online courses Inside Higher Ed
Why is YouTube blocking education videos from MIT? Daily Dot
***ACADEMIC LIFE
What Happens When an Adjunct Instructor Wants to Retire? The Chronicle of Higher Ed
Disrupting the faculty member evaluation model Education Dive
Don’t think about the national championship. Think about what you needed to do in this drill, on this play, in this moment. That’s the process: Let’s think about what we can do today, the task at hand.
Nick Sabin, Alabama football coach
***FAKE NEWS
The French Parliament is debating a bill that would attempt to restrain the spread of fake news New York Times
How to use digital tools to archive and verify videos Current
Peer review could have helped short-circuit the Theranos fake news scandal Stat News
4 reasons 'fake news' tricks us and what we can do Futurity
Russian Disinformation Campaign Operates openly in DC The Daily Beast
***JOURNALISM
Almost seven-in-ten Americans have news fatigue Pew Research Center
Why is your newsroom so hard to contact? Poynter
Across Western Europe, public news media are widely used and trusted sources of news Pew Research Center
Do journalists make good entrepreneurs? Columbia Journalism Review
Daniel Radcliffe Will Fight for Ethical Journalism in New Broadway Play The Observer
Why wordsmiths matter more than ever in 21st century digital journalism Medium
***JOURNALISM & REPORTING
Governments resist citizens on public records Herald Tribune
Best practices for covering suicide responsibly Poynter
How a major medical meeting uses embargoes to shape the news, and what the consequences may be Health News Review
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
Craigslist founder gives $20 million to journalism school CNN
The role of a reporter is shifting, as are the economics of education. With this new calculus, does journalism school still have a place in our profession? Columbia Journalism Review
***SOCIAL MEDIA
A Facebook bug changed the privacy settings for 14 million users Recode
Snapchat’s decline and the secret joy of internet ghost towns The Verge
***INTERNET
Here are some of the ways you might be doing email newsletters inefficiently (and how to do them better) Harvard Nieman Lab
Encyclopedia Britannica wants to fix false Google results Wired
How The Alt-Right Manipulates The Internet’s Biggest Commenting Platform BuzzFeed
How much is each internet feature worth to you? NPR
Report: Facebook is Primary Referrer For Lifestyle Content, Google Search Dominates Rest Media Post
Flash gets in one more security fail before retirement Wired
***TECHNOLOGY
Is technology bringing history to life or distorting it? Washington Post
The race to send robots to mine the ocean floor Wired
***BIG DATA & AI
Study: AI better than dermatologists at detecting skin cancer CBS News
Why Data Scientists Should Consider Adding ‘IoT Expert’ to Their List of Skills Datanamia
Machine learning can run on tiny, low-power chips, and that this combination will solve a massive number of problems Pete Warden Blog
A team of MIT scientists announced recently that they'd created "the world's first psychopath AI" MIT
Three techniques to improve machine learning model performance with imbalanced datasets Medium
***PERSONAL GROWTH
4 options when dealing with false guilt Becoming (my blog)
5 Ways To Handle Negative Conversations At Work GirlBoss
***GRAMMAR
America's most misspelled words (so far in 2018) CNET
Infinitives Can Be Split: Grammar Conservatives Face the Shock Chronicle of Higher Ed
***WRITING & READING
Understanding story structure by dissecting Ali Wong’s standup special (a visualization) Pudding
6 Ways to Beat Writer’s Block Chronicle of Higher Ed
How to Copyedit The Atlantic The Atlantic
'Nationalistic' Think Tank Plagiarised Chinese, US, Australian Writings The Wire
***LANGUAGE
Email, the French Way Chronicle of Higher Ed
A Sneaky Theory of Where Language Came From The Atlantic
***LITERATURE
The 100 stories that shaped the world BBC
How Tolkien created Middle-earth The Guardian
The Year of 'Frankenstein' Inside Higher Ed
***GENDER
Charting the rise of three women in journalism Poynter
The Different Words We Use to Describe Male and Female Leaders Harvard Business Review
Book Review: Science and Suffrage in the First World War The London School of Economics & Political Science
The Ninety-Nines Was Amelia Earhart’s Club for Female Aviators Atlas Obscura
***GENDER & RESEARCH
Signing my peer review – unintended consequences and gender Washington University
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
The most successful ethnic group in the US may surprise you Ozy
Police Are Being Used To Exclude Black People From Public Places NPR
***FREE SPEECH
Louisiana governor signs campus free speech bill into law The FIRE
How Chinese students exercise free speech abroad Economist
***LEGAL ISSUES
Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your trademark restrictions Boston Globe
Restaurant owner says copyright infringement lawsuit a ‘big scam’ Boston Herald
***RELIGION
Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson has pulled out of giving key sermon at upcoming convention Washington Post
Sex Offenders Groom Churches Too: How predatory behavior goes undetected in congregations Christianity Today
Bavaria Requires Crosses on All Public Buildings. Church Leaders Disagree Christianity Today
What Religion Gives Us (That Science Can’t) (opinion) New York Times
Religion is uniquely human, but computer simulations may help us understand religious behavior The Conversation
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
The legislative assault by Christian nationalists to reshape America The Guardian
***RELIGION IN THE WORKPLACE
CrossFit Just Fired Its Spokesperson Who Said LGBT Pride Is A “Sin” BuzzFeed
Brownsburg teacher says transgender name policy goes against his religious beliefs Indy Star
***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.
Crocodile kills Ethiopian pastor during lake baptism BBC
5 facts about religion in India Pew Research Center
The surprising history of “God Bless America” Washington Post
***GOOD NEWS
Man Finds $1 Million Winning Lottery Ticket—and Tracks Down the Lucky Owner: 'It Felt Good' People
This NFL Player Saw an American Airlines Passenger In Trouble. His Stunning Reaction Went Viral Inc.
4-year-old superhero using his power to feed the homeless CBS News
Man mistakenly runs full Fargo marathon instead of half Grand Forks Herald
Toddler makes 911 call after mom passes out KTRK
Youth football team meets with couple they helped rescue from overturned car Idaho Statesman
***ART & DESIGN
How Century old Design Decisions Impact Teaching Today NPR
The Art World Is Easy to Dislike—Here Are Some Reasons Not to New York Times
***MUSIC
The musical diversity of pop songs Pudding
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Next year, people will spend more time online than they will watching TV—That’s a first Recode
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Need an entry-level job at a store? It can be harder now Associated Press
What editors at NPR, BuzzFeed News, Deadspin look for in an applicant The Atlantic
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
The problem of sexual harassment in higher education isn’t a new one Splinter News
Sexual Harassment In The Workplace Is More Common Than You Think Daily Infographic
Hiring a Diversity Officer Is Only the First Step: Here Are the Next 7 Chronicle of Higher Ed
#MeToo Complaints Swamp Human Resources Departments NPR
Why Do Colleges Keep Failing to Prevent Abuse? Inside Higher Ed
A valedictorian went off-script to talk about sexual assault: Then her school cut her mic USA Today
The results of a survey that asked men about everything from workplace harassment to consent Glamour
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Where killings go unsolved: See interactive map of major US cities Washington Post
What researchers found after analyzing data gathered from 20 million stops in North Carolina CityLab
ICE Came for a Tennessee Town’s Immigrants. The Town Fought Back New York Times
***ENVIRONMENT
***HEALTH
The Belt That Listens to Your Bowels New Yorker
The World’s Largest GMO Study Was Launched By Russians In 2014: Then It Disappeared BuzzFeed News
Almost 40% of peer-reviewed dietary research turns out to be wrong. Here’s why New Food Economy
How Science Helps the Warriors Sleep Their Way to Success Wired
***FAMILY
How much screen time is too much for kids? The Guardian
New findings on "marshmallow test" Inside Higher Ed
Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children The Atlantic
The Perils Of Pushing Kids Too Hard, And How Parents Can Learn To Back Off NPR
***SCIENCE
Sloppy Science Happens More Than You Think Leaps Mag
Scientists Are Subverting Formal Publishing. Well, Some of Them Wired
Physicists at Fermilab say they have strong evidence for the existence of a new type of particle Physics World
***PSYCHOLOGY
What The Controversy Over Facebook's Privacy Policy Reveals (psychologically) NPR
The Kids Who Are Cleared to Leave Psychiatric Hospitals—But Can’t The Atlantic
CDC: U.S. Suicide Rates Have Climbed Dramatically NPR
***NEUROSCIENCE
What Time Feels Like When You’re Improvising: The neurology of flow states Nautil
***CRITICAL THINKING
What editors at NPR, BuzzFeed News, Deadspin look for in an applicant Columbia Journalism Review
***RESEARCH
Impact of Social Sciences – Software updates: the “unknown unknown” of the replication crisis The London School of Economics & Political Science
Has Google Become a Journal Publisher? Scholarly Kitchen
Give every paper a read for reproducibility Nature
How Scientific Publishers Can End Bullying And Harassment In The Sciences Forbes
Avoid Ethics Issues in Science Publishing with These 5 Questions ASM
***HIGHER ED
UVa Library’s Plan to Cut Stacks by Half Sparks Faculty Concerns Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Cost of College (visualized) New York Times
Lobbying group for independent colleges says it's open to expanding federal data collection on student outcomes but.. Inside Higher Ed
DePaul University lays off dozens of staff Chicago Sun-Times
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/depaul-university-lays-off-dozens-of-staff/
Customer Service Is Misguided in the Classroom but Crucial in Advising Chronicle of Higher Ed
Sex and Gender on the Christian Campus (opinion) New York Times
Catholic U. Trustees Clear Path to Cut the Faculty by 9 Percent Chronicle of Higher Ed
$5 million to Chapman University from billionaire Charles Koch sparks an uproar Daily News
***TEACHING
The Numbers That Explain Why Teachers Are in Revolt New York Times
Asking students to work out a problem using nothing but what they already know Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Appeals Court Sides with Cornell in Tenure Dispute Inside Higher Ed
UNM professors suing university over unequal pay KRQE
Professors Decide Whether to Teach Summer Courses — for Cuts in Pay Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Where Are Millennials Moving – 2018 Edition Smart Asset
Why do so many students drop out of college? And what can be done about it? Washington Post
Millennials and retirement: How bad is it? Politico
Four big blunders young adults make with their health insurance CNBC
When did it become acceptable to embrace the characteristics that others have identified as detrimental to our mutual professional success?
I suspect many of the people who trot out their fatal flaws are attempting to create a defense shield to protect themselves from further criticism:
"You will not speak of my fatal flaws because I have mentioned them first and am therefore immune to your potential condemnation."
It’s a classic offense-as-defense strategy. That approach may work for a while but eventually it prompts some pointed questions:
"If you know you talk too much, why do you continue to take up all the air time?"
"If you know you are considered dismissive, why do you believe it is in your best interest to denounce the perspectives of anyone who thinks differently than you do?"
"If you know you overpromise and underdeliver, what makes you think people will continue to take you seriously?"
"Why do you assume steamrolling over others is a sustainable strategy?"
It is good to be self-aware. But demonstrating self-awareness, while at the same time showing a lack of discipline to fix issues of concern, is worse than being clueless about our shortcomings. When people close to us offer consistent and considerable feedback about a behavior that is not serving us well, we need to listen up. Dismissing feedback that does not comport with the way we see ourselves is understandable, but it is not strategic.
The most effective people I know sometimes whimper for a bit after receiving constructive criticism, but they quickly put a plan in place to modify the annoying or offending behaviors. By doing so, they demonstrate respect and appreciation for those brave enough to share difficult truths that are offered with the very best intentions. We need our colleagues to help us be better, but they can’t help if we’re not listening.
Allison Vaillancourt writing in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once. The trick is accepting limits while insisting on standards. Character may not be malleable, but behavior is. The same parents can raise a dreamy, reflective girl and a driven, competitive one—the job is not to nurse her nature but to help elicit the essential opposite: to help the dreamy one to be a little more driven, the competitive one to be a little more reflective.
Adam Gopnik writing in The New Yorker
***INTERNET
Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report: the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley Recode
GDPR For Publishers: What You Need to Know Media Vine
A scientific list of the most popular memes on the internet Quartz
***TECHNOLOGY
Your next potato chip could come from a 3-D printer MIT Tech Review
Watch What Happens Inside the Body When You Talk Curiosity
Microsoft confirms it's buying GitHub for $7.5 billion Engadget
The battle for responsible technology Poynter
***BIG DATA & AI
Who Is Going To Make Money In AI? Here’s an educated guess Towards Data Science
How data science and the role of data scientist evolved over the years Analytics India
Why Thousands of Researchers Are Boycotting Nature’s Upcoming AI Journal Gizmodo
To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect Quantum Magazine
Satellite imagery is revolutionizing the world. But should we always trust what we see? The Conversation
Notes from Coursera Deep Learning courses by Andrew Ng Slide Share: TessFerrandez
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Survey: Which Social Media Platforms among Teens Pew Research Center
I wrote a negative Yelp review — and it made my life a nightmare New York Post
Trust is the new currency of the digital age (opinion) Business Times
How Instagram’s algorithm works Tech Crunch
Facebook Tried to Rein In Fake Ads: It Fell Short in a California Race New York Times
Avoiding Career Death by Twitter TechNewsWorld
The entire country of Papua New Guinea will have access to Facebook turned off for a month Post Courier
Facebook's decision to kill its "Trending" feature proves that algorithms are not always the answer Quartz
Facebook is shutting down trending topics feature CNN
One Woman's Facebook Success Story: A Support Group For 1.7 Million NPR
Facebook defends sharing user data with phone makers CNN
***MOBILE
America is losing the war against robocalls Economist
A New Threat to Your Finances: Cell-Phone Account Fraud Comsumer Reports
***PRIVACY
Does China’s digital police state have echoes in the West? Economist
How Americans have viewed government surveillance and privacy since Snowden leaks Pew Research Center
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Drones Are Revolutionizing the Way Film and TV Is Made TIME
Canon isn't selling film cameras any more Quartz
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Print gets a lot more advertising than eyeballs.. and mobile is just the opposite Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***JOURNALISM
These are the most important announcements Apple made for news publishers today Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Roseanne’s comments get 16 times the coverage of the estimated Hurricane Maria’s toll of 4,600 deaths Columbia Journalism Review
The Wall Street Journal reporter who doggedly kept asking a simple question - does this technology even work? New York Magazine
It’s exhausting being a reporter in the Trump era: A new documentary captures the toll at the New York Times Washington Post
How Alexandra Bell Is Disrupting Racism in Journalism The New Yorker
So you wanna be a journalist? Columbia Journalism Review
There is no fake news in Showtime's winning 'Fourth Estate' Baltimore Sun
AP Stylebook update: Multiple emoji are emoji Poynter
NPR is getting rid of some of its news blogs (with more blog “changes” to come) Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***JOURNALISM MISTAKES
Many journalists fail to question new Cancer Society colorectal cancer screening guidelines Health News Review
New York Times Cites Old Mistaken Study Andrew Gelman Blog
***JOURNALISM OUTSIDE THE U.S.
A Reporter Was Beaten to Death in Mexico, Becoming the Sixth Journalist Killed There This Year TIME
Russian journalist and Kremlin critic shot and killed in Ukraine The Hill
The killing of a journalist exposed something rotten in Slovakia Economist
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Tronc buys Virginian-Pilot from Landmark for $34 million Sun Herald
Tronc’s selling, and buying, and just generally shapeshifting Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***FAKE NEWS
'Messing with the Enemy' takes on dark side of social media MSNBC
Only You Can Fight Fake News WIRED
The Legal War on Alex Jones The New Republic
Facebook is Giving Scientists its Data to Fight Misinformation WIRED
The Londoner: Is anti-fake news unit a fake itself? Evening Standard
***STUDENT MEDIA
After papers were removed, a Seattle student newsroom pushed back Columbia Journalism Review
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Life Beyond the Glowing Screen Becoming (my blog)
Japan’s biggest bestseller is a philosophy book on “The Courage to be Disliked” Quartz
***GRAMMAR
The weasel voice in journalism: Don’t blame grammar for the shortcomings of headline-writers Economist
National Spelling Bee 2018: The most commonly misspelled words at the national spelling bee Quartz
***WRITING & READING
Resources and ideas from a collaborative session on interactive fiction at this year’s Computers & Writing conferences Chronicle of Higher Ed
To make beat writing more compelling, let’s rescue the offbeat story Poynter
Interactive fiction in the classroom Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
A Week on Language Twitter: new words and usages on social media Chronicle of Higher Ed
Filler words: One of the toughest part of a foreign language to master Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LITERATURE
The best children's books of the year for 2018 Bank Street
Writing Tips And Pointed Opinions From The Late Tom Wolfe Forbes
Original map of Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood Flowing Data
***GENDER
11 women executives on the greatest risk they ever took Fast Company
How Reese Witherspoon female-driven storytelling company is channeling women’s voices into top-tier entertainment Fast Company
Women are more likely to wait longer for a health diagnosis and to be told it’s ‘all in their heads’ BBC
One More To Go: Illinois Ratifies Equal Rights Amendment NPR
How Disney is turning women from across the company into coders Fast Company
The Hidden Women of Architecture and Design The New Yorker
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
68% of white evangelicals think America shouldn’t house refugees Vox
At least 8 white nationalists running for federal office MSNBC
***FREE SPEECH
Why the struggle for academic freedom is the struggle for democracy Chronicle of Higher Ed
A student at the center of a dispute over free speech can return to his religious studies class Post Gazette
***LEGAL ISSUES
PUBG Corp. Sues Epic Games for Copyright Infringement Variety
He Said No, Fox News Used His Images Anyway PetaPixel
Advocacy groups knock ‘unjust’ copyright-extending CLASSICS Act TechCrunch
***ART & DESIGN
The Intuitive and the Unlearnable: Why some designs won’t ever stop sucking Medium
Want to make great art? Stop making art Fast Company
***MUSIC
Was Classic Rock a Sound, or a Tribe? The Atlantic
10 Surprising Skills You Gain From Music Lessons Daily Infographic
***STUDENT LIFE
Forty-five percent of teens are online ‘almost constantly’ — and they don’t know if it’s good for them Washington Post
Put a Ring on It? Millennial Couples Are in No Hurry New York Times
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
What Your Resume Should Look Like in 2018 TIME
These paid journalism internships are still accepting applications Student Press Law Center
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Equipping Women to Stop Campus Rape (opinion) New York Times
Older teens less likely to think sexting would get them in trouble Journalism Resources
#MeToo Complaints Swamp Human Resource Departments NPR
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
This Map Shows the Best-Paying Company In Every State TIME
The myth of outliving your retirement savings Reuters
***ENVIRONMENT
Climate Change: “Could You Do Any Better Than We Did?” Two volumes for future generations Boston Review
***HEALTH
Podcast: The new & (un)improved doctor-patient relationship Health News Review
Coffee benefits: Caffeine makes you more social, as well as active Quartz
Health alert said American diagnosed with brain injury like reported in Cuba Washington Post
LA Times provides careful take on early brain/diabetes research–except for the headline Health News Review
Elder Abuse (video/language) John Oliver
***HEALTH: DRUGS & PILLS
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: What journalists need to know Journalists Resources
Study finds most popular vitamin, mineral supplements provide no health benefit Fox 8
***HEALTH TECH
Ingestible “bacteria on a chip” could help diagnose disease MIT
Computers can diagnose stroke victims now The Week
***HEALTH & CHILDREN
A new study links early childhood obesity to lower IQ scores Quartz
Gene therapy is saving children’s lives—but screening to discover who needs it is lagging behind MIT Tech Review
***SCIENCE
Questioning Truth, Reality and the Role of Science Quantam Magazine
Henrietta Lacks Gets Immortalized in a Portrait: It’s Now on Display at the National Portrait Gallery Open Culture
There Are No Laws of Physics: There’s Only the Landscape Quantam Magazine
***PHILOSOPHY
The Russian Philosopher Who Sought Immortality in the Cosmos Atlas Obscura
Why read Aristotle today? Aeon
***HISTORY
The only World War II battle fought on North American soil WNCT
***RESEARCH
Can It Really Be True That Half of Academic Papers Are Never Read? Chronicle of Higher Ed
All publishers are predatory - some are bigger than others Scielo
Fewer than two out of every 10,000 scientific papers remain influential in their field decades after publication Nature Index
Authorship credit varies across scientific disciplines — and even within the same field Nature
Alphabetical name ordering in Research Harms Collaborations London School of Economics and Political Science
South Korean apps are outsourcing academic fraud to freelance ghostwriters Quartz
***RELIGION
Televangelist seeks donations for $54M private jet, claims God is behind the idea NOLA
Study: Infant Mortality Rates Higher in Christian Fundamentalist Communities US News & World Report
American Bible Society to require church attendance, sexuality codes Religious News Service
Atheists Are Sometimes More Religious Than Christians The Atlantic
Southern Baptist seminary drops bombshell: Why Paige Patterson was fired Washington Post
Joel Osteen and the making of Lakewood Church Houston Chronicle
Christ art removed from Lexington SC church for being Catholic The State
Judge: 'In God We Trust' on Money isn't Religion Endorsement Associated Press
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Dinesh D'Souza, America's greatest conservative troll, explained Vox
Trump Pardons Dinesh D’Souza and Weighs Leniency for Rod Blagojevich and Martha Stewart New York Times
Conservative Christian attorneys gain influence under Trump Associated Press
***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.
China is secretly imprisoning close to 1 million people to get them to renounce their religion Business Insider
Key findings about religion in Western Europe Pew Research Center
***GOOD NEWS
Couple discovers safe filled with cash, gold, diamonds worth $52G in their backyard New York Daily News
Two pilots spend savings on plane to rescue migrants in Mediterranean Sea NBC News
How The Internet Is Changing The Way Dogs Find Homes BuzzFeed
***HIGHER ED
The University Is Not an Aristocracy: So why do we value selectivity over social mobility? Chronicle of Higher Ed
When a College Takes on Student Poverty, it can only do so much The Atlantic
Higher-Ed Groups Warn Against Visa Restrictions for Chinese Students Chronicle of Higher Ed
Christian College president apologizes for equating sexual assaults with gay relationships Des Moines Register
Recent grad to Christian colleges: LGBT issues not going away M-live
Catholic University of America faculty vote raises stakes in battle with president Religion News Service
***LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
Liberty U is making a film about a man who says God told him Trump would become president Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Tense History behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address Religious Dispatches
What to expect from a new Liberty University film Washington Post
***TEACHING
What 6 Colleges Learned About Improving Their Online Courses Chronicle of Higher Ed
Ideas for Creating an Effective Syllabus for Online Learning Faculty Focus
***ACADEMIC LIFE
A Self-Care Strategy for Beleaguered Academics: Every teacher needs a magic briefcase Chronicle of Higher Ed
Don’t Blame Tenured Academics for the Adjunct Crisis Chronicle of Higher Ed
Kevin Kelly writes, “Even the tiniest disposable item with a bar code shares a thin sliver of our collective mind.” Sharing in the increasing webness of things surrounding us is essential part of functioning in our digital society. If you have hung out on the cusp of technological adoption, waiting for the latest and most advanced devices to drop, you know how technology can monopolize our time and question any non-technological solution as inferior or important. The Internet is our exotic travel destination, a portal to bossy technologies.
Here’s the choice you have: You can grab the bullhorn of digital culture and plug into the belly of the machine or we can keep the cornucopia of technology at arm’s length to more easily remember who we are apart from it.
Somewhere there’s a balance between chasing the latest fad (simply because it is new) and becoming irrelevant to the conversation (because we choose to ignore transitions, remaining in our comfort zone). These extremes are the simplistic ditches we can fall into, when we would rather not have to regularly think hard and deal with uncertainty…and they will remain the temptations of anyone involved in the process of journalism.
As you decide where to place yourself in the technological embrace, remember there’s life beyond the screen.
Stephen Goforth
When we grab a glowing screen first thing in the morning what are we trusting for nourishment? What are we imprinting on our day?
Suppose police suspect a man of organizing a political protest that turned violent, muses the ACLU’s Nathan Wessler, who argued the Carpenter case (on digital privacy) for the ACLU before the Supreme Court. The suspect’s smart meter and thermostat confirm that a handful of people showed up at his home and stayed there the two nights before the demonstration; the suspect’s smart refrigerator ordered a bunch of soda and snack food on those days, which was all consumed; after someone asked Alexa to play some music in his living room, a voice in the background said, “Tomorrow, we’re going to really show them”; and that night, the suspect’s smart mattress recorded him sleeping fitfully and his heart beating faster than normal. The police arrest the man on conspiracy and other charges. He eventually proves he’s innocent – some old friends visited from out of town, and planned a day of sightseeing—but not before a legal nightmare turns his life upside down.
"There’s not a person among us who doesn’t have private aspects of their life that could create difficulty for them if they were exposed,” Wessler says. “And misinterpreted.”
David Henry writing in 1843
The trouble is, you think you have time. -Jack Kornfield
***TECHNOLOGY
Few Rules Govern Police Use of Facial-Recognition Technology Wired
New Tech May Make Prosthetic Hands Easier for Patients to Use North Carolina State
So Long, Glassholes: Wearables Aren't Science Projects Anymore Wired
The Murky Legal Consequences of Smart Homes The Marshall Project
Scientists figured out a way to implant holographic brain images Daily Dot
6 Essential Steps to Becoming a Drone Pilot Story Hunter
***BIG DATA & AI
How facial software (allegedly) can identify liars The Week
Is learning to code in middle age a fool’s errand or a committed act of digital citizenship? 1843 Magazine
A new machine-learning system tries to predict whether an online conversation is going to get nasty right from the get-go Technology Review
Google & Coursera are launching a machine learning specialization consisting of five courses Tech Crunch
Why the future of AI depends on high school girls The Atlantic
There are some decent free online training courses designed to get you up to speed on Hadoop Business News Daily
Escaping the scandals but getting the big data right Information Age
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Pro-ISIS propaganda finds fertile ground on Google Plus platform The Hill
Trump Can't Block Critics on Twitter. What This Means For You Wired
Facebook is beating Snapchat on its own invention — stories: Why stories have taken off Axios
‘Content Providers’ Easily Find Ways Around Facebook’s Rules Snopes
‘A fun adventure, not a business’: The Weather Channel stopped publishing video on Facebook Digiday
Facebook is updating how you can authenticate your account logins Tech Crunch
***PRIVACY
Amazon is selling police departments a real-time facial recognition system The Verge
California Eyes Data Privacy Measure NPR
***INTERNET
F.B.I.’s Urgent Request: Reboot Your Router to Stop Russia-Linked Malware New York Times
Stealthy, Destructive Malware Infects Half a Million Router Wired
The Quiet Death of WHOIS Plagiarism Today
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Media’s Two-Front Spending War Visualization Traffic
Impatient, distracted consumers upend the media landscape Axios
3 Steps for Bringing the Oldest Form of Advertising Into the Digital Age Adweek
Great Big Story on Building a Video Storytelling Powerhouse from Scratch — Facebook Live StoryHunter
***JOURNALISM
New mobile journalism guide has free resources for reporters, newsrooms International Journalists’ Network
The Marketplace of Ideas is failing the journalism industry (opinion) Daily Tar Heel
These newsrooms are reinventing journalism education with audience members in the lead Membership Puzzle
Radio presenters and journalists among top jobs for psychopaths Radio Today
Long Beach Press-Telegram Down to One Reporter; Departing Staff Plan New Pub LA Business Journal
Facebook shows once again that it does not understand or value journalism CNBC
Who is watching local TV news? New research provides some surprises Medium
How the Media Helped Legitimize Extremism Wired
In portraying a silver lining to Santa Fe school shooting, news stories mislead public about GoFundMe campaign for victim’s husband Health News Review
What is it that journalism studies is studying these days? Harvard’s Nieman Lab
The Coming Splinternet: How the GDPR Could Threaten Journalism (opinion) Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Showtime's ‘Fourth Estate’ shows how the journalism sausage is made Poynter
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The Hard Truth at Newspapers Across America: Hedge Funds Are in Charge Bloomberg
News Radio Audience Jumps Following Hurricanes Nielsen
How The Washington Post is building its tech platform, Arc Digiday
Elon Musk wants to fix media mistrust with a dopey rating system. There’s a better way. Washington Post
***FAKE NEWS
Is your fake news about immigrants or politicians? It all depends on where you live Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Facebook Opens Up About False News Wired
How Snopes keeps fact-checking in the era of fake news overload (podcast) 2 girls, 1 podcast
Based on the exact words you type Google is giving you drastically different information Washington Post
Can “Extreme Transparency” Fight Fake News and Create More Trust With Readers? Harvard’s Nieman Report
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Why You Should Stop Being So Hard on Yourself New York Times
***GRAMMAR
There Is No ‘There’re’ There Chronicle of Higher Ed
‘OMG This Is Wrong!’ Retired English Teacher Marks Up a White House Letter and Sends It Back New York Times
***WRITING & READING
Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots BBC
Copy Editors Are OCD. Thank Goodness Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
China is becoming more tolerant of some regional Han languages Economist
Linguists Say We Might Be Able to Communicate With Aliens If We Ever Encounter Them Mental Floss
Language activists are trying to make French gender-neutral Economist
***LITERATURE
The 50 most commonly assigned works of literature at top US colleges Quartz
Philip Roth Discusses His Writing Process NPR
Philip Roth (RIP) Creates a List of the 15 Books That Influenced Him Most Open Culture
***GENDER
Judge rules that transgender teen is protected by Title IX and the Constitution in bathroom controversy American Bar Association
How Social Media Became a Pink Collar Job Wired
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
New study connects white American intolerance and support for authoritarianism NBC News
***FREE SPEECH
Without respectful discourse, free speech isn’t much more than a hostile shouting match. The Atlantic
‘Don’t burn the flag’ and 11 more rules for free speech Washington Post
***LEGAL ISSUES
Who Owns LOVE? A copyright suit over a beloved public artwork CityLab
Court Applies Pre-Digital Age Law to Digital Age Technology Law.com
LGBT wedding cake Supreme Court decision looms, but more cases likely CBS News
Viacom's Victory in 'SpongeBob' Restaurant Trademark Dispute Upheld by Appeals Court Hollywood Reporter
'Star Trek'/Dr. Seuss Mashup Creator Beats Trademark Claims Hollywood Reporter
Makers of ‘Sesame Street’ Sue to Get Raunchy Puppet Movie to Change Its Advertising New York Times
The NFL’s “take a knee” ban is flatly illegal Vox
A Copyright Small Claims Court? (opinion) Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***RELIGION
Oregon principal ousted for making LGBTQ students read Bible as punishment OregonLive
The group least likely to think the U.S. has a responsibility to accept refugees? White Evangelicals. Washington Post
Religion Goes to the Movies - Los Angeles Review of Books LA Review of Books
Conservative Christian guide to nation's capital vows to tell what other tours won't Washington Post
Jesus would like to connect with you on LinkedIn! Inside the Church of England's digital conversion Wired
White nationalists protest outside Tennessee church Fox 17
***SOUTHERN BAPTISTS
Prominent Southern Baptist leader removed as seminary president following controversial remarks about abused women Washington Post
Amid a Southern Baptist scandal, some evangelical women say the Bible’s gender roles are being distorted to promote sexism Washington Post
Controversial Southern Baptist leader still set to give prominent sermon in front of thousands Washington Post
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
From Bible study to Google: How some Christian conservatives fact-check the news and end up confirming their existing beliefs Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Roman Catholics And Evangelicals Move Apart In Their Political Priorities NPR
How Christian media is shaping American politics The Conversation
***ART & DESIGN
What’s Next for Protest Art in the Trump Era? The Atlantic
Plasticine circuits show how today's tech is tomorrow's art Engadget
***MUSIC
What makes good music? Composers and listeners disagree Economist
“This Is America,” the Video, Is a Smash. Will the Song Have Legs? Slat
***JOBS
Three clauses freelancers should know (and negotiate), according to lawyers Columbia Journalism Review
***STATISTICS
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Why Your Next Workplace Harassment Training Might Be in VR Wired
An economics professor at Harvard is under investigation for allegations of sexual harassment The Crimson
A rape victim was just awarded $1 billion. Jurors told her: ‘You’re worth something.’ The Daily New
Ex-ESPN Analyst Argues Network Wasn't "Media Company" in Publishing "Fake Texts" Hollywood Reporter
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Federal officials lost – yes, lost – 1,475 migrant children Arizona Central
Why Do Americans Stay When Their Town Has No Future? Bloomberg
***AMERICA BY THE NUMBERS
America’s graying population in 3 maps The Conversation
The percentage of American adults identifying as LGBT increased to 4.5% in 2017 Gallup
See the progress towards pot legalization in all 50 states Thrillist
What Unites and Divides Urban, Suburban and Rural Communities Pew Research Center
America is changing demographically. Here’s how your county compares Pew Research Center
Religiously, nonwhite Democrats more similar to Republicans than to white Democrats Pew Research Center
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Meet the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies CNBC
See How Your Take Home Pay Compares to Workers Around the World Visualized HowMuch
Fed survey shows 40 percent of adults still can't cover a $400 emergency expense CNBC
***ENVIRONMENT
What a 'Reproducibility Crisis' Committee Found When It Looked at Climate Science Pacific Standard
***HEALTH
Subtle hearing loss while young changes brain function: Early damage could open door to dementia, lead author says Scientific Daily
A nationwide study reported that US cancer deaths have steadily declined for two straight decades NIH
Scientists have figured out exactly how much you need to exercise to slow your heart’s aging process Quartz
What Are Screens Doing to Our Eyes—and Our Ability to See? Wired
The US FDA says there are only risks, no benefits, for a common painkiller used by teething toddlers Quartz
***HEALTH & TECHNOLOGY
Spermbots Offer a Promising New Way to Target Cancer Wired
Ingestible Sensors Electronically Monitor Your Guts Wired
Digital Ambulance Chasers? Law Firms Send Ads To Patients' Phones Inside ERs NPR
Deep brain stimulation found to improve diabetes by increasing dopamine release Science Magazine
***HEALTH CARE COSTS
Vulnerable patients — easy targets for companies willing to sacrifice ethics for profits The Hill
***FAMILY
Parents sue 30-year-old son to move out of house WTNH
American parents invented 1,100 new baby names last year Quartz
***SCIENCE
Science That Is Not Transparent Is Bad Science: Richard Gray On the Citation of Retracted Articles Wiley
Questioning Truth, Reality and the Role of Science Quanta Magazine
***PSYCHOLOGY
The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations CityLab
Personal Space Is an Elaborate, Unconscious Dance The Atlantic
Schizophrenia ‘risk genes’ are not so risky if the mother’s pregnancy was healthy Stat News
Mapping the rising tide of suicide deaths across the United States Washington Post
This Is Why Cognitive Biases Are Harmful (visualization) Daily Infographic
Depression and Anxiety Speed Up Cognitive Aging, Scientists Find Sci-News
***PHILOSOPHY
The "Insanely Low Acceptance Rates" of Philosophy Journals Daily Nous
The Map of Philosophy (video) Open Culture
***HISTORY
The Rulers of Europe: Every Year (video) Cottereau
What Middle-Eastern thinkers discovered long before the west (visualization) Information is Beautiful
***RESEARCH
Writing a page-turner: how to tell a story in your scientific paper The London School of Economics And Political Science
Systems Matter: Research Environments and Institutional Integrity Harvard
There is little evidence to suggest peer reviewer training programmes improve the quality of reviews paper The London School of Economics And Political Science
Non-preferred reviewers and editorial discretion Small Pond Science
How to review a manuscript: Journal editors identify 10 key steps for would-be reviewers American Psychological Association
What’s Up with Data Citations? Scholarly Kitchen
***RESEARCH & REPRODUCIBILITY
Before reproducibility must come preproducibility Nature
A survey on data reproducibility and the effect of publication process on the ethical reporting of laboratory research Clinic Ancerres
***HIGHER ED
New Federal Data Also Show Enrollment Declines Inside Higher Ed
In a setback for UMass Boston, all finalists for top job withdraw following faculty criticism Boston Globe
After ex-employee is accused of fraud, UT hires a former federal prosecutor to investigate internal controls Texas Tribune
A Federal Panel Tries to Regulate Accreditation. But Is Anyone Paying Attention? Chronicle of Higher Ed
College Does Help the Poor (opinion) New York Times
Why Is Undergraduate College Enrollment Declining? NPR
USC President C.L. Max Nikias to step down LA Times
Calvin College will change its name to Calvin University by 2020 Christianity Today
DeVos looks to ease rules on religious colleges Politico
Fuller Seminary to Leave Pasadena Campus Christianity Today
Small Christian College Announces It Will Close Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Trauma Can Interfere With Students’ Learning. Here’s Something Professors Can Do to Help. Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Second Wave of MOOC Hype is Here, and it’s Online Degrees Ed Surge
Do Photos of Teaching on Your Campus Look Staged and Static? Chronicle of Higher Ed
Trauma Can Interfere With Students’ Learning. Here’s Something Professors Can Do to Help. Chronicle of Higher Ed
Teaching Eval Shake-Up Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Proud mom orders ‘Summa Cum Laude’ cake online. Publix censors it Washington Post
'Disgusting and horrible': Community reacts to UO statement after student dies at Shasta Lake OregonLive
College kids want to save the world, just don’t ask them to volunteer Fast Company
Democrats pin midterm hopes on millennials Politico
Inside Gay Students’ Fight to Be Heard at BYU Chronicle of Higher Ed
***STUDENTS & FINANCE
Should Businesses Help Employees Pay Off Their Student Loans? The Atlantic
By the Numbers: Changes in Graduate Student Debt Over Time New America
Eligible for financial aid, nearly a million students never get it Hechinger Report
***ACADEMIC LIFE
U. of Kentucky Moves to Fire Tenured Professor for Telling Students to Buy His Book Kentucky.com
A researcher has agreed to leave WSU in return for a $300,000 settlement over infringement of his academic freedom Seattle Times
***STUDENT MEDIA
Missouri scraps student press freedom bill for third year in a row Student Press Law Center
We never planned to work in a college newspaper. Here’s why we’re glad we did The Collegian
Principal won't renew contract for one of nation’s top journalism advisers Student Press Law Center
A college journalist learns why independent press critical to democracy The Morning Call
Suppressed Press at Christian Colleges: New student coalition is alleging religious institutions are regularly squashing student newspapers Inside Higher Ed
Listen hardest to people younger than you. They are ignorant and generally have lowly jobs, but their fragments of knowledge will be more cutting-edge than yours. -Simon Kuper
Begin with the end in mind. -Stephen R. Covey
Get lost in a book. Watch a sunset. Do things that make you forget yourself.
There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.
Pamela Druckerman writing in the New York Times
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth. Mary Schmich
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