Academia

It's time for us academics to stop being pawns of these corporate journals and demand our fair share of the profits they earn from our labour and services.

• We are not their "content creators"
• Access and dissemination of our research cannot be held hostage by these corpos.
• Service to these journals is not service to the community.

I've posted this in my institute. I hope you share and post this in yours and spread the word.

P.S: As you can see, I am no designer! But I hope the message is clear. Thanks for the feedback. I will work on further drafts, and hope to work with the community to mobilise this action.

... and yes, it was made using LaTeX. :-)

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/19330369

Alt title: 3 Old White Men Discover Colonialsm Bad

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20663580

In a now-viral TikTok video, Dr. Daniel McKeown, a professor at UCLA, claims low pay has left him homeless, shocking many of his followers.

“Hi everyone, my name is Daniel, and I’m an astrophysics professor at UCLA. I’m only being paid $70,000 for this academic year,” McKeown says in the video.

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McKeown, listed as a lecturer on UCLA’s website, says he had to move out of his apartment because he could no longer afford the rent.

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When asked why he doesn’t teach elsewhere, McKeown said, “I refuse to stop teaching. Teaching my students is my absolute passion. UCLA is a top university for physics.”

McKeown holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics.

“I teach full-time. I teach six classes a year, yet I’m being paid about half of what the average physics professor in California makes. It’s not fair,” he told KTLA.

Link: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/sept24/c1.pdf

Toot: https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113142712459870354

GET FUCKED LEECHES!