Lawrence D. Berg

He/His/Him | professor | critical geography | UBC. Crap at twitter. I restrict my tweeting to issues of the politics of higher ed.

[Lawrence D. Berg @LawrenceDBerg]

@AngelaSterritt Spent most of my secondary school years in the hallway. I eventually became a full professor at a somewhat respectable R1 university. Still get into trouble (and get treated like a child) as a result of ableds' response to neurodivergence. ;-)

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Given the amount of 'service' work piling up on my desk, I couldn't agree more: Academia needs a reality check. #academicworkloads, #anxietyintheacademy. https://t.co/UlUcPQuVQO

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@reecejhawaii Yes, just like the NSF to be 30 years behind the intellectual curve. Who the F^*k even talks about postmodernism anymore, except folks that know nothing about it (like the NSF). Geography... sigh

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@car1ygoodman @reecejhawaii They are men and academics... in other words, they have been trained their whole careers to think that angry responses will work to their benefit.

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@reecejhawaii As a former editor of 3 different journals, I can attest to the angry white male response to rejection phenomenon. Once, when one of my co-editors rejected a paper, the author sent a note to me to complain and then faxed my head of department when I disagreed with his bull***t.

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Brabazon makes some really important points about the shift to online teaching here: "The academy’s neoliberal response to COVID-19: Why faculty should be wary and how we can push back" https://t.co/9t3mNhT4Ts

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As noliberal calls for austerity in the university sector start to ramp up in the coming months, it is timely to be reminded that the social sciences (and humanities) 'subsidize' the STEM disciplines: https://t.co/6sToRF1EIu

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A good start in Canada (though university students are expected to live below the poverty line) #canadaemergencystudentbenefit: https://t.co/IKRhmST0Qa

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Are these not some of the fuckwits that worked consistently to neoliberalise the UK Higher Ed system in the first instance?

[Julie Cupples @juliecupples79]

Oh look a manel who is going to tell us what it is like to work in a neoliberal university during a pandemic

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A new definition of 'predatory journals'. The focus is on biosciences, but it is useful for social scientists too. https://t.co/GYjuqXiOW0. .

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“We’re all in this together.”

Unless you’re disabled/chronically ill, then you’re on your own.

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Tenured/permanent faculty colleagues: keep in mind the extra stress our precarious/untenured faculty colleagues are experiencing. Check in with them to see if they need any help. https://t.co/4chsN6WcAE

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Remember folks, the social distancing some of us are experiencing for the first time is *everyday life* for many sick and disabled folk.

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Social distancing?

You mean daily life for the disabled/chronically ill?

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Here's the deal folks: let's maintain *social closeness* while enacting *physical distance*. https://t.co/H6rNHl1XOp

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It is time for all our universities to collectively decide to move to a simple Pass/Fail assessment, and then pass all our students. There is nothing better that we can teach our students than compassion. #university, #COVID19

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Solidarity with striking colleagues at UK universities. Here is part of what they are striking against: https://t.co/vXI43JYphq

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For those who missed it, here is the Leiden Manifesto on research assessment. There are some important measures here, not least the need to "protect excellence in locally relevant research" (Geography actually matters). https://t.co/MAajcXJ10s

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I'm deeply troubled that another independent critical geography journal, @HGJournal has been privatized and is now published by SAGE. As an editor of three different journals I know why working with a publisher is attractive, but open access is far better. https://t.co/bbkVjAdSlK

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I agree 100%. This is part of the wider practice of accumulation by dispossession that has been the business model of corporate academic publishers from Day One. #accumulationbydispossession, #academicpublishing

[Geoff Mann @GeoffPMann]

Just sent this to Routledge after a request to review a manuscript of political theory. Hoping we can somehow make this a standard response to these requests:

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An interesting discussion about the policing of titles in the academy. Having started my academic life in Aotearoa/NZ where policing of titles is rampant, I'm with the author on this one: https://t.co/aJWxC6gjNN