Jon Barnhart

Higher ed researcher and presenter @EAB, soccer fanatic, Raiders diehard, over-user of exclamation points. OC-CA native, DC transplant by way of Syracuse U!

[Jon Barnhart @barnhartja]

Four great examples, and one in particular reminds us that private research universities can do this too--@SyracuseU leading by example!

[Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered]

Student Success | Supporting Student Success for Learners With Disabilities

Dedicated programs at colleges and universities encourage thriving, belonging and career development for students with disabilities. https://t.co/z8D8PaNCc4

[Jon Barnhart @barnhartja]

Gosh I feel like there's another university on that side of the bay that also does engineering that might be flustered by this...well played, Cal! https://t.co/PkpJtQxI5g

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

One of the world’s richest men is to fund a major new scholarship scheme at @UniofOxford to help tackle “humanity’s most serious problems”.
https://t.co/77yqx3Tyho

[Jon Barnhart @barnhartja]

This, regrettably, is a problem of our own creation. The stakes are high for these grads and you can understand why they'd take any opp to get a leg up. Universities need to do better by their grads and postdocs. It starts with us.

[Science Careers @ScienceCareers]

"Sara is one of a growing number of STEM graduate students and postdocs sharing their stories about Cheeky Scientist online and with journalists, and even seeking legal help to get out of contracts they say they felt pushed into signing." #PhDChat https://t.co/ZHuVsPsw8Z

[Jon Barnhart @barnhartja]

Update: they found the CHIPS money! https://t.co/dBkZI3xwPm

[Jon Barnhart @barnhartja]

Don’t let the name fool you: Virginia Tech does excellent medical research.

[Virginia Tech @virginia_tech]

A gift from the Red Gates Foundation will enable #VirginiaTech to help families beat cancer & brain disorders. 🙌

“We are grateful for this extraordinary gift ... supporting Virginia Tech’s commitment to health & biomedical sciences.” — @VTSandsman https://t.co/aufOC7B8hV

[Jon Barnhart @barnhartja]

And therein lies the challenge here. These were never going to be equal opportunities for all regions. Where will place-based investments come from? Politicians. How do politicians decide where to put things? Favor and results.

[Brookings Metro @BrookingsMetro]

The geographic nature of advanced industries such as auto manufacturing means that broad investment won’t be sufficient to revitalize local clusters, write @MarkMuro1 and @YangYoungYou. “Place-based” investments will likely be necessary. https://t.co/aadVwtC6Ac

[nature @Nature]

Science benefits when there is mutual respect between academics and research managers. Team Science, a six-part series, begins by examining a key workplace relationship. https://t.co/tjkiZOQbfF

[Jon Barnhart @barnhartja]

“Small and beautiful” because “big and audacious” also equals expensive. Interesting to see how this impacts their higher ed investments along the belt and road.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

As scepticism at home grows, China is shifting towards “small and beautiful” projects that give local people a greater “sense of ownership”, says Zhu Yongbiao, head of Lanzhou University’s BRI research centre https://t.co/YoJPqIIavk

[Jon Barnhart @barnhartja]

That said, the odds are good this new ranking will be a better measure of some metrics we all agree are better indicators of impact and success--and less reliant on the old ones we all love to bemoan but have been ineffective at changing. So lessons to be learned for sure.

[Jon Barnhart @barnhartja]

A problem of our own making here, but there needs to be a ranking that everyone can be at the top of, and I suppose that's what the BRICS nations are hoping to achieve: https://t.co/jvL1tXiD00

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Science minister says Horizon deal addresses ‘big fear’ UK participation would not recover and allows UK to be net beneficiary, reports @johncmorgan3
https://t.co/z9okcbo6bd

[Jon Barnhart @barnhartja]

Link here. It’s really a great piece and the accomplishments here are appealing: https://t.co/gsAvifflnQ

[Jon Barnhart @barnhartja]

Last year Tecnológico de Monterre announced a massive investment in faculty hiring, partially to lure Canadian and US academics south. Today you’ll see their add in the Chronicle making their pitch. The war for academic talent is truly global, and we ignore it at our peril.

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Scientists are challenging a major funder’s automatic ban on using AI in its grant review process by claiming that it could also apply to googling research topics
https://t.co/xYRqrDFPsV

[The Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle]

As the politics of higher education grow more fraught, “universities today are under great pressure to be responsive to their communities,” one expert said. Is public-focused research the answer? https://t.co/6oEutqWHiT

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

Australian #universities have accepted custodianship of clinical trials over the past decade and a half, a new study has found. @JohnRoss49 reports
https://t.co/ppaX20hHMh

[Nader Ale Ebrahim @aleebrahim]

We are in a period of science policy innovation, yet there are major evidence gaps in evaluating their effectiveness
https://t.co/Yk1kXknfy4

[Data & Society @datasociety]

Our response to the @NSF’s RFI highlights the benefits that a public interest, sociotechnically oriented Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships would bring to the American public and the AI ecosystem. https://t.co/mWBaASPZj0

[EAB @EAB]

"Ron Yanosky noted that #HigherEd has viewed #ChatGPT with “a combination of anxiety and hostility.” Many faculty and administrators did not recognize its potential at first..."
#emchat
Read the @insidehighered article: https://t.co/s3b1eyN6f9