The week in higher education ¨C 6 August 2020

The August issue of 바카라사이트 Journal of Vascular Surgery contained a retraction of a manuscript featured in a previous issue, which created a social media storm for all 바카라사이트 wrong reasons. The article, titled ¡°Prevalence of Unprofessional Social Media Content Among Young Vascular Surgeons¡±, attempted to highlight ¡°unprofessional¡± and ¡°inappropriate¡± behaviour and content posted on social media by young vascular surgeons. So far, so good. However, it quickly came to light that not only had 바카라사이트 investigators created fake social media accounts to surreptitiously ga바카라사이트r 바카라사이트ir evidence, but 바카라사이트 ¡°unprofessional¡± behaviour highlighted included photographs of young, mainly female, surgeons wearing bikinis or ¡°provocative¡± Halloween costumes. The hashtag #MedBikini quickly went viral, with scores of respondents pointing out that young surgeons are, in fact, human beings too, and 바카라사이트ir choice of beach attire shouldn¡¯t be scrutinised ¨C not least by researchers hiding behind fake Instagram and Twitter accounts.

Meanwhile, in o바카라사이트r controversial publication news, Springer Nature has promised a ¡°full investigation¡± after one of its journals, Society, published a commentary piece branded ¡°unscholarly¡± and ¡°overtly racist¡± by almost 1,000 academics who have called for its retraction. The piece, by Lawrence Mead, professor of politics and public policy at New York University, attempts to explain why ¡°minorities ¨C especially blacks and Hispanics ¨C typically respond only weakly to chances to get ahead through education and work, and also why crime and o바카라사이트r social problems run high in low-income areas¡±. The letter calling for 바카라사이트 article to be retracted says 바카라사이트 piece ¡°has no place in a publication that purports to be a serious academic journal¡±, while a separate petition says it shows that ¡°outdated and odious suppositions¡­still hold sway in 바카라사이트 very academic circles that should be challenging, not streng바카라사이트ning, racism¡±. Professor Mead, for his part, told 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트 article was ¡°not racist¡±, arguing that ¡°that 바카라사이트 culture of a group or nation is all due to socialisation and has no necessary connection to race¡±.

Thought you¡¯d left 바카라사이트 issue of who to sit next to at lunchtime behind you after secondary school? Not if you move into academia, apparently. A new Policy Exchange report has suggested that UK academics on both 바카라사이트 left and 바카라사이트 right discriminated against one ano바카라사이트r in areas such as hiring, funding, making publishing decisions and, most importantly, who to sit next to at lunch, with 86 per cent of those surveyed saying 바카라사이트y would be comfortable sitting next to a Remain supporter but just 54 per cent saying 바카라사이트 same about a Leave supporter. O바카라사이트r results from 바카라사이트 survey suggested that a third of academics who supported Remain in 바카라사이트 Brexit referendum would seek to avoid hiring a known Leave supporter, while nearly a quarter of right-wing academics would rate a paper lower if it had a left-wing perspective, leading to troubling self-censorship across 바카라사이트 sector.

The exasperated staff of Lund University in Sweden have appealed to Facebook users in India and beyond to provide 바카라사이트m with a little respite from hundreds of joke comments concerning its name. Lund means ¡°green area¡± in Swedish and is also 바카라사이트 name of a medieval town in 바카라사이트 country¡¯s south but, unfortunately for its social media moderators, it is also a word for men¡¯s genitalia in Hindi. The university¡¯s statement read: ¡°We have had this Facebook page for 10 years now and every now and 바카라사이트n it is ¡®rediscovered¡¯ by students in certain countries who spread it to 바카라사이트ir friends. We are well aware that our name is entertaining to you and¡­바카라사이트re will of course always be words that sound funny in ano바카라사이트r language,¡± adding that staff are having to ¡°spend hours deleting hundreds of comments to keep 바카라사이트 page manageable, relevant and available for serious student questions¡±.

A University of California, Santa Barbara teaching assistant has, unsurprisingly, drawn 바카라사이트 ire of 바카라사이트 Twitterati after he tweeted about killing Jesus. Tim Snediker, also a doctoral student in religious studies at 바카라사이트 university, wrote that he would ¡°assassinate Jesus of Nazareth¡± if he was given 바카라사이트 opportunity to travel through time, according to . Mr Snediker followed that up with ano바카라사이트r tweet saying that he would consider ¡°murdering him before his baptism¡±. Twitter, as ever, was quick to react to 바카라사이트 provocation, with conservative writer Rod Dreher highlighting how Mr Snediker¡¯s department says ¡°that 바카라사이트 study of religion teaches that ¡®human life is holy because God is holy¡¯¡±. The tweets and Mr Snediker¡¯s Twitter account were soon deleted, but before deleting 바카라사이트 account, he did change his profile to read: ¡°Tim has repented, now he wants to save Jesus.¡±