Notices by Henning Deters (detershenning@eupolicy.social)

Grant-based research not only drives researchers into precarity by turning them into entrepreneurs, it also promotes bad research. The incentives to cut corners and get something non-rigorous published increase when projects run out of money after a set time period that cannot be adjusted to the intrinsic vagaries of the research process. This is true especially if your next grant also depends on publication metrics. The grant ideology looks at science and sees a conveyor belt. #AcademicChatter

@tillshadeisgone once your choice is between a fascist and a "centrist", your leverage is zero and your vote really counts for nothing.

@aral can it do apt uninstall/remove and pip uninstall/remove?

@thomasfuchs
Alone in the Dark!

@strypey @trib @laura @aral @danhon
And by ethical standards you mean binding regulation, splitting up, and expropriation, right? Right?
(I take it we're talking about surveillance and "AI" outfits.)

@evan
Depends on the opportunity costs

@evan
Strong négatif

#WebScraping is becoming ever more popular in the #Humanities and #SocialSciences. I just revamped a presentation I held last week in which I gave a quick but somewhat realistic primer for web-scraping with #python and #BeautifulSoup, using the #EuropeanUnion's famous legal data-base EurLex as example.

Have a look, if you like: https://henning.deters.me/media/web-scraping-python.html

Corresponding notebook to follow along and try the code examples: https://www.kaggle.com/code/henningninneh/web-scraping-with-python-two-examples

Feedback welcome!

@politicalscience