Academic Freedom in the Age of the College

Hofstadter, Richard

doi:10.4324/9781351288927

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“…Dedicated analyses by reprocessing existing Cassini data would allow for a more rigorous analysis. Furthermore, it is worth noticing that new missions towards the ice giants (Arridge et al 2012(Arridge et al , 2014Turrini et al 2014;Hofstadter & et al 2017) would be beneficial in order to get better constraints on the mass distribution in the distant regions of the Solar System.…”

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Is the Recently Proposed Mars-Sized Perturber at 65–80 AU Ruled Out by the Cassini Ranging Data?

Iorio

2017

Front. Astron. Space Sci.

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Recently, the existence of a pointlike pertuber PX with 1 m ♂ m X 2.4 m ⊕ (the symbol " ♂ " denotes Mars) supposedly moving at 65 − 80 AU along a moderately inclined orbit has been hypothesized in order to explain certain features of the midplane of the Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs). We preliminarily selected two possible scenarios for such a PX, and numerically simulated its effect on the Earth-Saturn range ρ (t) by varying some of its orbital parameters over a certain time span; then, we compared our results with some existing actual range residuals. By assuming m X = 1 m ♂ and a circular orbit, such a putative new member of our Solar System would nominally perturb ρ (t) by a few km over ∆t = 12 yr (2004 − 2016). However, the Cassini spaceraft accurately measured ρ (t) to the level of σ ρ ≃ 100 m. Nonetheless, such a scenario should not be considered as necessarily ruled out since the Cassini data were reduced so far without explicitly modeling any PX. Indeed, a NASA JPL team recently demonstrated that an extra-signature as large as 4 km affecting the Kronian range would be almost completely absorbed in fitting incomplete dynamical models, i.e. without PX itself, to such simulated data, thus not showing up in the standard post-fit range residuals. Larger anomalous signatures would instead occur for m X > 1 m ♂ . Their nominal amplitude could be as large as 50 − 150 km for m X = 2.4 m ⊕ , thus making less plausible their existence.

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Is the Recently Proposed Mars-Sized Perturber at 65–80 AU Ruled Out by the Cassini Ranging Data?

Iorio

2017

Front. Astron. Space Sci.

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“…Academic freedom has a long and multifaceted history (Collini, 2012;Hayes, 2009;Hofstadter, 1955;Williams, 2016) and there is no universally accepted definition of academic freedom (Hayes, 2009;Karran, 2009;Russell, 1993). However, by a general and conventional definition, academic freedom involves 'the freedom of members of the academic community, individually or collectively, in the pursuit, development and transmission of knowledge, through research, study, discussion, documentation, production, creation, teaching, lecturing and writing' (UNESCO, 1997).…”

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Social scientists under threat: Resistance and self-censorship in Turkish academia

Aktaş

Nilsson

Borell

2018

British Journal of Educational Studies

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Attacks on academic freedom in Turkey have become increasingly systematic in recent years and thousands of academics have been dismissed. This study reflects on the effects of this worsening repression through interviews with academics in the social sciences, both those dismissed and those still active in their profession. Although the dismissed academics are socially in a very precarious position, they are continuing their scholarly activities in alternative, underground forms. This resistance stands in contrast to the accommodation and self-censorship that seem, according to the interviewees, to prevail in university departments.

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“…When the related literature is examined, it is observed that academics' freedoms in research can be ordered as follows: 1) academics' being free to conduct research on what they want in a manner befitting scientific and ethical principles without the fear of the displeasure of others and any pressure from the authorities; 2) academics' freedom to determine the scope of the topic to be studied and its linguistic expression befitting the scientific principles as they wish; 3) academics' being free to participate in any educational, social or professional organization, provided that it is legal; 4) academics' being free in their domestic and international travel with the aim of conducting research and providing educational improvement; and 5) academics' being free to publish the results of their studies without any pressure from the authorities (Eliot, 1907;Anderson, 1934;Hafstadter, 1955;Emerson & Haber, 1964;Ashby & Anderson, 1966;Dworking, 1979;Hook, 1971;Hamilton, 1998;Kahn & Pavlich, 2000;Hamilton, 2002;Robinson, Moulton, & College, 2002;Yalçın, 2002;Günay, 2004;Cain, 2007;Cole, 2009;Woodhouse, 2009;Balyer, 2011;Haberler, 2013).…”

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Academic Freedom from the Perspectives of Academics and Students: A Qualitative Study

Doğan

2016

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Academic Freedom in the Age of the College

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Is the Recently Proposed Mars-Sized Perturber at 65–80 AU Ruled Out by the Cassini Ranging Data?

Is the Recently Proposed Mars-Sized Perturber at 65–80 AU Ruled Out by the Cassini Ranging Data?

Social scientists under threat: Resistance and self-censorship in Turkish academia

Academic Freedom from the Perspectives of Academics and Students: A Qualitative Study

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