Richard Mocarski
@rmocarski.bsky.social
Research administrator & enthusiast. Comm studies scholar partnering with communities to understand the impact of cultural context on our daily lives. VP for Research at Northern Illinois U. #AcademicSky, #HigherEd, #KnowledgeCommons, #NIU, #Research
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#Resistance tools from bsky.app/profile/whys... when asked “why are we funding this” from uncles & Senators alike.
www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...
Shoutout bsky.app/profile/amer... for keeping the lights on while we reclaim #Science from the privatizing dismantlers.
#StandUpForScience
www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...
Shoutout bsky.app/profile/amer... for keeping the lights on while we reclaim #Science from the privatizing dismantlers.
#StandUpForScience
June 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
#Resistance tools from bsky.app/profile/whys... when asked “why are we funding this” from uncles & Senators alike.
www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...
Shoutout bsky.app/profile/amer... for keeping the lights on while we reclaim #Science from the privatizing dismantlers.
#StandUpForScience
www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...
Shoutout bsky.app/profile/amer... for keeping the lights on while we reclaim #Science from the privatizing dismantlers.
#StandUpForScience
Reposted by Richard Mocarski
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
A must read
May 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
The federal government is exiting stage left for science, which means American scientists need support from other sectors to bridge us to a more sane time.
We need to communicate the impact of this on the future of the country in every interaction we have- grocery store, school pick up line, etc
We need to communicate the impact of this on the future of the country in every interaction we have- grocery store, school pick up line, etc
It’s the end of American leadership in science.
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
May 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The federal government is exiting stage left for science, which means American scientists need support from other sectors to bridge us to a more sane time.
We need to communicate the impact of this on the future of the country in every interaction we have- grocery store, school pick up line, etc
We need to communicate the impact of this on the future of the country in every interaction we have- grocery store, school pick up line, etc
Really excited to see Jessica’s fantastic novel come to life!
We are delighted to welcome Jessica Hollander to our Regal House family and to publish her novel The Between Time as part of our Summer 27 Frontlist season! Welcome, Jessica, to the RHP family! regalhousepublishing.com/jessica-holl...
Jessica Hollander
Jessica Hollander grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she spent winters trudging down icy sidewalks, digging her car out from three feet of snow, wrapping a scarf around her face, and believing t…
regalhousepublishing.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Really excited to see Jessica’s fantastic novel come to life!
Reposted by Richard Mocarski
We are delighted to welcome Jessica Hollander to our Regal House family and to publish her novel The Between Time as part of our Summer 27 Frontlist season! Welcome, Jessica, to the RHP family! regalhousepublishing.com/jessica-holl...
Jessica Hollander
Jessica Hollander grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she spent winters trudging down icy sidewalks, digging her car out from three feet of snow, wrapping a scarf around her face, and believing t…
regalhousepublishing.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We are delighted to welcome Jessica Hollander to our Regal House family and to publish her novel The Between Time as part of our Summer 27 Frontlist season! Welcome, Jessica, to the RHP family! regalhousepublishing.com/jessica-holl...
The pace and repetition of the onslaught is meant to make us feel despair.
Unity through shared commitment to discovery is vital.
Let's launch a network of public impact of research talks across the country.
#academicsky #research #grants #discovery #highered #education
Unity through shared commitment to discovery is vital.
Let's launch a network of public impact of research talks across the country.
#academicsky #research #grants #discovery #highered #education
May 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The pace and repetition of the onslaught is meant to make us feel despair.
Unity through shared commitment to discovery is vital.
Let's launch a network of public impact of research talks across the country.
#academicsky #research #grants #discovery #highered #education
Unity through shared commitment to discovery is vital.
Let's launch a network of public impact of research talks across the country.
#academicsky #research #grants #discovery #highered #education
The federal government is abdicating its responsibilities to research. Research investment has not kept up with inflation & as such the US's most important export- #highered & #research- has begun to lag. We now risk more than market share, we risk generations of life changing work. #academicsky
February 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The federal government is abdicating its responsibilities to research. Research investment has not kept up with inflation & as such the US's most important export- #highered & #research- has begun to lag. We now risk more than market share, we risk generations of life changing work. #academicsky
If the goal is to weaken global public health and the discovery engine, this is how to start doing it.
We need to make sure non-academics understand the impact of our research on their lives- including their health, their wallets, and their ease of living! #academicsky #highered #research
We need to make sure non-academics understand the impact of our research on their lives- including their health, their wallets, and their ease of living! #academicsky #highered #research
February 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
If the goal is to weaken global public health and the discovery engine, this is how to start doing it.
We need to make sure non-academics understand the impact of our research on their lives- including their health, their wallets, and their ease of living! #academicsky #highered #research
We need to make sure non-academics understand the impact of our research on their lives- including their health, their wallets, and their ease of living! #academicsky #highered #research
Indirect costs are real costs. Universities are the last non-profit discovery engine in the country, they make societal progress. Gutting IDC shifts discovery to for profit industry and we are all worse for it. #academicsky #highered #research
February 8, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Indirect costs are real costs. Universities are the last non-profit discovery engine in the country, they make societal progress. Gutting IDC shifts discovery to for profit industry and we are all worse for it. #academicsky #highered #research
Maybe 12 playoff teams is too many? Perhaps just let the defending champs get a spot in a year like this because no one is really that good! #goblue
November 30, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Maybe 12 playoff teams is too many? Perhaps just let the defending champs get a spot in a year like this because no one is really that good! #goblue
I have been in #highered for over 20 years & I have experienced exactly 3 yrs without a budget crisis across the five institutions I've served. Perhaps we cannot expect different outcomes when all institutions fight over dwindling resources, instead of changing the minds of the public. #academicsky
November 26, 2024 at 3:14 PM
I have been in #highered for over 20 years & I have experienced exactly 3 yrs without a budget crisis across the five institutions I've served. Perhaps we cannot expect different outcomes when all institutions fight over dwindling resources, instead of changing the minds of the public. #academicsky
Sitting through meetings to deal with all the obstacles to impact is draining. Hearing a few faculty presentations on their research- recharging! #academicsky, #highered
November 21, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Sitting through meetings to deal with all the obstacles to impact is draining. Hearing a few faculty presentations on their research- recharging! #academicsky, #highered
Markus Kornprobst & @msenn.bsky.social rhetorical field theory paper from 2016 proposes evolutionary and revolutionary ways to change the meaning of a particular area of debate. #academicsky, #highered, #knowledgecommons (1/4)
November 21, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Markus Kornprobst & @msenn.bsky.social rhetorical field theory paper from 2016 proposes evolutionary and revolutionary ways to change the meaning of a particular area of debate. #academicsky, #highered, #knowledgecommons (1/4)
In the #academy we in-fight because administrators are dealing with budget shortfalls and faculty are dealing with a million demands at once. We all know our collective impact and we have competing demands, but we're in this together! #academicsky, #highered
November 20, 2024 at 9:14 PM
In the #academy we in-fight because administrators are dealing with budget shortfalls and faculty are dealing with a million demands at once. We all know our collective impact and we have competing demands, but we're in this together! #academicsky, #highered
One thing bugging me about #highered is that we keep talking on others' terms. We talk about ROI & pipelines, without grounded the conversation in impact & public good. #academicsky
November 20, 2024 at 8:01 PM
One thing bugging me about #highered is that we keep talking on others' terms. We talk about ROI & pipelines, without grounded the conversation in impact & public good. #academicsky
Reposted by Richard Mocarski
"I will foster so many meaningful partnerships, you’ll think I’m Tinder. And my targeted outreach is gonna look like tactical drone strikes. I’ll be blowing up emerging challenges like they’re goddamn terrorists."
I Am a Passionate Mid-Level University Administrator, and I’m Gonna Administrate the Shit Out of This Place
Look, this place needs to be administrated, and I’m the guy to do it. I know you’ve been doing your best, but you’ve been held back. You haven’t be...
buff.ly
November 20, 2024 at 3:00 AM
"I will foster so many meaningful partnerships, you’ll think I’m Tinder. And my targeted outreach is gonna look like tactical drone strikes. I’ll be blowing up emerging challenges like they’re goddamn terrorists."
Reposted by Richard Mocarski
Good public health is invisible. People tend not to notice the absence of disease.
Until people like RFK Jr start bringing it back.
My new piece
medium.com/@gidmk/good-...
Until people like RFK Jr start bringing it back.
My new piece
medium.com/@gidmk/good-...
Good Public Health Is Invisible
It’s only when things go wrong that you notice it. It looks like people will really notice public health in the United States quite soon.
medium.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Good public health is invisible. People tend not to notice the absence of disease.
Until people like RFK Jr start bringing it back.
My new piece
medium.com/@gidmk/good-...
Until people like RFK Jr start bringing it back.
My new piece
medium.com/@gidmk/good-...
Reposted by Richard Mocarski
'When you want young people to do science for free... you end up with a group of "rich kids" who do it'
#NotWrong #EDISky #WomenInSTEM #AcademicSky ##ScienceSky #EpiSky #GenderSummit2024
#NotWrong #EDISky #WomenInSTEM #AcademicSky ##ScienceSky #EpiSky #GenderSummit2024
November 19, 2024 at 5:39 PM
'When you want young people to do science for free... you end up with a group of "rich kids" who do it'
#NotWrong #EDISky #WomenInSTEM #AcademicSky ##ScienceSky #EpiSky #GenderSummit2024
#NotWrong #EDISky #WomenInSTEM #AcademicSky ##ScienceSky #EpiSky #GenderSummit2024
Are degrees only worth pursuing if there is a clear job waiting on the other end? Is #highered no longer a #KnowledgeCommons? The #academy is the only discovery engine with no profit motive. Students gain & share valuable knowledge and insights in the process and contribute to society. #AcademicSky
Wow: Boston University suspends PhD admissions in the humanities and some social sciences: www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...
BU suspends admissions to humanities, other Ph.D. programs
The university didn’t announce its decision in a news release and hasn’t fully explained it, but two deans blamed a new grad workers’ union contract for the cutbacks to a dozen programs including Engl...
www.insidehighered.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Are degrees only worth pursuing if there is a clear job waiting on the other end? Is #highered no longer a #KnowledgeCommons? The #academy is the only discovery engine with no profit motive. Students gain & share valuable knowledge and insights in the process and contribute to society. #AcademicSky
When we talk about ROI in #highered, we talk about the value of a degree vs. the cost to attend. This fails to account for the impact higher ed has on our communities through research and service. Student cost is only part of the equation. #academicsky
www.timeshighereducation.com/impactrankings
www.timeshighereducation.com/impactrankings
Impact Ranking
University Impact Rankings for 2024 Times Higher Education presents the University Impact Rankings for 2024, identifying and celebrating universities that excel across multiple United Nations Sustaina...
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:31 PM
When we talk about ROI in #highered, we talk about the value of a degree vs. the cost to attend. This fails to account for the impact higher ed has on our communities through research and service. Student cost is only part of the equation. #academicsky
www.timeshighereducation.com/impactrankings
www.timeshighereducation.com/impactrankings
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Huge Day for NIU! I helped in a small role in the research for this so it was wonderful to see it! #NIU #GoHuskies
niutoday.info/2024/10/09/n...
niutoday.info/2024/10/09/n...
NIU Today - Northern Illinois University Receives Gift of $40 Million for Health Sciences Education and Research
The Baustert Family Foundation donation, the largest in NIU history, will fund creation of the Baustert Bahwell Health Technology Center Northern Illinois University and the NIU Foundation are proud a...
niutoday.info
October 9, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Huge Day for NIU! I helped in a small role in the research for this so it was wonderful to see it! #NIU #GoHuskies
niutoday.info/2024/10/09/n...
niutoday.info/2024/10/09/n...
The Innovation Showcase on #AI at Northern Illinois University was heartening. Speakers encouraged a future of #highered that leans into the small "l" liberal arts to continue create critical thinkers & strong communicators. #academicsky, #research, #NIU
calendar.niu.edu/event/innova...
calendar.niu.edu/event/innova...
Innovation Showcase Speakers
calendar.niu.edu
November 18, 2024 at 8:31 PM
The Innovation Showcase on #AI at Northern Illinois University was heartening. Speakers encouraged a future of #highered that leans into the small "l" liberal arts to continue create critical thinkers & strong communicators. #academicsky, #research, #NIU
calendar.niu.edu/event/innova...
calendar.niu.edu/event/innova...
#highered, #AcademicSky, Quote: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) How to lower barriers to healthcare for trans folks through better communication campaigns.
2) How to better engage in public conversations about the value of the academy.
1) How to lower barriers to healthcare for trans folks through better communication campaigns.
2) How to better engage in public conversations about the value of the academy.
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) How did people compile books between the late C18 and early C20?
2) An article about condom retailing in mid-C19 Britain (pre-rubber condoms)
1) How did people compile books between the late C18 and early C20?
2) An article about condom retailing in mid-C19 Britain (pre-rubber condoms)
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) A chapter about Shirley Jackson, multiple personality disorder, and public authorship
2) A Darwinian reading of the novel focused on teeth
1) A chapter about Shirley Jackson, multiple personality disorder, and public authorship
2) A Darwinian reading of the novel focused on teeth
November 18, 2024 at 3:47 AM
#highered, #AcademicSky, Quote: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) How to lower barriers to healthcare for trans folks through better communication campaigns.
2) How to better engage in public conversations about the value of the academy.
1) How to lower barriers to healthcare for trans folks through better communication campaigns.
2) How to better engage in public conversations about the value of the academy.
Higher education needs to grapple with
eroding public trust. As we examine ways to better tell the narrative of transformation I believe higher ed offers, we must remember that if we allow the rhetorical field to be set by those who wish to damage higher ed, then we have already lost. #highered
eroding public trust. As we examine ways to better tell the narrative of transformation I believe higher ed offers, we must remember that if we allow the rhetorical field to be set by those who wish to damage higher ed, then we have already lost. #highered
November 16, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Higher education needs to grapple with
eroding public trust. As we examine ways to better tell the narrative of transformation I believe higher ed offers, we must remember that if we allow the rhetorical field to be set by those who wish to damage higher ed, then we have already lost. #highered
eroding public trust. As we examine ways to better tell the narrative of transformation I believe higher ed offers, we must remember that if we allow the rhetorical field to be set by those who wish to damage higher ed, then we have already lost. #highered