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What do we talk about when we talk about the challenges facing higher education

Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Feb 6

Me, new on Substack: "Disappointed: What do we talk about when we talk about the challenges facing higher education." I use the recent Penn panel on the future of American universities as a jumping off point. More to come. profmadison.substack.com/p/disappointed

Disappointed

Unpacking Open Source Bio

Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Feb 3

Today in knowledge commons research: "Unpacking Open Source Bio," a collection of mini-case studies of knowledge commons from the inimitable @jcontreras.bsky.social. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

For at least a quarter of a century, life science researchers around the world have undertaken initiatives loosely based on principles, goals, and institutional

What planet is higher education reform ... on?

Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 27

Social media day, round 2: On Substack, I have another in my weekly series of essays about the future of universities. "A Pixar Interlude: What planet is higher education reform ... on?" profmadison.substack.com/p/a-pixar-in...

A Pixar Interlude

Does leadership begin with voice?

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 27

It's social media day. The newest episode of "Your Leadership Podcast" with me and Kathy Edersheim is available at open.spotify.com/episode/1huU...

Your Leadership Podcast · Episode

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 26

"Things" and their attributes are the MacGuffins of property law. I'll post links to the occasional new paper. Today's excellent entry: "Personal Property Servitudes Revisited" by Daniel Klerman and Stefan Bechtold. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Podcast · Michael Madison and Kathy Edersheim · “Your Leadership Podcast” is about you and your leadership journey. Co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison take a conversational approach, making lea...

Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 21

While I'm at it: I'm co-hosting a new podcast, called "Your Leadership Podcast." Tasty conversational morsels delivered once every two weeks. Find it here: open.spotify.com/show/633QIpk...

Your Leadership Podcast

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 21

Catching up on my Substack essays on the future of higher education, here's the most recent: "Choosing to Choose:
How a university decides." profmadison.substack.com/p/choosing-t...

Choosing to Choose

How a university decides

Access to Justice as Access to Data

Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 21

New in knowledge commons scholarship: "Access to Justice as Access to Data" by Tanina Rostain @georgetownlaw.bsky.social scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol119/...

This Keynote Address, delivered in celebration of the launch of SCALES, discusses the importance of making local and state court data available for research on the functioning of the American civil ju...

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 9

Also new in knowledge commons scholarship: Christopher Mirasola, "Common Heritage as Public Trust: A Property Law Approach to Managing Resources Beyond National Jurisdiction" in the Southern California Law Review. southerncalifornialawreview.com/2024/10/31/c...

Common Heritage as Public Trust: A Property Law Approach to Managing Resources Beyond National Jurisdiction – Southern California Law Review

The search for rare minerals is taking us well beyond the bounds of national jurisdiction, and international law is struggling to keep up. In the 1970s states agreed that the deep seabed beyond nation...

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 9

New in knowledge commons scholarship: Margaret (Maggie) Chon, "Relational Innovation and the Public Benefits of Copying," in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. btlj.org/wp-content/u...

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Dec 28

A neat new knowledge commons project: @institutionaldatainitiative.org

On universities and institutional change

Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Dec 25

The gift of Pittsburgh. I am passing it along. www.pittsburghmagazine.com/pittsburgh-i...

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Dec 18

My Substack series on the future of universities continues, with some preliminary attention to how we might get from where we are now to wherever we might want to be, at "Out of the Silos: On universities and institutional change." Find the whole thing at profmadison.substack.com/p/out-of-the...

Out of the Silos

The Failure of Commons? The Obscure Beijing Mushrooms & the Mycelial Networks of Transformation in Everyday Life | interconnections: journal of posthumanism

Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Dec 13

Fungi! What knowledge commons can teach. "The Failure of Commons? The Obscure Beijing Mushrooms & the Mycelial Networks of Transformation in Everyday Life" by Gladys Pak Lei Chong. journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/po...

journals.library.brocku.ca

Governing Digital Public Infrastructure as a Commons

Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Dec 12

Knowledge commons today: "Governing Digital Public Infrastructure as a Commons," from Renata Avila, Ramya Chandrasekhar, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, and Andrew Rens. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Building upon the G20 New Delhi Leaders' Declaration commitment to improving access to digital services through digital public infrastructure (DPI), this policy

The Field of the University

Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Dec 10

Every Monday, there is something new at "Everything in Between." I continue with my series about the future of universities. "The Field of the University: On flowers and friction." profmadison.substack.com/p/the-field-...

On flowers and friction

What San Francisco carpooling tells us about anarchism | Aeon Essays

Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Dec 8

Knowledge commons, casual carpooling edition. Reyko Huang, "The order of anarchy: How San Francisco’s free rides system can help us understand anarchist theory ..." The same arg about community self-governance and carpools appears in Benkler, "Sharing Nicely," from 2004. aeon.co/essays/what-...

How San Francisco’s free rides system can help us understand anarchist theory and the work of the late, great James C Scott

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From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed b...

Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Dec 8

The knowledge commons hits keep coming. "The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice," by Simon Parkin www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Fo...

The Forbidden Garden

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The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages

Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Dec 7

Knowledge commons in history. Shane
Bobrycki, "The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages" press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

The importance of collective behavior in early medieval Europe

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Is there a comedy in the university?

Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Dec 3

This week's Substack entry at "Everything in Between": "The Tragedy of Prestige: Is there a comedy in the university?," in which I carry on my series about the past, present, and future of "the university." profmadison.substack.com/p/the-traged...

The Tragedy of Prestige

Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse | Struett | International Journal of Communication

Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Nov 30

Today in knowledge commons governance research.

Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · Nov 30

📣 New article from me, Thomas Struett, @paufder.bsky.social & @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy, available free & #openaccess in the International Journal of Communication:

Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse

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Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Nov 29

Knowledge commons, today: "Proprietary Data, Open Data, Data Commons: Who Owns the Data? How to Best Reconcile Conflicting Interests in Exploiting the Value of Data and Protecting Against its Risks" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Proprietary Data, Open Data, Data Commons: Who Owns the Data?How to Best Reconcile Conflicting Interests in Exploiting the Value of Data and Protecting Against its Risks

The European data strategy aims to make the EU a leader in a data-driven world. To this aim, the EU is creating a single market for data where 1) data can flow