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TFW you walk by the office of a colleague who you haven't seen in years and are convinced hasn't set foot on campus in an even longer time than that and the lights are on.
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“Someone has to suffer, the writer or the reader. But the reader doesn’t want to.” (And thus quits.)
I’m re-reading the notorious German grandmaster Wolf Schneider. Precise language can achieve a lot. Yet it’s tough to cultivate.
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I think tomorrow is the last day before my summer holidays that I don't have *any* appointments in my calendar \o/ #academicChatter

Being "cut out for this" is a perverse myth that racists, misogynists, and queermisic folks among others in our society have been all too successful at ingraining in our consciousness. "Being allowed to actually focus on this" is absolutely real, and those same oppressive formations gleefully lay siege to these that in everyone they hate, while yelling about "intrinsic" ability. "Being prepared for this at X age" is also real, and suffers when you weren't allowed to focus on the material in the past.
This has been a subtoot of dealing with shitty academic circumstances for my students.
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I think tomorrow is the last day before my summer holidays that I don't have *any* appointments in my calendar \o/ #academicChatter

If you can't review an ms, tell the editors immediately! They won't hate you because you'll be making their lives significantly easier - they can go to the next reviewer on their list rather than having to wait through weeks of being ignored. Plus, there's nothing like the buzz you'll get from saying 'no'.
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Hello #academicchatter does anyone know the thoughts behind Cell Press' increasing adaptation of Far East imagery in their journal covers?
this one is a latest example! Has references of other cultures been enacted the same way?
Just curious 🧐

MolecularCell (@MolecularCell@mstdn.science)
Attached: 1 image Read our latest issue here: https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/current

I said no to a thing!
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Reviews today:
01:04: Financial report to the SNSF
00:49: Four abstracts in the field of digital history
02:47: Second review of a journal paper on knowledge representation
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The secret to writing papers appears to be a secret stash of chocolate that is only allowed to be eaten while writing papers late in the evening when the rest of the family is in bed. It's amazing the motivation it supplies.
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There's a trolley problem party game.
Academic parties will never be the same.
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The question is perhaps, does it make sense to track a course over multiple semesters in a single repository? #git #academicchatter

The question is perhaps, does it make sense to track a course over multiple semesters in a single repository? #git #academicchatter

Cursing past me for lacking the ability to say 'no'. I think all my current problems are due to her bad decisions #academicChatter

I mean, who doesn't go into #academia hoping for an administrative appointment? #AcademicChatter

If you manage your course materials (slides, lecture notes, exercises, etc.) using #git, how do you deal with semesters? That is, do you consider the course as something that evolves linearly, or is every semester a distinct unit, e.g., a branch or a separate repository?
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If you manage your course materials (slides, lecture notes, exercises, etc.) using #git, how do you deal with semesters? That is, do you consider the course as something that evolves linearly, or is every semester a distinct unit, e.g., a branch or a separate repository?
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If you manage your course materials (slides, lecture notes, exercises, etc.) using #git, how do you deal with semesters? That is, do you consider the course as something that evolves linearly, or is every semester a distinct unit, e.g., a branch or a separate repository?
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I have to contain a burst of rage every time I'm required to present my (public) university ID to access the library.
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Thoughts and feelings about #PhD exam and finale, discussion initiated by @…
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Very nice paper on theory and wonder
Levy, D.M. (2022) ‘The Joy of Contemplative Scholarship’, Library Trends, 70(4), pp. 490–503. Available at: #flow #academia #academicchatter #deepwork

If you manage your course materials (slides, lecture notes, exercises, etc.) using #git, how do you deal with semesters? That is, do you consider the course as something that evolves linearly, or is every semester a distinct unit, e.g., a branch or a separate repository?
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Been teaching intro CS in Python for 5 years now. Every semester a student (usually inadvertently) teaches me something new. Last semester it was:
d = {}
for d["key"] in stuff:
...
(Works by updating the dictionary value in each iteration, which makes sense)
This semester, it's:
list.insert(-1, item)
(Inserts item before existing last item, so the item ends up at index -2, which is a bit confusing.)
Thankfully, I enjoy the learning process :)
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Starting the day by googling "why pie charts are bad" so my students don't have to 😇 #academicChatter

In contrast to my general reading list, progress is being made on the one for my new course “Computing in Context” in the fall.
#academicchatter #cosma

In contrast to my general reading list, progress is being made on the one for my new course “Computing in Context” in the fall.
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It'll soon be summer which means that Hollywood location scouts are out in force. Do I work at a university or on set?
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In contrast to my general reading list, progress is being made on the one for my new course “Computing in Context” in the fall.
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Current mood.
#streetphotography #vietnam #wildlife
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First task of the week: check email, write to do list. Lots of reviews and grading this week, plus 5 texts of different sizes (1-20 pages) that urgently need my attention. Thankfully, teaching needs relatively little time compared to other years (usually there's a lot more still to do in the 2nd week of classes). I wonder what admin time-hog I've forgotten about... #academicChatter

Am I alone in thinking endowed chairs aren't a panacea?
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The worst thing about AI-written papers and AI-written reviews of AI-written papers is that it is bound to get worse, but it won’t crash.
Too many benefit from it, notably BigPub, institutions that love the simplicity of quantitative evaluation, but also academics who thrive in such a system.
For them, the negative impact on science is an externality—and they didn’t care too much about it before either.

The worst thing about AI-written papers and AI-written reviews of AI-written papers is that it is bound to get worse, but it won’t crash.
Too many benefit from it, notably BigPub, institutions that love the simplicity of quantitative evaluation, but also academics who thrive in such a system.
For them, the negative impact on science is an externality—and they didn’t care too much about it before either.

I love it when past students take a minute to fill me in on their lives and the wonderful things they're doing. This is truly one of the best perks of the job. #AcademicChatter #academia #HigherEd

The worst thing about AI-written papers and AI-written reviews of AI-written papers is that it is bound to get worse, but it won’t crash.
Too many benefit from it, notably BigPub, institutions that love the simplicity of quantitative evaluation, but also academics who thrive in such a system.
For them, the negative impact on science is an externality—and they didn’t care too much about it before either.

Wow my class was so much fun! 🤩 Students are working hard, happy to discuss, thinking on their toes, even contributing some prior knowledge 🤩 🤩 At some point I started wondering if my class is too easy: they started volunteering on their own a bunch of the things I wanted to teach them. 🤩 🤩 🤩 Love it! #amTeaching #academicChatter
✅ week 1 of the semester

Nothing says university quite like the phrase "brand expression."
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Are you really an academic if you're able to resist the call of free food?
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Me: OMG I really have to rein it in with this self-exploitation if only to be a good example for younger scientists 😬
Also me: ... just after this deadline!
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Extra benefit of the #writing retreat with my group last week: we shared the space with these lovely alpacas 🥰 I think we will return #academicchatter

As Monday morning might be a better time to share than Friday afternoons: Check out our latest preprint on creating a shared knowledge base for #selfresearch, #personalscience & #quantifiedself. Katharina did a really great job on co-designing and testing the "Personal Science Wiki" with practitioners to make sure it fits their mental models of the practice!
Read the preprint here: #citizenscience @academicchatter @citizenscience

"The last section concludes." Who says academics can't write?
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Whenever I'm asked to evaluate a broad range of files as part of some competition - for fellowships, grants, awards, etc. - I constantly need to check my natural inclination to be hardest on those projects I know the most about. It's all too easy to become the distracted boyfriend meme, giving high marks to things I'm fairly ignorant of while failing to appreciate solid work closer to home.
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