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#amGrading, very important step: replace initial reactions (“blah blah blah!”) with professional wording (“vague”) #academicChatter

Two teaching sessions on GenAI today, introducing students to “automated text production with LLMs is just fast continuous predictive texting.” With the help of #SendungMitDerMaus
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Hi humanities friends 👋
Where do researchers from the humanities publish preprints?
Are preprints a thing in your fields?
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Ich organisiere eine sehr sehr große Sommerschule. #academicChatter
übereifrige Putzkraft 🗑️
Hiwi mit Drogenhandel-Ambitionen 💊
ich werde einfach verrückt? 🤪

Took a day off work to get ready for holiday tomorrow. Predictably I have spent the whole day working. 🙄
Must get on actually packing, cleaning, and other essentials now...
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Rapidly evolving budgetary conditions… The only thing we know is the direction: downwards.
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Rapidly evolving budgetary conditions… The only thing we know is the direction: downwards.
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Rapidly evolving budgetary conditions… The only thing we know is the direction: downwards.
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New superpower unlocked: procrastinate until a solution suggests itself over night. I think I'll change my middle name to “Calvin”?
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Funny the people who have their airdrop open to anyone - I just almost dropped my annotated version of my student's PhD thesis into a random stranger's device 😅 #academicChatter

Yesterday, we talked with controlling about the budget of our unit for 2026. Acquisition of third party funding for this and that, balance, etc.
Each professorship has to get CHF 80'000 per year, it's part of the performance evaluation—of course we need way more to fund all members of the group
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Unexpected good news on the grant funding front...
Means I can stop worrying about how we're going to pay the best polar regional climate modelling team in the world™️ for the next 3 years and focus on doing some actually really good, cool science™️.
To be continued...
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Now suppose that the student in question is the child of an influential local politician…
All of this is of course completely hypothetical, but things like this do happen, and they can quickly get out of hand. So, better to be prepared! □
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Now suppose that the student in question is the child of an influential local politician…
All of this is of course completely hypothetical, but things like this do happen, and they can quickly get out of hand. So, better to be prepared! □
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Said goodbye to two people in my lab today: my first employee & (completed) PhD student our admin assistant 😢 all the emotions... 😭 🤩
That's another side of academic mobility - every few years a lab has to completely reinvent itself... that's tough #academicChatter

Having legal protection insurance is always a good idea to, but IMHO it’s absolutely essential for professors due to the particular context in which we work. But I find that it’s hardly ever discussed.
An obvious example is the question of the limits of academic freedom, but many potential issues are way more trivial. ⇢
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Having legal protection insurance is always a good idea to, but IMHO it’s absolutely essential for professors due to the particular context in which we work. But I find that it’s hardly ever discussed.
An obvious example is the question of the limits of academic freedom, but many potential issues are way more trivial. ⇢
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Having legal protection insurance is always a good idea to, but IMHO it’s absolutely essential for professors due to the particular context in which we work. But I find that it’s hardly ever discussed.
An obvious example is the question of the limits of academic freedom, but many potential issues are way more trivial. ⇢
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Gotta love a good #SteisandEffect. I would never have bothered reading this article if it hadn’t been taken down (given that I don’t follow Forbes). Now, however, the pdf. is safely downloaded, the reference added to Zotero, and I'll go through it thoroughly.

Dr Pen (@DrPen@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images Ed Zitron's new article has a link to the infamous MIT report "State of AI in Business 2025". This is the link, it's on web archive. Apparently it's no longer accessible directly from MIT anymore. #ai #mit #research #aibubble #academia #academicchatter https://web.archive.org/web/20250818145714if_/https://nanda.media.mit.edu/ai_report_2025.pdf

firsts: In a few minutes we're starting my first PhD defense as first supervisor 🤩 #academicChatter

Montagmorgen, halb acht, und die Finanzabteilung hat schon geschickt, dass sie sich um das Reporting beim SNF kümmert. #EsIstNichtAllesSchlecht nur viel zu früh am Tag 😴
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Regulations: The MA thesis must be submitted at least 30 days before the date of the defense.
Student (sending me their thesis 1 week before the end of the exam period, after months of total radio silence): Yeah, but I really want to defend it next Friday, otherwise I’d lose a whole semester!!!1!11
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Genuinely interested in any thoughts as to where to send it next. The subject is Antarctica and influences on observed ice sheet change
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Update after talking to the student office: The student had called the student office and then chose to ignore essentially everything they had been told; and then they basically lied to us about having officially submitted the thesis.
Good thing I don’t trust anyone anymore.
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Update after talking to the student office: The student had called the student office and then chose to ignore essentially everything they had been told; and then they basically lied to us about having officially submitted the thesis.
Good thing I don’t trust anyone anymore.
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Workation, day one: headset fell apart
So, no online meetings for the next view weeks, I guess?
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Regulations: The MA thesis must be submitted at least 30 days before the date of the defense.
Student (sending me their thesis 1 week before the end of the exam period, after months of total radio silence): Yeah, but I really want to defend it next Friday, otherwise I’d lose a whole semester!!!1!11
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Regulations: The MA thesis must be submitted at least 30 days before the date of the defense.
Student (sending me their thesis 1 week before the end of the exam period, after months of total radio silence): Yeah, but I really want to defend it next Friday, otherwise I’d lose a whole semester!!!1!11
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✅ double-checking PhD review for a female candidate that I didn't fall into the gender bias trap #academicChatter #amReviewing #effortVsAccomplishment #skillVsGrindstone

Not one, not a single one, of the invoices for our summer school was just paid by the uni's finance admin. All without exception led to further inquiries and additional rounds back-and-forth before being cleared. Including the one asking for reimbursement for a jigsaw puzzle (priced 10 Euro 💰) which we did as a group activity (but needed checking whether it may have been a gift, and for whom?! #academicChatter #bigSigh #whatIsMyTimeWorth

And while I expect this case to get back on track (with just some delay), situations like this can potentially go downhill fast.
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And while I expect this case to get back on track (with just some delay), situations like this can potentially go downhill fast.
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