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@tschfflr@fediscience.org
2025-08-21 08:39:09

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

@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org
2025-09-13 09:09:01

New superpower unlocked: procrastinate until a solution suggests itself over night. I think I'll change my middle name to “Calvin”?
#AcademicChatter

Calvin and Hobbes discussing Calvin's progress on his project, there is none as one has to be in the right mood for creativity: last-minute-panic
@tschfflr@fediscience.org
2025-08-16 06:19:53

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

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-10-11 05:21:16

Just bundled up my interactive lab notebook system for an open-source release; it's just a panflute filter but has some cool functionality if you want to make little interactive tutorials that live as standalone static pages without any server app necessary beyond a basic host. You can check out an example here:
#AcademicChatter

@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2025-07-31 19:21:58

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...
#AcademicChatter #climate

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-09-03 13:10:52

Rapidly evolving budgetary conditions… The only thing we know is the direction: downwards.
#AcademicChatter

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-09-03 13:10:52

Rapidly evolving budgetary conditions… The only thing we know is the direction: downwards.
#AcademicChatter

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
2025-09-03 13:10:52

Rapidly evolving budgetary conditions… The only thing we know is the direction: downwards.
#AcademicChatter

@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org
2025-09-12 11:32:56

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
#AcademicChatter
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@tschfflr@fediscience.org
2025-10-14 09:09:36

Best kind of meeting 🤩 : Got to offer an excellent student a PhD position in an upcoming project 💪 That will be fantastic... #academicChatter

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2025-10-08 22:03:12

This is the first time a book I've contributed to has gotten the subway platform publicity treatment.
#histodons #Montréal #HigherEd

A wide-angle photo looking down a subway platform (Peel Station, Montreal metro). On the right are the tracks. On the left is a large ad for the book, "McGill in History."
A closeup photo of the ad for the book, "McGill in History" on the platform in Peel Station, métro de Montréal.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
2025-10-03 08:09:39

Just one more course, a Zoom call, a meeting with a prospective PhD student, and a thesis defense—and I'm already done for this week.
#AcademicChatter

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-10-03 08:09:39

Just one more course, a Zoom call, a meeting with a prospective PhD student, and a thesis defense—and I'm already done for this week.
#AcademicChatter

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-10-03 08:09:39

Just one more course, a Zoom call, a meeting with a prospective PhD student, and a thesis defense—and I'm already done for this week.
#AcademicChatter

@tschfflr@fediscience.org
2025-09-12 10:14:22

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

@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2025-08-25 06:29:11

Genuinely interested in any thoughts as to where to send it next. The subject is Antarctica and influences on observed ice sheet change
#academicchatter

@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org
2025-08-04 18:10:01

Workation, day one: headset fell apart
So, no online meetings for the next view weeks, I guess?
#AcademicChatter #AchievementOfTheDay

left hand holding a broken part of beat flexs
@tschfflr@fediscience.org
2025-10-10 08:52:52

Why learn good time management, when you can achieve the same with abject self-exploitation? #academicChatter

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
2025-10-02 16:41:19

Started the semester with a delay of two weeks, but I think the first two courses today (“Computing in Context” and “Histoire de l’informatique”) went pretty well.
I’ve totally redesigned them and I’ll make use of index cards for in-class writing in both courses. Let’s see how this works out.
#AcademicChatter

A heap of pink index cards with notes written by different students.
‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-10-02 16:41:19

Started the semester with a delay of two weeks, but I think the first two courses today (“Computing in Context” and “Histoire de l’informatique”) went pretty well.
I’ve totally redesigned them and I’ll make use of index cards for in-class writing in both courses. Let’s see how this works out.
#AcademicChatter

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-10-02 16:41:19

Started the semester with a delay of two weeks, but I think the first two courses today (“Computing in Context” and “Histoire de l’informatique”) went pretty well.
I’ve totally redesigned them and I’ll make use of index cards for in-class writing in both courses. Let’s see how this works out.
#AcademicChatter

@tschfflr@fediscience.org
2025-09-08 11:40:23

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

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-09-01 12:02:11

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.
#AcademicChatter

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-09-01 12:02:11

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.
#AcademicChatter

@volephd@fediscience.org
2025-09-12 06:31:45

I was yesterday's years old when I learned that applying for and accessing #HPC infrastructure directly via the #EU ( #EuroHPC_JU ) is, at least on paper, much easier than going via the national resources in #Denmark.
It's great, but figuring that out earlier could have saved me easily 3 months of writing emails and waiting.
#AcademicChatter #AcademicLife @…

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
2025-08-29 18:05:17

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
#AcademicChatter

@tschfflr@fediscience.org
2025-08-17 18:16:28

✅ double-checking PhD review for a female candidate that I didn't fall into the gender bias trap #academicChatter #amReviewing #effortVsAccomplishment #skillVsGrindstone

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-08-29 18:05:17

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
#AcademicChatter

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-08-29 18:05:17

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
#AcademicChatter

@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org
2025-09-22 17:43:14

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
#AcademicChatter
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@tschfflr@fediscience.org
2025-09-25 13:54:33

me 👵: "Haven't you considered staying in science/academia?"
fantastic almost finished female PhD student, about to start an industry job 🤩: "Well, yes sure..."
👵: "But... ?"
🤩: "... but I don't want to be a professor"
👵: "..."
🤩: "... and I don't want to move town either"
👵: "ah"
#academicChatter

@tschfflr@fediscience.org
2025-09-22 14:46:29

tfw profs are in charge of a dozen accounts but don't actually have any financial training 😬 #academicChatter

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-09-01 12:11:18

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

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-09-01 12:11:18

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

@tschfflr@fediscience.org
2025-08-25 13:43:11

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

@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org
2025-09-24 12:08:13

Mailed a few people: “Please provide input for subject A in this document [link] and for subject B in this document [link] in our shared SwitchDrive folder” (Yes, everyone involved has access to it!)
Resulting in my inbox exploding with reply-to-alls mixing both subjects, commenting on some of the ideas mentioned, lengthy praising of each other, etc.
What’s wrong with people?
#AcademicChatter