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Like waves against my
Waning sanity, Canvas
Crashes on and on.
#haiku #AcademicChatter

Anyone here has used both #Zotero and #Endnote?
If so, which one do you prefer (if we set aside the fact that one is non-profit and the other is an exploitative for-profit)? Like, on the features and ease of use only?

Two hours into the review that I was unable to do this morning due to admin urgencies, I'm happy to report that I’ve already filled out 2 of 5 sections of the review form (I don’t mean this sarcastically, this is a huge project that’s part of an even huger project, so this kind of review—which will also involve a panel meeting at the funder’s headquarters—is absolutely justified).
I guess I’m entitled to a dinner break…

Two hours into the review that I was unable to do this morning due to admin urgencies, I'm happy to report that I’ve already filled out 2 of 5 sections of the review form (I don’t mean this sarcastically, this is a huge project that’s part of an even huger project, so this kind of review—which will also involve a panel meeting at the funder’s headquarters—is absolutely justified).
I guess I’m entitled to a dinner break…

Two hours into the review that I was unable to do this morning due to admin urgencies, I'm happy to report that I’ve already filled out 2 of 5 sections of the review form (I don’t mean this sarcastically, this is a huge project that’s part of an even huger project, so this kind of review—which will also involve a panel meeting at the funder’s headquarters—is absolutely justified).
I guess I’m entitled to a dinner break…

Haha guess who has two thumbs and somehow agreed to give TWO extra lectures in the last week before the break 🤪 #academicChatter

We should go back to using typefaces by Roger Excoffon on the cover of proceedings.
#AcademicChatter #typography #DigitalHumanities

We should go back to using typefaces by Roger Excoffon on the cover of proceedings.
#AcademicChatter #typography #DigitalHumanities

We should go back to using typefaces by Roger Excoffon on the cover of proceedings.
#AcademicChatter #typography #DigitalHumanities

Alter, Reviewer 3... ich weiß, dass soll den Artikel nur verbessern, aber... Alter. Und Reviwer 1 und 2: sind vollständig zufrieden *chef kiss* #fürIhreUnterlagen #academicchatter

Managed to finish a bunch of annoying items on my to do list, including some long-ignored emails, but unfortunately tomorrow's 8am lecture was not among them yet /o\ #academicChatter

Here we are, the 10 minutes I wanted to invest 5 minutes ago into a rough first draft of the research school program end right now by stopping the timer after — checks #toggl — 1:41:54. D'oh!
#AcademicChatter

An evening discussing falling enrollment in #STEM courses at universities across Europe, especially traditional studies like chemistry, geology and meteorology. I wonder if young people are unaware of just how interesting #STEM careers to be? Or do they have the perception it's "too hard" compared to other subjects where easier grades may be had? Or is it simply they think they can have "better"* jobs in other fields?
#AcademicChatter
*Where better might mean higher paid, more prestigious, more certain of employment, or less workload or some combination of all of these... ?

I feel a bit out of the loop with hashtags at the moment.
Could someone enlighten me what the current general purpose and biology/animal science specific academic hashtags are?
Since guppee shut down, my feed feels quite empty.
And it took me far too long to even notice that 😅
#AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter ##PostdocLife #FediTip

Second PhD student has successfully defended this week! 😁 I guess my lab is in for a big renewal in the next year...
#academicChatter

Als jemand, der gerade Drittmittel-Anträge schreibt und Alternativideen für weitere Anträge sammelt, finde ich den Vorschlag sehr spannend. #academicchatter
https://www.jmwiarda.de/…

Reviewing a project proposal for a foreign funder. It’s a revised version of a proposal that I recommended for funding. So, the changes seek to address the issues identified by Reviewer 2. And now I hate it :-(
#AcademicChatter

Reviewing a project proposal for a foreign funder. It’s a revised version of a proposal that I recommended for funding. So, the changes seek to address the issues identified by Reviewer 2. And now I hate it :-(
#AcademicChatter

Reviewing a project proposal for a foreign funder. It’s a revised version of a proposal that I recommended for funding. So, the changes seek to address the issues identified by Reviewer 2. And now I hate it :-(
#AcademicChatter

Omg procrastination has paid off *again*: A presentation I haven't prepared for a workshop today was first significantly shortened (notification: yesterday), and this morning, the whole event has been canceled. I'll never change with this kind of positive reinforcement 😅 #academicChatter

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

Fascinating! Not even #Google's own product #GoogleScholar is setup correctly to show up properly in the search results.
#SEO #AcademicChatter #PhDLife

I know, I know, I should not send work-related messages after office hours. But sometimes I forget to schedule the delivery for “tomorrow at nine.”
But then, colleagues (yes, plural!) accepting meetings at 23:14, what’s wrong with YOU?
#AcademicChatter

Conundrum: Does one clap after a recorded welcome address from the uni president?! #academicChatter

Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
#AcademicChatter

Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
#AcademicChatter

Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
#AcademicChatter

Yesterday was my last day of this term's teaching Communication at the School of Engineering. So time to say good by to the little fellow living in TH547 and attending all lectures! He was there even on days none of the 33 students showed up
#AcademicChatter #TeachingElephant

Academia: turning "mixed signals" into a career #academicChatter

There should be a single character for "et al." Petition to reinterpret & #academicChatter

You know that you’re teaching in #Switzerland when you catch the majority of students running the live broadcast of today’s #ski competition in a separate window while doing learning tasks
#AcademicChatter

Why put effort into writing your thesis when you can put in the same amount of effort into making it look as if you had written it?
#AcademicChatter

Hey #AcademicChatter #MastoSci friends - are we doing the #AcWriMo thing in November this year? (#FediWrIMo? #MastoWriMo?
Other suggestions in the comments!
I will do #AcWriMo and post about it
I will not write but would like to follow the #
I will do it but not post about it
Show me the results.

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

Also Academia: Here, as a prize for doing such great work, have some more work! 🏅 #academicChatter

Diese woche viel Lehre gemacht. Eine Lektion für die PhD Studies, die ich auch erst recht spät gelernt habe, war: Wenn ihr eure Ergebnisse/Erkenntnisse präsentiert oder aufschreibt, dann tut das nicht biografisch. Meistens ist es egal wann oder in welcher Reihenfolge etwas getan oder entdeckt wurde. Mit "Storytelling" ist was anders gemeint. Und Schule bereitet niemanden darauf vor. #academicchatter

Unterricht heute unter dem Motto „Techniker ist informiert“
Beamer geht nicht, Hausdienst war schon da, next level „Ich hol die IT“
#AcademicChatter

20 minutes until my appointment, using the time to put the finishing touches on the assignment for this week…
#AcademicChatter #MechanicalKeyboard

20 minutes until my appointment, using the time to put the finishing touches on the assignment for this week…
#AcademicChatter #MechanicalKeyboard

Aktuell legen viele Beamte in Sachsen-Anhalt Widerspruch gegen ihre "evident unzureichende" Besoldung ein. Hier eine Info vom Ministerium:
#academicchatter

Scheduling yearly review meetings with the team (for January/February, 'cause December is wayyy to crowded for that) #academicChatter

20 minutes until my appointment, using the time to put the finishing touches on the assignment for this week…
#AcademicChatter #MechanicalKeyboard

Just finished and submitted my “preliminary statement” for the foreign funding agency. #Orgmode tells me that I’ve worked for 3:52 on this task, which means that my estimate (half a day) was pretty accurate…
#AcademicChatter

SNF (Switzerland) restrictions proposed: only 1 concurrent research grant per PI (plus maybe one coop), only 1 proposal per year.
🔥 Hot take (since I'm not at all operating like this currently): I actually think this might be a good idea? It would curb some of the biggest "research mills", where one PI has a huge pyramid scheme underneath them, and might encourage more careful grant proposals, slower science. And might even put more emphasis back into the basic research funding (instead of the grant lotteries)?
(Maybe naive, I know, and I have no idea how this would be implemented)
#academicChatter #researchGrants
https://www.snf.ch/de/7qymWfJMG1z9XR2S/news/einschraenkungen-in-der-projektfoerderung

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

No, Springernature, I will not review a manuscript in 10 days! 🤪 #academicChatter #sayNo #TanjaSagtNein

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

I get this mail about once a week now. Coming from some private e-mail address at hotmail, firemail, gmail, ... Subject: "Unsolicited application as Materials Scientist." or similar with different field (never maths) The senders are also different each time and the "values in the form" too, but the layout and text are always the same.
What is it? Too little variation for LLMs. It must be some software or service that markets sending this spam to people looking for jobs?
#academicchatter

I spent the day manually labeling frames for #DeepLabCut ( #MachineLearning model to track #animals in videos).
Incredibly mind-numbing, but hopefully my new model will be good enough to work through the terabytes of videos.
If the model can actually track up to 18 piglets, that would be amazing!
#AcademicChatter #AnimalBehavior #AnimalBehaviour

Spent my day ranting on Mastodon and helping teach applied statistics with #rstats to first year students.
I consider that a day well spent.
#PhDLife #PostdocLife #AcademicChatter

I just backed the #crowdfunding campaign for @…!
#OpenScience flavor and hope that it will find wide adoption and will make it easier to share papers and scientific discussions across the #Fediverse.
But also their communities idea sounds great. I would hope that it could replace these godforsaken Facebook groups. Yes, I am looking at you, local #TTRPG group!
#AcademicChatter

I recently met somebody actually working for #MDPI and before figuring that out, I was tricked by their partner into insult #MDPIgarbage.
Long story short, I consoled them that at least they weren't working for #Elsevier.
But they seemed really nice and extremely unhappy to be stuck with a terrible employer due to economic circumstances.
#AcademicChatter #PhDLife #PostDocLife

It's only shortly past 8 in the morning, but I need to #vent.
I just overheard a new #tenure track assistant #professor talk about how they got there.
In a nutshell, they haven't left the department since their master studies and stumbled into the tenure process by accident.
I am (kinda) happy for them, but I am also so incredibly fucking jealous!
I have switched not only university but country after every degree/job, so by now I live in country number 5 since starting by studies.
The longest I've been in the same country was during my #PhD plus pandemic and unemployment for over a year.
Especially older #academics don't seem to understand this, because whenever I mention any of this I encounter completely blank stares. Note, I'm in a department where most senior staff is local and celebrating 15-35 years at the same employer.
I'm in my mid-30, I don't want to move every few years when my temporary contract ends.
I want to be able to plan more than 1-2 years at a time.
I absolutely love doing #research, but I hate so many aspects of #academic culture or what has been normalized over the years for #AcademicLife.
I plan on staying in #academia despite of it.
#Rant over, time to calm down and sip my tea.
#PostDocLife #PhDLife #academicchatter #MyLifeAsAnAcademic #AcademicMastodon #tenuretrack