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

I just handed in my #PhDThesis. 🥳 Feels unreal. Over seven years of work summarized in 122 pages. The topic is:
Quantifying natural #CO2 emissions from mofettes at the Starzach site in Southwest Germany
#PhDLife

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 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