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TIL: to reimburse the travel costs of invited speakers, the university requires the indication of their marital status.
#AcademicChatter

TIL: to reimburse the travel costs of invited speakers, the university requires the indication of their marital status.
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TIL: to reimburse the travel costs of invited speakers, the university requires the indication of their marital status.
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Currently making some tutorials for our next hackathon - should I upload them to codeberg (and make the students use that)? Or github (where they almost certainly already have accounts)?
#DigitalSovereignty...
#AcademicChatter
Codeberg
Github
Something else (please comment)

Wow, look at the value added by a Journal formatting this article, that probably cost a couple of thousand € taxpayers money. #rant #academicchatter #sorry_not_sorry

If I find the paper super interesting, it's probably too complex to present to my intro class, huh? #academicChatter
(rhetorical question, I've been teaching for >20 years, no need for non-mutuals to help 😘 )

I'm acting chair again this week. I'm thinking of changing my signature to: "I'm not a chair, but I play one on email."
#academia #AcademicChatter

How do people get asked to write "perspectives" for a paper that is just getting out? Is it usually reviewers of said paper? Is it the editor who asks them about it? Can you invite a colleague to write something on your own paper?
#AcademicChatter

RE: #research freedom, as part of a democracy campaign on public transport 🇱🇺 ?
I'll take that, in any language!
#AntiScience #AcademicChatter @…

“I don’t understand the purpose of this course in the curriculum. What are we supposed to have learned or retained by the end?”
Yeah, good question. It’s not like I spent practically the entire first session explaining the course objectives.
#AcademicChatter

“I don’t understand the purpose of this course in the curriculum. What are we supposed to have learned or retained by the end?”
Yeah, good question. It’s not like I spent practically the entire first session explaining the course objectives.
#AcademicChatter

“I don’t understand the purpose of this course in the curriculum. What are we supposed to have learned or retained by the end?”
Yeah, good question. It’s not like I spent practically the entire first session explaining the course objectives.
#AcademicChatter

Same procedure as last week apparently..
#AcademicChatter.
#AmWriting

9pm. No YOU ask yourself how many slides YOU have ready for tomorrow's 8am class! 😠 #academicChatter

Spring term is over! At least the teaching part
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Currently having more fun teaching programming (*) to my student than working on my own analyses.. is it normal, doctor? 🤔
(*) well, Matlab
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A foreign funder just informed me that “the applicant has decided to withdraw the proposal from the competition. As a result, the review will unfortunately no longer be required. Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.”
I’m happy to assure you that this doesn't cause me any inconvenience.
#AcademicChatter

A foreign funder just informed me that “the applicant has decided to withdraw the proposal from the competition. As a result, the review will unfortunately no longer be required. Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.”
I’m happy to assure you that this doesn't cause me any inconvenience.
#AcademicChatter

A foreign funder just informed me that “the applicant has decided to withdraw the proposal from the competition. As a result, the review will unfortunately no longer be required. Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.”
I’m happy to assure you that this doesn't cause me any inconvenience.
#AcademicChatter

New international PhD student (starting tomorrow!) stopped by to sign their contract. I gave some intro into matters of bureaucracy (I always warn international people that we do love our forms here in Germany!). Stressed the importance of taking the official vacation days. Answer, without hesitation "oh yes, I'll be definitely taking those!" #academicChatter #theKidsAreAlright

It's amazing how bad I am at estimating how long simple tasks* will take.
I had a nearly finished manuscript. I just needed to tidy a few things in it and then upload for review
Two hours tops I told my family.
5.5 hours later...
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Yeah, sure SpringerNature.
BTW, I'm 'showcasing' my publications on my homepage. ALL of them, including those with serious publishers.
#academicchatter

The one single thing, in the last 15 years, that helped the most in organzing myself and structuring my scientific work was learning and using markdown.
No fancy tool or software solution, just some additional characters in a text file changed so much for me.
I was able to grasp it in a minute, saw the benefit after some weeks. Try it and give it time.
#academicchatter

omg how hard can it be to write 1000 characters?! #academicChatter

It's taken me most of the day, but I am finally down to fewer than 250 emails in my inbox. Loads of different tasks dealt with too - I guess I should go to bed now, but I also really need to finish this paper now...
#AcademicChatter

I’m done teaching for this semester, next semester, and the semester after that!
#AcademicChatter #sabbatical

I’m done teaching for this semester, next semester, and the semester after that!
#AcademicChatter #sabbatical

I’m done teaching for this semester, next semester, and the semester after that!
#AcademicChatter #sabbatical

That will be a first:
I wrote a contribution to a Festschrift for the retirement of the director of our school. To be published with deGruyter. Yes, I know, I know. But we also publish our textbook with them, so, OK. And it’s OA, at least
Last week the Contributor Terms Agreement came. WTAF! I deleted several phrases and whole paragraphs. Expecting either no reaction or forcing me to withdraw the article
1/2

RE: #Edinburgh Diamond...
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Tricks of the seasoned traveling academic: took a picture of my selection for the conference dinner before submitting 💡 #academicChatter

Offboarding meeting. New people joining means "old" people leaving... Great new opportunities for them but a little bit *sigh* for me #academicChatter

Worked late on a paper today: I have a target to submit 3 before June, which I have been working on in parallel. I sometimes wonder if it would be more efficient to do them one at a time. But much of my job is project work, usually several in parallel, so it's not always possible...
What do you do?
#AcademicChatter
Work in parallel
Work in series
Show me the results
Something else?

My very first sabbatical (a full year! 🤩) is starting to look real, so I'd better start making some plans. Any tips from fellow academics? Do's and Don't's? #academicChatter

“No paper is useless, it can still serve as bad example.” But it still cost me over 2 h, without counting the time discussing it with my PhD student—which was actually time well spent, as he learned something about reviewing.
#AcademicChatter #ReviewerDuty

“No paper is useless, it can still serve as bad example.” But it still cost me over 2 h, without counting the time discussing it with my PhD student—which was actually time well spent, as he learned something about reviewing.
#AcademicChatter #ReviewerDuty

“No paper is useless, it can still serve as bad example.” But it still cost me over 2 h, without counting the time discussing it with my PhD student—which was actually time well spent, as he learned something about reviewing.
#AcademicChatter #ReviewerDuty

Interesting piece on the fragmenting of digital identities in the sciences. I'm sure mine is scattered all over the place.
The key seems to be to keep your ORCID up to date. - and as a model, there are many similarities between ORCID and the fediverse,
"keep your ORCID profile up to date... it is controlled by the researcher, portable across institutions and designed to connect to publishers, funders and organizational systems... makes your ORCID page a stable reference point.."
#AcademicChatter
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04132-y?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202604

Last night I dreamt that the most conservative, old-fashioned, stickler-for-the-way-things-have-always-been colleague* did her evaluation of the candidates for our faculty opening entirely in emojis 🤪 Wild
*You know who that is in your department! #academicChatter

Another project proposal reviewed, another four hours of community service for a foreign funding agency, and, unfortunately, another bad proposal.
It’s frustrating having to recommend projects to be rejected, but hopefully the funder can use the money to support better projects.
#AcademicChatter

Another project proposal reviewed, another four hours of community service for a foreign funding agency, and, unfortunately, another bad proposal.
It’s frustrating having to recommend projects to be rejected, but hopefully the funder can use the money to support better projects.
#AcademicChatter

Another project proposal reviewed, another four hours of community service for a foreign funding agency, and, unfortunately, another bad proposal.
It’s frustrating having to recommend projects to be rejected, but hopefully the funder can use the money to support better projects.
#AcademicChatter

Interdisciplinary collaboration can be so eye-opening. I just heard a speaker say off-hand "Oh yeah, this is really new work, from 2017" 😅 I think my colleagues in #NLProc wouldn't even touch such historic sources #academicChatter

“We look forward to welcoming you to the conference tomorrow. Please upload your slides to …”
Bro, I haven’t even started yet!
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“We look forward to welcoming you to the conference tomorrow. Please upload your slides to …”
Bro, I haven’t even started yet!
#AcademicChatter

“We look forward to welcoming you to the conference tomorrow. Please upload your slides to …”
Bro, I haven’t even started yet!
#AcademicChatter

scary server upgrades are scary 🙈 #academicChatter

Greetings from week 9 to colleagues in Germany, who are only starting their semester today!
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Greetings from week 9 to colleagues in Germany, who are only starting their semester today!
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Greetings from week 9 to colleagues in Germany, who are only starting their semester today!
#AcademicChatter

😮‍💨 we have a plan for next semester's class and not a day too soon #academicChatter

Wenn die Studis nicht-verstandene #KI-Lösungen abgeben, dann gibt's null Punkte und eine Ansprache, aber wenn die Referees in ihrem Gutachten schreiben "... strengthens the mathematical reliability..." und "is both ... and ..." and jedes Substantiv hat genau zwei Adjektive in dieser "valuable and timely contribution".
Was dann??
#academicchatter

Someone in another country apparently gave their students the task to reproduce one of our studies but gave them no guidance on how to do it 😬 I'm really sorry, not-my-students but I can't give you individual tutoring on experimental methods, data analysis, Python and statistics this week. Sorry your prof sucks 🙃 #academicChatter

I've finally finished "Katabasis" and find it again eerily accurate when it comes to relationships in academia. Also, of course I'm biased because the main character is a linguist 🤩 I'm getting my dad, the philosopher, to read it to let me know what he thinks of the philosophy parts 😅 #darkAcademia #academicChatter

Academic publishers charge 36 Euros for a chapter from a book that is older than me (very close to 50 years old). I mean #academicChatter

Are you an MSc student looking for a thesis topic? Interested in Greenland/Antarctica atmosphere and ice sheet processes? Background in meteorology, geography, earth science or physics (or other quantitative discipline?
Then do I have the project for you...
I have just updated my list of open research ideas here:
#MScThesis #AcademicChatter #Greenland #Antarctica #ClimateChange #Meteorology #Wx #Glaciology #MachineLearning #ClimateModelling

First day of classes, forgot that the tram would be packed 😅
Happy start of summer term to students and faculty in Germany! #academicChatter

Another PhD student passed his defense today 🤩
A postdoc’s last day in our group 😭
A student RA has to decide if he can financially afford to keep working for us for a few months before his grant decision comes in 🫠
Big feels in the ever changing precarious academic “family” #academicChatter

Wenn man in der Uni einen Computer kaufen will, gibt es normalerweise Rahmenverträge und dann kann man einfach bestellen.
Aber weil wir jetzt alle MetaAI in WhatsApp brauchen sind Computer teuer und dann gilt der Rahmenvertrag natürlich nicht mehr weil nee, dann könnte ja jeder günstig kaufen, also nee.
(Hä, Kapitalismus... ?).
Jetzt führen wir wieder aufwendige Vergabeverfahren durch für einzelne Rechner.
Auch eine Folge von AI everywhere.
#academicchatter

A Wiley Journal in Analysis (!!) sent me a referee request for a paper whose title is so absurd that I guess it's slop. It asks me to write the review within 14 days. I'm not working in the area and don't understand the abstract at all.
So I think the whole editorial decision process is also slop?
The review invitation does contain a reminder that I'm not allowed to upload the manuscript to any LLM!
Now what? Decline?Just archive the e-mail without clicking on any links?
#academicchatter