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reading job applications #academicChatter

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

Own up fellow academics, in how many publications are *YOU* currently the bottleneck?! #academicChatter #poll
0 😇
1 😊
2-3 😬
>3 🙈🙉

Wegen Fasnachtsmontag heute kein Unterricht. Sitze also mit imaginärem lustigen Hütchen auf am Schreibtisch und bereite Unterricht vor
#Montag #AcademicChatter

What's that called, when you feel less and less motivated to dive into your bigger and bigger email inbox (knowing what terrors lie within)? #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.
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Pro tip: don't give the office next to the elevators to the faculty member who no one has seen on campus for the better part of a decade. And, if the movers just dumped his stuff in the middle of the office, say in 2018, it's not too late to have someone put it away or at least hang a curtain over the window from the hall.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anyone know of good articles on solipsism in games, especially with regards to game engine design and level design? Feels so obvious someone must have written on this before but Google scholar is not coming up with a lot.
(boosts appreciated)
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The itemization of student term papers. #AcademicChatter

Writing my to do list at 245km/h, only on #DB 🚄 #academicChatter

On the second day of this brandnew spring term, I got two grant propsals rejected 🙅‍♀️ 🙅‍♀️
There’s only one good thing—it’s not the start of a Fibonacci series of rejections as I couldn’t output so many applications in the first place. Phew 😮‍💨
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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

Kenne ich jemanden, der mir eine Paper aus der Zeitung #Allergologie (ISSN: 0344-5062) aus 2024 schicken kann?
#CanIHazPaper #followerpower

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!
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Suggestion for research papers:
(only half-joking.. I hate stats)
#AcademicChatter #Statistics

I'm worried that if I don't come up with some batshit or vaguely antisocial behavior quick, they're going to make me take on more consequential admin work. The bar for appointment as chair really is wildly low.
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First class of the new semester! Always very exciting #academicChatter

FYI, there's still time to register for this Thursday's #DefendResearch webinar with
PEN America
to learn about what's going on with academic #censorship and what we can do about it

Prevented from reading (for fun) by having to read (for work) 😔 #academicChatter

Today between teaching sessions: students exchange what they stream, hockey or curling?
S1: But you’re Swiss, you need to watch hockey!
S2: But in curling we still have options!
S1:
S2: I mean, the women have options in both 😁
S1: 😐
S2: Honestly, curling is more exciting, the Swiss Women team will win hockey anyway
S1: But yoy need to stream hockey!
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It’s literally part of my job to review proposals, but this doesn’t mean that I don’t have better things to do.
Especially when someone writes in the very last paragraph, “btw, I don’t actually want a professorship, because that would limit my freedom to do what I want.”
Well then, do what you want, but stop wasting my and other reviewers’ time!
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It’s literally part of my job to review proposals, but this doesn’t mean that I don’t have better things to do.
Especially when someone writes in the very last paragraph, “btw, I don’t actually want a professorship, because that would limit my freedom to do what I want.”
Well then, do what you want, but stop wasting my and other reviewers’ time!
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If you’re about to submit a paper to an established (!) conference, please not only read the call for papers—yes, READ it—but have a look at previous proceedings. Please!
“But I spent so much time writing this” doesn’t make a paper fit the scope
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😮‍💨 we have a plan for next semester's class and not a day too soon #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?
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FYI, there's still time to register for this Thursday's #DefendResearch webinar with
PEN America
to learn about what's going on with academic #censorship and what we can do about it

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

🕦 11:35, 3/5 meetings of the day done, lunch sandwich already eaten 😭 rest of Monday still ahead... #stress #academicChatter

Just proofread a paper which contains a sentence to be hopefully cited over and over. You get it here first:
“Which would be a good thing, if true.” (Mahlow 2026, p. 6)
The paper will appear in late summer, I hope
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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

How hung up can one be on writing 2 pages /o\ #academicChatter

One time a student* told me if I didn’t correct his homework and let him write the exam, I would hear from his dad’s lawyers. - But that’s not a threat, he’s just informing me
* _exmatriculated_ student, who had already failed out of the program
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Bei kleinen Inkonsistenzen bei den Literaturverzeichnissen/Referenzen, würdet ihr inzwischen direkt mit Betrugsversuch durchfallen lassen? (Titel und Journal passen nicht zusammen, Jahreszahl im Text und im Verz. ist unterschiedlich, etc.)
Oder bin ich zu empfindlich weil ich schon zuviel Slop lesen musste? #academicChatter #lehre #hausarbeiten

I very briefly feared that the number of printed exams wouldn’t suffice 😱 But it turns out German students are reliable when it comes to not showing up for exams phew
And only 1 copy printed in vain! 🌱 #academicchatter

Second guessing myself bc Powerpoint is red-underlining the word "Linguistics" I mean thanks for digging into our known insecurities I guess? #lingusitics #linguistics #academicChatter

surely a project that starts with converting a python script from 2 to 3 cannot go wrong #academicChatter

oof three people just spent two hours finding affordable accommodation near the conference site (~ adhering to the university guidelines). I wonder how much *that* cost #academicChatter

Sometimes I miss the old Twitter, where I was connected not only with all of you lovely people, but also dozens/hundreds of my colleagues... we even used to have real discussions about work there, once upon a time #academicChatter

🎉 🤗 I'm welcoming a visiting student working on ✨emojis✨ this week in Bochum! 🤓 Can you tell we're excited?? #linguistics #emojis #academicChatter

Fantastic 2.5 year postdoc working on 🤩emojis🤩 ! Are you a #linguist with experience in running experiments in formal semantics & pragmatics? Please come join our lab and the @… visual communication research cluster!
Apply by April 28 - or contact me with questions. #emojis #linguistics #job @… #academicChatter
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f5001c40d914e7ce325557bfe526aa88415f75bb0