@brian_gettler@mas.toI'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.
#AcademicChatter #academia
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgSecond guessing myself bc Powerpoint is red-underlining the word "Linguistics" I mean thanks for digging into our known insecurities I guess? #lingusitics #linguistics #academicChatter
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgI 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
@a_j_millar@fediscience.orgRE: #UKRI funding for UK #research. "Change leadership", eh?
#AcademicChatter
@tschfflr@fediscience.org🎉 🤗 I'm welcoming a visiting student working on ✨emojis✨ this week in Bochum! 🤓 Can you tell we're excited?? #linguistics #emojis #academicChatter
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgWegen Fasnachtsmontag heute kein Unterricht. Sitze also mit imaginärem lustigen Hütchen auf am Schreibtisch und bereite Unterricht vor
#Montag #AcademicChatter
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgWhy 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
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.socialAls jemand, der gerade Drittmittel-Anträge schreibt und Alternativideen für weitere Anträge sammelt, finde ich den Vorschlag sehr spannend. #academicchatter
https://www.jmwiarda.de/…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org20 minutes until my appointment, using the time to put the finishing touches on the assignment for this week…
#AcademicChatter #MechanicalKeyboard
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org20 minutes until my appointment, using the time to put the finishing touches on the assignment for this week…
#AcademicChatter #MechanicalKeyboard
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgOn 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 😮💨
#AcademicChatter
@tschfflr@fediscience.org7 meetings since 10am 😓 oof
I feel a little brained out #academicChatter
@brian_gettler@mas.to"God Save the Dean"
Where are Johnny and
Sid? They've gone to school. All we
Hear is "No future."
#haiku #AcademicChatter #HigherEd
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org20 minutes until my appointment, using the time to put the finishing touches on the assignment for this week…
#AcademicChatter #MechanicalKeyboard
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgI 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
@tomkalei@machteburch.socialI discovered a new type of spam: Amalfi Coast Hiking Spam for Professors!
"bring to your attention a matter that is anything but trivial: that of well-deserved summer holidays".
#academicchatter
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.orgFYI, 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
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgToday I met with a student who will visit my lab in a few weeks, and students are just the best! 🤩 One such meeting makes the whole week worthwhile #academicChatter
@brian_gettler@mas.toLike waves against my
Waning sanity, Canvas
Crashes on and on.
#haiku #AcademicChatter
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgMeeting planning, emails (generating further meetings). Monday morning as usual #academicChatter
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgYesterday 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
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.orgFYI, 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
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgScheduling yearly review meetings with the team (for January/February, 'cause December is wayyy to crowded for that) #academicChatter
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgToday 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!
#AcademicChatter
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgSNF (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
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgNo, Springernature, I will not review a manuscript in 10 days! 🤪 #academicChatter #sayNo #TanjaSagtNein
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgOne 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
#academicChatter
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgWow it took exactly one day back at work to be already behind 🙃 #academicChatter
@tomkalei@machteburch.socialAktuell legen viele Beamte in Sachsen-Anhalt Widerspruch gegen ihre "evident unzureichende" Besoldung ein. Hier eine Info vom Ministerium:
#academicchatter
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgAnother meeting about how to manage/facilitate/moderate students' use of "AI" 🥱 #academicChatter
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgBei 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
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgI was on vacation the last two and a half weeks and I did NOT do any work, not even a little bit, for 14 days. Not finishing a paper, not grading, no grant applications, no reviews. This is what it was like and it was glorious. Special thanks to my parents-in-law for the all-inclusive pampering #academicChatter #break
@tomkalei@machteburch.socialI 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
