Tootfinder

RE: #AcademicChatter

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

New superpower unlocked: procrastinate until a solution suggests itself over night. I think I'll change my middle name to “Calvin”?
#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

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

Said goodbye to two people in my lab today: my first employee & (completed) PhD student our admin assistant 😢 all the emotions... 😭 🤩
That's another side of academic mobility - every few years a lab has to completely reinvent itself... that's tough #academicChatter

Yesterday, we talked with controlling about the budget of our unit for 2026. Acquisition of third party funding for this and that, balance, etc.
Each professorship has to get CHF 80'000 per year, it's part of the performance evaluation—of course we need way more to fund all members of the group
#AcademicChatter
1/n

Rapidly evolving budgetary conditions… The only thing we know is the direction: downwards.
#AcademicChatter

Rapidly evolving budgetary conditions… The only thing we know is the direction: downwards.
#AcademicChatter

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

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

Genuinely interested in any thoughts as to where to send it next. The subject is Antarctica and influences on observed ice sheet change
#academicchatter

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

Rapidly evolving budgetary conditions… The only thing we know is the direction: downwards.
#AcademicChatter

Just one more course, a Zoom call, a meeting with a prospective PhD student, and a thesis defense—and I'm already done for this week.
#AcademicChatter

Just one more course, a Zoom call, a meeting with a prospective PhD student, and a thesis defense—and I'm already done for this week.
#AcademicChatter

firsts: In a few minutes we're starting my first PhD defense as first supervisor 🤩 #academicChatter

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

Just one more course, a Zoom call, a meeting with a prospective PhD student, and a thesis defense—and I'm already done for this week.
#AcademicChatter

Started the semester with a delay of two weeks, but I think the first two courses today (“Computing in Context” and “Histoire de l’informatique”) went pretty well.
I’ve totally redesigned them and I’ll make use of index cards for in-class writing in both courses. Let’s see how this works out.
#AcademicChatter

Started the semester with a delay of two weeks, but I think the first two courses today (“Computing in Context” and “Histoire de l’informatique”) went pretty well.
I’ve totally redesigned them and I’ll make use of index cards for in-class writing in both courses. Let’s see how this works out.
#AcademicChatter

Started the semester with a delay of two weeks, but I think the first two courses today (“Computing in Context” and “Histoire de l’informatique”) went pretty well.
I’ve totally redesigned them and I’ll make use of index cards for in-class writing in both courses. Let’s see how this works out.
#AcademicChatter

Update after talking to the student office: The student had called the student office and then chose to ignore essentially everything they had been told; and then they basically lied to us about having officially submitted the thesis.
Good thing I don’t trust anyone anymore.
#AcademicChatter

Regulations: The MA thesis must be submitted at least 30 days before the date of the defense.
Student (sending me their thesis 1 week before the end of the exam period, after months of total radio silence): Yeah, but I really want to defend it next Friday, otherwise I’d lose a whole semester!!!1!11
#AcademicChatter

Update after talking to the student office: The student had called the student office and then chose to ignore essentially everything they had been told; and then they basically lied to us about having officially submitted the thesis.
Good thing I don’t trust anyone anymore.
#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

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

Regulations: The MA thesis must be submitted at least 30 days before the date of the defense.
Student (sending me their thesis 1 week before the end of the exam period, after months of total radio silence): Yeah, but I really want to defend it next Friday, otherwise I’d lose a whole semester!!!1!11
#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

Regulations: The MA thesis must be submitted at least 30 days before the date of the defense.
Student (sending me their thesis 1 week before the end of the exam period, after months of total radio silence): Yeah, but I really want to defend it next Friday, otherwise I’d lose a whole semester!!!1!11
#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

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

Two teaching sessions on GenAI today, introducing students to “automated text production with LLMs is just fast continuous predictive texting.” With the help of #SendungMitDerMaus
#AcademicChatter
1/2

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

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

me 👵: "Haven't you considered staying in science/academia?"
fantastic almost finished female PhD student, about to start an industry job 🤩: "Well, yes sure..."
👵: "But... ?"
🤩: "... but I don't want to be a professor"
👵: "..."
🤩: "... and I don't want to move town either"
👵: "ah"
#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

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…

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

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…

tfw profs are in charge of a dozen accounts but don't actually have any financial training 😬 #academicChatter

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…

Not one, not a single one, of the invoices for our summer school was just paid by the uni's finance admin. All without exception led to further inquiries and additional rounds back-and-forth before being cleared. Including the one asking for reimbursement for a jigsaw puzzle (priced 10 Euro 💰) which we did as a group activity (but needed checking whether it may have been a gift, and for whom?! #academicChatter #bigSigh #whatIsMyTimeWorth

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.

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

And while I expect this case to get back on track (with just some delay), situations like this can potentially go downhill fast.
#AcademicChatter

#amGrading, very important step: replace initial reactions (“blah blah blah!”) with professional wording (“vague”) #academicChatter

And while I expect this case to get back on track (with just some delay), situations like this can potentially go downhill fast.
#AcademicChatter

Mailed a few people: “Please provide input for subject A in this document [link] and for subject B in this document [link] in our shared SwitchDrive folder” (Yes, everyone involved has access to it!)
Resulting in my inbox exploding with reply-to-alls mixing both subjects, commenting on some of the ideas mentioned, lengthy praising of each other, etc.
What’s wrong with people?
#AcademicChatter