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

Unterricht heute unter dem Motto „Techniker ist informiert“
Beamer geht nicht, Hausdienst war schon da, next level „Ich hol die IT“
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20 minutes until my appointment, using the time to put the finishing touches on the assignment for this week…
#AcademicChatter #MechanicalKeyboard

20 minutes until my appointment, using the time to put the finishing touches on the assignment for this week…
#AcademicChatter #MechanicalKeyboard

20 minutes until my appointment, using the time to put the finishing touches on the assignment for this week…
#AcademicChatter #MechanicalKeyboard

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

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…
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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

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?

Haha guess who has two thumbs and somehow agreed to give TWO extra lectures in the last week before the break 🤪 #academicChatter

We should go back to using typefaces by Roger Excoffon on the cover of proceedings.
#AcademicChatter #typography #DigitalHumanities

We should go back to using typefaces by Roger Excoffon on the cover of proceedings.
#AcademicChatter #typography #DigitalHumanities

I 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?
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We should go back to using typefaces by Roger Excoffon on the cover of proceedings.
#AcademicChatter #typography #DigitalHumanities

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.
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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.
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Managed to finish a bunch of annoying items on my to do list, including some long-ignored emails, but unfortunately tomorrow's 8am lecture was not among them yet /o\ #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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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:
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Second PhD student has successfully defended this week! 😁 I guess my lab is in for a big renewal in the next year...
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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

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…

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…

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

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
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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…

Conundrum: Does one clap after a recorded welcome address from the uni president?! #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 :-(
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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 :-(
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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 :-(
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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"
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New superpower unlocked: procrastinate until a solution suggests itself over night. I think I'll change my middle name to “Calvin”?
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Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
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Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
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tfw profs are in charge of a dozen accounts but don't actually have any financial training 😬 #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…"
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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
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Academia: turning "mixed signals" into a career #academicChatter

There should be a single character for "et al." Petition to reinterpret & #academicChatter

Also Academia: Here, as a prize for doing such great work, have some more work! 🏅 #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
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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?
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Best kind of meeting 🤩 : Got to offer an excellent student a PhD position in an upcoming project 💪 That will be fantastic... #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