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Everything (well, not actually, there is so much more) wrong about German university hiring in one picture:
- PhD position advertised with 65% pay of TV-L FU (i.e. 100% are probably 4.188,38 €/month)
- PostDoc advertised with 50% of the same bracket. Yes, lower than the PhD position
- Postdoc advertised with 100% of the same bracket

To be fair, the PhD position and the 100% #PostDoc are in the same institute, and the 65% PostDoc is in a different one, but all three are in the same faculty.

And technically 50% and 65% would mean that it's also fewer working hours....but let's be real, that does not actually apply here in reality.

#FUBerlin #IchBinHanna #AcademicChatter #PhDLife #PostDocLife

Once more - Tilburg university campus in the summer! #tilburg #Netherlands #academicchatter

Can anyone suggest an alternative to #LanguageTool? They are making their browser extension available to Premium users only due to the cost of #genAI (https://languagetool.org/webextension/premium-announcement?type=background_tab&utm_campaign=addon2-trial-page)

It seems not having the bloody genAI is not an option, and I was finding it annoying anyway.

#academicChatter #alternative #spellchecker ​

@YoMosEco @Louzula

Do you know this situation? You read a paper, maybe several times, you even take notes or write a summary, but a few weeks later you don't remember anything. If this sounds familiar, then here's a little gem from yesterday's discussion with Meike Wittmann about learning strategies and knowledge management. Because, you know, #memory is the mother of #inspiration! 😉

https://ncase.me/remember/

#LunchBoxModels
#AcademicChatter

Thanks KKFI 90.1 FM for the interview! We talked about #AcademicAbuse and my debut book, The Burn List: A Memoir of Abuse from Home to Higher Education. buff.ly/LYXdHhL 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

THE BURN LIST: THE CONSEQUENCE...

I once attended a workshop at a prestigious university in Berlin for women interested in becoming a professor. They told us to wear glasses to appear more competent. How about we burn the patriarchy instead?
#AcademicChatter #ProfLife

To be fair, many of these people may be insecure about their English, which I get. But we should be able to have live talks in e.g. Chinese with automated real-time subtitling / supertitling already. I think it's time for this both online and in person. #AAMAS #academicChatter

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qw3rlslzugmkitgpr5p4nned/post/3mmtqgple6v2g

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

🤝 Discover why upgrading to OJS 3.5 is an important step for journal stability, security, and workflow efficiency.
This presentation by the @PublicKnowledgeProject and Crossref will familiarize you with key improvements and changes to OJS with the release of version 3.5, the latest version of OJS slated for a long-term support designation this summer.
https://bit.ly/4ab9baF

#OpenJournalSystems #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter #Metadata #JournalEditors

🤝 Discover why upgrading to OJS 3.5 is an important step for journal stability, security, and workflow efficiency.
This presentation by the @PublicKnowledgeProject and Crossref will familiarize you with key improvements and changes to OJS with the release of version 3.5, the latest version of OJS slated for a long-term support designation this summer.
https://bit.ly/4ab9baF

#OpenJournalSystems #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter #Metadata #JournalEditors

🤝 Discover why upgrading to OJS 3.5 is an important step for journal stability, security, and workflow efficiency.
This presentation by the @PublicKnowledgeProject and Crossref will familiarize you with key improvements and changes to OJS with the release of version 3.5, the latest version of OJS slated for a long-term support designation this summer.
https://bit.ly/4ab9baF

#OpenJournalSystems #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter #Metadata #JournalEditors

🤝 Discover why upgrading to OJS 3.5 is an important step for journal stability, security, and workflow efficiency.
This presentation by the @PublicKnowledgeProject and Crossref will familiarize you with key improvements and changes to OJS with the release of version 3.5, the latest version of OJS slated for a long-term support designation this summer.
https://bit.ly/4ab9baF

#OpenJournalSystems #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter #Metadata #JournalEditors

🤝 Discover why upgrading to OJS 3.5 is an important step for journal stability, security, and workflow efficiency.
This presentation by the @PublicKnowledgeProject and Crossref will familiarize you with key improvements and changes to OJS with the release of version 3.5, the latest version of OJS slated for a long-term support designation this summer.
https://bit.ly/4ab9baF

#OpenJournalSystems #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter #Metadata #JournalEditors

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Just received my Spring course evaluations for a seminar on "Computer & Information Ethics" which was cross-listed between #ComputerScience #Informatics #Anthropology and #Sociology - I was a bit concerned 5mo ago when I started because of how the world is right now and how anti-ethics in tech are being sold & shoved down people's throats. How would students respond to a "tech" class on human rights, cross-cultural expressions of safety, deeply critical deconstructions of the way money and political power influence our tools?

I should have had more faith.

The kids are alright.

1: "I took an "equivalent" course at another university and they didn't actually teach me anything about ethics. I actually feel like this course challenged me to hold myself to a little bit higher of a standard as I prepare to enter the workforce."

2. "He designed a spectacular, challenging, and well prepared course. Dr. Wells is one of the few teachers I've had where I can't complain about anything they have done. Genuinely give this guy a medal or something."

3. "It felt like the class was more about actually learning and thinking critically and less on harsh grading, which I enjoyed. I found myself even talking to friends and family about the topics I learned and I also spent time researching and learning more about certain topics because I felt as if I was able to enjoy the class and not specifically worry about passing a test."

#highered #academicchatter

1/n (Book list follows ...)
Just received my Spring course evaluations for a seminar on "Computer & Information Ethics" which was cross-listed between #ComputerScience #Informatics #Anthropology and #Sociology - I was a bit concerned 5mo ago when I started because of how the world is right now and how anti-ethics in tech are being sold & shoved down people's throats. How would students respond to a "tech" class on human rights, cross-cultural expressions of safety, deeply critical deconstructions of the way money and political power influence our tools?

I should have had more faith.

The kids are alright.

1: "I took an "equivalent" course at another university and they didn't actually teach me anything about ethics. I actually feel like this course challenged me to hold myself to a little bit higher of a standard as I prepare to enter the workforce."

2. "He designed a spectacular, challenging, and well prepared course. Dr. Wells is one of the few teachers I've had where I can't complain about anything they have done. Genuinely give this guy a medal or something."

3. "It felt like the class was more about actually learning and thinking critically and less on harsh grading, which I enjoyed. I found myself even talking to friends and family about the topics I learned and I also spent time researching and learning more about certain topics because I felt as if I was able to enjoy the class and not specifically worry about passing a test."

#highered #academicchatter

1/n (Book list follows ...)
Just received my Spring course evaluations for a seminar on "Computer & Information Ethics" which was cross-listed between #ComputerScience #Informatics #Anthropology and #Sociology - I was a bit concerned 5mo ago when I started because of how the world is right now and how anti-ethics in tech are being sold & shoved down people's throats. How would students respond to a "tech" class on human rights, cross-cultural expressions of safety, deeply critical deconstructions of the way money and political power influence our tools?

I should have had more faith.

The kids are alright.

1: "I took an "equivalent" course at another university and they didn't actually teach me anything about ethics. I actually feel like this course challenged me to hold myself to a little bit higher of a standard as I prepare to enter the workforce."

2. "He designed a spectacular, challenging, and well prepared course. Dr. Wells is one of the few teachers I've had where I can't complain about anything they have done. Genuinely give this guy a medal or something."

3. "It felt like the class was more about actually learning and thinking critically and less on harsh grading, which I enjoyed. I found myself even talking to friends and family about the topics I learned and I also spent time researching and learning more about certain topics because I felt as if I was able to enjoy the class and not specifically worry about passing a test."

#highered #academicchatter

1/n (Book list follows ...)
Just received my Spring course evaluations for a seminar on "Computer & Information Ethics" which was cross-listed between #ComputerScience #Informatics #Anthropology and #Sociology - I was a bit concerned 5mo ago when I started because of how the world is right now and how anti-ethics in tech are being sold & shoved down people's throats. How would students respond to a "tech" class on human rights, cross-cultural expressions of safety, deeply critical deconstructions of the way money and political power influence our tools?

I should have had more faith.

The kids are alright.

1: "I took an "equivalent" course at another university and they didn't actually teach me anything about ethics. I actually feel like this course challenged me to hold myself to a little bit higher of a standard as I prepare to enter the workforce."

2. "He designed a spectacular, challenging, and well prepared course. Dr. Wells is one of the few teachers I've had where I can't complain about anything they have done. Genuinely give this guy a medal or something."

3. "It felt like the class was more about actually learning and thinking critically and less on harsh grading, which I enjoyed. I found myself even talking to friends and family about the topics I learned and I also spent time researching and learning more about certain topics because I felt as if I was able to enjoy the class and not specifically worry about passing a test."

#highered #academicchatter

1/n (Book list follows ...)
Just received my Spring course evaluations for a seminar on "Computer & Information Ethics" which was cross-listed between #ComputerScience #Informatics #Anthropology and #Sociology - I was a bit concerned 5mo ago when I started because of how the world is right now and how anti-ethics in tech are being sold & shoved down people's throats. How would students respond to a "tech" class on human rights, cross-cultural expressions of safety, deeply critical deconstructions of the way money and political power influence our tools?

I should have had more faith.

The kids are alright.

1: "I took an "equivalent" course at another university and they didn't actually teach me anything about ethics. I actually feel like this course challenged me to hold myself to a little bit higher of a standard as I prepare to enter the workforce."

2. "He designed a spectacular, challenging, and well prepared course. Dr. Wells is one of the few teachers I've had where I can't complain about anything they have done. Genuinely give this guy a medal or something."

3. "It felt like the class was more about actually learning and thinking critically and less on harsh grading, which I enjoyed. I found myself even talking to friends and family about the topics I learned and I also spent time researching and learning more about certain topics because I felt as if I was able to enjoy the class and not specifically worry about passing a test."

#highered #academicchatter

The Path to #DoubleBlind #TitleIX 1: anonymous complaint pathways 2: prohibit NDAs 3: keep retaliation and bias out of investigating with #DoubleBlindTitleIX Start here: buff.ly/vcwI9nY 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

The Path to #DoubleBlind #TitleIX 1: anonymous complaint pathways 2: prohibit NDAs 3: keep retaliation and bias out of investigating with #DoubleBlindTitleIX Start here: buff.ly/vcwI9nY 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

The Path to #DoubleBlind #TitleIX 1: anonymous complaint pathways 2: prohibit NDAs 3: keep retaliation and bias out of investigating with #DoubleBlindTitleIX Start here: buff.ly/vcwI9nY 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

The Path to #DoubleBlind #TitleIX 1: anonymous complaint pathways 2: prohibit NDAs 3: keep retaliation and bias out of investigating with #DoubleBlindTitleIX Start here: buff.ly/vcwI9nY 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

The Path to #DoubleBlind #TitleIX 1: anonymous complaint pathways 2: prohibit NDAs 3: keep retaliation and bias out of investigating with #DoubleBlindTitleIX Start here: buff.ly/vcwI9nY 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

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

#AcademicChatter #sabbatical

Academics dreaming on social media about their working conditions in the #heat: well-dressed, in a park, taking shelter from the sun with an umbrella, leaning on a fruit basket placed on a table. And also a fountain decorated with putto pouring cool water to keep going and stay sane #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

After getting feedback from academics on an online, course I started running with an idea for a feedback model.

I don't think it's perfect, but it captures the frustration of getting a lot of vague things to consider, or very specific things that don't mean anything, vs "I can see how that would improve the work, I *want* to do that!"

#AcademicChatter

Identify at least two obvious fails in this infographic
no hints, this is to easy

#Dataviz #Graphics #Graphicdesign #Science #academicchatter

source
https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/05/26/will-scotland-be-ambitious-scottish-parliament-to-debate-an-independence-referendum/

Identify at least two obvious fails in this infographic
no hints, this is to easy

#Dataviz #Graphics #Graphicdesign #Science #academicchatter

source
https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/05/26/will-scotland-be-ambitious-scottish-parliament-to-debate-an-independence-referendum/

Identify at least two obvious fails in this infographic
no hints, this is to easy

#Dataviz #Graphics #Graphicdesign #Science #academicchatter

source
https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/05/26/will-scotland-be-ambitious-scottish-parliament-to-debate-an-independence-referendum/

Identify at least two obvious fails in this infographic
no hints, this is to easy

#Dataviz #Graphics #Graphicdesign #Science #academicchatter

source
https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/05/26/will-scotland-be-ambitious-scottish-parliament-to-debate-an-independence-referendum/

Identify at least two obvious fails in this infographic
no hints, this is to easy

#Dataviz #Graphics #Graphicdesign #Science #academicchatter

source
https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/05/26/will-scotland-be-ambitious-scottish-parliament-to-debate-an-independence-referendum/

#Stomata, which are the pores on the leaf surface which regulate CO2 coming into the leaf, but also the amount of water vapour lost (transpiration), react relatively slowly to environmental changes. One of my PhD students just got his first paper out, showing for beech that shade adapted leaves are more responsive to changes in light. This has consequences for shaded leaves in the canopy of forest : more responsive stomata have a more efficient CO2 uptake and thus #Photosynthesis. Plants under drought were also more responsive, reducing their amount of water lost by transpiration and increasing thereby their #WaterUseEfficiency.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ppl.70856
#AcademicChatter #ClimateChange
#Drought #Forests #Trees #Stomata #PlantPhysiology

#Stomata, which are the pores on the leaf surface which regulate CO2 coming into the leaf, but also the amount of water vapour lost (transpiration), react relatively slowly to environmental changes. One of my PhD students just got his first paper out, showing for beech that shade adapted leaves are more responsive to changes in light. This has consequences for shaded leaves in the canopy of forest : more responsive stomata have a more efficient CO2 uptake and thus #Photosynthesis. Plants under drought were also more responsive, reducing their amount of water lost by transpiration and increasing thereby their #WaterUseEfficiency.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ppl.70856
#AcademicChatter #ClimateChange
#Drought #Forests #Trees #Stomata #PlantPhysiology

#Stomata, which are the pores on the leaf surface which regulate CO2 coming into the leaf, but also the amount of water vapour lost (transpiration), react relatively slowly to environmental changes. One of my PhD students just got his first paper out, showing for beech that shade adapted leaves are more responsive to changes in light. This has consequences for shaded leaves in the canopy of forest : more responsive stomata have a more efficient CO2 uptake and thus #Photosynthesis. Plants under drought were also more responsive, reducing their amount of water lost by transpiration and increasing thereby their #WaterUseEfficiency.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ppl.70856
#AcademicChatter #ClimateChange
#Drought #Forests #Trees #Stomata #PlantPhysiology

#Stomata, which are the pores on the leaf surface which regulate CO2 coming into the leaf, but also the amount of water vapour lost (transpiration), react relatively slowly to environmental changes. One of my PhD students just got his first paper out, showing for beech that shade adapted leaves are more responsive to changes in light. This has consequences for shaded leaves in the canopy of forest : more responsive stomata have a more efficient CO2 uptake and thus #Photosynthesis. Plants under drought were also more responsive, reducing their amount of water lost by transpiration and increasing thereby their #WaterUseEfficiency.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ppl.70856
#AcademicChatter #ClimateChange
#Drought #Forests #Trees #Stomata #PlantPhysiology

#Stomata, which are the pores on the leaf surface which regulate CO2 coming into the leaf, but also the amount of water vapour lost (transpiration), react relatively slowly to environmental changes. One of my PhD students just got his first paper out, showing for beech that shade adapted leaves are more responsive to changes in light. This has consequences for shaded leaves in the canopy of forest : more responsive stomata have a more efficient CO2 uptake and thus #Photosynthesis. Plants under drought were also more responsive, reducing their amount of water lost by transpiration and increasing thereby their #WaterUseEfficiency.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ppl.70856
#AcademicChatter #ClimateChange
#Drought #Forests #Trees #Stomata #PlantPhysiology

It doesn't actually matter if you're thinking of switching jobs or not; in research, you always need to have an updated CV handy. Be it for grants, projects, awards, being presented at seminars, or even just to remind HR what you did.
#AcademicChatter

Even in 2008 and 2009 #ClimateChange had already impacted growth trends in forest trees : based on 44 studies of temperate and boreal #forests Sergeant et al have shown that already in 2008, many EU forests showed negative growth trends, whereas before growth trends were stable. The good news is that drought tolerant species were less impacted.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geb.70239
#DroughtStress
#AcademicChatter

@kaiarzheimer I have had the chance to test several of the scientific publications based AIs last year. Don't know if they are any better now, but for the test I did, within my discipline, the results were at best mediocre. The summaries for general overview were not bad, but clearly more often than not, based on marginal rather than seminal papers. For more specialized requests, the results went from mediocre to off-topic and wrong.
One of the problems is that there areany words in science that are used in different disciplines. And AIs don't know this. Consider for example a simple word such as "tree" ....
#AcademicChatter

Good point on the use of #genAI in academic work: LLMs are quite good at summarising, but even when they surface real & relevant references, they compound a long-standing problem #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/05/19/the-matthew-effect-in-ai-summary/

🤦‍♀️Ok, important writing tip for research papers: don't tell us that your research is important and novel, show us it's important and novel!
Establish what is known (or unknown) and show how the work changes that landscape.
#AcademicChatter #AcademicWriting

#ShadowSyllabus: the informal body of stories, warnings, and survival strategies passed between students across cohorts. 🪜🎓📜🍎♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

#ShadowSyllabus: the informal body of stories, warnings, and survival strategies passed between students across cohorts. 🪜🎓📜🍎♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

#ShadowSyllabus: the informal body of stories, warnings, and survival strategies passed between students across cohorts. 🪜🎓📜🍎♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

#ShadowSyllabus: the informal body of stories, warnings, and survival strategies passed between students across cohorts. 🪜🎓📜🍎♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

#ShadowSyllabus: the informal body of stories, warnings, and survival strategies passed between students across cohorts. 🪜🎓📜🍎♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

So, just for general information, one reason that there are less single author publications in some fields nowadays is that we started crediting (and including in the writing) students, research assistants, local experts/guides, and the rest of the people who did most of the work.
(This post was brought to you by yet another story I ran into about some guy in the 1980s who employed multiple students and PhDs to do all the work and then excluded them from the publication)

#AcademicChatter

For the people still inside the university who miss the part of themselves college erased. This is for you too. buff.ly/wuDf8vr #RecoveringAcademic 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

Academic Recovery Workbook | A...