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Well, tomorrow I have a meeting with my boss to talk about prolonging my contract.

Right after I give a talk about how terrible the situation for #postdoc.s is (precarious work environment, high prevalence of mental health issues).

I can't decide whether the timing is great or terrible.

I made the talk with #Quarto, and uploaded it to #Github, so you can check it out at https://tsievert.com/au-section-08-2026/#/title-slide

First time I created slides in Quarto and first time I publish them

#AcademicChatter #PhDLife #PostdocLife #AcademicLife #earlyCareerAcademic #AcademicCareer

Whenever I learn about a new statistical method:

Do I know what I'm doing?
- Highly debatable

Do I hope for the best?
- 100%

It's not helping that I need to run things on an #HPC, so my failing forward is hogging resources.

I sincerely hope #Reviewer2 is not reading my toots, but at least the results look plausible.

#AcademicLife #PostdocLife #AcademicChatter #PhDLife #OverlyHonestMethods

Don't tell IT, but I just realized that my #rstats GAM/BAM only used a single core on the #HPC while I requested 128 🫣

Now I'm up to 4 cores at least, no idea why #mgcv isn't using more.

I didn't expect it to be this difficult to use more resources.

#PhDLife #AcademicChatter #PostDocLife #AcademicLife

Multitasking?
Of course I can multitask!
Look at me, waiting for my #rstats code to run and looking for new jobs, because my contract will end in 6 months and there hasn't been a clear commitment to prolong it, and drinking tea all at once!

#AcademicChatter #AcademicLife #PhDLife #PostDocLife #AcademicMastodon

It's only shortly past 8 in the morning, but I need to #vent.
I just overheard a new #tenure track assistant #professor talk about how they got there.
In a nutshell, they haven't left the department since their master studies and stumbled into the tenure process by accident.

I am (kinda) happy for them, but I am also so incredibly fucking jealous!

I have switched not only university but country after every degree/job, so by now I live in country number 5 since starting by studies.
The longest I've been in the same country was during my #PhD plus pandemic and unemployment for over a year.

Especially older #academics don't seem to understand this, because whenever I mention any of this I encounter completely blank stares. Note, I'm in a department where most senior staff is local and celebrating 15-35+ years at the same employer.

I'm in my mid-30, I don't want to move every few years when my temporary contract ends.
I want to be able to plan more than 1-2 years at a time.

I absolutely love doing #research, but I hate so many aspects of #academic culture or what has been normalized over the years for #AcademicLife.
I plan on staying in #academia despite of it.

#Rant over, time to calm down and sip my tea.

#PostDocLife #PhDLife #academicchatter #MyLifeAsAnAcademic #AcademicMastodon #tenuretrack

👨🏻‍🎓 Desejamos muito boa sorte ao Henrique Entratice, que vai defender a sua Tese de Doutoramento em Antropologia, "Sobreviver em Confinamento Museológico: Ritxòkós Ixỹbiòwa, Deiscência dos Arquivos, e Retomadas na Terra Indígena Xambioá", amanhã, 7 de Novembro.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/henrique-entratice-phd/

#Histodons #Anthropodons #Anthropology #Museums #IndigenousStudies #Brazil #Xambioá #Brasil #Antropologia #Museus #EstudosIndígenas #PhDLife #AcademicLife #VidaAcadémica #CiênciaPT

Good Morning #ISWC2025! Best way to start a conference day with a morning run in the park!

#semanticweb #running #academiclife #japan

Stranded in a K-Pop restaurant with Heiko Paulheim, talking about Korean Pop music, Death Metal and 1980s musical icons. #ISWC2025 in Nara, Japan.

#semanticweb #academiclife

A big thank you also to Stacey Paiva and her team at Nature Chemistry for their support and patience with me.

#CovalentInhibitor #DrugDiscovery #Proteomics #ChemicalProteomics #MassSpectrometry #Electrophiles #ProudPI #AcademicLife #NewPublication #Chemistry #ChemBio
(6/7)

At the initiative of #IN2PAST, the challenges of interdisciplinarity are being debated at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Ana Isabel Queiroz is one of the guest speakers: biologist, ethologist, landscape architect, historian?

#Histodons #AcademicLife #EnvironmentalHistory #EnviroHums #interdisciplinarity #VidaAcadémica #CiênciaPT #Interdisciplinaridade #HistóriaAmbiental #HumanidadesAmbientais

👩🏻‍🎓 E como não há duas sem três, hoje desejamos muito boa sorte à terceira doutoranda do IHC a fazer provas públicas de Doutoramento no mês de Junho.

Amanhã, 28 de Junho, Luísa Seixas defenderá a sua tese sobre história em comunidade em Portugal.

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/luisa-seixas-phd/

#Histodons #AcademicLife #PhDLife #History #PublicHistory #CitizenScience #HistóriaEmComunidade #HistóriaPública #CiênciaCidadã #VidaAcadémica

I am open for new ideas on how to decide the order of authorship for a collaborative research paper ;-)
#croquet #academicLife #science #research #authorship

🆕 Congratulations to Maria de Fátima Nunes, Vice-President of the IHC and Professor of History at the University of Évora, who was invited to be Corresponding Academic of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, in its Arts Class, History Section. 👏 👏 👏

@histodons

#histodons #AcademicLife #IHCNews #SciHist #HistoryOfScience

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/maria-fatima-nunes-lisbon-academy-sciences/

Do not read that video until you are done with your #deadline stuff...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WKhyRDWYzOU

#AcademicMastodon #AcademicLife #JWSTCycle2 #AstronomerLife #DeadlineMode

A colleague sent me this picture from the #climate session at the #American #Astrophysical #Society #AAS #AAS221 in #Seattle.

It seems astronomers in the US don't care about #ClimateChange #ClimatEmergency #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #sustainableResearch

Are you serious ??? 🙄

😭

#Astronomy #astronomerLife #AcademicLife

(okay, maybe everyone is attending remotely, which would be perfect, but I doubt)

Archive days are the best days. #bertrandrussell #writing #academiclife #peace #logic #principiamathematica