#academiclife — Public Fediverse posts

🌳📝 So apparently, writing non-fiction is like channeling your inner Bob Ross and painting a happy little tree. 🤔 Just start with the trunk and voilà! And if all else fails, blame your professor for making your class the academic equivalent of drawing a stick figure. 🎨💼
https://devz.cl/posts/how-to-write/ #nonfictionwriting #creativeprocess #bobross #writingtips #academiclife #HackerNews #ngated

🌳📝 So apparently, writing non-fiction is like channeling your inner Bob Ross and painting a happy little tree. 🤔 Just start with the trunk and voilà! And if all else fails, blame your professor for making your class the academic equivalent of drawing a stick figure. 🎨💼
https://devz.cl/posts/how-to-write/ #nonfictionwriting #creativeprocess #bobross #writingtips #academiclife #HackerNews #ngated

🌳📝 So apparently, writing non-fiction is like channeling your inner Bob Ross and painting a happy little tree. 🤔 Just start with the trunk and voilà! And if all else fails, blame your professor for making your class the academic equivalent of drawing a stick figure. 🎨💼
https://devz.cl/posts/how-to-write/ #nonfictionwriting #creativeprocess #bobross #writingtips #academiclife #HackerNews #ngated

🌳📝 So apparently, writing non-fiction is like channeling your inner Bob Ross and painting a happy little tree. 🤔 Just start with the trunk and voilà! And if all else fails, blame your professor for making your class the academic equivalent of drawing a stick figure. 🎨💼
https://devz.cl/posts/how-to-write/ #nonfictionwriting #creativeprocess #bobross #writingtips #academiclife #HackerNews #ngated

🌳📝 So apparently, writing non-fiction is like channeling your inner Bob Ross and painting a happy little tree. 🤔 Just start with the trunk and voilà! And if all else fails, blame your professor for making your class the academic equivalent of drawing a stick figure. 🎨💼
https://devz.cl/posts/how-to-write/ #nonfictionwriting #creativeprocess #bobross #writingtips #academiclife #HackerNews #ngated

I'm very much looking forward to sharing this research and to the discussions that will follow. 🌿📜🎶

#UrbanCreativity #StreetArt #StreetPoetry #Haiku #LiteraryStudies #FanStudies #UrbanStudies #CulturalHeritage #ConferenceLife #AcademicLife #Research #Utrecht #JacobVanEyck #PublicHumanities

AI may accelerate some research tasks by an order of magnitude, but science is more than productivity.

Mentoring students, developing expertise and passing on scientific culture remain central to the research enterprise.

🔗 https://physics.aps.org/articles/v19/74

#AI #ScienceEducation #ResearchCulture #Physics #academiclife

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

The 2025 #IgNobelPrize in #Psychology went to Marcin Zajenkowski & Gilles Gignac for showing that simply telling people they’re intelligent can instantly boost their #narcissism. Even more ironic: those who got positive feedback trusted the “scientific validity” of the #IQ test much more:

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2021.101595

Just like in academia: we believe in the scientific truth of h-index, or Scopus, or GS, or even RG likes, depending on which one flatters us most.

#AcademicLife #Science

Fin de la réunion du comité des programmes de l'#IRAM. Deux jours intenses, pendant lesquels nous avons évalué environ 150 demandes de temps pour les observatoires #NOEMA, #IRAM30m et le #VLBI. Enormément de très bon projets, qui exploitent au mieux les capacités des ces instruments, qui sont par ailleurs en constante évolution. #academiclife #vismaviedescientifique

Fin de la réunion du comité des programmes de l'#IRAM. Deux jours intenses, pendant lesquels nous avons évalué environ 150 demandes de temps pour les observatoires #NOEMA, #IRAM30m et le #VLBI. Enormément de très bon projets, qui exploitent au mieux les capacités des ces instruments, qui sont par ailleurs en constante évolution. #academiclife #vismaviedescientifique

Fin de la réunion du comité des programmes de l'#IRAM. Deux jours intenses, pendant lesquels nous avons évalué environ 150 demandes de temps pour les observatoires #NOEMA, #IRAM30m et le #VLBI. Enormément de très bon projets, qui exploitent au mieux les capacités des ces instruments, qui sont par ailleurs en constante évolution. #academiclife #vismaviedescientifique

Fin de la réunion du comité des programmes de l'#IRAM. Deux jours intenses, pendant lesquels nous avons évalué environ 150 demandes de temps pour les observatoires #NOEMA, #IRAM30m et le #VLBI. Enormément de très bon projets, qui exploitent au mieux les capacités des ces instruments, qui sont par ailleurs en constante évolution. #academiclife #vismaviedescientifique

🆕 Congratulations to Joana Dias Pereira and Rui Henriques, who were awarded the 2023 António Sérgio Cooperation and Solidarity Prize, in the Lusophone Studies and Research Category, for their book on the history of mutualism in former Portuguese colonies. 🎊

👉 Full story on our website:
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/joana-dias-pereira-rui-henriques-antonio-sergio-prize/

@histodons

#Histodons #ResearchAwards #AcademicLife #Mutualism #Colonialism #SocialEconomy #SocialHistory #AwardWinningBooks #OpenAccess #Mutualismo #Colonialismo #HistóriaSocial

After a peaceful week away in the #blackmountains #wales the thought of returning to the bird app is anxiety inducing. Time to make some new #science friends here and start some new conversations about all things #ecology #agriculture #farming #academiclife #rstats and maybe some #sewing #knitting #mecfs #neisvoid thrown in for good measure