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Sunday afternoon at the kitchen counter. Two lectures to build and one set of exercises to grade, both landing Thursday.
Four hours. No student ever sees this part, and there is no line in my contract that describes it.
It is just what Wednesday costs.
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Sunday afternoon at the kitchen counter. Two lectures to build and one set of exercises to grade, both landing Thursday.
Four hours. No student ever sees this part, and there is no line in my contract that describes it.
It is just what Wednesday costs.
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Sunday afternoon at the kitchen counter. Two lectures to build and one set of exercises to grade, both landing Thursday.
Four hours. No student ever sees this part, and there is no line in my contract that describes it.
It is just what Wednesday costs.
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Sunday afternoon at the kitchen counter. Two lectures to build and one set of exercises to grade, both landing Thursday.
Four hours. No student ever sees this part, and there is no line in my contract that describes it.
It is just what Wednesday costs.
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📚 Fifteen years of my personal BibTeX database!
Fifteen years ago, I started keeping my own BibTeX database — just a plain text file edited manually, line by line.
Later I switched to JabRef, and everything became much smoother!Over the years, the database has grown to almost 2,000 entries — and it’s no longer just a list of references, but a snapshot of the knowledge I’ve interacted with.
Because I always fill in the Abstract field, full-text search now lets me literally “remember everything.”Among all my long-term “personal productivity” projects, this one has turned out to be the most valuable.
#KnowledgeManagement #OpenScience #BibTeX #JabRef #PersonalKnowledgeBase #LaTeX #ResearchTools #DigitalResearch #DataScience #AcademicLife #Linux
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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
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Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.
In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes
#AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia