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"Klagen? Welche Klagen?" Was man vom akademischen" Hamsterrad hält, ist eine Frage der Perspektive … — Neuer #Cartoon, komplett in unserem Blog: https://www.laborjournal.de/blog/
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Another day at **ACM Hypertext 2026**! 💻✨

Today, PhD students learned how to introduce themselves in just 40 seconds and how to create an effective academic CV. 🎓

Meanwhile, other sessions explored Knowledge Graphs and Hypertext, bringing together ideas from digital media, information science, and technology.

Another inspiring day of learning, sharing, and connecting! 🚀
#ACMHypertext #Hypertext2026 #PhDStudents #AcademicLife #KnowledgeGraphs #Hypertext

🆕 The new members of the IHC’s governing bodies and the coordinators of its research groups were elected yesterday at the General Assembly. Rui Lopes, Assistant Researcher at FCSH, was elected President of the Board, alongside Aurora Almada e Santos and Giulia Strippoli (Vice-Presidents), and Maria de Lurdes Rosa, Sara Albuquerque and Carmina Yu Untalan (members).

👉 The full election results can be found here:
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/ihc-renews-governing-bodies/

#Histodons #AcademicLife #AcademicChatter #CiênciaPT

Further Thoughts of Retirement…

What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make and end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.

from Little Gidding, Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot.

The start of teaching for 2026/7 is approaching at an alarming rate. new and continuing students are registering and today we had a staff meeting in the Department of Physics about arrangements for the new term. This all made me think again about retirement.

About three years, while I was in Barcelona on sabbatical , I posted an item about looking forward to retirement. Here is an excerpt from that piece:

The fact of the matter is, though, that I can’t afford to retire yet. I have a mortgage to pay and I’ve only had five full years of pensionable service in the Irish system, so won’t get much of a pension. I have the frozen residue of my UK pension, of course, but that is subject to an actuarial reduction if I take the benefit before I’m 65, which is also the standard retirement age for academic staff in Ireland. I can’t be made to retire here until I’m 70, in fact, but I think I’ll be well beyond my best-before date by then and am not keen to overstay my welcome.

So it looks like I’ll have to stay until I’m 65 at the earliest. In fact I won’t be able to collect the State Pension (SPC) until I’m 66, so I’ll probably have to stay until then. That means that when I get back from sabbatical I will have four or five years left until I can retire.

Since I posted this I made a firm decision that I will retire as soon as I’m able, which should be in June 2028. Having sold my old house in Cardiff some time ago, I have paid off my Maynooth mortgage which makes the financial situation much simpler. I am now quite confident that I can afford to retire before I’m 66.

I know many academics don’t like the idea of retiring. I suppose that’s because they’re afraid they won’t know what to do with their time. I’ve never felt like that. I’ve always had plenty of outside interests, but now there’s another factor. As I alluded to in an earlier post, and contrary to all my expectations of three years ago, there is another person involved. That person, whose name I won’t reveal, graduated this summer from an unnamed university, and is just about to embark on a two-year Masters degree (in a subject not to be disclosed) in a location I won’t tell you about. He will be finishing that course in the summer 2028.

For the next two years things for us will be pretty much as they are now: not living together, but spending as much time in each other’s company as possible at weekends and holidays. That arrangement suits us both very well in the current circumstances but we have already started discussing plans beyond the two-year horizon. Some of these are not at all serious, but amusing to think about. Others would be fantastic if they turned out to be possible. We have the best part of two years to decide what to do. In any event, I find it exciting to be able to think seriously of retirement as a beginning as well as an end.

A short update on what I has had my attention over the past year.

https://ankursinha.in/2025/09/12/2025-week-37-update.html

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🆕 Estamos muito felizes pelo facto do IHC ter sido convidado a integrar o Conselho Científico do Centro de Estudos e Documentação José Mário Branco – Música e Liberdade, onde será representado por Luís Trindade! 🤩

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/ihc-centro-jose-mario-branco/

#Histodons #AcademicChatter #AcademicLife #CulturalStudies #PortugueseMusic #JoséMárioBranco #VidaAcadémica #EstudosCulturais #MúsicaPortuguesa #CollaborateAndGrow #ColaborarParaCrescer

🆕 Great news to end the week: Rui Lopes has been awarded a Remarque Visiting Fellowship at New York University’s Remarque Institute, where he will work on the relationship between the Cold War, spy cinema, and comic books. 👏👏👏

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/rui-lopes-remarque-institute/

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Yesterday we tested out the #UniversityOfBergen's new roof terrace for lunch for the first time. This morning we saw the first signs of snowdrift in the air. #UiB #Bergen #AcademicLife

@dangillmor Dan, as you know, it's possible to publish and to be cited fairly often without violating academic standards and ethics. Ridiculous numbers by cheaters disadvantage ethical scholars and discredit Academia. Faculty members are given time to explore new fields and to share expertise uncalculatingly. Apparently there are perverse incentives for those who are not really cut out for the academic life. Now we have to be concerned about the sources AI draws from as well as human learners and researchers. I get apoplectic about much smaller unethical practices than the El Pais article you cited outlines. Therefore at one point I wrote a series on What is the Academic Life? 1. General Answers to Essential Questions, 2. The Idea of the University, and 3. Upholding Professional Standards and Ethics, updated recently and bundled together at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370403046_The_Academic_Life_series
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1/2: Global Faculty Development might sound like a slogan or exaggeration of international outreach, but I learned from having such a position at Kansai University in Osaka from 2016-2020 that Global FD can have a specific and practical definition in a suitable context. Basically, Global FD means meeting the needs of non-native English-using faculty members in non-Western countries. Specific guidance could involve preparing teachers for English-medium (or other international language) instruction (particularly to classes with international students), giving presentations at international conferences, publishing journal papers, and other scholarly
tasks. Research findings: "Meeting Global Faculty Development Needs in Japan" at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330778631 or https://www.academia.edu/38264974
#FacultyDevelopment #GlobalFD #Osaka #Japan #EnglishMediumInstruction #AcademicStandards #AcademicEthics #AcademicLife #eLearning #OnlineEducation #AsianStudies #Japan #Bilingualism #ForeignLanguageTeaching