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Five lectures. A two-hour lab. An exercise released. A quiz built. Two online courses with no room and no timetable. One lab I supervise but never teach.

None of it is visible from a seat in the room. When preparation is invisible, that means it was done.

#HigherEd #Teaching #AcademicLife

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

Have any academics out there received official emails from your senior “management” about the appalling Arday affair? I’m curious about the tone struck in the message, whether there were any hints of wider empathy beyond formulaic platitudes, any intellectual engagement/analysis of the current situation, and whether there was any suggestion for how to protect members of the university and wider community from the recurrence of such a situation. #Arday #AcademicLife #university

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

Ok, so writing *is* happening. Not the way I usually spend the last week of my summer vacation, but perhaps I'll finally get this damn article out of my head…

https://hcommons.social/@fgraver/116998604392850496

#Writing #AcademicWriting #AcademicLife

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

Graduation ceremony at Modul University Vienna – congratulations to our students and all the best on your journey. A degree is not the end, it’s the beginning!

#academicLife
#academia
#students

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

Over three hours of interviews for Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral network positions, one paper review, drafting a review article, and reviewing workshop proposals.

A busy day, but full of good academic things: interesting people, thoughtful work, and worthwhile projects.

I just wish there were slightly fewer worthwhile things at once.

#AcademicMastodon #HigherEd #Research #AcademicLife

- Know your audience and your message before working on your slides

- Clearly explain the main concepts, so that everyone in the room can follow

- Make the title of each slide the main message of that slide

- View questions as a unique opportunity to get feedback and deepen the discussion

(2/2)
#Presenting #Conferences #Academia #AcademicLife #PhD #Postdoc #SciComm

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

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

And just like that, I'm a tenured professor. #AcademicLife

Reviewing in the train, on the trip back from a conference: 1 done, 2 to go. #AcademicLife

One week of intensive but very fruitful discussions in Bertinoro Castle together with 18 top #AI researchers to shape the future of the International #semanticweb Research Summer School. Stay tuned for next year‘s upgraded revision! Kudos to all participants and your valuable feedback!

#KnowledgeGraphs #academiclife #research #LLMs #generativeAI @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @tabea @AxelPolleres #Photography #BlackAndWhite #blackandwhitephotography #emiliaromagna

#PhDone!

What a day! I finally defended my dissertation at Leiden University. I am so grateful to have completed thes journey. Many thanks to everyone who was part of this, especially my supervisors @sarahderijcke, Paul Wouters, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner and also everyone at @cwts who supported my work.

#dissertation #academicchatter #academiclife #UniLeiden

Should researchers still attend international conferences in times of climate catastrophe – how many, under which conditions? And what would “conferencing well” mean once the planetary dimension is taken seriously?

@StefanTSiegel on three myths that keep us flying ⬇️

https://evsused.hypotheses.org/3398

#AcademicLife

Here we go again… On my way to Bertinoro, Italy, to design the future of the International #SemanticWeb Research Summer School together with some of the top experts in our field.
#AI #KnowledgeGraphs #NeuroSymbolicAI #LLMs #summerschool #academiclife @AxelPolleres @tabea @sashabruns @fizise @fiz_karlsruhe #blackandwhitephotography #BlackAndWhite #Photography #trainstations

THE PAPERS APP: AN ORGANIZATIONAL REVOLUTION?

New Papers app helps scientists organize research files and notes, saving time. Launched today, it offers metadata matching and collaboration tools.

#researchtools, #papersapp, #academiclife, #datascience, #productivity

https://newsletter.tf/papers-app-organizes-research-data-faster/

The new Papers app aims to fix messy research files. It's like having a super organized digital library for your work.

#researchtools, #papersapp, #academiclife, #datascience, #productivity
https://newsletter.tf/papers-app-organizes-research-data-faster/

What makes a great PhD supervisor?

A Nature feature highlights small but lasting actions: giving confidence, protecting students’ time, encouraging independence and showing empathy.

Research culture is shaped one interaction at a time.

🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00853-w

#PhD #AcademicLife #ResearchCulture #Mentorship #science

What predicts a successful scientific career? According to a massive bibliometric analysis, one of the strongest signals is simply publishing consistently early on. But the study also highlights the growing role of collaboration networks.

🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00744-0

#Research #ScienceCareers #Collaboration #AcademicLife #OpenScience

Science is often presented as something distant. Something that starts after a PhD, funding, or the "right" connections. But it doesn’t. I’ve put together a short presentation on how research actually begins – with a simple moment: "I don’t understand this."

👉 https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.23368.69126

#OpenScience #Research #EarlyCareerResearchers #PhD #AcademicLife #Science #HigherEducation #AI #Zotero #OpenAlex

Dark islands drift by,
Washed in gray, so far away,
Fading like a sigh.

#haiku #mediterranean #croatia #dubrovnik #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephoto #photography #bokeh #landscape #seascape #clouds #blackandwhitephotography #academiclife

Philosophy Departments Conclude Spring Colloquia, Debate Lingers

Philosophy departments at Stanford, Columbia, and Purdue finished their 2026 spring colloquia. Learn which academic topics were discussed this year.

#philosophy, #universitynews, #academiclife, #spring2026, #highereducation

https://newsletter.tf/us-university-philosophy-spring-colloquia-2026/

Major US universities concluded their philosophy lecture series this May. These events hosted scholars from across the country to debate logic and social issues.

#philosophy, #universitynews, #academiclife, #spring2026, #highereducation
https://newsletter.tf/us-university-philosophy-spring-colloquia-2026/