#academicmasdoton — Public Fediverse posts

Those who think cats aren’t loyal have probably never had a cat as a pet. Now that I have a new home office, this little cutie keeps me company in the background pretty well every day (for those who are fans of control experiments, this isn’t her usual sleeping spot, in fact she never sleeps here unless I’m here working). #cats #workingfromhome #catlifebalance #catlife #academicmasdoton

First, first author data based submission of 2023 submitted that was born & raised in my lab

I feel like this is a huge win given all the struggles we’ve had building the lab & dealing with COVID disruptions

#academicmasdoton #academicchatter #assistantprofessorproblems

my first week at work is awesome… I am not sure if taking breaks is a good thing… my day summary is: giving two talks that had been arranged in my absence without me confirming, attending a half-day workshop starting at 8am in the morning, couple of other meetings… and teaching starts next week, am gonna teach 4 days a week for a while… yay second semester, we finally met! 🥹#academicmasdoton

Younger Faculty Are Leaning Out. Is That a Bad Thing?

Truer words never spoken -> “When I die,” she adds, “I won’t be thinking about tenure.”

https://www.chronicle.com/article/younger-faculty-are-leaning-out-is-that-a-bad-thing

#academicmasdoton #academicchatter #leanout

Nothing like a holiday coming up to push a whole bunch of manuscripts in various phases of done into my inbox… it’s kind of like Christmas? #academicchatter #academicmasdoton #PIproblems

I'm hiring 2 PhDs in Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing for the GOLEM project golemlab.eu (computational literary studies, fanfiction, reading studies, cultural evolution)

Here are the details of the positions: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0009QIP&cat=wp
#academicmasdoton #academicjobs #jobvacancy #joblisting #DigitalHumanitis #computationallinguistics #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #naturallanguageprocessing #nlp

A detailed, humble, and inclusive toolkit for academic authors on inclusive language and images by C4DISC
Why do we need such guidelines? Because “A dominant culture or set of group dynamics can result in silencing [voices], without any individual intending to do so” to say the least.
#InclusiveHigherEducation #EditorsOfColor #DEIA #academicmasdoton

https://c4disc.pubpub.org/guidelines-on-inclusive-language-and-images-in-scholarly-communication