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Physicists just invented a math proof so complex, it doubles as a new form of #torture for grad students 🤯🔢. Meanwhile, Quanta Magazine's editors are busy patting themselves on the back for making math sound like the latest Netflix #thriller 🎬📚.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212/ #mathproof #gradstudents #QuantaMagazine #HackerNews #ngated

Stevens Inst. of #Tech and #NewJersey Inst. of #Technology lead the #USA in exporting graduate #education: 81–88% of their #gradStudents are international: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/upshot/harvard-trump-international-students.html

Nationally, #higherEd makes the country’s top 10 biggest #trade surpluses: https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/05/02/attacks-on-higher-education-endanger-u-s-leadership-abroad-opinion/83369926007/

When ChatGPT Writes Your Research Proposal: Scientific Creativity in the Age of Generative AI https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/13/5/55 #AI #creativity #GradStudents

AI for research: the ultimate guide to choosing the right tool https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01069-0 #AI #DeepResearch #GradStudents

This looks like a really interesting and helpful event for #gradstudents and #postdocs
#sciencejobs #networking #nih
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7195991667995283456
@science @biology

🪧 Cornell grad student union demands university prioritize contract negotiations

https://ithacavoice.org/2024/04/cornell-grad-student-union-demands-university-prioritize-contract-negotiations/

#cornell #union #labor #workers #activism #gradstudents

🪧 Boston University graduate students strike over pay, healthcare, housing and other benefits

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/08/gpwr-a08.html

#strike #union #labor #academia #students #gradstudents

Treating workers fairly mat slow down the science. That's a good thing.

"As student and postdoc unions proliferate, academia is scrambling to adapt
“I think the size of the average lab will have to decrease,” one administrator says"

https://www.science.org/content/article/student-and-postdoc-unions-proliferate-academia-scrambling-adapt

#fairpay #gradstudents #postdocs #slowscience

@HeidiSeibold @digiresacademy
See my Twitter thread on using #preprints to teach #GradStudents and #ECRs how to do #PeerReview.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1476571769897107457

I agree that this could give them useful experience and boost the number of referees at the same time.

It's official, I am now once again a graduate student, and now a physics student.

#physics #gradstudents #science

@DelphineAngua @dgar Good point. ✅

I previously used the word ‘proves’ loosely.

There are in fact explanations (thankfully improbable IMHO) for why we have NOT been inundated with visitors from a future after #TimeMachines have been invented by #STEM #GradStudents. One is that ‘#VentureCapitalists ‘ lacking a high-quality #LiberalEducation will extinguish ALL other futures for humanity. 🤔

@lauren #STEM #GradStudents don’t ‘Rule the World’, but they do INVENT it. 👏

#California #GradStudents Won A Historic #Strike. #UCSanDiego Is Striking Back With Misconduct Allegations and Arrests.
Since ratifying a contract, workers at University of California #SanDiego have faced what they say is an escalating retaliation campaign.
https://theintercept.com/2023/07/11/uc-san-diego-graduate-student-workers-union/ #PhDLife #PhDChat #Union

Do you know #cursive? If so, the
National Archives wants YOU to help transcribe pension records from the #AmericanRevolution! https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions/revolutionary-war-pension-files

WAIT: A fellow mastodonian points out this should be *paid* work. These veterans' oral histories are fascinating reading, but how about paying #Veterans or #GradStudents to transcribe them?

#USHistory
#AmericanHistory
#AmericanRevolution
#histodons
#historicalSources
#vastEarlyAmerica
#HistoryRemix
#18thC
#archives
#SocialHistory #OralHistory

Saw this in @washingtonpost and there's some great advice for #gradstudents (and all of us, honestly) @academicchatter
"my friend beats me out in every area, […] I’m genuinely happy for them — and jealous as hell. […] What’s the key to stopping the comparisons and just living my own life?"

(Gift link, no subscription required)
https://wapo.st/3Pebgcc

“Of the 4,165 graduate assistants who were eligible to vote, 2,559 participated by casting a vote with 2,487 votes in favor of unionization.”

Nicely done, #Minnesota #UMN #GradStudents / #GradWorkers

#Harvard Tells #GradStudents to Get #FoodStamps to Supplement The Unlivable #Wages It Pays Them while sitting on an #endowment of $50 billion
The university is hosting an event encouraging #graduatestudents to apply for federal #food assistance
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kwaa/harvard-tells-grad-students-to-get-food-stamps-to-supplement-the-unlivable-wages-it-pays-them #PhdLife #PhDChat #PhD

#Harvard Tells #GradStudents to Get #FoodStamps to Supplement The Unlivable #Wages It Pays Them while sitting on an #endowment of $50 billion
The university is hosting an event encouraging #graduatestudents to apply for federal #food assistance
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kwaa/harvard-tells-grad-students-to-get-food-stamps-to-supplement-the-unlivable-wages-it-pays-them #PhdLife #PhDChat #PhD

If anyone’s wondering what’s going on at Syracuse University 🍊 re: graduate student union organizing:

https://dailyorange.com/2023/01/graduate-union-hosts-teach-in-lays-out-organizing-process/

#syracuse #union #gradstudents #laborunions #su #syracuseuniversity #dailyorange

If anyone’s wondering what’s going on at Syracuse University 🍊 re: graduate student union organizing:

https://dailyorange.com/2023/01/graduate-union-hosts-teach-in-lays-out-organizing-process/

#syracuse #union #gradstudents #laborunions #su #syracuseuniversity #dailyorange

If anyone’s wondering what’s going on at Syracuse University 🍊 re: graduate student union organizing:

https://dailyorange.com/2023/01/graduate-union-hosts-teach-in-lays-out-organizing-process/

#syracuse #union #gradstudents #laborunions #su #syracuseuniversity #dailyorange

If anyone’s wondering what’s going on at Syracuse University 🍊 re: graduate student union organizing:

https://dailyorange.com/2023/01/graduate-union-hosts-teach-in-lays-out-organizing-process/

#syracuse #union #gradstudents #laborunions #su #syracuseuniversity #dailyorange

If anyone’s wondering what’s going on at Syracuse University 🍊 re: graduate student union organizing:

https://dailyorange.com/2023/01/graduate-union-hosts-teach-in-lays-out-organizing-process/

#syracuse #union #gradstudents #laborunions #su #syracuseuniversity #dailyorange

שפּאָגל־נײַ!
Hot off the presses!
Check out this year's program of events for #Farbindungen23 Yiddish Futures. Don't forget to register here: https://bit.ly/registerfarbindungen23

Text-only schedule: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eproyrMle_lZPKvaHUkmJPIhTIthEbrO3vrIeBAwnZQ/edit?usp=sharing

#Yiddish #conference #gradstudents #earlycareer #Yiddishists #academia #Mazeldon #histodons #AcademicMastodon #PhDStudents #JewishStudies #translation

📢 The #Yiddish future is ...soon! Join us virtually on February 19-20, 2023 for #Farbindungen23. Registration is required to attend all panels and workshops: https://bit.ly/registerfarbindungen23

We look forward to seeing you!

🔎 Images by Lola [Leon Israel] in Der groyser kundes: 3.16 (April 21, 1911), p.11; “Di shtim fun zayn mayster,” 12.1 (December 26, 1919), p. 9.

#conference #gradstudents #earlycareer #Yiddishists #academia #Mazeldon #histodons #AcademicMastodon #PhDStudents #JewishStudies

Sholem-aleykhem, khevre — mir zaynen do! 🐘

We're an annual #Yiddish Studies #conference by and for #gradstudents, advanced undergraduates, and #earlycareer #Yiddishists outside of #academia.

Stay tuned for our upcoming #Farbindungen23 virtual conference this February, on the theme “Yiddish futures / ייִדישע צוקונפֿטן”!

https://www.farbindungen.com

#Introduction #Mazeldon #histodons #AcademicMastodon #PhDStudents

Periodic reminder to #gradstudents on the job market that https://postdocsalaries.com has a crowdsourced list of #postdoc salaries. Kudos to the folks who set up that resource and contributed.
#academia #postdocs #research #phd #GradLife #postdoctorate #postdoctoral

Calling all #SocialPsychology and #PersonalityPsychology #GradStudents ! Are you interested in #Emotion , #Health #SelfRegulation , #IntergroupRelations or #Religion ? Apply for #SISPP (Summer Institute for Social and Personality Psychology)! I attended in 2017 and it was perhaps the best thing I did in grad school. I am happy to chat with folks about my experience! https://spsp.org/professional-development/training-programs/summer-institute-social-and-personality-psychology-sispp/sispp-2023

Calling all #SocialPsychology and #PersonalityPsychology #GradStudents ! Are you interested in #Emotion , #Health #SelfRegulation , #IntergroupRelations or #Religion ? Apply for #SISPP (Summer Institute for Social and Personality Psychology)! I attended in 2017 and it was perhaps the best thing I did in grad school. I am happy to chat with folks about my experience! https://spsp.org/professional-development/training-programs/summer-institute-social-and-personality-psychology-sispp/sispp-2023

Calling all #SocialPsychology and #PersonalityPsychology #GradStudents ! Are you interested in #Emotion , #Health #SelfRegulation , #IntergroupRelations or #Religion ? Apply for #SISPP (Summer Institute for Social and Personality Psychology)! I attended in 2017 and it was perhaps the best thing I did in grad school. I am happy to chat with folks about my experience! https://spsp.org/professional-development/training-programs/summer-institute-social-and-personality-psychology-sispp/sispp-2023