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Wow, I just realized that for my current #MachineLearning #ComputerVision #DeepLabCut project I have manually placed over 100.000 labels.

Of course the model is still terrible, so it feels a bit like a lot of time wasted.

#AcademicChatter #PostdocLife #PhDLife

RE: https://fediscience.org/@volephd/116809607826811135

Well, it's time to post this gain.

I'm looking for a new job starting next year.

Please share it far and wide!

#AcademicJob #FediJobs #FediHire #GetFediHired #LookingForJob #AcademicChatter #PhDLife #PostdocLife #AcademicMastodon

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

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

I'm looking for #comic suggestions about life as a #PostDoc for a department talk I'm preparing.
I have a pretty good collection from @phdcomics and a few from @errantscience, although with the latter I feel that I must have missed some.

If you can think of any other sources or specific comics, please link them below!

#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #PhDLife #PostDocLife #PostDocLove

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

@ditsch42
It's not a dye laser then, correct?
🤡

#ExperimentalPhysics #PostdocLife

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

For those (such as fleeing US researchers) looking to understand the French academic system, a handy diagram:

All credit goes to @anne who made it for me when I moved to France for a postdoc a few years ago!

#France #academia #research #postdoclife

Gah, not the best week... error in our code led to several week's work needing to be redone, plus received the results of the #RamonyCajal, the big 🇪🇸 national fellowship scheme. Reserve list again, but too far down to have any hope 🙁 Feedback: win more grants of course! Which exactly?! #PostdocLife

Everything (well, not actually, there is so much more) wrong about German university hiring in one picture:
- PhD position advertised with 65% pay of TV-L FU (i.e. 100% are probably 4.188,38 €/month)
- PostDoc advertised with 50% of the same bracket. Yes, lower than the PhD position
- Postdoc advertised with 100% of the same bracket

To be fair, the PhD position and the 100% #PostDoc are in the same institute, and the 65% PostDoc is in a different one, but all three are in the same faculty.

And technically 50% and 65% would mean that it's also fewer working hours....but let's be real, that does not actually apply here in reality.

#FUBerlin #IchBinHanna #AcademicChatter #PhDLife #PostDocLife

On a more positive note, had a good meeting with my Masters student this morning as well as emails with my previous one about our ongoing project, both of which are progressing nicely 🙂 2 more meetings tomorrow, incl @[email protected], so there's plenty of cool work to do! #PostdocLife

another day, another rejection. That's two this week. At least this one, I am top of the reserve list (separated by a tie-breaker!) so there is still a chance... #PostdocLife #academia

Come to work
- try to login to #HPC
- down for maintenance
- try to login to second #HPC
- down due to power outage
- first HPC comes back online
- script that worked yesterday and has not been changed throws an error

I guess it's time to drink tea and browse memes then. The IT gods have decided that today is a bad day to get anything done.

#PhDlife #PostDocLife #ThisIsFine #AcademicChatter

I think my Fedi-supporters here will be delighted to read that following my online interview on Tuesday, I was invited to a final on-site round of interviews as one of three candidates!
Not sure which emoji is suitable to describe how I feel about that?!
:ablobcool:
:blobcataww:
:blobcat0_0:
#AcademicChatter #PostdocLife

My interview is tomorrow morning :blobcat0_0:
I have a nice presentation and prepared notes for the discussion.. Any last advice for a first (assistant) professorship interview?
#PostDocLife #AcademicChatter #WomenInSTEM

I recently met somebody actually working for #MDPI and before figuring that out, I was tricked by their partner into insult #MDPIgarbage.
Long story short, I consoled them that at least they weren't working for #Elsevier.

But they seemed really nice and extremely unhappy to be stuck with a terrible employer due to economic circumstances.

#AcademicChatter #PhDLife #PostDocLife

Spent my day ranting on Mastodon and helping teach applied statistics with #rstats to first year students.

I consider that a day well spent.

#PhDLife #PostdocLife #AcademicChatter

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

I feel a bit out of the loop with hashtags at the moment.
Could someone enlighten me what the current general purpose and biology/animal science specific academic hashtags are?

Since guppee shut down, my feed feels quite empty.
And it took me far too long to even notice that 😅

#AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter ##PostdocLife #FediTip

Grant proposal writing phase: "If I had started earlier, I could have made a really nice proposal."
#PostDocLife #AcademicChatter

People should keep their eye on the recent US federal executive orders on H1B visas. It's not clear exactly what is happening, who it will apply to, or whether it is even legal for them to do it, but there is a new executive order to start charging $100,000 annually for someone to be on an H1B visa. Presumably paid for by the employer. This is a developing story and will likely change as you read this, but... FYI.

#AcademicChatter #academia #postdoclife #postdoc

The first rule of #PostDoclife is:
Try not to go crazy #worklifebalance #mentalhealth

The second rule of #Postdoclife is:
Do something useful for science #studydesign #deepwork #methodology #scientificsoftwaredevelopment
#hardworkisrare #focusisprecious

The third rule of #Postdoclife is:
Tell others the cool thing you did #writepapers #outreach #presentations

Go to rule 1.

#AcademicChatter #Astrodon

Today is the first working day of my first #PhD student ever! ☀

Any tips from (former) PhD students and/or PhD supervisors? #PhDLife #PostDocLife #academia

It's my last working day before the summer holidays and I have survived 6/7 meetings. Only one more to go!!!!!!!! 🧳 🏝️ #PostDocLife

As fellow players of wooden wind instruments will know, we have to regularly oil our instruments to avoid cracks. The problem is that they need to be completely dry before you oil them and then they need to dry out for another few days, which means that you can’t play them for about a week in total. As a result, I don’t do it anywhere near as often as I should… But now I have found a solution to this problem: academic conference season! #PostDocLife #EarlyMusic

In the last few months, I have felt #overwhelmed, #overworked, #anxious, behind and planless. But, couple of days ago I stopped drinking big mugs of #blacktea daily. I think I am doing better. More sleepy during the day, sure. Bursty work efficiency, deep work and flow, but that's as usual. Quick googling suggests there isn't a link between #caffeine and #anxiety though, so may be #confirmationbias. #astrodon #postdoclife #publishandperish