#postdoclife — Public Fediverse posts

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

Can I again use the combined knowledge and academic experience of my followers here to submit a great application for an assistant professorship (in experimental physics) in the Netherlands? (Due on Sunday, I'll have a first version by tonight)
#PostdocLife #AcademicChatter #FollowerPower

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

One week until my assistant professorship interview (2nd round) 😱 I wanted to do a great amount of test talks, but both my science presentation and mini lecture are still in a very preliminary, chaotic state...
#AcademicChatter #PostdocLife

Day 4 #LeidenForce Winter School: Tomas Cerda (soon ISTA – SEML), Aymeric Allemand (postdoc, @ULBruxelles TIPS Lab), Senthil Kumar Parimalanathan (@ULBruxelles TIPS Lab) shared their latest work on droplets & interfaces.

#LeidenForce #Leidenfrost #PhDLife #PostdocLife #FluidMechanics

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

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

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

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

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

You need to finish a proposal? How about we just accidentally switch off all power for the entire institute for half an hour, and watch how you try to save your lab?
#ExperimentalPhysics #PostDocLife #AcademicChatter

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

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

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

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

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

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#AcademicPress #Republish #PhDtoPublication #ScholarlyPublishing #PhDone #PhDResearch #EarlyCareerResearcher #PostdocLife

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#AcademicPress #Republish #PhDtoPublication #ScholarlyPublishing #PhDone #PhDResearch #EarlyCareerResearcher #PostdocLife

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

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

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

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

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

Spent hours trying to figure out how to split one LateX document into two, including the literature list, line numbers and references between the two files, to satisfy the conditions of the journal.
The journal, in the submission process: "Now that you have uploaded all your files, select an order to merge all of them into a single file to send to referees".
*flips table*
#PostDocLife #AcademicChatter

The more supervisors you get in your academic career, the higher the chance that you'll receive the exact opposite advice on any given topic. #PostdocLife

Roadwork! Heute erstmals in diesem Jahr die größere bergab-bergwiederrauf Sommerrunde. Nicht länger, aber durchaus anstrengender als die flachen Winterrunden…

#TeamLaufen #PostDocLife

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#ScienceFunding #TravelGrant #AcademicTwitter #PhDLife #PostdocLife
#STEM #ResearchSupport #ConferenceTravel #WomenInSTEM #LifeInResearch

Kaffee in der Mittagssonne und danach dank ganz analoger Lektüre für die digitalen #Wortgeschichte|n sogar ein wenig #Balkonoffice - es könnte schlechter sein 😊

#PostDocLife #DieHellenDinge

Guten Morgen vom #GöttingenCampus!

#PostDocLife

#Samstagslektüre und die schwierige Frage: Neue Runde #Ernährung und #Ernährungsnarrative oder doch lieber erst den neuen #Boxroman? 🤔

#LitWiss #Germanistik #PostDocLife

#Schreibtischplaudereien: Nein, GoogleBooks, wenn ich in Quellen des 17. Jahrhunderts #exuliren suche, dann meine ich NICHT #exilieren und möchte auch nicht einfach ungefragt die Ergebnisse dafür angezeigt bekommen 🙄

#HistorischeSemantik #PostDocLife

#Schreibtischplaudereien: Nein, GoogleBooks, wenn ich in Quellen des 17. Jahrhunderts #exuliren suche, dann meine ich NICHT #exilieren und möchte auch nicht einfach ungefragt die Ergebnisse dafür angezeigt bekommen 🙄

#HistorischeSemantik #PostDocLife

#Schreibtischplaudereien: Nein, GoogleBooks, wenn ich in Quellen des 17. Jahrhunderts #exuliren suche, dann meine ich NICHT #exilieren und möchte auch nicht einfach ungefragt die Ergebnisse dafür angezeigt bekommen 🙄

#HistorischeSemantik #PostDocLife

Nächste Runde #Samstagslektüre, nächste Runde #Ernährung (stay tuned!), heute #KJL Edition. - Und bei euch so?

#Ernährungsnarrative #LitWiss #Germanistik #PostDocLife

Wieder #Samstagslektüre, wieder #Ernährung, diesmal #Gegenwartsliteratur und in der Balkonsonne. 😊

#Ernährungsnarrative #LitWiss #HistorischeSemantik #PostDocLife

Wieder #Samstagslektüre, wieder #Ernährung, diesmal #Gegenwartsliteratur und in der Balkonsonne. 😊

#Ernährungsnarrative #LitWiss #HistorischeSemantik #PostDocLife

Wieder #Samstagslektüre, wieder #Ernährung, diesmal #Gegenwartsliteratur und in der Balkonsonne. 😊

#Ernährungsnarrative #LitWiss #HistorischeSemantik #PostDocLife

My colleagues at TU Delft are seeking to hire a postdoc to work on Applied Planning and Scheduling under Uncertainty, with applications in modelling supply chain scenarios for offshore wind farm installation: https://careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Postdoc-in-Applied-Planning-and-Scheduling-under-Uncertainty-2628-CD/814890902/

#AcademicMastodon #PostdocLife #Hiring #Research #Planning #Scheduling #ReasoningUnderUncertainty #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #JobSearch #Vacancy #AcademicChatter #Career #CombinatorialOptimisation #Sustainability #EnergyTransition #Wind #WindEnergy #ReinforcementLearning #ML #MachineLearning #WindTurbines #ComputerScience #Optimisation #Optimization #CombinatorialOptimization #PostDoc #AcademicCareer #Academia #AcademicJob #AcademicJobs #TUDelft