@RonaldVisser@academicchatter totally agree that it is a problem that being unlucky to end up in a toxic department does not make the existence of the toxic department OK.
by the way, now that I work in Germany I learned that in Germany this department was widely known as being toxic at that time already, so there were also mentoring issues in the sense that she was not warned what she was getting into. Very sad.
@freyablekman@academicchatter
So sad! I know all too well that some people can create toxic environments and that you are not always warned beforehand... I think that she correctly identifies some causes on her video. I hope the future of academia will be more open and more supportive and less a competitive rat race...
Interviewing PhD candidates for the first time and the role reversal feels... weird! All the candidates bring something different to the table and it's such a tough call to decide who makes the cut.
It's an exciting task, isn't it? Remember that you're hiring the best fit, a person who will grow and help others grow, not necessarily the best scientist/potential scientist on paper.
I am currently revisiting the "Openness Profile" by Knowledge Unlatched.
This quote points to a bigger systemic problem in the academic world than some might realise. These collegial care activities are a) extremely important for science as a social system, not least for the integration of new minds into the community and b) they prevent people from working on papers and grants with the same effort as those (men) who avoid them.
Excited to have an interview on my university website due to my doctoral thesis on Czech news representations now being official!
(The link goes to my intro chapter mainly, if you would actually like the whole thesis in one pdf, send direct message, please.)
🧵 What is this? After pushing UC for 4 years now to quit designing buildings where inaccessibility is the default, a main entrance to a building is wheelchair accessible?
Ah, there's the UC Davis we know. Unnecessary steps because you weren't specifically PAID to do your duty under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act nor to actually make a public university accessible to the public.
"Hundreds of cancer papers mention cell lines that don’t seem to exist" 👀
“...looks like a massive invention of data and experiments that probably never happened," Some have been cited in reviews, this could "confuse and mislead scientists".
Aftermath of #Petrocultures2024 last week: colleagues are now sending emails urging the Academic Senate to take up the matter of #policing on campus. Because there was a SERIOUS police presence/perimeter. A number of attendees dropped out in protest of that alone... & I don't blame them one bit
I think it's gonna take a lot more than eloquent letters... And unf I don't think we should plan any more conferences for police state campuses, ever again
10 more days to apply! Postdoc position: Working on fair AI and interested to combine normative and empirical research? Come work with me other Leiden colleagues on fair educational assessment in the age of AI.
@TomTheuns
Could you please give me some examples of what kind of AI the successful applicant should have worked with? Is it necessary to have such features in one's doctoral thesis, for example, or more relevant to be genuinely interested and have some knowledge, and a background in such areas as #DigitalHumanities or #corpus_linguistics ? Thank you!
Hi Masto, I'm home. The day began with the wind and rain which had me wanting to listen only to The Cure during my commutes and while I was prepping for class. Can the eyeliner be far behind. I jest. My eyes are far too sensitive for eye makeup these days and all of my fancy eye makeup palettes are going to waste.
It was an okay day. Another Drama Lab with my Oral Literacy MA Students. Their big project for this semester is connected to The Lady's Not For Burning. My approach to Oral Literacy is Oral Literacy x Pop Culture x Performance Studies. I'm enjoying it! I always enjoy teaching performance as it takes me back to some of those roots (I did two years of a performance studies x literature PhD before I defected fully to lit to be a Gothic scholar)
one argument I have heard repeatedly is that patent are important to fund research (it often funds CEOs, stakeholders, advertisement, law suites, etc too), so when I read about a successful (academic) patent around cancer research, surely those millions should feed into (academic) research too. Right?
@egonw@academicchatter millions do, but that's nothing really. It could be much more if academics took a more active role.
Often, academics and even tech transfer dep. look to sell as early as possible. This makes sense in one way, as early failure rates are high, but it minimises the payout when an idea does bite.
@egonw@academicchatter most academics have entertaining war stories and/or great advice on how to game "their" peer reviewed journals.
Very few can, however, tell you when when you would be better placed to have a patent application filed, or how you might go about maximising your chance of success in this.
The basics aren't actually hard, but especially outside chemistry, it is surprisingly poorly understood.
A march by Edgar Elgar is the traditional soundtrack for American college commencements and high school graduations. It’s a stirring bit of music, but perhaps an odd choice, given its roots as a celebration of the British king.