@b0rk_reruns This needs to be heard by all the people in academia. When you design a poster or write your paper make sure your main takeaways are clear and are on the first page. See “How to write a great research paper" by Simon Peyton Jones (with presentation typeset in Comic Sans) and the whole better poster movement.
#academia #AcademicChater #PhDlife #betterPoster #openScience
RE: https://indieweb.social/@tg/116273984980325701
Great advice not only for devs but for early career scientists.
"That means that you can take risks. You can ignore the prior art. You can push further and discover what your tastes are and how you might make better software, and differently shaped software. Use those new powers to build the future, not to another piece of the past."
Too many find a niche early on where they can publish lots of papers and get grants and then never leave or stray too far.
Came across this essay this morning and think it is worth sharing. We can not talk enough about the achievements of all the great women out there!
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09077
Celebrating Women in Mathematics
by Diana T. Stoeva
This paper was motivated by the worldwide May 12 initiative that aims to celebrate, encourage, and inspire women in mathematics. It presents in short how the May 12 initiative has arisen, what are some of the events in the first years, in particular the Generalized functions online workshop that started in 2021 in this context (and has continued as an annual event ever since), and a brief overview of some female mathematicians who have significant scientific contributions and who are the first women in some aspects: Maryam Mirzakhani (the first female mathematician who was awarded with the prestigious Fields medal; the May 12 initiative appeared in her honour), Hypatia (considered to be the earliest known female mathematician), Sofia Kovalevskaya (the first woman who has been awarded a doctorate in mathematics and considered to be the first woman who got a full professorship in mathematics in the modern academic sense), Emmy Noether (the first woman who gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians), Karen Uhlenbeck (the first woman awarded with the prestigious Abel Prize), and Ingrid Daubechies (the first woman who became a full professor in mathematics at Princeton University, the first woman elected for President of the International Mathematical Union, the first woman who received the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics). The paper was an invited contribution for the Akademie Intakt of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. It appeared in Akademie Intakt 2021, English Edition, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 2021, 10-13, and it is submitted to arXiv with a permission from the publisher.
University grad college distributes (university-wide via email) a flyer created by graduate student announcing their thesis defense. Flyer was created by genAI and in top left corner is a badly botched rendition of the university logo.
I vomit a bit in my throat.
Should I point this out during the student's public presentation?
Just signed "An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education" because I believe the purpose of education is to foster critical thinking and independence. GenAI is the opposite of this, pretending it can think for you and making you dependent on its sellers.
Less than 24 hours for this poll,
thanks for those voted. if you are interested in helping understanding recruitment sentiment among research lab, follow this link and vote #academicchater #lablife
Totally hypothetical 😂 if a small research lab (2-3 personnel including PI) had a grant structure change and spared money suddenly available for one of the following personnel recruitment, what would you as a PI prefer option? #academicchatter #pilife #lablife [ ] one 3yr postdoc [ ] two 4yr PhDs [ ] one 5yr technician
@steveroyle Done!
IMHO it would be nice if @biorxivpreprint and @medrxivpreprint would accept theoretical / conceptual preprints (as far as I know they are rejected on screening, unless it changed recently). So I made that suggestion on the survey.
#biorxiv #medrxiv #biology #science #research #academicchater
Interesting upcoming NASA webinar "Build a Better Poster Workshop" by @curvenote's Mike Morrison! Registrations are open at https://blogs.nasa.gov/transformtoopenscience/2023/10/24/elevating-science-communication-build-a-better-poster-workshop/
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