What does academia look like through fiction?
Nature recommends 9 novels featuring PhD students, researchers and scientific workplaces.
Fiction can sometimes reveal aspects of research that papers never show.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01730-2
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- Know your audience and your message before working on your slides
- Clearly explain the main concepts, so that everyone in the room can follow
- Make the title of each slide the main message of that slide
- View questions as a unique opportunity to get feedback and deepen the discussion
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AI may accelerate some research tasks by an order of magnitude, but science is more than productivity.
Mentoring students, developing expertise and passing on scientific culture remain central to the research enterprise.
🔗 https://physics.aps.org/articles/v19/74
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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!
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One week of intensive but very fruitful discussions in Bertinoro Castle together with 18 top #AI researchers to shape the future of the International #semanticweb Research Summer School. Stay tuned for next year‘s upgraded revision! Kudos to all participants and your valuable feedback!
#KnowledgeGraphs #academiclife #research #LLMs #generativeAI @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @tabea @AxelPolleres #Photography #BlackAndWhite #blackandwhitephotography #emiliaromagna
What a day! I finally defended my dissertation at Leiden University. I am so grateful to have completed thes journey. Many thanks to everyone who was part of this, especially my supervisors @sarahderijcke, Paul Wouters, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner and also everyone at @cwts who supported my work.
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Stephan Hacker
Stephan Hacker
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Kathe Todd-Brown
Marc Robinson-Rechavi
Marc Robinson-Rechavi
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